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The List Total Colouring Conjecture is False

Jonathan A. Noel

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Source: arXiv

Published: Sep 29, 2026

arXiv: 2609.38417

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We exhibit a cubic graph with total chromatic number equal to four and list total chromatic number five. This disproves the List Total Colouring Conjecture of Borodin--Kostochka--Woodall, Juvan--Mohar--Škrekovski and Hilton--Johnson from the late 1990s. ChatGPT 6 Astra Ultra discovered the counterexample with little input from the author.

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