An–Wu list linear arboricity conjecture

Let GG be an undirected graph with maximum degree Δ\Delta, let la(G)la(G) be its linear arboricity, and let lla(G)lla(G) be its list linear arboricity. List Linear Arboricity Conjecture.

Δ2la(G)=lla(G)Δ+12.\left\lceil\frac{\Delta}{2}\right\rceil\leqslant la(G)=lla(G)\leqslant\left\lceil\frac{\Delta+1}{2}\right\rceil.

This combines the ordinary linear arboricity bounds with the assertion that the list and ordinary parameters coincide. The best known result in the paper is asymptotic, so the exact statement remains open.

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Primary source

Yueping Shi and Ping Hu, “The List Linear Arboricity of Digraphs”, arXiv:2512.20195 (2025).

Additional references

6 papers in this index state this conjecture (2015–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2409.03233, arXiv:2405.18494, arXiv:1809.04716, arXiv:1712.05006, arXiv:1503.00494.

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