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Multigraph edge-coloring with local list sizes

Combinatorics 2025-01-16 v3 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

Let GG be a multigraph and L:E(G)2NL\,:\,E(G) \to 2^\mathbb{N} be a list assignment on the edges of GG. Suppose additionally, for every vertex xx, the edges incident to xx have at least f(x)f(x) colors in common. We consider a variant of local edge-colorings wherein the color received by an edge ee must be contained in L(e)L(e). The locality appears in the function ff, i.e., f(x)f(x) is some function of the local structure of xx in GG. Such a notion is a natural generalization of traditional local edge-coloring. Our main results include sufficient conditions on the function ff to construct such colorings. As corollaries, we obtain local analogs of Vizing and Shannon's theorems, recovering a recent result of Conley, Greb\'ik and Pikhurko.

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@article{arxiv.2307.12094,
  title  = {Multigraph edge-coloring with local list sizes},
  author = {Abhishek Dhawan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.12094},
  year   = {2025}
}

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11 pages, 4 figures

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