Plane graphs whose medial graphs have proper vertexcolorings
with only 4 colors have facial 2-acyclic chromatic index 4; for example
the wheel on six vertices (see Figure 1).
Figure 1: An example of a graph with no facial 2-acyclic edge-coloring using
less than 4 colors.
In the following we will assume that r ≥ 3.
The (geometric) dual G∗ = (V ∗,E∗, F∗) of the plane graph G = (V,E, F)
can be
Plane graphs whose medial graphs