Decompositions for edge-coloring join graphs and cobipartite graphs |
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Authors: | Raphael CS Machado Celina MH de Figueiredo |
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Institution: | a COPPE, Universidade Federal do Rio Janeiro, Brazil b Instituto Nacional de Metrologia, Normalização e Qualidade Industrial, Brazil |
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Abstract: | An edge-coloring is an association of colors to the edges of a graph, in such a way that no pair of adjacent edges receive the same color. A graph G is Class 1 if it is edge-colorable with a number of colors equal to its maximum degree Δ(G). To determine whether a graph G is Class 1 is NP-complete I. Holyer, The NP-completeness of edge-coloring, SIAM J. Comput. 10 (1981) 718-720]. First, we propose edge-decompositions of a graph G with the goal of edge-coloring G with Δ(G) colors. Second, we apply these decompositions for identifying new subsets of Class 1 join graphs and cobipartite graphs. Third, the proposed technique is applied for proving that the chromatic index of a graph is equal to the chromatic index of its semi-core, the subgraph induced by the maximum degree vertices and their neighbors. Finally, we apply these decomposition tools to a classical result A.J.W. Hilton, Z. Cheng, The chromatic index of a graph whose core has maximum degree 2, Discrete Math. 101 (1992) 135-147] that relates the chromatic index of a graph to its core, the subgraph induced by the maximum degree vertices. |
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Keywords: | Edge-coloring Chromatic index Join graph Cobipartite graph Core |
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