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Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 349, Issue 1, 12 December 2005, Pages 82-91
Graph Colorings
 
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On equitable Δ-coloring of graphs with low average degreestar, open

A.V. Kostochkaa, b, Corresponding Author Contact Information, E-mail The Corresponding Author and K. Nakprasita, E-mail The Corresponding Author

aDepartment of Mathematics, The University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, USA bInstitute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk, Russia

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Abstract

An equitable coloring of a graph is a proper vertex coloring such that the sizes of any two color classes differ by at most 1. Hajnal and Szemerédi proved that every graph with maximum degree Δ is equitably k-colorable for every kgreater-or-equal, slantedΔ+1. Chen, Lih, and Wu conjectured that every connected graph with maximum degree Δgreater-or-equal, slanted3 distinct from KΔ+1 and KΔ,Δ is equitably Δ-colorable. This conjecture has been proved for graphs in some classes such as bipartite graphs, outerplanar graphs, graphs with maximum degree 3, interval graphs. We prove that this conjecture holds for graphs with average degree at most Δ/5.

Keywords: Equitable coloring; Average degree; Brooks’ Theorem


Theoretical Computer Science
Volume 349, Issue 1, 12 December 2005, Pages 82-91
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