Acyclic List Colouring Locally Planar Graphs

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Main Authors: Postle, Luke, Smith-Roberge, Evelyne, Vicenzo, Massimo
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author Postle, Luke
Smith-Roberge, Evelyne
Vicenzo, Massimo
author_facet Postle, Luke
Smith-Roberge, Evelyne
Vicenzo, Massimo
contents A (vertex) colouring of graph is \emph{acyclic} if it contains no bicoloured cycle. In 1979, Borodin proved that planar graphs are acyclically 5-colourable. In 2010, Kawarabayashi and Mohar proved that locally planar graphs are acyclically 7-colourable. In 2002, Borodin, Fon-Der-Flaass, Kostochka, Raspaud, and Sopena proved that planar graphs are acyclically 7-list-colourable. We prove that locally planar graphs are acyclically 9-list-colourable\textemdash no bound for acyclic list colouring locally planar graphs for any fixed number of colours was previously known.
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spellingShingle Acyclic List Colouring Locally Planar Graphs
Postle, Luke
Smith-Roberge, Evelyne
Vicenzo, Massimo
Combinatorics
A (vertex) colouring of graph is \emph{acyclic} if it contains no bicoloured cycle. In 1979, Borodin proved that planar graphs are acyclically 5-colourable. In 2010, Kawarabayashi and Mohar proved that locally planar graphs are acyclically 7-colourable. In 2002, Borodin, Fon-Der-Flaass, Kostochka, Raspaud, and Sopena proved that planar graphs are acyclically 7-list-colourable. We prove that locally planar graphs are acyclically 9-list-colourable\textemdash no bound for acyclic list colouring locally planar graphs for any fixed number of colours was previously known.
title Acyclic List Colouring Locally Planar Graphs
topic Combinatorics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.09410