List star edge coloring of generalized Halin graphs
List star edge coloring of generalized Halin graphs
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10.1016/j.disc.2022.113204
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2021-04
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Z. Miao;Yimin Song;Tao-Ming Wang;Xiaowei Yu
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Z. Miao;Yimin Song;Tao-Ming Wang;Xiaowei Yu
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 et al.[5], and Bezegová et al.[1] independently proved that the star chromatic index of a tree is at most⌊ 3 Δ 2⌋, and the bound is sharp. Han et al.[8] strengthened the result to list version of star chromatic index, and proved that⌊ 3 Δ 2⌋ 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)≥ 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∪ C is a generalized Halin graph with| C|≠ 5, then its list star chromatic index is at most max{⌊ θ (T)+ Δ (T) 2⌋, 2⌊ Δ (T) 2⌋+ 7}, where θ (T)= max x y∈ E (T){d T (x)+ d T (y)}. As a consequence, if H is a (generalized) Halin graph with maximum degree Δ≥ 13, then the list star chromatic index is at most⌊ 3 Δ 2⌋. Moreover, the upper bound for the list star chromatic index is sharp.