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Supermodular Extension of Vizing's Edge-Coloring Theorem

Combinatorics 2024-02-01 v2

Abstract

K\H{o}nig's edge-coloring theorem for bipartite graphs and Vizing's edge-coloring theorem for general graphs are celebrated results in graph theory and combinatorial optimization. Schrijver generalized K\H{o}nig's theorem to a framework defined with a pair of intersecting supermodular functions. The result is called the supermodular coloring theorem. This paper presents a common generalization of Vizing's theorem and a weaker version of the supermodular coloring theorem. To describe this theorem, we introduce intersecting 2/3-supermodular functions, which are extensions of intersecting supermodular functions. The paper also provides an alternative proof of Gupta's edge-coloring theorem using a special case of this supermodular version of Vizing's theorem.

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@article{arxiv.2211.07150,
  title  = {Supermodular Extension of Vizing's Edge-Coloring Theorem},
  author = {Ryuhei Mizutani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.07150},
  year   = {2024}
}
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