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Antimagic orientation of subdivided caterpillars

Combinatorics 2021-06-22 v2

Abstract

Let m1m\ge 1 be an integer and GG be a graph with mm edges. We say that GG has an antimagic orientation if GG has an orientation DD and a bijection τ:A(D){1,2,,m}\tau:A(D)\rightarrow \{1,2,\ldots,m\} such that no two vertices in DD have the same vertex-sum under τ\tau, where the vertex-sum of a vertex vv in DD under τ\tau is the sum of labels of all arcs entering vv minus the sum of labels of all arcs leaving vv. Hefetz, M\"{u}tze and Schwartz [J. Graph Theory, 64: 219-232, 2010] conjectured that every connected graph admits an antimagic orientation. The conjecture was confirmed for certain classes of graphs such as regular graphs, graphs with minimum degree at least 33, bipartite graphs with no vertex of degree zero or two, and trees including caterpillars and complete kk-ary trees. We prove that every subdivided caterpillar admits an antimagic orientation, where a subdivided caterpillar is a subdivision of a caterpillar TT such that the edges of TT that are not on the central path of TT are subdivided the same number of times.

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@article{arxiv.2106.08430,
  title  = {Antimagic orientation of subdivided caterpillars},
  author = {Jessica Ferraro and Genevieve Newkirk and Songling Shan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.08430},
  year   = {2021}
}

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