The domatic game first-player difference conjecture

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Let GG be a graph. Write domg(G,A)\operatorname{dom_g}(G,A) and domg(G,B)\operatorname{dom_g}(G,B) for the domatic game numbers when Alice and Bob, respectively, move first.

First-player difference conjecture. For all graphs GG,

domg(G,A)domg(G,B)1.\left|\operatorname{dom_g}(G,A)-\operatorname{dom_g}(G,B)\right|\leq 1.

The conjecture proposes that changing which player moves first changes the domatic game number by at most one. The surrounding discussion notes that all known examples satisfy this bound, but does not establish it in general; the status is therefore open.

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Primary source

Sean English and London Swan, “On the Domatic Game”, arXiv:2603.13522 (2026).

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