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Radio number for the Cartesian product of a tree and a complete graph

Combinatorics 2024-04-15 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

A radio labelling of a graph GG is a mapping f:V(G){0,1,2,}f : V(G) \rightarrow \{0, 1, 2,\ldots\} such that f(u)f(v)diam(G)+1d(u,v)|f(u)-f(v)|\geq diam(G) + 1 - d(u,v) for every pair of distinct vertices u,vu,v of GG, where diam(G)diam(G) is the diameter of GG and d(u,v)d(u,v) is the distance between uu and vv in GG. The radio number rn(G)rn(G) of GG is the smallest integer kk such that GG admits a radio labelling ff with max{f(v):vV(G)}=k\max\{f(v):v \in V(G)\} = k. In this paper, we give a lower bound for the radio number of the Cartesian product of a tree and a complete graph and give two necessary and sufficient conditions to achieve the lower bound. We also give three sufficient conditions to achieve the lower bound. We determine the radio number for the Cartesian product of a level-wise regular trees and a complete graph which attains the lower bound. The radio number for the Cartesian product of a path and a complete graph derived in [Radio number for the product of a path and a complete graph, J. Comb. Optim., 30 (2015), 139-149] can be obtained using our results in a short way.

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@article{arxiv.2404.08400,
  title  = {Radio number for the Cartesian product of a tree and a complete graph},
  author = {Payal Vasoya and Devsi Bantva},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.08400},
  year   = {2024}
}

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