Let G be an n-vertex graph with list-chromatic number $χ_\ell$. Suppose each vertex of G is assigned a list of t colors. Albertson, Grossman, and Haas conjecture that at least $t n / {χ_\ell}$ vertices can be colored from these lists. We prove a lower bound for the number of colorable vertices. As a corollary, we show that at least 6/7 of the conjectured number can be colored.
Motivated by the Erdős-Faber-Lovász (EFL) conjecture for hypergraphs, we consider the list edge coloring of linear hypergraphs. We discuss several conjectures for list edge coloring linear hypergraphs that generalize both EFL and Vizing's theorem for graphs. For example, we conjecture that in a linear hypergraph of rank 3, the list edge chromatic number is at most 2 times the maximum degree plus 1. We show that for sufficiently large fixed rank and sufficiently large degree, the conjectures are true.
In 1995, Galvin proved that a bipartite graph $G$ admits a list edge coloring if every edge is assigned a color list of length $Δ(G)$, the maximum degree of the graph. This result was improved by Borodin, Kostochka and Woodall, who proved that $G$ still admits a list edge coloring if every edge $e=st$ is assigned a list of $\max\{d_{G}(s), d_{G}(t)\}$ colors. Recently, Iwata and Yokoi provided the list supermodular coloring theorem, that extends Galvin's result to the setting of Schrijver's supermodular coloring. This paper provides a common generalization of these two extensions of Galvin's r…
We introduce a new variant of graph coloring called correspondence coloring which generalizes list coloring and allows for reductions previously only possible for ordinary coloring. Using this tool, we prove that excluding cycles of lengths 4 to 8 is sufficient to guarantee 3-choosability of a planar graph, thus answering a question of Borodin.
DP-coloring (also known as correspondence coloring) is a generalization of list coloring introduced recently by Dvořák and Postle. Many known upper bounds for the list-chromatic number extend to the DP-chromatic number, but not all of them do. In this note we describe some unusual properties of DP-coloring that set it aside from list coloring. In particular, we give an example of a planar bipartite graph with DP-chromatic number $4$ and prove that the edge-DP-chromatic number of a $d$-regular graph with $d\geq 2$ is always at least $d+1$.
Let $r$ be an integer with $r\ge 2$ and $G$ be a connected $r$-uniform hypergraph with $m$ edges. By refining the broken cycle theorem for hypergraphs, we show that if $k>\frac{m-1}{\ln(1+\sqrt{2})}\approx 1.135 (m-1)$ then the $k$-list assignment of $G$ admitting the fewest colorings is the constant list assignment. This extends the previous results of Donner, Thomassen and the current authors for graphs.
In the past various distance based colorings on planar graphs were introduced. We turn our focus to three of them, namely $2$-distance coloring, injective coloring, and exact square coloring. A $2$-distance coloring is a proper coloring of the vertices in which no two vertices at distance $2$ receive the same color, an injective coloring is a coloring of the vertices in which no two vertices with a common neighbor receive the same color, and an exact square coloring is a coloring of the vertices in which no two vertices at distance exactly $2$ receive the same color. We prove that planar graph…
{\emph A star edge-coloring} of a graph is a proper edge-coloring without bichromatic paths and cycles of length four. In this paper, we consider the list version of this coloring and prove that the list star chromatic index of every subcubic graph is at most $7$, answering the question of Dvořák et al. (Star chromatic index, J. Graph Theory 72 (2013), 313--326).
