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Interval edge colorings of some products of graphs

Discrete Mathematics 2010-08-13 v2

Abstract

An edge coloring of a graph GG with colors 1,2,,t1,2,\ldots ,t is called an interval tt-coloring if for each i{1,2,,t}i\in \{1,2,\ldots,t\} there is at least one edge of GG colored by ii, 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 there is an integer t1t\geq 1 for which GG has an interval tt-coloring. Let N\mathfrak{N} be the set of all interval colorable graphs. In 2004 Kubale and Giaro showed that if G,HNG,H\in \mathfrak{N}, then the Cartesian product of these graphs belongs to N\mathfrak{N}. Also, they formulated a similar problem for the lexicographic product as an open problem. In this paper we first show that if GNG\in \mathfrak{N}, then G[nK1]NG[nK_{1}]\in \mathfrak{N} for any nNn\in \mathbf{N}. Furthermore, we show that if G,HNG,H\in \mathfrak{N} and HH is a regular graph, then strong and lexicographic products of graphs G,HG,H belong to N\mathfrak{N}. We also prove that tensor and strong tensor products of graphs G,HG,H belong to N\mathfrak{N} if GNG\in \mathfrak{N} and HH is a regular graph.

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@article{arxiv.0911.4459,
  title  = {Interval edge colorings of some products of graphs},
  author = {Petros A. Petrosyan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.4459},
  year   = {2010}
}

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14 pages, 5 figures, minor changes