Some star extremal circulant graphs

The circular chromatic number @g"c(G) and the fractional chromatic number @g"f(G) are two generalizations of the ordinary chromatic number of a graph G. A graph is called star extremal if its circular chromatic number equals its fractional chromatic number. Gao and Zhu (Discrete Math. 152 (1996) 147-156), Lih et al. (SIAM J. Discrete Math. 12 (1999) 491-499) gave many classes of circulant graphs which are star extremal. In this paper, we study the star extremality of circulant graphs whose generating sets are of the form {1,2,...,m-1,k,k+1,...,k+m-2}, {k,k+1,...,k'}, and {k,k+1,...,k"1,k"2,k"2+1,...,@?p/[email protected]?}, where p is the vertex number of the graph. As a corollary, we give an improvement of a result of Gao and Zhu (Discrete Math. 152 (1996) 147-156).

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