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The balancing number and list balancing number of some graph classes

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Given a graph $G$, a 2-coloring of the edges of $K_n$ is said to contain a balanced copy of $G$ if we can find a copy of $G$ such that half of its edges is in each color class. If there exists an integer $k$ such that, for $n$ sufficiently large, every 2-coloring of $K_n$ with more than $k$ edges in each color contains a balanced copy of $G$, then we say that $G$ is balanceable. The smallest integer $k$ such that this holds is called the balancing number of $G$. In this paper, we define a more general variant of the balancing number, the list balancing number, by considering 2-list edge colorings of $K_n$, where every edge $e$ has an associated list $L(e)$ which is a nonempty subset of the color set $\{r,b\}$. In this case, edges $e$ with $L(e) = \{r,b\}$ act as jokers in the sense that their color can be chosen $r$ or $b$ as needed. In contrast to the balancing number, every graph has a list balancing number. Moreover, if the balancing number exists, then it coincides with the list balancing number. We give the exact value of the list balancing number for all cycles except for $4k$-cycles for which we give tight bounds. In addition, we give general bounds for the list balancing number of non-balanceable graphs based on the extremal number of its subgraphs, and study the list balancing number of $K_5$, which turns out to be surprisingly large.
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hal-03015201 , version 1 (19-11-2020)
hal-03015201 , version 2 (16-01-2023)

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Antoine Dailly, Laura Eslava, Adriana Hansberg, Denae Ventura. The balancing number and list balancing number of some graph classes. 2020. ⟨hal-03015201v1⟩
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