Five-color packing coloring conjecture for 2-saturated subcubic graphs

Let GG be a 22-saturated subcubic graph. Five-color packing coloring conjecture. The graph GG is (1,2,2,2,2)(1,2,2,2,2)-packing colorable. The paper proves a four-color variant when g3(G)=3g_3(G)=3 and reports no counterexample to this assertion for the next local-girth case; the general assertion remains open.

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Ayman El Zein and Maidoun Mortada, “Impact of local girth on the S-packing coloring of k-saturated subcubic graphs”, arXiv:2603.25113 (2026).

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2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2025–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2511.12761.

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