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List-recoloring of two classes of planar graphs

Combinatorics 2025-10-21 v1

Abstract

For a graph GG with a list assignment LL and two LL-colorings α\alpha and β\beta, an LL-recoloring sequence from α\alpha to β\beta is a sequence of proper LL-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) GG is planar, contains no 33-cycles or intersecting 44-cycles, and LL is a 66-assignment; or (ii) the maximum average degree of GG satisfies mad(G)<52\mathrm{mad}(G) < \frac{5}{2} and LL is a 44-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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