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All face 2-colorable d-angulations are Grünbaum colorable

Serge Lawrencenko·Abdulkarim M. Magomedov
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A $d$-angulation of a surface is an embedding of a 3-connected graph on that surface that divides it into $d$-gonal faces. A $d$-angulation is said to be Grünbaum colorable if its edges can be $d$-colored so that every face uses all $d$ colors. Up to now, the concept of Grünbaum coloring has been related only to triangulations ($d = 3$), but in this note, this concept is generalized for an arbitrary face size $d \geqslant 3$. It is shown that the face 2-colorability of a $d$-angulation $P$ implies the Grünbaum colorability of $P$. Some wide classes of triangulations have turned out to be face 2-colorable.

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Serge Lawrencenko, Abdulkarim M. Magomedov. 2015-01-06. All face 2-colorable d-angulations are Grünbaum colorable. https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.01261

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