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Neighbor sum (set) distinguishing total choosability of $$d$$-degenerate graphs. (English) Zbl 1342.05052
Summary: Let $$G=(V,E)$$ be a graph with maximum degree $$\varDelta (G)$$ and $$\phi:V\cup E\to\{1,2,\dots,k\}$$ be a proper total coloring of the graph $$G$$. Let $$S(v)$$ denote the set of the color on vertex $$v$$ and the colors on the edges incident with $$v$$. Let $$f(v)$$ denote the sum of the color on vertex $$v$$ and the colors on the edges incident with $$v$$. The proper total coloring $$\phi$$ is called neighbor set distinguishing or adjacent vertex distinguishing if $$S(u)\neq S(v)$$ for each edge $$uv\in E(G)$$. We say that $$\phi$$ is neighbor sum distinguishing if $$f(u)\neq f(v)$$ for each edge $$uv\in E(G)$$. In both problems the challenging conjectures presume that such colorings exist for any graph $$G$$ if $$k\geq\varDelta (G)+3$$. Ding et al. proved in both problems $$k\geq\varDelta (G)+2d$$ is sufficient for $$d$$-degenerate graph $$G$$. In this paper, we improve this bound and prove that $$k\geq\varDelta (G)+d+1$$ is sufficient for $$d$$-degenerate graph $$G$$ with $$d\leq 8$$ and $$\varDelta (G)\geq 2d$$ or $$d\geq 9$$ and $$\varDelta (G)\geq\frac{5}{2}d-5$$. In fact, we prove these results in their list versions. As a consequence, we obtain an upper bound of the form $$\varDelta (G)+C$$ for some families of graphs, e.g. $$\varDelta (G)+6$$ for planar graphs with $$\varDelta (G)\geq 10$$. In particular, we therefore obtain that when $$\varDelta (G)\geq 4$$ two conjectures we mentioned above hold for 2-degenerate graphs in their list versions.

##### MSC:
 05C15 Coloring of graphs and hypergraphs
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