The r-acyclic edge chromatic number of a graph is defined to be the minimum number of colours required to produce an edge colouring of the graph such that adjacent edges receive different colours and every cycle C has at least min(|C|, r) colours. We show that (r − 2)d is asymptotically almost surely (a.a.s.) an upper bound on the r-acyclic edge chromatic number of a random d-regular graph, for...

The r-acyclic edge chromatic number of a graph is defined to be the minimum number of colours required to produce an edge colouring of the graph such that adjacent edges receive different colours and every cycle C has at least min(|C|, r) colours. We show that (r − 2)d is asymptotically almost surely (a.a.s.) an upper bound on the r-acyclic edge chromatic number of a random d-regular graph, for...

We consider infinite graphs. The distinguishing number D(G) of a graph G is the minimum number of colours in a vertex colouring of G that is preserved only by the trivial automorphism. An analogous invariant for edge colourings is called the distinguishing index, denoted by D′(G). We prove that D′(G) 6 D(G) + 1. For proper colourings, we study relevant invariants called the distinguishing chrom...

An adjacent vertex distinguishing edge-coloring or an avd-coloring of a simple graph G is a proper edge-coloring of G such that no pair of adjacent vertices meets the same set of colors. We prove that every graph with maximum degree ∆ and with no isolated edges has an avd-coloring with at most ∆ + 300 colors, provided that ∆ > 1020. AMS Subject Classification: 05C15