A graph is dually chordal if it is the clique graph of a chordal graph. Alternatively, a graph is dually chordal if it admits a maximum neighbourhood order. This class generalizes known subclasses of chordal graphs such as doubly chordal graphs, strongly chordal graphs and interval graphs. We prove that Vizing's total-colour conjecture holds for dually chordal graphs. We describe a new heuristi...

The b-chromatic index φ(G) of a graph G is the largest integer k such that G admits a proper k-edge coloring in which every color class contains at least one edge incident to some edge in all the other color classes. The b-chromatic index of trees is determined and equals either to a natural upper bound m(T ) or one less, where m(T ) is connected with the number of edges of high degree. Some co...

We study edge coloring games defining the so-called game chromatic index of a graph. It has been reported that the game chromatic index of trees with maximum degree ∆ = 3 is at most ∆ + 1. We show that the same holds true in case ∆ ≥ 6, which would leave only the cases ∆ = 4 and ∆ = 5 open.

The automorphic A-chromatic index of a graph Γ is the minimum integer m for which Γ has a proper edge-coloring with m colors which is preserved by a given subgroup A of the full automorphism group of Γ. We compute the automorphic A-chromatic index of each generalized Petersen graph when A is the full automorphism group.