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Packing $(1,1,2,4)$-coloring of subcubic outerplanar graphs

Combinatorics 2021-05-26 v2

Abstract

For 1s1s2sk1\leq s_1 \le s_2 \le \ldots \le s_k and a graph GG, a packing (s1,s2,,sk)(s_1, s_2, \ldots, s_k)-coloring of GG is a partition of V(G)V(G) into sets V1,V2,,VkV_1, V_2, \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 packing chromatic number, χp(G)\chi_p(G), of a graph GG is the smallest kk such that GG has a packing (1,2,,k)(1,2, \ldots, k)-coloring. It is known that there are trees of maximum degree 4 and subcubic graphs GG with arbitrarily large χp(G)\chi_p(G). Recently, there was a series of papers on packing (s1,s2,,sk)(s_1, s_2, \ldots, s_k)-colorings of subcubic graphs in various classes. We show that every 22-connected subcubic outerplanar graph has a packing (1,1,2)(1,1,2)-coloring and every subcubic outerplanar graph is packing (1,1,2,4)(1,1,2,4)-colorable. Our results are sharp in the sense that there are 22-connected subcubic outerplanar graphs that are not packing (1,1,3)(1,1,3)-colorable and there are subcubic outerplanar graphs that are not packing (1,1,2,5)(1,1,2,5)-colorable. We also show subcubic outerplanar graphs that are not packing (1,2,2,4)(1,2,2,4)-colorable and not packing (1,1,3,4)(1,1,3,4)-colorable.

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@article{arxiv.2005.04803,
  title  = {Packing $(1,1,2,4)$-coloring of subcubic outerplanar graphs},
  author = {Alexandr Kostochka and Xujun Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.04803},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

13 pages, 5 figures

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