Separation conjecture for list arborability and equitable list arborability

Let GG be a graph and let kNk\in\mathbb{N}. A graph is kk-list arborable if every kk-uniform list assignment admits a list colouring whose colour classes induce acyclic graphs. Suppose also that GG has a kk-colouring in which every colour class has cardinality at most

V(G)k\left\lceil \frac{|V(G)|}{k}\right\rceil

and induces an acyclic graph.

Separation conjecture. There is a graph GG and kNk\in\mathbb{N} satisfying both properties above, but GG is not equitably kk-list arborable.

The conjecture asserts that ordinary list arborability together with an equitable acyclic colouring need not imply equitable list arborability. The source proposes it as an open question without a resolution.

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Ewa Drgas-Burchardt, Janusz Dybizbański, Hanna Furmańczyk and Elzbieta Sidorowicz, “Equitable List Vertex Colourability and Arboricity of Grids”, arXiv:1809.08281 (2018).

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