## Taiwanese Journal of Mathematics

### MINIMAX DEGREES OF QUASIPLANAR GRAPHS WITH NO SHORT CYCLES OTHER THAN TRIANGLES

#### Abstract

For an edge $xy$, let $M(xy)$ be the maximum of the degrees of $x$ and $y$. The {\em minimax degree} (or $M$-degree) of a graph $G$ is $M^*(G)=\min\{M(xy)| xy\in E(G)\}$. In order to get upper bounds on the game chromatic number of planar graphs, He, Hou, Lih, Shao, Wang, and Zhu showed that every planar graph $G$ without leaves and $4$-cycles has minimax degree at most $8$, which was improved by Borodin, Kostochka, Sheikh, and Yu to the sharp bound $7$. We show that every planar graph $G$ without leaves and $4$- and $5$-cycles has $M$-degree at most $5$, which bound is sharp. We also show that every planar graph $G$ without leaves and cycles of length from $4$ to $7$ has $M$-degree at most $4$, which bound is attained even on planar graphs with no cycles of length from $4$ to arbitrarily large number. Besides, we give sufficient conditions for a planar graph to have $M$-degrees $3$ and $2$. Similar results are obtained for graphs embeddable into the projective plane, the torus and the Klein bottle.

#### Article information

Source
Taiwanese J. Math., Volume 12, Number 4 (2008), 873-886.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 18 July 2017

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.twjm/1500404982

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.11650/twjm/1500404982

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR2426533

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1163.05013

Subjects
Primary: 05C15: Coloring of graphs and hypergraphs

#### Citation

Borodin, Oleg V.; Ivanova, Anna O.; Kostochka, Alexandr V.; Sheikh, Naeem N. MINIMAX DEGREES OF QUASIPLANAR GRAPHS WITH NO SHORT CYCLES OTHER THAN TRIANGLES. Taiwanese J. Math. 12 (2008), no. 4, 873--886. doi:10.11650/twjm/1500404982. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.twjm/1500404982

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