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On decomposing multigraphs into locally irregular submultigraphs

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  • Grzelec, Igor
  • Woźniak, Mariusz

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A locally irregular multigraph is a multigraph whose adjacent vertices have distinct degrees. The locally irregular edge coloring is an edge coloring of a multigraph G such that every color induces a locally irregular submultigraph of G. We say that a multigraph G is locally irregular colorable if it admits a locally irregular edge coloring and we denote by lir(G) the locally irregular chromatic index of G, which is the smallest number of colors required in a locally irregular edge coloring of a locally irregular colorable multigraph G. We conjecture that for every connected graph G, which is not isomorphic to K2, the multigraph 2G obtained from G by doubling each edge admits lir(2G)≤2. This concept is closely related to the well known 1-2-3 Conjecture, Local Irregularity Conjecture, (2, 2) Conjecture and other similar problems concerning edge colorings. We show this conjecture holds for graph classes like paths, cycles, wheels, complete graphs, complete k-partite graphs and bipartite graphs. We also prove the general bound for locally irregular chromatic index for all 2-multigraphs using our result for bipartite graphs.

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  • Grzelec, Igor & Woźniak, Mariusz, 2023. "On decomposing multigraphs into locally irregular submultigraphs," Applied Mathematics and Computation, Elsevier, vol. 452(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:apmaco:v:452:y:2023:i:c:s0096300323002187
    DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2023.128049
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    1. Jelena Sedlar & Riste Škrekovski, 2021. "Remarks on the Local Irregularity Conjecture," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 9(24), pages 1-10, December.
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