1-planar graphs with girth at least 6 are (1,1,1,1)-colorable
Lili Song, Lei Sun · Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal · 2023
summary:A graph is 1-planar if it can be drawn in the Euclidean plane so that each edge is crossed by at most one other edge. A 1-planar graph on $n$ vertices is optimal if it has $4n-8$ edges. We prove that 1-planar graphs with girth at least 6 are (1,1,1,1)-colorable (in the sense that each of the four color classes induces a subgraph of maximum degree one). Inspired by the decomposition of 1-planar graphs, we conjecture that every 1-planar graph is (2,2,2,0,0)-colorable.