Adjacent-vertex-distinguishing-total coloring

In graph theory, a total coloring is a coloring on the vertices and edges of a graph such that:

(1). no adjacent vertices have the same color;

(2). no adjacent edges have the same color; and

(3). no edge and its endvertices are assigned the same color.

In 2005, Zhang et al.^[1] added a restriction to the definition of total coloring and proposed a new type of coloring defined as follows.

Let G = (V,E) be a simple graph endowed with a total coloring φ, and let u be a vertex of G. The set of colors that occurs in the vertex u is defined as C(u) = {φ(u)} ∪ {φ(uv) | uv ∈ E(G)}. Two vertices u,v ∈ V(G) are distinguishable if their color-sets are distinct, i.e., C(u) ≠ C(v).

In graph theory, a total coloring is an adjacent-vertex-distinguishing-total-coloring (AVD-total-coloring) if it has the following additional property:

(4). for every two adjacent vertices u,v of a graph G, their colors-sets are distinct from each other, i.e., C(u) ≠ C(v).

The adjacent-vertex-distinguishing-total-chromatic number χ_at(G) of a graph G is the fewest colors needed in an AVD-total-coloring of G.

The following lower bound for the AVD-total chromatic number can be obtained from the definition of AVD-total-coloring: If a simple graph G has two adjacent vertices of maximum degree, then χ_at(G) ≥ Δ(G) + 2.^[2] Otherwise, if a simple graph G does not have two adjacent vertices of maximum degree, then χ_at(G) ≥ Δ(G) + 1.

In 2005, Zhang et al. determined the AVD-total-chromatic number for some classes of graphs, and based in their results they conjectured the following.

AVD-Total-Coloring Conjecture. (Zhang et al.^[3])

χ_at(G) ≤ Δ(G) + 3.

The AVD-Total-Coloring Conjecture is known to hold for some classes of graphs, such as complete graphs,^[4] graphs with Δ=3,^[5][6] and all bipartite graphs.^[7]

In 2012, Huang et al.^[8] showed that χ_at(G) ≤ 2Δ(G) for any simple graph G with maximum degree Δ(G) > 2. In 2014, Papaioannou and Raftopoulou^[9] described an algorithmic procedure that gives a 7-AVD-total-colouring for any 4-regular graph.

Notes

References

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