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Legally \((\varDelta +2)\)-Coloring Bipartite Outerplanar Graphs in Cubic Time

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Combinatorial Optimization and Applications

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The 2-distance vertex-distinguishing index \(\chi '_{d2}(G)\) of a graph G is the least number of colors required for a proper edge coloring of G such that any pair of vertices at distance 2 have distinct sets of colors on their incident edges. Let G be a bipartite outerplanar graph of order n with maximum degree \(\varDelta \). We give an algorithm of time complexity \(O(n^3)\) to show that \(\chi '_{d2}(G) \le \varDelta +2\).

D. Huang—Research supported by NSFC (No.11301486) and ZJNSFC (No.LQ13A010009).

W. Wang—Research supported by NSFC (No.11371328).

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Huang, D., Lih, KW., Wang, W. (2015). Legally \((\varDelta +2)\)-Coloring Bipartite Outerplanar Graphs in Cubic Time. In: Lu, Z., Kim, D., Wu, W., Li, W., Du, DZ. (eds) Combinatorial Optimization and Applications. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9486. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26626-8_45

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