English

List-edge-colouring planar graphs with precoloured edges

Combinatorics 2018-07-11 v3

Abstract

Let GG be a simple planar graph of maximum degree Δ\Delta, let tt be a positive integer, and let LL be an edge list assignment on GG with L(e)Δ+t|L(e)| \geq \Delta+t for all eE(G)e \in E(G). We prove that if HH is a subgraph of GG that has been LL-edge-coloured, then the edge-precolouring can be extended to an LL-edge-colouring of GG, provided that HH has maximum degree dtd\leq t and either dt4d \leq t-4 or Δ\Delta is large enough (Δ16+d\Delta \geq 16+d suffices). If d>td>t, there are examples for any choice of Δ\Delta where the extension is impossible.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1709.04027,
  title  = {List-edge-colouring planar graphs with precoloured edges},
  author = {Joshua Harrelson and Jessica McDonald and Gregory J. Puleo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.04027},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

14 pages, 3 figures, 1 table

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