A note on neighbour-distinguishing regular graphs total-weighting.
A -ranking of a graph is a mapping such that each path with endvertices of the same colour contains an internal vertex with colour greater than . The ranking number of a graph is the smallest positive integer admitting a -ranking of . In the on-line version of the problem, the vertices of arrive one by one in an arbitrary order, and only the edges of the induced graph are known when the colour for the vertex has to be chosen. The on-line ranking number of a graph is the smallest...
The radio antipodal number of a graph is the smallest integer such that there exists an assignment satisfying for every two distinct vertices and of , where is the diameter of . In this note we determine the exact value of the antipodal number of the path, thus answering the conjecture given in [G. Chartrand, D. Erwin and P. Zhang, Math. Bohem. 127 (2002), 57–69]. We also show the connections between this colouring and radio labelings.
Let G be a connected graph of size at least 2 and c :E(G)→{0, 1, . . . , k− 1} an edge coloring (or labeling) of G using k labels, where adjacent edges may be assigned the same label. For each vertex v of G, the color code of v with respect to c is the k-vector code(v) = (a0, a1, . . . , ak−1), where ai is the number of edges incident with v that are labeled i for 0 ≤ i ≤ k − 1. The labeling c is called a detectable labeling if distinct vertices in G have distinct color codes. The value val(c) of...
Let G be a 2-connected planar graph with maximum degree Δ such that G has no cycle of length from 4 to k, where k ≥ 4. Then the total chromatic number of G is Δ +1 if (Δ,k) ∈ {(7,4),(6,5),(5,7),(4,14)}.
For a graph H, we compare two notions of uniquely H-colourable graphs, where one is defined via automorphisms, the second by vertex partitions. We prove that the two notions of uniquely H-colourable are not identical for all H, and we give a condition for when they are identical. The condition is related to the first homomorphism theorem from algebra.
Given an integer valued weighting of all elements of a 2-connected plane graph G with vertex set V , let c(v) denote the sum of the weight of v ∈ V and of the weights of all edges and all faces incident with v. This vertex coloring of G is proper provided that c(u) ≠ c(v) for any two adjacent vertices u and v of G. We show that for every 2-connected plane graph there is such a proper vertex coloring with weights in {1, 2, 3}. In a special case, the value 3 is improved to 2.
It is consistent that there exists a graph X of cardinality such that every graph has an edge coloring with colors in which the induced copies of X (if there are any) are totally multicolored (get all possible colors).