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Packing $(1,1,2,2)$-coloring of some subcubic graphs

Combinatorics 2019-11-12 v1

Abstract

For a sequence of non-decreasing positive integers S=(s1,,sk)S = (s_1, \ldots, s_k), a packing SS-coloring is a partition of V(G)V(G) into sets V1,,VkV_1, \ldots, V_k such that for each 1ik1\leq i \leq k the distance between any two distinct x,yVix,y\in V_i is at least si+1s_i+1. The smallest kk such that GG has a packing (1,2,,k)(1,2, \ldots, k)-coloring is called the packing chromatic number of GG and is denoted by χp(G)\chi_p(G). For a graph GG, let D(G)D(G) denote the graph obtained from GG by subdividing every edge. The question whether χp(D(G))5\chi_p(D(G)) \le 5 for all subcubic graphs was first asked by Gastineau and Togni and later conjectured by Bresar, Klavzar, Rall and Wash. Gastineau and Togni observed that if one can prove every subcubic graph except the Petersen graph is packing (1,1,2,2)(1,1,2,2)-colorable then the conjecture holds. The maximum average degree, mad(GG), is defined to be max{2E(H)V(H):HG}\max\{\frac{2|E(H)|}{|V(H)|}: H \subset G\}. In this paper, we prove that subcubic graphs with mad(G)<3011mad(G)<\frac{30}{11} are packing (1,1,2,2)(1,1,2,2)-colorable. As a corollary, the conjecture of Bresar et al holds for every subcubic graph GG with mad(G)<3011mad(G)<\frac{30}{11}.

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@article{arxiv.1911.03824,
  title  = {Packing $(1,1,2,2)$-coloring of some subcubic graphs},
  author = {Runrun Liu and Xujun Liu and Martin Rolek and Gexin Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.03824},
  year   = {2019}
}

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