Suppose that G is a planar graph with maximum degree △. In this paper it is proved that G is total-（△ ＋ 2）-choosable if （1） △ ≥ 7 and G has no adjacent triangles （i.e., no two triangles are incident with a common edge）; or （2） △ ≥6 and G has no intersecting triangles （i.e., no two triangles are incident with a common vertex）; or （3） △ ≥ 5, G has no adjacent triangles and G has no k-cycles for some integer k ∈ {5, 6}.
A total k-coloring of a graph G is a coloring of V(G) ∪ E(G) using k colors such that no two adjacent or incident elements receive the same color.The total chromatic number χ〃(G) is the smallest integer k such that G has a total k-coloring.In this paper,it is proved that the total chromatic number of any graph G embedded in a surface Σ of Euler characteristic χ(Σ)≥0 is Δ(G) + 1 if Δ(G)≥10,where Δ(G) denotes the maximum degree of G.
HOU JianFeng 1,2,WU JianLiang 2,LIU GuiZhen 2 & LIU Bin 2 1 Center for Discrete Mathematics,Fuzhou University,Fuzhou 350002,China
A proper vertex coloring of a graph G is linear if the graph induced by the vertices of any two color classes is the union of vertex-disjoint paths. The linear chromatic number lc（G） of the graph G is the smallest number of colors in a linear coloring of G. In this paper, it is proved that every planar graph G with girth g and maximum degree A has （1） lc（G） ≤ △ ＋ 21 if △ ≥ 9; （2） lc（G） ≤[△/2]＋ 7 if g≥5; （3） lc（G） ≤ [△/2]＋2ifg≥7and△ ≥7.
