Wednesday, February 17, 2010

[fheekgsn] Four color map algorithm?

Now that the four-color map theorem has been proved (Appel & Haken), what is an algorithm that will compute a 4-coloring of a given planar map?  Is it polynomial time?  Are there simple algorithms?  Open-source implementations?

Robertson et al, "Efficiently four coloring planar graphs".

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