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Majority choosability of countable graphs

Combinatorics 2020-03-09 v1

Abstract

In any vertex coloring of a graph some edges have differently colored ends (\emph{good} edges) and some are monochromatic (\emph{bad} edges). In a proper coloring all edges are good. In a \emph{majority coloring} it is enough that for every vertex vv, the number of bad edges incident to vv does not exceed the number of good edges incident to vv. A well known result of Lov\'{a}sz \cite{Lovasz} asserts that every finite graph has a majority 22-coloring. A similar statement for countably infinite graphs is a challenging open problem, known as the \emph{Unfriendly Partition Conjecture}. We consider a natural list variant of majority coloring. A graph is \emph{majority kk-choosable} if it has a majority coloring from any lists of size kk assigned arbitrarily to the vertices. We prove that every countable graph is majority 44-choosable. We also consider a natural analog of majority coloring for directed graphs. We prove that every countable digraph is also majority 44-choosable. We pose list and directed analogs of the Unfriendly Partition Conjecture, stating that every countable graph is majority 22-choosable and every countable digraph is majority 33-choosable.

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@article{arxiv.2003.02883,
  title  = {Majority choosability of countable graphs},
  author = {Marcin Anholcer and Bartłomiej Bosek and Jarosław Grytczuk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.02883},
  year   = {2020}
}
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