The local track-number conjecture for planar graphs

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Let GG be a planar graph, and let its local track-number be the minimum number of tracks in an injective track cover such that every vertex belongs to at most that many tracks.

Local track-number conjecture. The local track-number of GG is at most 33.

The source identifies this as the only unresolved entry in its table of covering-number questions. It notes that the bound is known for bipartite planar graphs and for planar graphs of treewidth at most 33, while the general planar case remains open.

References

Primary source

Kolja Knauer and Torsten Ueckerdt, “Three ways to cover a graph”, arXiv:1205.1627 (2015).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2010–2012). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1009.2861.

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