Let $G$ be a graph embedded on a surface $S_\varepsilon$ with Euler genus $\varepsilon > 0$, and let $P\subseteq V(G)$ be a set of vertices mutually at distance at least 4 apart. Suppose all vertices of $G$ have $H(\varepsilon)$-lists and the vertices of $P$ are precolored, where $H(\varepsilon)=\Big\lfloor\frac{7 + \sqrt{24\varepsilon + 1}}{2}\Big\rfloor$ is the Heawood number. We show that the coloring of $P$ extends to a list-coloring of $G$ and that the distance bound of 4 is best possible. Our result provides an answer to an analogous question of Albertson about extending a precoloring of…
In this work, we introduce DPG-coloring using the concepts of DP-coloring and variable degeneracy to modify the proofs on the following papers: (i) DP-3-coloring of planar graphs without $4$, $9$-cycles and cycles of two lengths from $\{6, 7, 8\}$ (R. Liu, S. Loeb, M. Rolek, Y. Yin, G. Yu, Graphs and Combinatorics 35(3) (2019) 695-705), (ii) Every planar graph without $i$-cycles adjacent simultaneously to $j$-cycles and $k$-cycles is DP-$4$-colorable when $\{i, j, k\}=\{3, 4, 5\}$ (P. Sittitrai, K. Nakprasit, arXiv:1801.06760(2019) preprint), (iii) Every planar graph is $5$-choosable (C. Thoma…
In 1980, Albertson and Berman introduced partial coloring. In 2000, Albertson, Grossman, and Haas introduced partial list coloring. Here, we initiate the study of partial coloring for an insightful generalization of list coloring introduced in 2015 by Dvořák and Postle, DP-coloring (or correspondence coloring). We consider the DP-coloring analogue of the Partial List Coloring Conjecture, which generalizes a natural bound for partial coloring. We show that while this partial DP-coloring conjecture does not hold, several results on partial list coloring can be extended to partial DP-coloring. We…
We prove a variation on Heawood list-coloring for graphs on surfaces, modeled on Thomassen's planar 5-list-coloring theorem. For epsilon>0 define the Heawood number to be H(epsilon)=Floor((7+Sqrt[24*epsilon+1])/2). We prove that, except for epsilon=3, every graph embedded on a surface of Euler genus epsilon>0 with a distinguished face F can be list-colored when the vertices of F have (H(epsilon)-2)-lists and all other vertices have H(epsilon)-lists unless the induced subgraph on the vertices of F contains the complete graph on H(epsilon)-1 vertices.
In \cite{listnoC3adjC4}), Borodin and Ivanova proved that every planar graph without $4$-cycles adjacent to $3$-cycle is list vertex-$2$-aborable. In fact, they proved a more general result. Inspired by these results and DP-coloring which becomes a widely studied topic, we introduce a generalization on variable degeneracy including list vertex arboricity. We use this notion to extend a general result by Borodin and Ivanova. Not only that this theorem implies results about planar graphs without $4$-cycles adjacent to $3$-cycle by Borodin and Ivanova, it implies many other results including a re…
Let G be a graph with a list assignment L. Suppose a preferred color is given for some of the vertices; how many of these preferences can be respected when L-coloring G? We explore several natural questions arising in this context, and propose directions for further research.
The online list coloring is a widely studied topic in graph theory. A graph $G$ is 2-paintable if we always have a strategy to complete a coloring in an online list coloring of $G$ in which each vertex has a color list of size 2. In this paper, we focus on the online list coloring game in which the number of colors is known in advance. We say that $G$ is $[2,t]$-paintable if we always have a strategy to complete a coloring in an online list coloring of $G$ in which we know that there are exactly $t$ colors in advance, and each vertex has a color list of size 2. Let $M(G)$ denote the maximum $t…
A generalization of list-coloring, now known as DP-coloring, was recently introduced by Dvořák and Postle. Essentially, DP-coloring assigns an arbitrary matching between lists of colors at adjacent vertices, as opposed to only matching identical colors as is done for list-coloring. Several results on list-coloring of planar graphs have since been extended to the setting of DP-coloring. We note that list-coloring results do not always extend to DP-coloring results. Our main result in this paper is to prove that every planar graph without cycles of length $\{4, a, b, 9\}$ for $a, b \in \{6, 7, 8…
In 2003 Kostochka, Pelsmajer, and West introduced a list analogue of equitable coloring called equitable choosability. A $k$-assignment, $L$, for a graph $G$ assigns a list, $L(v)$, of $k$ available colors to each $v \in V(G)$, and an equitable $L$-coloring of $G$ is a proper coloring, $f$, of $G$ such that $f(v) \in L(v)$ for each $v \in V(G)$ and each color class of $f$ has size at most $\lceil |V(G)|/k \rceil$. In 2018, Kaul, Mudrock, and Pelsmajer subsequently introduced the List Equitable Total Coloring Conjecture which states that if $T$ is a total graph of some simple graph, then $T$ is…
