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Elegant vertex labelings with prime numbers

Combinatorics 2019-07-03 v1

Abstract

We consider graph labelings with an assignment of odd prime numbers to the vertices. Similarly to graceful graphs, a labeling is said to be elegant if the absolute differences between the labels of adjacent vertices describe exactly the first even numbers. The labels of an elegant tree with nn vertices are the first nn odd prime numbers and we want that the resulting edge labels are exactly the first even numbers up to 2n22n-2. We conjecture that each path is elegant and we give the algorithm with which we got elegant paths of nn primes for all nn up to n=3500n=3500.

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@article{arxiv.1907.01249,
  title  = {Elegant vertex labelings with prime numbers},
  author = {Thierry Gensane},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.01249},
  year   = {2019}
}