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Some remarks on relations between the $\mu$-parameters of regular graphs

Discrete Mathematics 2013-08-16 v1

Abstract

For an undirected, simple, finite, connected graph GG, we denote by V(G)V(G) and E(G)E(G) the sets of its vertices and edges, respectively. A function φ:E(G){1,...,t}\varphi:E(G)\rightarrow \{1,...,t\} is called a proper edge tt-coloring of a graph GG, if adjacent edges are colored differently and each of tt colors is used. The least value of tt for which there exists a proper edge tt-coloring of a graph GG is denoted by χ(G)\chi'(G). For any graph GG, and for any integer tt satisfying the inequality χ(G)tE(G)\chi'(G)\leq t\leq |E(G)|, we denote by α(G,t)\alpha(G,t) the set of all proper edge tt-colorings of GG. Let us also define a set α(G)\alpha(G) of all proper edge colorings of a graph GG: α(G)t=χ(G)E(G)α(G,t). \alpha(G)\equiv\bigcup_{t=\chi'(G)}^{|E(G)|}\alpha(G,t). An arbitrary nonempty finite subset of consecutive integers is called an interval. If φα(G)\varphi\in\alpha(G) and xV(G)x\in V(G), then the set of colors of edges of GG which are incident with xx is denoted by SG(x,φ)S_G(x,\varphi) and is called a spectrum of the vertex xx of the graph GG at the proper edge coloring φ\varphi. If GG is a graph and φα(G)\varphi\in\alpha(G), then define fG(φ){xV(G)/SG(x,φ)is an interval}f_G(\varphi)\equiv|\{x\in V(G)/S_G(x,\varphi) \textrm{is an interval}\}|. For a graph GG and any integer tt, satisfying the inequality χ(G)tE(G)\chi'(G)\leq t\leq |E(G)|, we define: μ1(G,t)minφα(G,t)fG(φ),μ2(G,t)maxφα(G,t)fG(φ). \mu_1(G,t)\equiv\min_{\varphi\in\alpha(G,t)}f_G(\varphi),\qquad \mu_2(G,t)\equiv\max_{\varphi\in\alpha(G,t)}f_G(\varphi). For any graph GG, we set: μ11(G)minχ(G)tE(G)μ1(G,t),μ12(G)maxχ(G)tE(G)μ1(G,t), \mu_{11}(G)\equiv\min_{\chi'(G)\leq t\leq|E(G)|}\mu_1(G,t),\qquad \mu_{12}(G)\equiv\max_{\chi'(G)\leq t\leq|E(G)|}\mu_1(G,t), μ21(G)minχ(G)tE(G)μ2(G,t),μ22(G)maxχ(G)tE(G)μ2(G,t). \mu_{21}(G)\equiv\min_{\chi'(G)\leq t\leq|E(G)|}\mu_2(G,t),\qquad \mu_{22}(G)\equiv\max_{\chi'(G)\leq t\leq|E(G)|}\mu_2(G,t). For regular graphs, some relations between the μ\mu-parameters are obtained.

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@article{arxiv.1308.3322,
  title  = {Some remarks on relations between the $\mu$-parameters of regular graphs},
  author = {N. N. Davtyan and R. R. Kamalian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.3322},
  year   = {2013}
}

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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1307.1389, arXiv:1307.2348

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