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On the choice number of complete multipartite graphs with part size four

Combinatorics 2014-07-16 v1

Abstract

Let ch(G)\mathrm{ch}(G) denote the choice number of a graph GG, and let KskK_{s*k} be the complete kk-partite graph with ss vertices in each part. Erd\H{o}s, Rubin, and Taylor showed that ch(K2k)=k\mathrm{ch}( K_{2*k})=k, and suggested the problem of determining the choice number of Ksk.K_{s*k}. The first author established ch(K3k)=4k13\mathrm{ch}( K_{3*k})=\left\lceil \frac{4k-1}{3}\right\rceil. Here we prove ch(K4k)=3k12\mathrm{ch} (K_{4*k})=\left\lceil \frac{3k-1}{2}\right\rceil.

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@article{arxiv.1407.3817,
  title  = {On the choice number of complete multipartite graphs with part size four},
  author = {H. A. Kierstead and Andrew Salmon and Ran Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.3817},
  year   = {2014}
}