List-recoloring of two classes of planar graphs
Combinatorics
2025-10-21 v1
Abstract
For a graph with a list assignment and two -colorings and , an -recoloring sequence from to is a sequence of proper -colorings where consecutive colorings differ at exactly one vertex. We prove the existence of such a recoloring sequence in which every vertex is recolored at most a constant number of times under two conditions: (i) is planar, contains no -cycles or intersecting -cycles, and is a -assignment; or (ii) the maximum average degree of satisfies and is a -assignment. These results strengthen two theorems previously established by Cranston.
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@article{arxiv.2510.17628,
title = {List-recoloring of two classes of planar graphs},
author = {Chenran Pan and Weifan Wang and Runrun Liu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.17628},
year = {2025}
}
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10 pages