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On inclusion chromatic index of a graph

Combinatorics 2019-09-04 v1

Abstract

Let χ(G)\chi'_\subset(G) be the least number of colours necessary to properly colour the edges of a graph GG with minimum degree δ2\delta\geq 2 so that the set of colours incident with any vertex is not contained in a set of colours incident to any its neighbour. We provide an infinite family of examples of graphs GG with χ(G)(1+1δ1)Δ\chi'_\subset(G)\geq (1+\frac{1}{\delta-1})\Delta, where Δ\Delta is the maximum degree of GG, and we conjecture that χ(G)(1+1δ1)Δ\chi'_\subset(G)\leq \lceil(1+\frac{1}{\delta-1})\Delta\rceil for every connected graph with δ2\delta\geq 2 which is not isomorphic to C5C_5. The equality here is attained e.g. for the family of complete bipartite graphs. Using a probabilistic argument we support this conjecture by proving that for any fixed δ2\delta\ge2, χ(G)(1+4δ)Δ(1+o(1))\chi'_\subset(G) \le (1+\frac{4}{\delta})\Delta (1+o(1)) (for Δ\Delta\to\infty), what implies that χ(G)(1+4δ1)Δ\chi'_\subset(G) \le (1+\frac{4}{\delta-1})\Delta for Δ\Delta large enough.

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@article{arxiv.1909.00150,
  title  = {On inclusion chromatic index of a graph},
  author = {Jakub Kwaśny and Jakub Przybyło},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.00150},
  year   = {2019}
}

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