Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4652944 Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics 2007 5 Pages PDF
Abstract

It was proved by Kahn [J. Kahn, Asymptotics of the chromatic index for multigraphs, Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A 68 (1996) 233–254] that the chromatic number and fractional chromatic number of a line graph agree asymptotically. That is, for any line graph G we have χ(G)≤(1+o(1))χf(G). We extend this result to quasi-line graphs; G is a quasi-line graph if the neighbourhood of any vertex of G can be covered by two cliques.

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Physical Sciences and Engineering Mathematics Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics