Ohba’s conjecture and beyond for generalized colorings

Let $G$ be a graph. Ohba's conjecture states that if $|V(G)|\leq 2\chi(G) +1$, then $\chi(G)=\chi^L(G)$. Noel, West, Wu and Zhu extended this result and proved that for any graph, $\chi^L(G)\leq\max\{\chi(G),\left\lceil(|V(G)+\chi(G)-1)/3\right\rceil\}$. Ohba, Kierstead and Noel proved that thi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Delgado Calvache, Alba
Tipo de recurso: tesis de maestría
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/106757
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/106757
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Graph theory
List coloring
Choosability
Grafs, Teoria de
Classificació AMS::05 Combinatorics::05C Graph theory
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística::Matemàtica discreta::Teoria de grafs
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Sumario:Let $G$ be a graph. Ohba's conjecture states that if $|V(G)|\leq 2\chi(G) +1$, then $\chi(G)=\chi^L(G)$. Noel, West, Wu and Zhu extended this result and proved that for any graph, $\chi^L(G)\leq\max\{\chi(G),\left\lceil(|V(G)+\chi(G)-1)/3\right\rceil\}$. Ohba, Kierstead and Noel proved that this bound is sharp for the ordinary chromatic number. In this work we prove that both results hold for generalized colorings as well, and find examples that prove the sharpness of the second one for the acyclic and star chromatic numbers.