Dvořák–Kráľ–Nejedlý–Škrekovski girth-five planar square-coloring conjecture

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Let GG be a planar graph of girth at least 55, and let Δ\Delta be its maximum degree. Dvořák–Kráľ–Nejedlý–Škrekovski conjecture. There exists Δ0\Delta_0 such that, if Δ≥Δ0\Delta\ge\Delta_0, then

χ2(G)=Δ+2.\chi^2(G)=\Delta+2.

This conjecture concerns the sharp asymptotic bound in girth five and was confirmed by Bonamy, Cranston, and Postle.

References

Primary source

Daniel W. Cranston, “Coloring, List Coloring, and Painting Squares of Graphs (and other related problems)”, arXiv:2210.05915 (2026).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2015–2022). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1508.03663.

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