Pfaffian orientations, flat embeddings, and Steinberg's conjecture

The first result of this thesis is a partial result in the direction of Steinberg's Conjecture. Steinberg's Conjecture states that any planar graph without cycles of length four or five is three colorable. Borodin, Glebov, Montassier, and Raspaud showed that planar graphs without cycles...

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Main Author: Whalen, Peter
Other Authors: Thomas, Robin
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: Georgia Institute of Technology 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1853/52207