A note on the strong edge-coloring of outerplanar graphs with maximum degree 3

Acta Mathematicae Applicatae Sinica, English Series - Tập 32 - Trang 883-890 - 2016
Shun-yi Liu1,2, He-ping Zhang1, Hong-liang Lu3, Yu-qing Lin4
1School of Mathematics and Statistics, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
2College of Science, Chang’an University, Xi’an, China
3School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China
4School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia

Tóm tắt

A strong k-edge-coloring of a graph G is an assignment of k colors to the edges of G in such a way that any two edges meeting at a common vertex, or being adjacent to the same edge of G, are assigned different colors. The strong chromatic index of G is the smallest integer k for which G has a strong k-edge-coloring. In this paper, we have shown that the strong chromatic index is no larger than 6 for outerplanar graphs with maximum degree 3.

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