Planar graphs with $$\Delta =9$$ are neighbor-distinguishing totally 12-colorable

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 37 - Trang 1071-1089 - 2018
Weifan Wang1, Jingjing Huo2, Danjun Huang1, Yiqiao Wang3
1Department of Mathematics, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, China
2Department of Mathematics, Hebei University of Engineering, Handan, China
3School of Management, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Tóm tắt

The neighbor-distinguishing total coloring of a graph G is a proper total coloring of G using k colors such that any two adjacent vertices have different sets of colors. It was known that every planar graph G with $$\Delta \ge 10$$ is neighbor-distinguishing totally $$(\Delta +3)$$-colorable. In this paper, we extend this result to the case $$\Delta =9$$. Namely, we prove that every planar graph G with $$\Delta =9$$ is neighbor-distinguishing totally 12-colorable.

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