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The DP-coloring of the square of subcubic graphs

Combinatorics 2024-05-16 v1

Abstract

The 2-distance coloring of a graph GG is equivalent to the proper coloring of its square graph G2G^2, it is a special distance labeling problem. DP-coloring (or "Correspondence coloring") was introduced by Dvo\v{r}\'ak and Postle in 2018, to answer a conjecture of list coloring proposed by Borodin. In recent years, many researches pay attention to the DP-coloring of planar graphs with some restriction in cycles. We study the DP-coloring of the square of subcubic graphs in terms of maximum average degree mad(G)\rm{mad}(G), and by the discharging method, we showed that: for a subcubic graph GG, if mad(G)<9/4\rm{mad}(G)<9/4, then G2G^2 is DP-5-colorable; if mad(G)<12/5\rm{mad}(G)<12/5, then G2G^2 is DP-6-colorable. And the bound in the first result is sharp.

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@article{arxiv.2405.09249,
  title  = {The DP-coloring of the square of subcubic graphs},
  author = {Ren Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.09249},
  year   = {2024}
}

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7 pages, 3 figures