A {\em strong edge coloring} of a graph is a proper edge coloring in which every color class is an induced matching. The {\em strong chromatic index} of a graph is the minimum number of colors needed to obtain a strong edge coloring. In an analogous way, we can define the list version of strong edge coloring and list version of strong chromatic index. In this paper, we prove that if $G$ is a graph with maximum degree at most four and maximum average degree less than $3$, then the list strong chromatic index is at most $3Δ+ 1$, where $Δ$ is the maximum degree of $G$. In addition, we prove that …
In this paper uniquely list colorable graphs are studied. A graph G is called to be uniquely k-list colorable if it admits a k-list assignment from which G has a unique list coloring. The minimum k for which G is not uniquely k-list colorable is called the M-number of G. We show that every triangle-free uniquely vertex colorable graph with chromatic number k+1, is uniquely k-list colorable. A bound for the M-number of graphs is given, and using this bound it is shown that every planar graph has M-number at most 4. Also we introduce list criticality in graphs and characterize all 3-list critica…
A coloring of a matroid is an assignment of colors to the elements of its ground set. We restrict to proper colorings - those for which elements of the same color form an independent set. Seymour proved that a $k$-colorable matroid is also colorable from any lists of size $k$. We generalize this theorem to the case when lists have still fixed sizes, but not necessarily equal. For any fixed size of lists assignment $\ell$, we prove that, if a matroid is colorable from a particular lists of size $\ell$, then it is colorable from any lists of size $\ell$. This gives an explicit necessary and suff…
Let $G$ be a plane graph with outer cycle $C$ and let $(L(v):v\in V(G))$ be a family of non-empty sets. By an $L$-coloring of $G$ we mean a (proper) coloring $ϕ$ of $G$ such that $ϕ(v)\in L(v)$ for every vertex $v$ of $G$. Thomassen proved that if $v_1,v_2\in V(C)$ are adjacent, $L(v_1)\ne L(v_2)$, $|L(v)|\ge3$ for every $v\in V(C)-\{v_1,v_2\}$ and $|L(v)|\ge5$ for every $v\in V(G)-V(C)$, then $G$ has an $L$-coloring. What happens when $v_1$ and $v_2$ are not adjacent? Then an $L$-coloring need not exist, but in the first paper of this series we have shown that it exists if $|L(v_1)|,|L(v_2)|\…
An equitable coloring is a proper coloring of a graph such that the sizes of the color classes differ by at most one. A graph $G$ is equitably $k$-colorable if there exists an equitable coloring of $G$ which uses $k$ colors, each one appearing on either $\lfloor |V(G)|/k \rfloor$ or $\lceil |V(G)|/k \rceil$ vertices of $G$. In 1994, Fu conjectured that for any simple graph $G$, the total graph of $G$, $T(G)$, is equitably $k$-colorable whenever $k \geq \max\{χ(T(G)), Δ(G)+2\}$ where $χ(T(G))$ is the chromatic number of the total graph of $G$ and $Δ(G)$ is the maximum degree of $G$. We investig…
Thomassen proved that every planar graph $G$ on $n$ vertices has at least $2^{n/9}$ distinct $L$-colorings if $L$ is a 5-list-assignment for $G$ and at least $2^{n/10000}$ distinct $L$-colorings if $L$ is a 3-list-assignment for $G$ and $G$ has girth at least five. Postle and Thomas proved that if $G$ is a graph on $n$ vertices embedded on a surface $Σ$ of genus $g$, then there exist constants $ε,c_g > 0$ such that if $G$ has an $L$-coloring, then $G$ has at least $c_g2^{εn}$ distinct $L$-colorings if $L$ is a 5-list-assignment for $G$ or if $L$ is a 3-list-assignment for $G$ and $G$ has girth…
It is known that, for any $k$-list assignment $L$ of a graph $G$, the number of $L$-list colorings of $G$ is at least the number of the proper $k$-colorings of $G$ when $k>(m-1)/\ln(1+\sqrt{2})$. In this paper, we extend the Whitney's broken cycle theorem to $L$-colorings of signed graphs, by which we show that if $k> \binom{m}{3}+\binom{m}{4}+m-1$ then, for any $k$-assignment $L$, the number of $L$-colorings of a signed graph $Σ$ with $m$ edges is at least the number of the proper $k$-colorings of $Σ$. Further, if $L$ is $0$-free (resp., $0$-included) and $k$ is even (resp., odd), then the lo…
Let $G$ be a planar graph without 4-cycles and 5-cycles and with maximum degree $Δ\ge 32$. We prove that $χ_{\ell}(G^2)\le Δ+3$. For arbitrarily large maximum degree $Δ$, there exist planar graphs $G_Δ$ of girth 6 with $χ(G_Δ^2)=Δ+2$. Thus, our bound is within 1 of being optimal. Further, our bound comes from coloring greedily in a good order, so the bound immediately extends to online list-coloring. In addition, we prove bounds for $L(p,q)$-labeling. Specifically, $λ_{2,1}(G)\le Δ+8$ and, more generally, $λ_{p,q}(G)\le (2q-1)Δ+6p-2q-2$, for positive integers $p$ and $q$ with $p\ge q$. Again, …
