Petersen-colorings and some families of snarks

Abstract

In this paper we study Petersen-colorings and strong Petersen-colorings on some well known families of snarks, e.g. Blanuša snarks, Goldberg snarks and flower snarks. In particular, it is shown that flower snarks have a Petersen-coloring but they do not have a strong Petersen-coloring. Furthermore it is proved that possible minimum counterexamples to Jaeger’s Petersen-coloring conjecture do not contain a specific subdivision of K_3, 3