Abstract An f-coloring of a graph G is an edge-coloring of G such that each color appears at each vertex v ∈ V（G） at most f（v） times. The f-core of G is the subgraph of G induced by the vertices v of degree d（v） = f（v）maxv∈y（G）{ [d（v）/f（v）l}. In this paper, we find some necessary conditions for a simple graph, whose f-core has maximum degree two, to be of class 2 for f-colorings.
