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  • Strong edge colorings of graphs and the covers of Kneser graphs [Elektronski vir]
    Lužar, Borut ...
    A proper edge coloring of a graph is strong if it creates no bichromatic path of length three. It is well known that for a strong edge coloring of a ▫$k$▫-regular graph at least ▫$2k − 1$▫ colors are ... needed. We show that a ▫$k$▫-regular graph admits a strong edge coloring with ▫$2k − 1$▫ colors if and only if it covers the Kneser graph ▫$K(2k − 1, k − 1)$▫. In particular, a cubic graph is strongly 5-edge-colorable whenever it covers the Petersen graph. One of the implications of this result is that a conjecture about strong edge colorings of subcubic graphs proposed by Faudree et al. is false.
    Source: Journal of graph theory [Elektronski vir]. - ISSN 1097-0118 (Vol. 100, iss. 4, 2022, str. 686-697)
    Type of material - e-article ; adult, serious
    Publish date - 2022
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 98955267
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