Colouring graphs with prescribed induced cycle lengths
Bert Randerath, Ingo Schiermeyer (2001)
Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory
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In this paper we study the chromatic number of graphs with two prescribed induced cycle lengths. It is due to Sumner that triangle-free and P₅-free or triangle-free, P₆-free and C₆-free graphs are 3-colourable. A canonical extension of these graph classes is , the class of all graphs whose induced cycle lengths are 4 or 5. Our main result states that all graphs of are 3-colourable. Moreover, we present polynomial time algorithms to 3-colour all triangle-free graphs G of this kind,...