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Distance-2 Edge Coloring is NP-Complete

Discrete Mathematics 2007-05-23 v1 Computational Complexity

Abstract

We prove that it is NP-complete to determine whether there exists a distance-2 edge coloring (strong edge coloring) with 5 colors of a bipartite 2-inductive graph with girth 6 and maximum degree 3.

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@article{arxiv.cs/0509100,
  title  = {Distance-2 Edge Coloring is NP-Complete},
  author = {Jeff Erickson and Shripad Thite and David P. Bunde},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0509100},
  year   = {2007}
}

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3 pages, 1 figure in color