Planar Graphs with Ore-degree at Most seven is strongly $13$-edge-colorable
Combinatorics
2025-09-09 v1
Abstract
A strong edge-coloring of a graph is a coloring of edges of such that every color class forms an induced matching. The strong chromatic index is the minimum number of colors needed to color the graph. The Ore-degree of a graph is the maximum sum of degrees of adjacent vertices. We show that every planar graph with has strong chromatic index at most . This settles a conjecture of Chen et al in the planar case. We use a discharging method, and apply Combinatorial Nullstellensatz to show reducible configurations. We provide an algorithm to allow Combinatorial Nullstellansatz extracting coefficients from large polynomials.
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@article{arxiv.2509.06808,
title = {Planar Graphs with Ore-degree at Most seven is strongly $13$-edge-colorable},
author = {Seth Nelson and Gexin Yu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.06808},
year = {2025}
}