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All wheels with two missing consecutive spokes are chromatically unique. (English) Zbl 0957.05043
Summary: This paper shows that every wheel of order $$n$$, $$n\geq 6$$, with two missing consecutive spokes is chromatically unique.

##### MSC:
 05C15 Coloring of graphs and hypergraphs
##### Keywords:
wheel; missing consecutive spokes; chromatically unique
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