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On list 3-dynamic coloring of near-triangulations

Combinatorics 2019-09-11 v1

Abstract

An rr-dynamic kk-coloring of a graph GG is a proper kk-coloring such that for any vertex vv, there are at least min{r,degG(v)}\min\{r, deg_G(v) \} distinct colors in NG(v)N_G(v). The rr-dynamic chromatic number χrd(G)\chi_r^d(G) of a graph GG is the least kk such that there exists an rr-dynamic kk-coloring of GG. The list rr-dynamic chromatic number of a graph GG is denoted by chrd(G)ch_r^d(G). Loeb et al. [11][11] showed that ch3d(G)10ch_3^d(G)\leq 10 for every planar graph GG, and there is a planar graph GG with χ3d(G)=7\chi_3^d(G)= 7. In this paper, we study a special class of planar graphs which have better upper bounds of ch3d(G)ch_3^d(G). We prove that ch3d(G)6ch_3^d(G) \leq 6 if GG is a planar graph which is near-triangulation, where a near-triangulation is a planar graph whose bounded faces are all 3-cycles.

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@article{arxiv.1909.04533,
  title  = {On list 3-dynamic coloring of near-triangulations},
  author = {Ruijuan Gu and Seog-Jin Kim and Yulai Ma and Yongtang Shi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.04533},
  year   = {2019}
}