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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 v1,v2,v3,v4,v5v_1,v_2,v_3,v_4,v_5 occur in this cyclic order on a plane 55-cycle. Colour viv_i with colour ii, and plan to insert a vertex vv inside the cycle adjacent to every viv_i.

[L1]

Swapping two colours on one Kempe component preserves a proper colouring (Swapping the two colours on one Kempe component preserves a proper colouring).

[L2]

The alternating Kempe connections between cyclic neighbours v1,v3v_1,v_3 and v2,v4v_2,v_4 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

technique · constructive
1.1

Before vv is inserted, its five prospective neighbours use all five colours. In the subgraph induced by colours 11 and 33, both v1v_1 and v3v_3 are isolated: their two cycle neighbours have colours 2,52,5 and 2,42,4, respectively. In particular there is no alternating 11-33 path between them, consistently with [L2].

L2construct
2.1

Swap colours 11 and 33 on the Kempe component {v1}\{v_1\}. The colouring remains proper by [L1]; now both v1v_1 and v3v_3 have colour 33, but they are nonadjacent, and no rim vertex has colour 11. Give the inserted centre vv colour 11. 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.

L1step 1.1discharge-construct

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