A. Kündgen ; T. Talbot - Nonrepetitive edge-colorings of trees

dmtcs:2651 - Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, June 27, 2017, Vol. 19 no. 1 - https://doi.org/10.23638/DMTCS-19-1-18
Nonrepetitive edge-colorings of treesArticle

Authors: A. Kündgen ; T. Talbot

    A repetition is a sequence of symbols in which the first half is the same as the second half. An edge-coloring of a graph is repetition-free or nonrepetitive if there is no path with a color pattern that is a repetition. The minimum number of colors so that a graph has a nonrepetitive edge-coloring is called its Thue edge-chromatic number. We improve on the best known general upper bound of $4\Delta-4$ for the Thue edge-chromatic number of trees of maximum degree $\Delta$ due to Alon, Grytczuk, Ha{\l}uszczak and Riordan (2002) by providing a simple nonrepetitive edge-coloring with $3\Delta-2$ colors.


    Volume: Vol. 19 no. 1
    Section: Graph Theory
    Published on: June 27, 2017
    Accepted on: June 4, 2017
    Submitted on: June 20, 2017
    Keywords: Mathematics - Combinatorics,05C05, 05C15, 68R15
    Funding:
      Source : OpenAIRE Graph
    • Graph Theory: Colourings, flows, and decompositions.; Funder: European Commission; Code: 320812

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