Improved Bounds for Some Facially Constrained Colorings

Abstract

A facial-parity edge-coloring of a 2-edge-connected plane graph is a facially-proper edge-coloring in which every face is incident with zero or an odd number of edges of each color. A facial-parity vertex-coloring of a 2-connected plane graph is a proper vertex-coloring in which every face is incident with zero or an odd number of vertices of each color. Czap and Jendroľ in [Facially-constrained colorings of plane graphs: A survey, Discrete Math. 340 (2017) 2691–2703], conjectured that 10 colors suffice in both colorings. We present an infinite family of counterexamples to both conjectures.

Keywords

• plane graph
• facial coloring
• facial-parity edge-coloring
• facial-parity vertex-coloring
• worm coloring
• 05c15
• 05c10