The star edge coloring of cubic Halin graphs with star chromatic index $5$

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Auteurs principaux: Hu, Xingxing, Tang, Yunfang
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author Hu, Xingxing
Tang, Yunfang
author_facet Hu, Xingxing
Tang, Yunfang
contents The star chromatic index of a graph $G$, denoted by $χ'_{st}(G) $, is the minimum number of colors needed to properly color the edges of $G$ such that no path or cycle of length four is bi-colored. Casselgren et al. and Hou et al. independently proved that the star chromatic index of a cubic Halin graph, except a special graph, is at most $6$. It remains an open problem to determine which of such graphs have star chromatic index $5$. In this paper, we show that if $G\ne N_{e_2}$ is a cubic Halin graph whose tree is a caterpillar or a complete tree, then $χ'_{st}(G)=5$.
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spellingShingle The star edge coloring of cubic Halin graphs with star chromatic index $5$
Hu, Xingxing
Tang, Yunfang
Combinatorics
The star chromatic index of a graph $G$, denoted by $χ'_{st}(G) $, is the minimum number of colors needed to properly color the edges of $G$ such that no path or cycle of length four is bi-colored. Casselgren et al. and Hou et al. independently proved that the star chromatic index of a cubic Halin graph, except a special graph, is at most $6$. It remains an open problem to determine which of such graphs have star chromatic index $5$. In this paper, we show that if $G\ne N_{e_2}$ is a cubic Halin graph whose tree is a caterpillar or a complete tree, then $χ'_{st}(G)=5$.
title The star edge coloring of cubic Halin graphs with star chromatic index $5$
topic Combinatorics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.13140