We take an application of the Kernel Lemma by Kostochka and Yancey to its logical conclusion. The consequence is a sort of magical way to draw conclusions about list coloring (and online list coloring) just from the existence of an independent set incident to many edges. We use this to prove an Ore-degree version of Brooks' Theorem for online list-coloring. The Ore-degree of an edge $xy$ in a graph $G$ is $θ(xy) = d_G(x) + d_G(y)$. The Ore-degree of $G$ is $θ(G) = \max_{xy\in E(G)}θ(xy)$. We show that every graph with $θ\ge18$ and $ω\le\fracθ{2}$ is online $\left\lfloor \fracθ{2}\right\rfloor …
Let $G$ be a simple graph with $n$ vertices and list chromatic number $χ_\ell(G)=χ_\ell$. Suppose that $0\leq t\leq χ_\ell$ and each vertex of $G$ is assigned a list of $t$ colors. Albertson, Grossman and Haas [1] conjectured that at least $\frac{tn}{χ_\ell}$ vertices of $G$ can be colored from these lists. In this paper we find some new results in partial list coloring which help us to show that the conjecture is true for at least half of the numbers of the set $\{1,2,...,χ_\ell(G)-1\}$. In addition we introduce a new related conjecture and finally we present some results about this conjectur…
Given a partial edge coloring of a complete graph $K_n$ and lists of allowed colors for the non-colored edges of $K_n$, can we extend the partial edge coloring to a proper edge coloring of $K_n$ using only colors from the lists? We prove that this question has a positive answer in the case when both the partial edge coloring and the color lists satisfy certain sparsity conditions.
A coloring of a matroid is proper if elements of the same color form an independent set. A theorem of Seymour asserts that a k-colorable matroid is also colorable from any lists of size k. In this note we generalize this theorem to the on-line setting. We prove that a coloring of a matroid from lists of size k is possible even if appearances of colors in the lists are recovered color by color by an adversary, while our job is to assign a color immediately after it is recovered. We also prove a more general weighted version of our result with lists of varying sizes. In consequence we get a simp…
Let G=(V,E) be a graph and let f be a function that assigns list sizes to the vertices of G. It is said that G is f-choosable if for every assignment of lists of colors to the vertices of G for which the list sizes agree with f, there exists a proper coloring of G from the lists. The sum choice number is the minimum of the sum of list sizes for f over all choosable functions f for G. The sum choice number of a graph is always at most the sum |V|+|E|. When the sum choice number of G is equal to this upper bound, G is said to be sc-greedy. In this paper, we determine the sum choice number of all…
We prove that for a line perfect multigraph the chromatic index is equal to the list chromatic index. This is a generalization of Galvin's result on bipartite multigraphs. Soon after the first version was submitted to arxiv, I found out that the same result has already been achieved in an older paper by Peterson and Woodall, by a similar but not entirely the same method.
DP-coloring is a relatively new coloring concept by Dvořák and Postle and was introduced as an extension of list-colorings of (undirected) graphs. It transforms the problem of finding a list-coloring of a given graph $G$ with a list-assignment $L$ to finding an independent transversal in an auxiliary graph with vertex set $\{(v,c) ~|~ v \in V(G), c \in L(v)\}$. In this paper, we extend the definition of DP-colorings to digraphs using the approach from Neumann-Lara where a coloring of a digraph is a coloring of the vertices such that the digraph does not contain any monochromatic directed cycle…
In 2003, Kostochka, Pelsmajer, and West introduced a list analogue of equitable coloring called equitable choosability. In this paper, we motivate and define a new list analogue of equitable coloring called proportional choosability. A $k$-assignment $L$ for a graph $G$ specifies a list $L(v)$ of $k$ available colors for each vertex $v$ of $G$. An $L$-coloring assigns a color to each vertex $v$ from its list $L(v)$. For each color $c$, let $η(c)$ be the number of vertices $v$ whose list $L(v)$ contains $c$. A proportional $L$-coloring of $G$ is a proper $L$-coloring in which each color $c \in …
We consider the following type of question: Given a partial proper $d$-edge coloring of the $d$-dimensional hypercube $Q_d$, and lists of allowed colors for the non-colored edges of $Q_d$,can we extend the partial coloring to a proper $d$-edge coloring using only colors from the lists? We prove that this question has a positive answer in the case when both the partial coloring and the color lists satisfy certain sparsity conditions.
