Graphs without a 3-connected subgraph are 4-colorable

Abstract

In 1972, Mader showed that every graph without a 3-connected subgraph is 4-degenerate and thus 5-colorable. We show that the number 5 of colors can be replaced by 4, which is best possible.

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