Packing $(1,1,2,4)$-coloring of subcubic outerplanar graphs
Abstract
For and a graph , a packing -coloring of is a partition of into sets such that, for each , the distance between any two distinct is at least . The packing chromatic number, , of a graph is the smallest such that has a packing -coloring. It is known that there are trees of maximum degree 4 and subcubic graphs with arbitrarily large . Recently, there was a series of papers on packing -colorings of subcubic graphs in various classes. We show that every -connected subcubic outerplanar graph has a packing -coloring and every subcubic outerplanar graph is packing -colorable. Our results are sharp in the sense that there are -connected subcubic outerplanar graphs that are not packing -colorable and there are subcubic outerplanar graphs that are not packing -colorable. We also show subcubic outerplanar graphs that are not packing -colorable and not packing -colorable.
Cite
@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