A strong edge-coloring of a graph $G$ is an edge-coloring such that any two edges on a path of length three receive distinct colors. We denote the strong chromatic index by $χ_{s}'(G)$ which is the minimum number of colors that allow a strong edge-coloring of $G$. Erdős and Nešetřil conjectured in 1985 that the upper bound of $χ_{s}'(G)$ is $\frac{5}{4}Δ^{2}$ when $Δ$ is even and $\frac{1}{4}(5Δ^{2}-2Δ+1)$ when $Δ$ is odd, where $Δ$ is the maximum degree of $G$. The conjecture is proved right when $Δ\leq3$. The best known upper bound for $Δ=4$ is 22 due to Cranston previously. In this paper we…
Let $f:V \rightarrow \mathbb{N}$ be a function on the vertex set of the graph $G=(V,E)$. The graph $G$ is {\em $f$-choosable} if for every collection of lists with list sizes specified by $f$ there is a proper coloring using colors from the lists. The sum choice number, $χ_{sc}(G)$, is the minimum of $\sum f(v)$, over all functions $f$ such that $G$ is $f$-choosable. It is known (Alon 1993, 2000) that if $G$ has average degree $d$, then the usual choice number $χ_\ell(G)$ is at least $Ω(\log d)$, so they grow simultaneously. In this paper we show that $χ_{sc}(G)/|V(G)|$ can be bounded while th…
A \textit{distinguishing coloring} of a graph $G$ is a coloring of the vertices so that every nontrivial automorphism of $G$ maps some vertex to a vertex with a different color. The \textit{distinguishing number} of $G$ is the minimum $k$ such that $G$ has a distinguishing coloring where each vertex is assigned a color from $\{1,\ldots,k\}$. A \textit{list assignment} to $G$ is an assignment $L=\{L(v)\}_{v\in V(G)}$ of lists of colors to the vertices of $G$. A \textit{distinguishing $L$-coloring} of $G$ is a distinguishing coloring of $G$ where the color of each vertex $v$ comes from $L(v)$. T…
For an integer $r$, the graph $P_6+rP_3$ has $r+1$ components, one of which is a path on $6$ vertices, and each of the others is a path on $3$ vertices. In this paper we provide a polynomial-time algorithm to test if a graph with no induced subgraph isomorphic to $P_6+rP_3$ is three-colorable. We also solve the list version of this problem, where each vertex is assigned a list of possible colors, which is a subset of $\{1,2,3\}$.
Signed list edge coloring in graphs of bounded treewidth
Yan’an University(延安大学);School of Mathematics and Statistics, Northwestern Polytechnical University(西北工业大学数学与统计学院);School of Mathematics and Statistics & Key Laboratory of Analytical Mathematics and Applications (Ministry of Education), Fujian Normal University(福建师范大学数学与统计学院与分析数学及应用重点实验室(教育部));School of Marine Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University(西北工业大学海洋科学与技术学院)
In 1990, Kostochka and Sidorenko proposed studying the smallest number of list-colorings of a graph $G$ among all assignments of lists of a given size $n$ to its vertices. We say a graph $G$ is $n$-monophilic if this number is minimized when identical $n$-color lists are assigned to all vertices of $G$. Kostochka and Sidorenko observed that all chordal graphs are $n$-monophilic for all $n$. Donner (1992) showed that every graph is $n$-monophilic for all sufficiently large $n$. We prove that all cycles are $n$-monophilic for all $n$; we give a complete characterization of 2-monophilic graphs (w…
We prove that if $G$ is a quasi-line graph with $Δ(G)>ω(G)$ and $Δ(G)\ge 69$, then $χ_{OL}(G)\le Δ(G)-1$. Together with our previous work, this implies that if $G$ is a claw-free graph with $Δ(G)>ω(G)$ and $Δ(G)\ge 69$, then $χ_{\ell}(G)\le Δ(G)-1$.
