Simultaneous coloring of vertices and incidences of outerplanar graphs
Main Authors: | Mozafari-Nia, Mahsa; Department of Mathematical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran., N. Iradmusa, Moharram; Department of Mathematical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, and School of Mathematics, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Iran |
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Format: | Article info application/pdf eJournal |
Bahasa: | eng |
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GTA Research Group, Univ. Newcastle, Indonesian Combinatorics Society and ITB
, 2023
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Online Access: |
https://www.ejgta.org/index.php/ejgta/article/view/1629 https://www.ejgta.org/index.php/ejgta/article/view/1629/pdf_267 |
Daftar Isi:
- A vi-simultaneous proper k-coloring of a graph G is a coloring of all vertices and incidences of the graph in which any two adjacent or incident elements in the set V(G)∪I(G) receive distinct colors, where I(G) is the set of incidences of G. The vi-simultaneous chromatic number, denoted by χvi(G), is the smallest integer k such that G has a vi-simultaneous proper k-coloring. In [M. Mozafari-Nia, M. N. Iradmusa, A note on coloring of 3/3-power of subquartic graphs, Vol. 79, No.3, 2021] vi-simultaneous proper coloring of graphs with maximum degree 4 is investigated and they conjectured that for any graph G with maximum degree Δ ≥ 2, vi-simultaneous proper coloring of G is at most 2Δ + 1. In [M. Mozafari-Nia, M. N. Iradmusa, Simultaneous coloring of vertices and incidences of graphs, arXiv:2205.07189, 2022] the correctness of the conjecture for some classes of graphs such as k-degenerated graphs, cycles, forests, complete graphs, regular bipartite graphs is investigated. In this paper, we prove that the vi-simultaneous chromatic number of any outerplanar graph G is either Δ + 2 or Δ + 3, where Δ is the maximum degree of G.