Odd graph and its applications to the strong edge coloring

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Abstract: A strong edge coloring of a graph is a proper edge coloring in which every color class is an induced matching. The strong chromatic index chis(G) of a graph G is the minimum number of colors in a strong edge coloring of G. Let Deltageq4 be an integer. In this note, we study the odd graphs and show the existence of some special walks. By using these results and Chang's ideas in [Discuss. Math. Graph Theory 34 (4) (2014) 723--733], we show that every planar graph with maximum degree at most Delta and girth at least 10Delta4 has a strong edge coloring with 2Delta1 colors. In addition, we prove that if G is a graph with girth at least 2Delta1 and mad(G)<2+frac13Delta2, where Delta is the maximum degree and Deltageq4, then chis(G)leq2Delta1, if G is a subcubic graph with girth at least 8 and mad(G)<2+frac223, then chis(G)leq5.









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