Packing list-colorings

被引:4
作者
Cambie, Stijn [1 ]
van Batenburg, Wouter Cames [2 ]
Davies, Ewan [3 ]
Kang, Ross J. [4 ]
机构
[1] Inst Basic Sci IBS, Extremal Combinator & Probabil Grp ECOPRO, Daejeon, South Korea
[2] Delft Univ Technol, Delft Inst Appl Math, Delft, Netherlands
[3] Colorado State Univ, Dept Comp Sci, Ft Collins, CO USA
[4] Univ Amsterdam, Korteweg de Vries Inst Math, Amsterdam, Netherlands
基金
荷兰研究理事会;
关键词
graph colouring; graph packing; independent transversals; list colouring; strong chromatic number; TRANSVERSALS; GRAPHS; NUMBER;
D O I
10.1002/rsa.21181
中图分类号
TP31 [计算机软件];
学科分类号
081202 ; 0835 ;
摘要
List coloring is an influential and classic topic in graph theory. We initiate the study of a natural strengthening of this problem, where instead of one list-coloring, we seek many in parallel. Our explorations have uncovered a potentially rich seam of interesting problems spanning chromatic graph theory. Given a k$$ k $$-list-assignment L$$ L $$ of a graph G$$ G $$, which is the assignment of a list L(v)$$ L(v) $$ of k$$ k $$ colors to each vertex v & ISIN;V(G)$$ v\in V(G) $$, we study the existence of k$$ k $$ pairwise-disjoint proper colorings of G$$ G $$ using colors from these lists. We may refer to this as a list-packing. Using a mix of combinatorial and probabilistic methods, we set out some basic upper bounds on the smallest k$$ k $$ for which such a list-packing is always guaranteed, in terms of the number of vertices, the degeneracy, the maximum degree, or the (list) chromatic number of G$$ G $$. (The reader might already find it interesting that such a minimal k$$ k $$ is well defined.) We also pursue a more focused study of the case when G$$ G $$ is a bipartite graph. Our results do not yet rule out the tantalising prospect that the minimal k$$ k $$ above is not too much larger than the list chromatic number. Our study has taken inspiration from study of the strong chromatic number, and we also explore generalizations of the problem above in the same spirit.
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页码:62 / 93
页数:32
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