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Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory

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Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory 32(1) (2012) 31-37
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7151/dmgt.1583

List Coloring of Complete Multipartite Graphs

Tomáš Vetrík

School of Mathematical Sciences
University of KwaZulu-Natal
Durban, South Africa

Abstract

The choice number of a graph G is the smallest integer k such that for every assignment of a list L(v) of k colors to each vertex v of G, there is a proper coloring of G that assigns to each vertex v a color from L(v). We present upper and lower bounds on the choice number of complete multipartite graphs with partite classes of equal sizes and complete r-partite graphs with r−1 partite classes of order two.

Keywords: list coloring, choice number, complete multipartite graph

2010 Mathematics Subject Classification: 05C15.

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Received 26 January 2009
Revised 11 January 2011
Accepted 11 January 2011


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