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The 1-2-3 Conjecture for Hypergraphs

Combinatorics 2016-05-20 v2

Abstract

A weighting of the edges of a hypergraph is called vertex-coloring if the weighted degrees of the vertices yield a proper coloring of the graph, i.e., every edge contains at least two vertices with different weighted degrees. In this paper we show that such a weighting is possible from the weight set {1,2,...,r+1} for all hypergraphs with maximum edge size r>3 and not containing edges solely consisting of identical vertices. The number r+1 is best possible for this statement. Further, the weight set {1,2,3,4,5} is sufficient for all hypergraphs with maximum edge size 3, up to some trivial exceptions.

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@article{arxiv.1308.0611,
  title  = {The 1-2-3 Conjecture for Hypergraphs},
  author = {Maciej Kalkowski and Michał Karoński and Florian Pfender},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.0611},
  year   = {2016}
}

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12 pages

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