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List edge and list total coloring of planar graphs with maximum degree 8

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Let \(G\) be a planar graph with maximum degree \(\varDelta \ge 8\) and without chordal 5-cycles. Then \(\chi '_{l}(G)=\varDelta \) and \(\chi ''_{l}(G)=\varDelta +1\).

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 11201440, 11271006, 11301410, 11401386, 71171120, the Projects of International (Regional) Cooperation and Exchanges of NSFC (71411130215), the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (20133706110002), the Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant ZR2014AQ001, the Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shanxi Province of China under Grant 2013JQ1002, and the Scientific Research Foundation for the Excellent Young and Middle-Aged Scientists of Shandong Province of China under Grant BS2013-DX002.

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  1. College of Mathematics, Qingdao University, Qingdao, 266071, China

    Huijuan Wang & Hongwei Gao

  2. Department of Mathematics, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266100, China

    Bin Liu

  3. School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xidian University, Xi’an, 710071, China

    Xin Zhang

  4. Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX, 75799, USA

    Lidong Wu

  5. College of Computer Science and Technology, TaiYuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, 030024, China

    Weili Wu

  6. Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, 75080, USA

    Weili Wu

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Wang, H., Liu, B., Zhang, X. et al. List edge and list total coloring of planar graphs with maximum degree 8. J Comb Optim 32, 188–197 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10878-015-9870-1

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