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Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory

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Authors:

S. Sribunhung

Sarawute Sribunhung

Khon Kaen University

email: sarawutes@kku.mail.com

K. M. Nakprasit

Keaitsuda Maneeruk Nakprasit

Khon Kaen University

email: kmaneeruk@hotmail.com

K. Nakprasit

Kittikorn Nakprasit

Khon Kaen University

email: kitnak@hotmail.com

P. Sittitrai

Pongpat Sittitrai

Khon Kaen University

email: pongpat_s@kkumail.com

Title:

Relaxed DP-coloring and another generalization of DP-coloring on planar graphs without $4$-cycles and $7$-cycles

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Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory 43(1) (2023) 287-297

Received: 2020-05-15 , Revised: 2021-03-18 , Accepted: 2021-03-18 , Available online: 2021-04-27 , https://doi.org/10.7151/dmgt.2405

Abstract:

DP-coloring is generalized via relaxed coloring and variable degeneracy in [P. Sittitrai and K. Nakprasit, Sufficient conditions on planar graphs to have a relaxed DP-$3$-coloring, Graphs Combin. 35 (2019) 837–845], [K.M. Nakprasit and K. Nakprasit, A generalization of some results on list coloring and DP-coloring, Graphs Combin. 36 (2020) 1189–1201] and [P. Sittitrai and K. Nakprasit, An analogue of DP-coloring for variable degeneracy and its applications, Discuss. Math. Graph Theory]. In this work, we introduce another concept that includes two previous generalizations. We demonstrate its application on planar graphs without $4$-cycles and $7$-cycles. One implication is that the vertex set of every planar graph without $4$-cycles and $7$-cycles can be partitioned into three sets in which each of them induces a linear forest and one of them is an independent set. Additionally, we show that every planar graph without $4$-cycles and $7$-cycles is DP-$(1,1,1)$-colorable. This generalizes a result of Lih et al. [A note on list improper coloring planar graphs, Appl. Math. Lett. 14 (2001) 269–273] that every planar graph without $4$-cycles and $7$-cycles is $(3,1)^*$-choosable.

Keywords:

relaxed DP-colorings, variable degeneracy, planar graphs, discharging

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