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Lattice Grids and Prisms are Antimagic

Combinatorics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

An \emph{antimagic labeling} of a finite undirected simple graph with mm edges and nn vertices is a bijection from the set of edges to the integers 1,...,m1,...,m such that all nn vertex sums are pairwise distinct, where a vertex sum is the sum of labels of all edges incident with the same vertex. A graph is called \emph{antimagic} if it has an antimagic labeling. In 1990, Hartsfield and Ringel conjectured that every connected graph, but K2K_2, is antimagic. In 2004, N. Alon et al showed that this conjecture is true for nn-vertex graphs with minimum degree Ω(logn)\Omega(\log n). They also proved that complete partite graphs (other than K2K_2) and nn-vertex graphs with maximum degree at least n2n-2 are antimagic. Recently, Wang showed that the toroidal grids (the Cartesian products of two or more cycles) are antimagic. Two open problems left in Wang's paper are about the antimagicness of lattice grid graphs and prism graphs, which are the Cartesian products of two paths, and of a cycle and a path, respectively. In this article, we prove that these two classes of graphs are antimagic, by constructing such antimagic labelings.

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@article{arxiv.math/0603106,
  title  = {Lattice Grids and Prisms are Antimagic},
  author = {Yongxi Cheng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0603106},
  year   = {2007}
}

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10 pages, 6 figures

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