Tree-like distance colouring for planar graphs of sufficient girth

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Abstract: Given a multigraph G and a positive integer t, the distance-t chromatic index of G is the least number of colours needed for a colouring of the edges so that every pair of distinct edges connected by a path of fewer than t edges must receive different colours. Let pi't(d) and au't(d) be the largest values of this parameter over the class of planar multigraphs and of (simple) trees, respectively, of maximum degree d. We have that pi't(d) is at most and at least a non-trivial constant multiple larger than au't(d). (We conjecture limsupdoinftypi'2(d)/au'2(d)=9/4 in particular.) We prove for odd t the existence of a quantity g depending only on t such that the distance-t chromatic index of any planar multigraph of maximum degree d and girth at least g is at most au't(d) if d is sufficiently large. Such a quantity does not exist for even t. We also show a related, similar phenomenon for distance vertex-colouring.









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