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The List Linear Arboricity of Graphs

Combinatorics 2017-12-15 v1

Abstract

A linear forest is a forest in which every connected component is a path. The linear arboricity of a graph GG is the minimum number of linear forests of GG covering all edges. In 1980, Akiyama, Exoo and Harary proposed a conjecture, known as the Linear Arboricity Conjecture (LAC), stating that every dd-regular graph GG has linear arboricity d+12\lceil \frac{d+1}{2} \rceil. In 1988, Alon proved that the LAC holds asymptotically. In 1999, the list version of the LAC was raised by An and Wu, which is called the List Linear Arboricity Conjecture. In this article, we prove that the List Linear Arboricity Conjecture holds asymptotically.

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@article{arxiv.1712.05006,
  title  = {The List Linear Arboricity of Graphs},
  author = {Ringi Kim and Luke Postle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.05006},
  year   = {2017}
}

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