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Strong edge-coloring of $(3, \Delta)$-bipartite graphs

Discrete Mathematics 2015-08-19 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

A strong edge-coloring of a graph GG is an assignment of colors to edges such that every color class induces a matching. We here focus on bipartite graphs whose one part is of maximum degree at most 33 and the other part is of maximum degree Δ\Delta. For every such graph, we prove that a strong 4Δ4\Delta-edge-coloring can always be obtained. Together with a result of Steger and Yu, this result confirms a conjecture of Faudree, Gy\'arf\'as, Schelp and Tuza for this class of graphs.

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@article{arxiv.1412.2624,
  title  = {Strong edge-coloring of $(3, \Delta)$-bipartite graphs},
  author = {Julien Bensmail and Aurélie Lagoutte and Petru Valicov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.2624},
  year   = {2015}
}