List packing of graphs with bounded tree-width
Combinatorics
2026-03-30 v1
Abstract
Assume is a -assignment of a graph . An -packing of is a sequence of -mappings such that each is an -coloring of , and for each vertex of , (and hence when ). We say is list -packable if for any -assignment of , there is an -packing of . The list packing number of is the minimum integer such that is -packable. For a positive integer , let be the maximum packing number of graphs of tree-width at most . It was known that for any . In this paper, we prove that for , and for . In particular, and . Furthermore, we show that for constant positive integers , the problem of determining or not for a graph of tree-width at most is solvable in linear time.
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@article{arxiv.2603.26187,
title = {List packing of graphs with bounded tree-width},
author = {Masaki Kashima and Shun-ichi Maezawa and Xuding Zhu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.26187},
year = {2026}
}