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Correspondence coloring and its application to list-coloring planar\n graphs without cycles of lengths 4 to 8

Zdenĕk Dvořák, Luke Postle

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We introduce a new variant of graph coloring called correspondence coloring\nwhich generalizes list coloring and allows for reductions previously only\npossible for ordinary coloring. Using this tool, we prove that excluding cycles\nof lengths 4 to 8 is sufficient to guarantee 3-choosability of a planar graph,\nthus answering a question of Borodin.\n

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We introduce a new variant of graph coloring called correspondence coloring\nwhich generalizes list coloring and allows for reductions previously only\npossible for ordinary coloring. Using this tool, we prove that excluding cycles\nof lengths 4 to 8 is sufficient to guarantee 3-choosability of a planar graph,\nthus answering a question of Borodin.\n

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We introduce a new variant of graph coloring called correspondence coloring\nwhich generalizes list coloring and allows for reductions previously only\npossible for ordinary coloring. Using this tool, we prove that excluding cycles\nof lengths 4 to 8 is sufficient to guarantee 3-choosability of a planar graph,\nthus answering a question of Borodin.\n

Key concepts: List coloring, Complete coloring, Graph coloring, Greedy coloring, Fractional coloring, Combinatorics, Edge coloring, Planar graph

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