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Effective coloration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Dwight R. Bean
Dwight R. Bean*
Affiliation:
University of San Diego, San Diego, California 92110
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Abstract

We are concerned here with recursive function theory analogs of certain problems in chromatic graph theory. The motivating question for our work is: Does there exist a recursive (countably infinite) planar graph with no recursive 4-coloring? We obtain the following results: There is a 3-colorable, recursive planar graph which, for all k, has no recursive k-coloring; every decidable graph of genus p ≥ 0 has a recursive 2(x(p) − 1)-coloring, where x(p) is the least number of colors which will suffice to color any graph of genus p; for every k ≥ 3 there is a k-colorable, decidable graph with no recursive k-coloring, and if k = 3 or if k = 4 and the 4-color conjecture fails the graph is planar; there are degree preserving correspondences between k-colorings of graphs and paths through special types of trees which yield information about the degrees of unsolvability of k-colorings of graphs.

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Research Article
Information
The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 41 , Issue 2 , June 1976 , pp. 469 - 480
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1976

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Footnotes

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This material is part of a thesis submitted to the University of California at San Diego in June, 1973. The author wishes to acknowledge the many helpful ideas and the continuing encouragement of his advisor, Professor Alfred B. Manaster. He is also grateful for the referee's many constructive suggestions and corrections.

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