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A star edge coloring of a graph G is a proper edge coloring of G such that no path or cycle of length 4 is bicolored. The star chromatic index of G, denoted by \(\chi ^{\prime }_{s}(G)\), is the minimum k such that G admits a star edge coloring with k colors. Bezegová et al. (J Graph Theory 81(1):73–82, 2016) conjectured that the star chromatic index of outerplanar graphs with maximum degree \(\Delta\) is at most \(\left\lfloor \frac{3\Delta }{2}\right\rfloor +1\). In this paper, we prove this conjecture for a class of outerplanar graphs, namely Cactus graphs, wherein every edge belongs to at most one cycle.
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B. Omoomi: Research is partially supported by the Iran National Science Foundation (INSF).
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Omoomi, B., Vahid Dastjerdi, M. & Yektaeian, Y. Star Edge Coloring of Cactus Graphs. Iran J Sci Technol Trans Sci 44, 1633–1639 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40995-020-00829-z
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40995-020-00829-z