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12-09-2015
Neighbor product distinguishing total colorings
Published in: Journal of Combinatorial Optimization | Issue 1/2017
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Abstract
A total-[k]-coloring of a graph G is a mapping \(\phi : V (G) \cup E(G)\rightarrow \{1, 2, \ldots , k\}\) such that any two adjacent elements in \(V (G) \cup E(G)\) receive different colors. Let f(v) denote the product of the color of a vertex v and the colors of all edges incident to v. A total-[k]-neighbor product distinguishing-coloring of G is a total-[k]-coloring of G such that \(f(u)\ne f(v)\), where \(uv\in E(G)\). By \(\chi ^{\prime \prime }_{\prod }(G)\), we denote the smallest value k in such a coloring of G. We conjecture that \(\chi _{\prod }^{\prime \prime }(G)\le \Delta (G)+3\) for any simple graph with maximum degree \(\Delta (G)\). In this paper, we prove that the conjecture holds for complete graphs, cycles, trees, bipartite graphs and subcubic graphs. Furthermore, we show that if G is a \(K_4\)-minor free graph with \(\Delta (G)\ge 4\), then \(\chi _{\prod }^{\prime \prime }(G)\le \Delta (G)+2\).