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Choosability and Choice Number

Student-Run Discrete Math Seminar

Speaker: Matthew Stamps, UC Davis
Location: 1147 MSB
Start time: Fri, Feb 18 2011, 11:00AM

The choice number (or list chromatic number) of a graph is a natural generalization of the chromatic number. We will introduce the necessary tools and definitions to understand this parameter and use it prove a nice result by Thomassen which states that every planar graph is 5-choosable.