Steinberg's Conjecture is false

Authors: Vincent Cohen-Addad, Michael Hebdige, Daniel Kral, Zhentao Li, Esteban Salgado

Several typos fixed

Abstract: Steinberg conjectured in 1976 that every planar graph with no cycles of length four or five is 3-colorable. We disprove this conjecture.

Submitted to arXiv on 18 Apr. 2016

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