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A degree-five vertex is inserted into a plane graph after one explicit Kempe-chain colour swap
Example
One Kempe swap extends a five-colouring across the centre of a plane wheel with five rim vertices.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Let occur in this cyclic order on a plane -cycle. Colour with colour , and plan to insert a vertex inside the cycle adjacent to every .
Swapping two colours on one Kempe component preserves a proper colouring (Swapping the two colours on one Kempe component preserves a proper colouring).
The alternating Kempe connections between cyclic neighbours and cannot both occur (For five cyclically ordered neighbours of a plane vertex, alternating Kempe paths between the first and third and between the second and fourth cannot both occur).
Verification
Before is inserted, its five prospective neighbours use all five colours. In the subgraph induced by colours and , both and are isolated: their two cycle neighbours have colours and , respectively. In particular there is no alternating - path between them, consistently with [L2].
Swap colours and on the Kempe component . The colouring remains proper by [L1]; now both and have colour , but they are nonadjacent, and no rim vertex has colour . Give the inserted centre colour . Every spoke then has differently coloured endpoints, producing an explicit five-colouring of the plane wheel and illustrating the swap used in Five colour theorem: every planar graph has chromatic number at most five.
Depends on
- Five colour theorem: every planar graph has chromatic number at most five
- Kempe chains as connected components induced by two colour classes
- Swapping the two colours on one Kempe component preserves a proper colouring
- For five cyclically ordered neighbours of a plane vertex, alternating Kempe paths between the first and third and between the second and fourth cannot both occur
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Sources
- R. Diestel, Graph Theory, 6th ed., Proposition 5.1.2 (standard reference, not scraped)