On 2-distance coloring of plane graphs with girth 5

A vertex coloring is called 2 -distance if any two vertices at distance at most 2 from each other get different colors. Let ź 2 ( G ) be the 2-distance chromatic number of a graph G . Suppose G is a plane graph with girth 5 and maximum degree Δ . In this paper, we prove that if Δ ź { 7 , 8 } , then ź 2 ( G ) ź Δ + 7 . Furthermore, we show that ź 2 ( G ) ź Δ + 4 if Δ is sufficiently large.