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On differences between DP-coloring and list coloring

Combinatorics 2017-11-02 v2

Abstract

DP-coloring (also known as correspondence coloring) is a generalization of list coloring introduced recently by Dvo\v{r}\'{a}k and Postle. Many known upper bounds for the list-chromatic number extend to the DP-chromatic number, but not all of them do. In this note we describe some unusual properties of DP-coloring that set it aside from list coloring. In particular, we give an example of a planar bipartite graph with DP-chromatic number 44 and prove that the edge-DP-chromatic number of a dd-regular graph with d2d\geq 2 is always at least d+1d+1.

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@article{arxiv.1705.04883,
  title  = {On differences between DP-coloring and list coloring},
  author = {Anton Bernshteyn and Alexandr Kostochka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.04883},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

8 pages, 3 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1609.09122

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