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List majority edge-colorings of graphs

Combinatorics 2023-12-05 v1

Abstract

A majority edge-coloring of a graph without pendant edges is a coloring of its edges such that, for every vertex vv and every color α\alpha, there are at most as many edges incident to vv colored with α\alpha as with all other colors. We extend some known results for finite graphs to infinite graphs, mostly in the list setting. In particular, we prove that every infinite graph without pendant edges has a majority edge-coloring from lists of size 44. Another interesting result states that every infinite graph without vertices of finite odd degrees admits a majority edge-coloring from lists of size 22. We formulate two conjectures. As a consequence of our results, we prove that line graphs of any cardinality admit majority vertex-colorings from lists of size 2, thus confirming the Unfriendly Partition Conjecture for line graphs.

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@article{arxiv.2312.00922,
  title  = {List majority edge-colorings of graphs},
  author = {Rafał Kalinowski and Monika Pilśniak and Marcin Stawiski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.00922},
  year   = {2023}
}