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Previous article Next article The NP-Completeness of Edge-ColoringIan HolyerIan Holyerhttps: //doi. org/10. 1137/0210055PDFBibTexSections ToolsAdd to favoritesExport CitationTrack CitationsEmail SectionsAboutAbstractWe show that it is NP-complete to determine the chromatic index of an arbitrary graph. The problem remains NP-complete even for cubic graphs. 1 S. Fiorini and, Robin James Wilson, Edge-colourings of graphs, Pitman, London, 1977iii+154 58: 27599 0421. 05023 Google Scholar2 Michael R. Garey and, David S. Johnson, Computers and intractability, W. H. Freeman and Co. , San Francisco, Calif. , 1979x+338 80g: 68056 0411. 68039 Google Scholar3 Rufus Isaacs, Infinite families of nontrivial trivalent graphs which are not Tait colorable, Amer. Math. Monthly, 82 (1975), 221–239 52: 2940 0311. 05109 CrossrefISIGoogle Scholar4 R. 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