An $r$-dynamic $k$-coloring of a graph $G$ is a proper $k$-coloring such that for any vertex $v$, there are at least $\min\{r,°_G(v) \}$ distinct colors in $N_G(v)$. The $r$-dynamic chromatic number $χ_r^d(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the least $k$ such that there exists an $r$-dynamic $k$-coloring of $G$. The {\em list $r$-dynamic chromatic number} of a graph $G$ is denoted by $ch_r^d(G)$. Recently, Loeb et al. [UI] showed that the list $3$-dynamic chromatic number of a planar graph is at most 10. And Cheng et al. [Lai-16] studied the maximum average condition to have $χ_3^d (G) \leq 4, \ 5$, or $6$…
It is known that DP-coloring is a generalization of a list coloring in simple graphs and many results in list coloring can be generalized in those of DP-coloring. In this work, we introduce a relaxed DP-coloring which is a generalization if a relaxed list coloring. We also shows that every planar graph $G$ without $4$-cycles or $6$-cycles is DP-$(k,d)^*$-colorable. It follows immediately that $G$ is $(k,d)^*$-choosable.
The square $G^2$ of a graph $G$ is the graph defined on $V(G)$ such that two vertices $u$ and $v$ are adjacent in $G^2$ if the distance between $u$ and $v$ in $G$ is at most 2. Let $χ(H)$ and $χ_l(H)$ be the chromatic number and the list chromatic number of $H$, respectively. A graph $H$ is called {\em chromatic-choosable} if $χ_l (H) = χ(H)$. It is an interesting problem to find graphs that are chromatic-choosable. Kostochka and Woodall \cite{KW2001} conjectured that $χ_l(G^2) = χ(G^2)$ for every graph $G$, which is called List Square Coloring Conjecture. In this paper, we give infinitely man…
Let $G$ be a plane graph with $C$ the boundary of the outer face and let $(L(v):v\in V(G))$ be a family of non-empty sets. By an $L$-coloring of a subgraph $J$ of $G$ we mean a (proper) coloring $ϕ$ of $J$ such that $ϕ(v)\in L(v)$ for every vertex $v$ of $J$. Thomassen proved that if $v_1,v_2\in V(C)$ are adjacent, $L(v_1)\ne L(v_2)$, $|L(v)|\ge3$ for every $v\in V(C)\setminus \{v_1,v_2\}$ and $|L(v)|\ge5$ for every $v\in V(G)\setminus V(C)$, then $G$ has an $L$-coloring. As one final application in this last part of our series on $5$-list-coloring, we derive from all of our theory a far-reach…
An $r$-dynamic $k$-coloring of a graph $G$ is a proper $k$-coloring such that for any vertex $v$, there are at least $\min\{r, deg_G(v) \}$ distinct colors in $N_G(v)$. The $r$-dynamic chromatic number $χ_r^d(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the least $k$ such that there exists an $r$-dynamic $k$-coloring of $G$. The list $r$-dynamic chromatic number of a graph $G$ is denoted by $ch_r^d(G)$. Loeb et al. $[11]$ showed that $ch_3^d(G)\leq 10$ for every planar graph $G$, and there is a planar graph $G$ with $χ_3^d(G)= 7$. In this paper, we study a special class of planar graphs which have better upper bound…
A coloring of the vertices of a graph G is said to be distinguishing} provided no nontrivial automorphism of G preserves all of the vertex colors. The distinguishing number of G, D(G), is the minimum number of colors in a distinguishing coloring of G. The distinguishing chromatic number of G, chi_D(G), is the minimum number of colors in a distinguishing coloring of G that is also a proper coloring. Recently the notion of a distinguishing coloring was extended to that of a list distinguishing coloring. Given an assignment L= {L(v) : v in V(G)} of lists of available colors to the vertices of G, …
Grotzsch proved that every triangle-free planar graph is 3-colorable. Thomassen proved that every planar graph of girth at least five is 3-choosable. As for other surfaces, Thomassen proved that there are only finitely many 4-critical graphs of girth at least five embeddable in any fixed surface. This implies a linear-time algorithm for deciding 3-colorablity for graphs of girth at least five on any fixed surface. Dvorak, Kral and Thomas strengthened Thomassen's result by proving that the number of vertices in a 4-critical graph of girth at least five is linear in its genus. They used this res…
List coloring $C_3$-free planar graphs with a sparse matching of restricted lists
University of Colorado Denver(丹佛大学);University of South Carolina(南卡罗来纳大学);University of Virginia(弗吉尼亚大学);University of Nebraska-Lincoln(内布拉斯加大学林肯分校);Middle Tennessee State University(中田纳西州立大学);University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign(伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校)