Graphs whose choice number is equal to their chromatic number

  • Authors:
  • Sylvain Gravier;Frédéric Maffray

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratoire Leibniz-Imag, 46 Avenue Félix Viallet 38031, Grenoble Cedex France;CNRS, Laboratoire Leibniz-Imag, 46 Avenue Félix Viallet 38031, Grenoble Cedex France

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Graph Theory
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

A graph G is k-choosable if it admits avertex-coloring whenever the colors allowed at each vertex arerestricted to a list of length k. If X denotes theusual chromatic number of G, we are interested in which kindof G is X-choosable. This question contains a famousconjecture, which states that every line-graph isX-choosable. We present some other classes of graphs thatare X-choosable; all these classes are related to claw-freegraphs. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Graph Theory 27:8797, 1998