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On incidence coloring conjecture in Cartesian products of graphs

Combinatorics 2016-08-08 v3

Abstract

An incidence in a graph GG is a pair (v,e)(v,e) where vv is a vertex of GG and ee is an edge of GG incident to vv. Two incidences (v,e)(v,e) and (u,f)(u,f) are adjacent if at least one of the following holds: (a)(a) v=uv = u, (b)(b) e=fe = f, or (c)(c) vu{e,f}vu \in \{e,f\}. An incidence coloring of GG is a coloring of its incidences assigning distinct colors to adjacent incidences. It was conjectured that at most Δ(G)+2\Delta(G) + 2 colors are needed for an incidence coloring of any graph GG. The conjecture is false in general, but the bound holds for many classes of graphs. We introduce some sufficient properties of the two factor graphs of a Cartesian product graph GG for which GG admits an incidence coloring with at most Δ(G)+2\Delta(G) + 2 colors.

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@article{arxiv.1505.04908,
  title  = {On incidence coloring conjecture in Cartesian products of graphs},
  author = {Petr Gregor and Borut Lužar and Roman Soták},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.04908},
  year   = {2016}
}

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11 pages, 5 figures