Neumann–Lara–Škrekovski conjecture on the dichromatic number of planar graphs

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Let GG be a planar graph, and let χ⃗(G)\vec{\chi}(G) denote the maximum, over all orientations of GG, of the minimum number of acyclic colour classes in a vertex colouring. Neumann–Lara–Škrekovski conjecture. Every planar graph satisfies

χ⃗(G)≤2.\vec{\chi}(G) \leq 2.

This is the directed analogue of the Four-Colour Theorem and is equivalent, as stated in the source, to the assertion that every planar digraph is 22-colourable. The source does not provide evidence of a resolution.

References

Primary source

Raphael Steiner, “A Note on Graphs of Dichromatic Number 2”, arXiv:1907.00351 (2019).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2011–2019). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1401.2213, arXiv:1110.4900.

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