The NP-completeness of chromatic index in triangle free graphs with maximum vertex of degree 3 (Q1354146)
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The NP-completeness of chromatic index in triangle free graphs with maximum vertex of degree 3 (English)
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12 November 1997
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As is known the problem of determining the chromatic index of a cubic graph is NP-complete. In this paper, it is shown that for a triangle free graph with maximum vertex of degree 3, to determine if its chromatic index is 3 or 4 is still NP-complete.
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graph
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edge-coloring
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chromatic index
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NP-completeness
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