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Interval Total Colorings of Complete Multipartite Graphs and Hypercubes

Combinatorics 2014-08-12 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

A total coloring of a graph GG is a coloring of its vertices and edges such that no adjacent vertices, edges, and no incident vertices and edges obtain the same color. An interval total tt-coloring of a graph GG is a total coloring of GG with colors 1,,t1,\ldots,t such that all colors are used, and the edges incident to each vertex vv together with vv are colored by dG(v)+1d_{G}(v)+1 consecutive colors, where dG(v)d_{G}(v) is the degree of a vertex vv in GG. In this paper we prove that all complete multipartite graphs with the same number of vertices in each part are interval total colorable. Moreover, we also give some bounds for the minimum and the maximum span in interval total colorings of these graphs. Next, we investigate interval total colorings of hypercubes QnQ_{n}. In particular, we prove that QnQ_{n} (n3n\geq 3) has an interval total tt-coloring if and only if n+1t(n+1)(n+2)2n+1\leq t\leq \frac{(n+1)(n+2)}{2}.

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@article{arxiv.1408.2317,
  title  = {Interval Total Colorings of Complete Multipartite Graphs and Hypercubes},
  author = {Petros A. Petrosyan and Nerses A. Khachatryan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.2317},
  year   = {2014}
}

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17 pages

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