An Ore-type theorem on equitable coloring

نویسندگان

  • Hal A. Kierstead
  • Alexandr V. Kostochka
چکیده

A proper vertex coloring of a graph is equitable if the sizes of its color classes differ by at most one. In this paper, we prove that if G is a graph such that for each edge xy ∈ E(G), the sum d(x)+ d(y) of the degrees of its ends is at most 2r + 1, then G has an equitable coloring with r + 1 colors. This extends the Hajnal–Szemerédi Theorem on graphs with maximum degree r and a recent conjecture by Kostochka and Yu. We also pose an Ore-type version of the Chen–Lih–Wu Conjecture and prove a very partial case of it. © 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • J. Comb. Theory, Ser. B

دوره 98  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2008