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$4$-choosability of planar graphs with $4$-cycles far apart via the Combinatorial Nullstellensatz

Combinatorics 2022-11-09 v1

Abstract

By a well-known theorem of Thomassen and a planar graph depicted by Voigt, we know that every planar graph is 55-choosable, and the bound is tight. In 1999, Lam, Xu and Liu reduced 55 to 44 on C4C_4-free planar graphs. In the paper, by applying the famous Combinatorial Nullstellensatz, we design an effective algorithm to deal with list coloring problems. At the same time, we prove that a planar graph GG is 44-choosable if any two 44-cycles having distance at least 55 in GG, which extends the result of Lam et al.

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@article{arxiv.2211.03938,
  title  = {$4$-choosability of planar graphs with $4$-cycles far apart via the Combinatorial Nullstellensatz},
  author = {Fan Yang and Yue Wang and Jian-liang Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.03938},
  year   = {2022}
}