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A Steiner triple system which colors all cubic graphs

✍ Scribed by Mike Grannell; Terry Griggs; Martin Knor; Martin Škoviera


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2004
Tongue
English
Weight
93 KB
Volume
46
Category
Article
ISSN
0364-9024

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Abstract

We prove that there is a Steiner triple system 𝒯 such that every simple cubic graph can have its edges colored by points of 𝒯 in such a way that for each vertex the colors of the three incident edges form a triple in 𝒯. This result complements the result of Holroyd and Škoviera that every bridgeless cubic graph admits a similar coloring by any Steiner triple system of order greater than 3. The Steiner triple system employed in our proof has order 381 and is probably not the smallest possible. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Graph Theory 46: 15–24, 2004