New Proof of Adjacency Lemmas of Edge Critical Graphs

Xuechao Li1, Shuchao Li2, Wei Bing3
1The University of Georgia, GA, USA 30602
2The Central China Normal University, P.R.China
3The University of Mississippi, MS, USA

Abstract

A graph \( G \) with maximum degree \( \Delta \) and edge chromatic number \( \chi'(G) > \Delta \) is \emph{edge-\(\Delta\)-critical} if \( \chi'(G-e) = \Delta \) for each \( e \in E(G) \). In this article, we provide a new proof of adjacency Lemmas on edge-critical graphs such that Vizing’s adjacency lemma becomes a corollary of our results.