The incidence chromatic number of high degree graphs (Q2764455)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1690436
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The incidence chromatic number of high degree graphs
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1690436

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    14 January 2002
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    chromatic number
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    incidence chromatic number
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    edge colouring
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    The incidence chromatic number of high degree graphs (English)
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    The authors consider the graphs \(G\) with maximum vertex degree \(\Delta(G)= n-2\), where \(n\) is the order of \(G\). They characterize the graphs which have incidence chromatic number \(\Delta(G)+ 1\) or \(\Delta(G)+ 2\), respectively. The notion of incidence chromatic number was introduced in effort to solve the conjecture of stronge edge colouring.
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