On parsimonious edge-colouring of graphs with maximum degree three

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Abstract: In a graph G of maximum degree Delta let gamma denote the largest fraction of edges that can be Delta edge-coloured. Albertson and Haas showed that gammageq13/15 when G is cubic . We show here that this result can be extended to graphs with maximum degree 3 with the exception of a graph on 5 vertices. Moreover, there are exactly two graphs with maximum degree 3 (one being obviously the Petersen graph) for which gamma=13/15. This extends a result given by Steffen. These results are obtained by using structural properties of the so called delta-minimum edge colourings for graphs with maximum degree 3. Keywords : Cubic graph; Edge-colouring












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