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A bound for the distinguishing index of regular graphs

Combinatorics 2020-05-11 v2

Abstract

An edge-colouring of a graph is distinguishing, if the only automorphism which preserves the colouring is the identity. It has been conjectured that all but finitely many connected, finite, regular graphs admit a distinguishing edge-colouring with two colours. We show that all such graphs except K2K_2 admit a distinguishing edge-colouring with three colours. This result also extends to infinite, locally finite graphs. Furthermore, we are able to show that there are arbitrary large infinite cardinals κ\kappa such that every connected κ\kappa-regular graph has distinguishing edge-colouring with two colours.

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@article{arxiv.1911.11105,
  title  = {A bound for the distinguishing index of regular graphs},
  author = {Florian Lehner and Monika Pilśniak and Marcin Stawiski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.11105},
  year   = {2020}
}