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Interval edge-colorings of composition of graphs

Combinatorics 2015-08-04 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

An edge-coloring of a graph GG with consecutive integers c1,,ctc_{1},\ldots,c_{t} is called an \emph{interval tt-coloring} if all colors are used, and the colors of edges incident to any vertex of GG are distinct and form an interval of integers. A graph GG is interval colorable if it has an interval tt-coloring for some positive integer tt. The set of all interval colorable graphs is denoted by N\mathfrak{N}. In 2004, Giaro and Kubale showed that if G,HNG,H\in \mathfrak{N}, then the Cartesian product of these graphs belongs to N\mathfrak{N}. In the same year they formulated a similar problem for the composition of graphs as an open problem. Later, in 2009, the first author showed that if G,HNG,H\in \mathfrak{N} and HH is a regular graph, then G[H]NG[H]\in \mathfrak{N}. In this paper, we prove that if GNG\in \mathfrak{N} and HH has an interval coloring of a special type, then G[H]NG[H]\in \mathfrak{N}. Moreover, we show that all regular graphs, complete bipartite graphs and trees have such a special interval coloring. In particular, this implies that if GNG\in \mathfrak{N} and TT is a tree, then G[T]NG[T]\in \mathfrak{N}.

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@article{arxiv.1508.00158,
  title  = {Interval edge-colorings of composition of graphs},
  author = {Petros A. Petrosyan and Hayk H. Tepanyan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.00158},
  year   = {2015}
}

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12 pages, 3 figures