Bad list assignments for non-$k$-choosable $k$-chromatic graphs with $2k+2$-vertices
Abstract
It was conjectured by Ohba, and proved by Noel, Reed and Wu that -chromatic graphs with are chromatic-choosable. This upper bound on is tight: if is even, then and are -chromatic graphs with vertices that are not chromatic-choosable. It was proved in [arXiv:2201.02060] that these are the only non--choosable complete -partite graphs with vertices. For or , a bad list assignment of is a -list assignment of such that is not -colourable. Bad list assignments for were characterized in [Discrete Mathematics 244 (2002), 55-66]. In this paper, we first give a simpler proof of this result, and then we characterize bad list assignments for . Using these results, we characterize all non--choosable (non-complete) -partite graphs with vertices.
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@article{arxiv.2202.09756,
title = {Bad list assignments for non-$k$-choosable $k$-chromatic graphs with $2k+2$-vertices},
author = {Jialu Zhu and Xuding Zhu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.09756},
year = {2022}
}
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