Star Chromatic Index

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Publication:4916092

DOI10.1002/JGT.21644zbMATH Open1262.05049arXiv1011.3376OpenAlexW2154102540MaRDI QIDQ4916092FDOQ4916092


Authors: Zdeněk Dvořák, Bojan Mohar, Robert Šámal Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 19 April 2013

Published in: Journal of Graph Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The star chromatic index chis(G) of a graph G is the minimum number of colors needed to properly color the edges of the graph so that no path or cycle of length four is bi-colored. We obtain a near-linear upper bound in terms of the maximum degree Delta=Delta(G). Our best lower bound on chis in terms of Delta is 2Delta(1+o(1)) valid for complete graphs. We also consider the special case of cubic graphs, for which we show that the star chromatic index lies between 4 and 7 and characterize the graphs attaining the lower bound. The proofs involve a variety of notions from other branches of mathematics and may therefore be of certain independent interest.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.3376




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