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A map on a closed surface is said to be distinguishing k -colorable if it has a proper k-coloring such that no automorphism other than the identity map preserves the colors. We shall show that a polyhedral map with bipartite underlying graph is distinguishing 3-colorable if it has more than 18 vertices.
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Negami, S., Tucker, T.W. Bipartite Polyhedral Maps on Closed Surfaces are Distinguishing 3-Colorable with Few Exceptions. Graphs and Combinatorics 33, 1443–1450 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00373-017-1788-1
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