3-Colouring Planar Graphs

Abstract

We show that every n-vertex planar graph is 3-colourable with monochromatic components of size O(n4/9). The best previous bound was O(n1/2) due to Linial, Matousek, Sheffet and Tardos [Combin. Probab. Comput., 2008].

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