Abstract
Let G be a multigraph containing no minor isomorphic to or (where denotes without one of its edges). We show that the chromatic index of G is given by , where is the maximum valency of G and is defined as (w(E(S)) being the number of edges in the subgraph induced by S). This result partially verifies a conjecture of Seymour [J. Combin. Theory (B) 31 (1981), pp. 82-94] and is actually a generalization of a result proven by Seymour [Combinatorica 10 (1990), pp. 379-392] for series-parallel graphs. It is also equivalent to the following statement: the matching polytope of a graph containing neither nor as a minor has the integer decomposition property.
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