On strong edge-colouring of subcubic graphs

  • Authors:
  • Hervé Hocquard;Mickaël Montassier;André Raspaud;Petru Valicov

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

A strong edge-colouring of a graph G is a proper edge-colouring such that every path of length 3 uses three different colours. In this paper we improve some previous results on the strong edge-colouring of subcubic graphs by showing that every subcubic graph with maximum average degree strictly less than 73 (resp. 52, 83, 207) can be strongly edge-coloured with six (resp. seven, eight, nine) colours. These upper bounds are optimal except the one of 83. Also, we prove that every subcubic planar graph without 4-cycles and 5-cycles can be strongly edge-coloured with nine colours.