The NP-Completeness of Edge-Coloring

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Ian Holyer

Publication date: 1981

Published in: SIAM Journal on Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/37c92599655b9f66850f1e4e0e48ad045abad8f6




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