Acyclic Edge Coloring of Planar Graphs Without Small Cycles

作者:Hou, Jianfeng; Liu, Guizhen*; Wu, Jianliang
来源:Graphs and Combinatorics, 2012, 28(2): 215-226.
DOI:10.1007/s00373-011-1043-0

摘要

A proper edge coloring of a graph G is called acyclic if there is no 2-colored cycle in G. The acyclic edge chromatic number of G, denoted by a'(G), is the least number of colors in an acyclic edge coloring of G. Alon et al. conjectured that a'(G) acurrency sign Delta(G) + 2 for any graphs. In this paper, it is shown that the conjecture holds for planar graphs without 4- and 5-cycles or without 4- and 6-cycles.