Odd-Girth Bounds for Defective Edge Coloring
A $(k,d)$-edge coloring of a loopless multigraph $G$ is an edge coloring using at most $k$ colors such that the subgraph formed by each color class has maximum degree at most $d$. The least such $k$ is denoted by $\chi'_d(G)$. Let $G$ be a loopless non-bipartite multigraph with maximum degree $\Delta(G)$ and odd girth...