Edge coloring graphs with large minimum degree

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Abstract: Let G be a simple graph with maximum degree Delta(G). A subgraph H of G is overfull if |E(H)|>Delta(G)lfloor|V(H)|/2floor. Chetwynd and Hilton in 1985 conjectured that a graph G with Delta(G)>|V(G)|/3 has chromatic index Delta(G) if and only if G contains no overfull subgraph. The 1-factorization conjecture is a special case of this overfull conjecture, which states that for even n, every regular n-vertex graph with degree at least about n/2 has a 1-factorization and was confirmed for large graphs in 2014. Supporting the overfull conjecture as well as generalizing the 1-factorization conjecture in an asymptotic way, in this paper, we show that for any given 0<varepsilon<1, there exists a positive integer n0 such that the following statement holds: if G is a graph on 2ngen0 vertices with minimum degree at least (1+varepsilon)n, then G has chromatic index Delta(G) if and only if G contains no overfull subgraph.












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