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Equitable coloring of Kronecker products of complete multipartite graphs and complete graphs

Combinatorics 2012-10-02 v1

Abstract

A proper vertex coloring of a graph is equitable if the sizes of color classes differ by at most 1. The equitable chromatic number of a graph GG, denoted by χ=(G)\chi_=(G), is the minimum kk such that GG is equitably kk-colorable. The equitable chromatic threshold of a graph GG, denoted by χ=(G)\chi_=^*(G), is the minimum tt such that GG is equitably kk-colorable for ktk \ge t. In this paper, we give the exact values of χ=(Km1,...,mr×Kn)\chi_=(K_{m_1,..., m_r} \times K_n) and χ=(Km1,...,mr×Kn)\chi_=^*(K_{m_1,..., m_r} \times K_n) for i=1rmin\sum_{i = 1}^r m_i \leq n.

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@article{arxiv.1210.0188,
  title  = {Equitable coloring of Kronecker products of complete multipartite graphs and complete graphs},
  author = {Zhidan Yan and Wei Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.0188},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

11 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1208.0918, arXiv:1207.3578