Article ID: | iaor20003679 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 24 |
Issue: | 1/2 |
Start Page Number: | 11 |
End Page Number: | 14 |
Publication Date: | Feb 1999 |
Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
Authors: | Reed Bruce |
Keywords: | graph colouring |
We give a simple polynomial time algorithm to compute the chromatic index of graphs which can be made bipartite by deleting a vertex. An analysis of this algorithm shows that for such graphs, the chromatic index is the roundup of the fractional chromatic index.