Emergent Mind
Abstract
An $acyclic$ edge coloring of a graph is a proper edge coloring such that there are no bichromatic cycles. The \emph{acyclic chromatic index} of a graph is the minimum number k such that there is an acyclic edge coloring using k colors and is denoted by $a'(G)$. It was conjectured by Alon, Sudakov and Zaks (and much earlier by Fiamcik) that $a'(G)\le \Delta+2$, where $\Delta =\Delta(G)$ denotes the maximum degree of the graph. We prove that if $G$ is a planar graph with maximum degree $\Delta$, then $a'(G)\le \Delta + 12$.
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