ArticleOriginal scientific text

Title

On generalized list colourings of graphs

Authors 1, 2, 3

Affiliations

  1. Institute of Mathematics, Technical University of Zielona Góra
  2. Department of Mathematics, Rand Afrikaans University
  3. Mathematical Institute of Slovak Academy of Sciences

Abstract

Vizing [15] and Erdős et al. [8] independently introduce the idea of considering list-colouring and k-choosability. In the both papers the choosability version of Brooks' theorem [4] was proved but the choosability version of Gallai's theorem [9] was proved independently by Thomassen [14] and by Kostochka et al. [11]. In [3] some extensions of these two basic theorems to (,k)-choosability have been proved. In this paper we prove some extensions of the well-known bounds for the -chromatic number to the (,k)-choice number and then an extension of Brooks' theorem.

Keywords

hereditary property of graphs, list colouring, vertex partition number

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Pages:
127-132
Main language of publication
English
Received
1997-01-25
Published
1997
Exact and natural sciences