A different short proof of Brooks' theorem

Landon Rabern · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2012

Lovász gave a short proof of Brooks' theorem by coloring greedily in a good order. We give a different short proof by reducing to the cubic case. Then we show how to extend the result to (online) list coloring via the Kernel Lemma.

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