Rafał Kalinowski, Monika Pilśniak, Marcin Stawiski
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摘要
无垂边图的多数边着色是指它的边的着色,对于每个顶点 v 和每种颜色 \(\alpha\),最多有同样多的与 v 相关的边着色为 \(\alpha\),而所有其他颜色的边都着色为 \(\alpha\)。我们将有限图的一些已知结果扩展到无限图,也是在列表设置中。特别是,我们证明了每个没有垂边的无限图都有一个来自大小为 4 的列表的多数边着色。另一个有趣的结果是,每个没有有限奇数度顶点的无穷图都能从大小为 2 的列表中获得多数边着色。根据我们的结果,我们证明了任何心数的线图都能从大小为 2 的列表中获得多数顶点着色,从而证实了线图的 "不友好分区猜想"(Unfriendly Partition Conjecture)。
Unfriendly Partition Conjecture Holds for Line Graphs
A majority edge-coloring of a graph without pendant edges is a coloring of its edges such that, for every vertex v and every color \(\alpha \), there are at most as many edges incident to v colored with \(\alpha \) as with all other colors. We extend some known results for finite graphs to infinite graphs, also in the list setting. In particular, we prove that every infinite graph without pendant edges has a majority edge-coloring from lists of size 4. Another interesting result states that every infinite graph without vertices of finite odd degrees admits a majority edge-coloring from lists of size 2. As a consequence of our results, we prove that line graphs of any cardinality admit majority vertex-colorings from lists of size 2, thus confirming the Unfriendly Partition Conjecture for line graphs.
期刊介绍:
COMBINATORICA publishes research papers in English in a variety of areas of combinatorics and the theory of computing, with particular emphasis on general techniques and unifying principles. Typical but not exclusive topics covered by COMBINATORICA are
- Combinatorial structures (graphs, hypergraphs, matroids, designs, permutation groups).
- Combinatorial optimization.
- Combinatorial aspects of geometry and number theory.
- Algorithms in combinatorics and related fields.
- Computational complexity theory.
- Randomization and explicit construction in combinatorics and algorithms.