Every subcubic graph is packing $(1,1,2,2,3)$-colorable
Abstract
For a sequence of non-decreasing integers, a packing -coloring of a graph is a partition of its vertex set into such that for every pair of distinct vertices , where , the distance between and is at least . The packing chromatic number, , of a graph is the smallest integer such that has a packing -coloring. Gastineau and Togni asked an open question ``Is it true that the -subdivision () of any subcubic graph has packing chromatic number at most ?'' and later Bre\v{s}ar, Klav\v{z}ar, Rall, and Wash conjectured that it is true. In this paper, we prove that every subcubic graph has a packing -coloring and it is sharp due to the existence of subcubic graphs that are not packing -colorable. As a corollary of our result, for every subcubic graph , improving a previous bound () due to Balogh, Kostochka, and Liu in 2019, and we are now just one step away from fully solving the conjecture.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2404.09337,
title = {Every subcubic graph is packing $(1,1,2,2,3)$-colorable},
author = {Xujun Liu and Xin Zhang and Yanting Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.09337},
year = {2024}
}
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9 pages, 2 figures