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Andre Raspaud

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arXiv2019

Injective edge-coloring of sparse graphs

An injective edge-coloring $c$ of a graph $G$ is an edge-coloring such that if $e_1$, $e_2$, and $e_3$ are three consecutive edges in $G$ (they are consecutive if they form a path or a cycle of length three), then $e_1$ and $e_3$ receive different colors. The minimum integer $k$ such that, $G$ has an injective edge-coloring with $k$ colors, is called the injective chromatic index of $G$ ($\chi'_{\textrm{inj}}(G)$). This parameter was introduced by Cardoso et \textit{al.} \cite{CCCD} motivated by the Packet Radio Network problem. They proved that computing $\chi'_{\textrm{inj}}(G)$ of a graph $G$ is NP-hard. We give new upper bounds for this parameter and we present the relationships of the injective edge-coloring with other colorings of graphs. The obtained general bound gives 8 for the injective chromatic index of a subcubic graph. If the graph is subcubic bipartite we improve this last bound. We prove that a subcubic bipartite graph has an injective chromatic index bounded by $6$. We also prove that if $G$ is a subcubic graph with maximum average degree less than $\frac{7}{3} $ (resp. $\frac{8}{3} $, $3$), then $G$ admits an injective edge-coloring with at most 4 (resp. $6$, $7$) colors. Moreover, we establish a tight upper bound for subcubic outerplanar graphs.

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arXiv2013

$(3,1)^*$-choosability of planar graphs without adjacent short cycles

A list assignment of a graph $G$ is a function $L$ that assigns a list $L(v)$ of colors to each vertex $v\in V(G)$. An $(L,d)^*$-coloring is a mapping $π$ that assigns a color $π(v)\in L(v)$ to each vertex $v\in V(G)$ so that at most $d$ neighbors of $v$ receive color $π(v)$. A graph $G$ is said to be $(k,d)^*$-choosable if it admits an $(L,d)^*$-coloring for every list assignment $L$ with $|L(v)|\ge k$ for all $v\in V(G)$. In 2001, Lih et al. \cite{LSWZ-01} proved that planar graphs without 4- and $l$-cycles are $(3,1)^*$-choosable, where $l\in \{5,6,7\}$. Later, Dong and Xu \cite{DX-09} proved that planar graphs without 4- and l-cycles are $(3,1)^*$-choosable, where $l\in \{8,9\}$. There exist planar graphs containing 4-cycles that are not $(3,1)^*$-choosable (Crown, Crown and Woodall, 1986 \cite{CCW-86}). This partly explains the fact that in all above known sufficient conditions for the $(3,1)^*$-choosability of planar graphs the 4-cycles are completely forbidden. In this paper we allow 4-cycles nonadjacent to relatively short cycles. More precisely, we prove that every planar graph without 4-cycles adjacent to 3- and 4-cycles is $(3,1)^*$-choosable. This is a common strengthening of all above mentioned results. Moreover as a consequence we give a partial answer to a question of Xu and Zhang \cite{XZ-07} and show that every planar graph without 4-cycles is $(3,1)^*$-choosable.

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arXiv2010

Covering a graph by forests and a matching

We prove that for any positive integer $k$, the edges of any graph whose fractional arboricity is at most $k + 1/(3k+2)$ can be decomposed into $k$ forests and a matching.

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