A -choosable theorem on planar graphs

作者:Chen, Min*; Raspaud, Andre; Wang, Weifan
来源:Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, 2016, 32(3): 927-940.
DOI:10.1007/s10878-015-9913-7

摘要

A list assignment of a graph G is a function L that assigns a list L(v) of colors to each vertex . An -coloring is a mapping that assigns a color to each vertex so that at most d neighbors of v receive color . A graph G is said to be -choosable if it admits an -coloring for every list assignment L with for all . In this paper, we prove that every planar graph with neither adjacent triangles nor 6-cycles is -choosable. This is a partial answer to a question of Xu and Zhang (Discret Appl Math 155:74-78, 2007) that every planar graph without adjacent triangles is -choosable. Also, this improves a result in Lih et al. (Appl Math Lett 14:269-273, 2001) which says that every planar graph without 4- and 6-cycles is -choosable.