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All Subgraphs of a Wheel are 5-Coupled-Choosable

Discrete Mathematics 2021-03-12 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

A wheel graph consists of a cycle along with a center vertex connected to every vertex in the cycle. In this paper we show that every subgraph of a wheel graph has list coupled chromatic number at most 5, and this coloring can be found in linear time. We further show that `5' is tight for every wheel graph with at least 5 vertices, and briefly discuss possible generalizations to planar graphs of treewidth 3.

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@article{arxiv.2102.02918,
  title  = {All Subgraphs of a Wheel are 5-Coupled-Choosable},
  author = {Sam Barr and Therese Biedl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.02918},
  year   = {2021}
}

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13 pages, 7 figures