Interval edge-colorings of composition of graphs
Abstract
An edge-coloring of a graph with consecutive integers is called an \emph{interval -coloring} if all colors are used, and the colors of edges incident to any vertex of are distinct and form an interval of integers. A graph is interval colorable if it has an interval -coloring for some positive integer . The set of all interval colorable graphs is denoted by . In 2004, Giaro and Kubale showed that if , then the Cartesian product of these graphs belongs to . 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 and is a regular graph, then . In this paper, we prove that if and has an interval coloring of a special type, then . Moreover, we show that all regular graphs, complete bipartite graphs and trees have such a special interval coloring. In particular, this implies that if and is a tree, then .
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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