Abstract
The total-chromatic number χ T ( G ) is the least number of colours needed to colour the vertices and edges of a graph G such that no incident or adjacent elements (vertices or edges) receive the same colour. It is known that the problem of determining the total-chromatic number is NP-hard, and it remains NP-hard even for cubic bipartite graphs. Snarks are simple connected bridgeless cubic graphs that are not 3-edge-colourable. In this paper, we show that the total-chromatic number is 4 for three infinite families of snarks, namely, the Flower Snarks, the Goldberg Snarks, and the Twisted Goldberg Snarks. This result reinforces the conjecture that all snarks have total-chromatic number 4. Moreover, we give recursive procedures to construct a total-colouring that uses 4 colours in each case.
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