Acyclic edge coloring of planar graphs with girth at least 5

  • Authors:
  • Jianfeng Hou;Weitao Wang;Xiaoran Zhang

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

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

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Abstract

A proper edge coloring of a graph G is acyclic if there is no bichromatic cycle in G. The acyclic chromatic index of G, denoted @g"a^'(G), is the least number of colors k such that G has an acyclic k-edge-coloring. In this paper, it is shown that if G is a planar graph with girth at least 5 and maximum degree @D, then @g"a^'(G)@?@D+1. Moreover, if @D=9, then @g"a^'(G)=@D.