English

Packing colourings in complete bipartite graphs and the inverse problem for correspondence packing

Combinatorics 2024-12-06 v2

Abstract

Applications of graph colouring often involve taking restrictions into account, and it is desirable to have multiple (disjoint) solutions. In the optimal case, where there is a partition into disjoint colourings, we speak of a packing. However, even for complete bipartite graphs, the list chromatic number can be arbitrarily large, and its exact determination is generally difficult. For the packing variant, this question becomes even harder. In this paper, we study the correspondence- and list packing numbers of (asymmetric) complete bipartite graphs. In the most asymmetric cases, Latin squares come into play. Our results show that every zZ+3z \in \mathbb Z^+ \setminus {3} can be equal to the correspondence packing number of a graph. Additionally, we disprove a recent conjecture that relates the list packing number and the list flexibility number.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2303.01944,
  title  = {Packing colourings in complete bipartite graphs and the inverse problem for correspondence packing},
  author = {Stijn Cambie and Rimma Hämäläinen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.01944},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

15 pages, 5 figures (1 figure, 4 tables) Version which is accepted to appear in Journal of Graph Theory