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A Characterization of $(4,2)$-Choosable Graphs

Combinatorics 2019-11-18 v3

Abstract

A graph GG is \emph{(a,b)(a,b)-choosable} if given any list assignment LL with L(v)=a|L(v)|=a for each vV(G)v\in V(G) there exists a function φ\varphi such that φ(v)L(v)\varphi(v)\in L(v) and φ(v)=b|\varphi(v)|=b for all vV(G)v\in V(G), and whenever vertices xx and yy are adjacent φ(x)φ(y)=\varphi(x)\cap \varphi(y)=\emptyset. Meng, Puleo, and Zhu conjectured a characterization of (4,2)-choosable graphs. We prove their conjecture.

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@article{arxiv.1708.05488,
  title  = {A Characterization of $(4,2)$-Choosable Graphs},
  author = {Daniel W. Cranston},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.05488},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

20 pages, 20 figures; version 3 incorporates reviewer feedback: completely rewrote Section 5 to correct an error, omitted many tedious details of showing that certain graphs are not (4,2)-choosable, removed open question and conjecture; to appear in J. Graph Theory

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