Total 4-choosability of series-parallel graphs.
Defective choosability of graphs without small minors.
Edge and total choosability of near-outerplanar graphs.
Defective choosability of graphs in surfaces
It is known that if G is a graph that can be drawn without edges crossing in a surface with Euler characteristic ε, and k and d are positive integers such that k ≥ 3 and d is sufficiently large in terms of k and ε, then G is (k,d)*-colorable; that is, the vertices of G can be colored with k colors so that each vertex has at most d neighbors with the same color as itself. In this paper, the known lower bound on d that suffices for this is reduced, and an analogous result is proved for list colorings...
Some totally 4-choosable multigraphs
It is proved that if G is multigraph with maximum degree 3, and every submultigraph of G has average degree at most 2(1/2) and is different from one forbidden configuration C⁺₄ with average degree exactly 2(1/2), then G is totally 4-choosable; that is, if every element (vertex or edge) of G is assigned a list of 4 colours, then every element can be coloured with a colour from its own list in such a way that no two adjacent or incident elements are coloured with the same colour. This shows that the...
Short cycles of low weight in normal plane maps with minimum degree 5
In this note, precise upper bounds are determined for the minimum degree-sum of the vertices of a 4-cycle and a 5-cycle in a plane triangulation with minimum degree 5: w(C₄) ≤ 25 and w(C₅) ≤ 30. These hold because a normal plane map with minimum degree 5 must contain a 4-star with . These results answer a question posed by Kotzig in 1979 and recent questions of Jendrol’ and Madaras.
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