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List version of ($p$,1)-total labellings

Combinatorics 2011-05-11 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

The (pp,1)-total number λpT(G)\lambda_p^T(G) of a graph GG is the width of the smallest range of integers that suffices to label the vertices and the edges of GG such that no two adjacent vertices have the same label, no two incident edges have the same label and the difference between the labels of a vertex and its incident edges is at least pp. In this paper we consider the list version. Let L(x)L(x) be a list of possible colors for all xV(G)E(G)x\in V(G)\cup E(G). Define Cp,1T(G)C_{p,1}^T(G) to be the smallest integer kk such that for every list assignment with L(x)=k|L(x)|=k for all xV(G)E(G)x\in V(G)\cup E(G), GG has a (pp,1)-total labelling cc such that c(x)L(x)c(x)\in L(x) for all xV(G)E(G)x\in V(G)\cup E(G). We call Cp,1T(G)C_{p,1}^T(G) the (pp,1)-total labelling choosability and GG is list LL-(pp,1)-total labelable. In this paper, we present a conjecture on the upper bound of Cp,1TC_{p,1}^T. Furthermore, we study this parameter for paths and trees in Section 2. We also prove that Cp,1T(K1,n)n+2p1C_{p,1}^T(K_{1,n})\leq n+2p-1 for star K1,nK_{1,n} with p2,n3p\geq2, n\geq3 in Section 3 and Cp,1T(G)Δ+2p1C_{p,1}^T(G)\leq \Delta+2p-1 for outerplanar graph with Δp+3\Delta\geq p+3 in Section 4.

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@article{arxiv.1105.1906,
  title  = {List version of ($p$,1)-total labellings},
  author = {Yong Yu and Guanghui Wang and Guizhen Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.1906},
  year   = {2011}
}

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11 pages, 2 figures

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