The four-list conjecture for facial unique-maximum edge-coloring

Let GG be a plane graph. A FUM-edge-coloring is a facial edge-coloring in which every face is incident with a unique edge colored with the maximal color appearing on that face. Suppose each edge ee is assigned a list L(e)L(e) of four integers.

Four-list conjecture. If each edge of a plane graph is assigned a list of 44 integers, then there exists a FUM-edge-coloring assigning each edge a color from its list.

This is the list-coloring analogue of the proposed four-color bound for FUM-edge-coloring. The source presents it as an expectation and gives no resolution, so it remains open.

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Vesna Andova, Bernard Lidický, Borut Lužar and Riste Škrekovski, “On facial unique-maximum (edge-)coloring”, arXiv:1708.00094 (2017).

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