{ "id": "1709.04608", "version": "v1", "published": "2017-09-14T04:15:14.000Z", "updated": "2017-09-14T04:15:14.000Z", "title": "Sufficient conditions on cycles that make planar graphs 4-choosable", "authors": [ "Pongpat Sittitrai", "Kittikorn Nakprasit" ], "categories": [ "math.CO" ], "abstract": "Xu and Wu proved that if every $5$-cycle of a planar graph $G$ is not simultaneously adjacent to $3$-cycles and $4$-cycles, then $G$ is $4$-choosable. In this paper, we improve this result as follows. Let $\\{i, j, k, l\\} = \\{3,4,5,6\\}.$ For any chosen $i,$ if every $i$-cycle of a planar graph $G$ is not simultaneously adjacent to $j$-cycles, $k$-cycles, and $l$-cycles, then $G$ is $4$-choosable.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2017-09-14T04:15:14.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "05C15", "G.2.2" ], "keywords": [ "planar graph", "sufficient conditions", "simultaneously adjacent" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }