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On Vizing's edge colouring question

Combinatorics 2021-07-19 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

Soon after his 1964 seminal paper on edge colouring, Vizing asked the following question: can an optimal edge colouring be reached from any given proper edge colouring through a series of Kempe changes? We answer this question in the affirmative for triangle-free graphs.

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@article{arxiv.2107.07900,
  title  = {On Vizing's edge colouring question},
  author = {Marthe Bonamy and Oscar Defrain and Tereza Klimošová and Aurélie Lagoutte and Jonathan Narboni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.07900},
  year   = {2021}
}

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12 pages, 6 figures

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