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A Short Proof that the List Packing Number of any Graph is Well Defined

Combinatorics 2022-09-19 v2

Abstract

List packing is a notion that was introduced in 2021 (by Cambie et al.). The list packing number of a graph GG, denoted χ(G)\chi_{\ell}^*(G), is the least kk such that for any list assignment LL that assigns kk colors to each vertex of GG, there is a set of kk proper LL-colorings of GG, {f1,,fk}\{f_1, \ldots, f_k \}, with the property fi(v)fj(v)f_i(v) \neq f_j(v) whenever 1i<jk1 \leq i < j \leq k and vV(G)v \in V(G). We present a short proof that for any graph GG, χ(G)V(G)\chi_{\ell}^*(G) \leq |V(G)|. Interestingly, our proof makes use of Galvin's celebrated result that the list chromatic number of the line graph of any bipartite multigraph equals its chromatic number.

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@article{arxiv.2207.11868,
  title  = {A Short Proof that the List Packing Number of any Graph is Well Defined},
  author = {Jeffrey A. Mudrock},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.11868},
  year   = {2022}
}

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