A star $k$-edge coloring is a proper edge coloring such that there are no bichromatic paths or cycles of length four. The smallest integer $k$ such that $G$ admits a star $k$-edge coloring is the star chromatic index of $G$. Deng \etal \cite{MR2933839}, and Bezegov{á} \etal \cite{MR3431294} independently proved that the star chromatic index of a tree is at most $\lfloor \frac{3Δ}{2} \rfloor$, and the bound is sharp. Han \etal \cite{MR3924408} strengthened the result to list version of star chromatic index, and proved that $\lfloor \frac{3Δ}{2} \rfloor$ is also the sharp upper bound for the list star chromatic index of trees. A generalized Halin graph is a plane graph that consists of a plane embedding of a tree $T$ with $Δ(T) \geq 3$, and a cycle $C$ connecting all the leaves of the tree such that $C$ is the boundary of the exterior face. In this paper, we prove that if $H := T \cup C$ is a generalized Halin graph with $|C| \neq 5$, then its list star chromatic index is at most \[ \max\left\{\left\lfloor\frac{θ(T) + Δ(T)}{2}\right\rfloor, 2 \left\lfloor\frac{Δ(T)}{2}\right\rfloor + 7\right\}, \] where $θ(T) = \max_{xy \in E(T)}\{d_{T}(x) + d_{T}(y)\}$. As a consequence, if $H$ is a (generalized) Halin graph with maximum degree $Δ\geq 13$, then the list star chromatic index is at most $\lfloor \frac{3Δ}{2} \rfloor$. Moreover, the upper bound for the list star chromatic index is sharp.
LaBRI, CNRS, University of Bordeaux（拉布里实验室，法国国家科学研究中心，波尔多大学）；Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University（布拉迪斯拉发康斯坦丁神学院数学物理与信息学院计算机科学系）
A star edge coloring of a graph $G$ is a proper edge coloring of $G$ such that every path and cycle of length four in $G$ uses at least three different colors. The star chromatic index of $G$, is the smallest integer $k$ for which $G$ admits a star edge coloring with $k$ colors. In this paper, we obtain tight upper bound $\left\lfloor\frac{3Δ}{2}\right\rfloor+2$ for the star chromatic index of every Halin graph, that proves the conjecture of Dvo{ř}{á}k et al. (J Graph Theory, 72 (2013), 313--326) for cubic Halin graphs.
The star chromatic index of a multigraph $G$, denoted by $χ_{\mathrm{star}}'(G)$, is the minimum number of colors needed to properly color the edges of $G$ such that no path or cycle of length $4$ is bicolored. In this paper, we study the star edge-coloring of Halin graphs, $k$-power graphs and the generalized Petersen graphs $P(3n, n)$.
In the past various distance based colorings on planar graphs were introduced. We turn our focus to three of them, namely $2$-distance coloring, injective coloring, and exact square coloring. A $2$-distance coloring is a proper coloring of the vertices in which no two vertices at distance $2$ receive the same color, an injective coloring is a coloring of the vertices in which no two vertices with a common neighbor receive the same color, and an exact square coloring is a coloring of the vertices in which no two vertices at distance exactly $2$ receive the same color. We prove that planar graph…
In 1980, Albertson and Berman introduced partial coloring. In 2000, Albertson, Grossman, and Haas introduced partial list coloring. Here, we initiate the study of partial coloring for an insightful generalization of list coloring introduced in 2015 by Dvořák and Postle, DP-coloring (or correspondence coloring). We consider the DP-coloring analogue of the Partial List Coloring Conjecture, which generalizes a natural bound for partial coloring. We show that while this partial DP-coloring conjecture does not hold, several results on partial list coloring can be extended to partial DP-coloring. We…
DP-3-coloring of planar graphs without $4,9$-cycles and two cycles from $\{5,6,7,8\}$
列表着色的一个推广，现在称为DP着色，最近由Dvopelák和Postle引入。本质上，DP着色在邻顶点的颜色列表之间分配任意匹配，而不是像列表着色那样仅匹配相同的颜色。关于可平面图列表染色的一些结果已经被推广到DP染色的情形。我们注意到列表着色结果并不总是扩展到DP着色结果。本文的主要结果是证明了每个不含长为$\{4, a, b, 9\}$ for $a, b \in \{6, 7, 8\}$的圈的平面图都是DP-$3$-可着色的，推广了关于可平面图的$3$ -可选性的三个已有结果.
It is known that, for any $k$-list assignment $L$ of a graph $G$, the number of $L$-list colorings of $G$ is at least the number of the proper $k$-colorings of $G$ when $k>(m-1)/\ln(1+\sqrt{2})$. In this paper, we extend the Whitney's broken cycle theorem to $L$-colorings of signed graphs, by which we show that if $k> \binom{m}{3}+\binom{m}{4}+m-1$ then, for any $k$-assignment $L$, the number of $L$-colorings of a signed graph $Σ$ with $m$ edges is at least the number of the proper $k$-colorings of $Σ$. Further, if $L$ is $0$-free (resp., $0$-included) and $k$ is even (resp., odd), then the lo…
DP-染色是Dvopiák和Postle提出的一个相对较新的染色概念，是（无向）图列表染色的一个扩展。它将求给定图$G$的列表着色问题转化为求具有点集$\{(v,c) ~|~ v \in V(G), c \in L(v)\}$的辅助图的独立断面问题。本文利用Neumann-Lara的方法将DP-染色的定义推广到有向图，其中有向图的染色是顶点的染色，使得有向图不包含任何单色有向圈.进一步证明了关于DP-色数的Brooks型定理，推广了关于有向图的（列表-）色数的各种结果.
Signed list edge coloring in graphs of bounded treewidth
Yan’an University（延安大学）；School of Mathematics and Statistics, Northwestern Polytechnical University（西北工业大学数学与统计学院）；School of Mathematics and Statistics & Key Laboratory of Analytical Mathematics and Applications (Ministry of Education), Fujian Normal University（福建师范大学数学与统计学院与分析数学及应用重点实验室（教育部））；School of Marine Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University（西北工业大学海洋科学与技术学院）
