Edge Colorings of Planar Graphs without Adjacent Special Cycles

Wei-Ping Ni1
1Department of Mathematics, Zaozhuang University, Zaozhuang, Shandong 277160, China

Abstract

By applying discharging methods and properties of critical graphs, we proved that every simple planar graph \(G\) with \(\Delta(G) \geq 5\) is of class 1, if any 4-cycle is not adjacent to a 5-cycle in \(G\).