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Every nice graph is $(1,5)$-choosable

Combinatorics 2022-02-22 v7

Abstract

A graph G=(V,E)G=(V,E) is total weight (k,k)(k,k')-choosable if the following holds: For any list assignment LL which assigns to each vertex vv a set L(v)L(v) of kk real numbers, and assigns to each edge ee a set L(e)L(e) of kk' real numbers, there is a proper LL-total weighting, i.e., a map ϕ:VER\phi: V \cup E \to \mathbb{R} such that ϕ(z)L(z)\phi(z) \in L(z) for zVEz \in V \cup E, and eE(u)ϕ(e)+ϕ(u)eE(v)ϕ(e)+ϕ(v)\sum_{e \in E(u)}\phi(e)+\phi(u) \ne \sum_{e \in E(v)}\phi(e)+\phi(v) for every edge {u,v}\{u,v\}. A graph is called nice if it contains no isolated edges. As a strengthening of the famous 1-2-3 conjecture, it was conjectured in [T. Wong and X. Zhu, Total weigt choosability of graphs, J. Graph Th. 66 (2011),198-212] that every nice graph is total weight (1,3)(1,3)-choosable. The problem whether there is a constant kk such that every nice graph is total weight (1,k)(1,k)-choosable remained open for a decade and was recently solved by Cao [L. Cao, Total weight choosability of graphs: Towards the 1-2-3 conjecture, J. Combin. Th. B, 149(2021), 109-146], who proved that every nice graph is total weight (1,17)(1, 17)-choosable. This paper improves this result and proves that every nice graph is total weight (1,5)(1, 5)-choosable.

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@article{arxiv.2104.05410,
  title  = {Every nice graph is $(1,5)$-choosable},
  author = {Xuding Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.05410},
  year   = {2022}
}

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29 pages, 6 figures

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