Brooks' Theorem : Graph Coloring and Critical Graphs / by Michael Stiebitz, Thomas Schweser, Bjarne Toft.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stiebitz, Michael, 1954- author.

Schweser, Thomas, author.

Toft, Bjarne, author.

Series:

Springer Monographs in Mathematics, 2196-9922

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Graph theory.

Graph Theory.

Local Subjects:

Graph Theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (663 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2024.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2024.

Summary:

Brooks' Theorem (1941) is one of the most famous and fundamental theorems in graph theory – it is mentioned/treated in all general monographs on graph theory. It has sparked research in several directions. This book presents a comprehensive overview of this development and see it in context. It describes results, both early and recent, and explains relations: the various proofs, the many extensions and similar results for other graph parameters. It serves as a valuable reference to a wealth of information, now scattered in journals, proceedings and dissertations. The reader gets easy access to this wealth of information in comprehensive form, including best known proofs of the results described. Each chapter ends in a note section with historical remarks, comments and further results. The book is also suitable for graduate courses in graph theory and includes exercises. The book is intended for readers wanting to dig deeper into graph coloring theory than what is possible in the existing book literature. There is a comprehensive list of references to original sources.

Contents:

1 Degree Bounds for the Chromatic Number

2 Degeneracy and Colorings

3 Colorings and Orientations of Graphs

4 Properties of Critical Graphs

5 Critical Graphs with few Edges

6 Bounding χ by ∆ and ω

7 Coloring of Hypergraphs

8 Homomorphisms and Colorings

9 Coloring Graphs on Surface

Appendix A: Brooks’ Fundamental Paper

Appendix B: Tutte’s Lecture from 1992

Appendix C: Basic Graph Theory Concepts.

ISBN:

9783031500657

3031500652