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    A Short Proof that the List Packing Number of any Graph is Well Defined

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    List packing is a notion that was introduced in 2021 (by Cambie et al.). The list packing number of a graph GG, denoted Ο‡β„“βˆ—(G)\chi_{\ell}^*(G), is the least kk such that for any list assignment LL that assigns kk colors to each vertex of GG, there is a set of kk proper LL-colorings of GG, {f1,…,fk}\{f_1, \ldots, f_k \}, with the property fi(v)β‰ fj(v)f_i(v) \neq f_j(v) whenever 1≀i<j≀k1 \leq i < j \leq k and v∈V(G)v \in V(G). We present a short proof that for any graph GG, Ο‡β„“βˆ—(G)β‰€βˆ£V(G)∣\chi_{\ell}^*(G) \leq |V(G)|. Interestingly, our proof makes use of Galvin's celebrated result that the list chromatic number of the line graph of any bipartite multigraph equals its chromatic number.Comment: 3 page
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