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{\bf Craig Timmons}
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{\bf Star Coloring High Girth Planar Graphs}
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A {\it star coloring} of a graph is a proper coloring such that no
path on four vertices is 2-colored.  We prove that every planar graph
with girth at least 9 can be star colored using 5 colors, and that
every planar graph with girth at least 14 can be star colored using 4
colors; the figure 4 is best possible.  We give an example of a girth
7 planar graph that requires 5 colors to star color.



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