Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, Vol 12, No 1 (2010)

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On a 1,2 Conjecture

Jakub Przybyło, Mariusz Woźniak

Abstract


Let us assign positive integers to the edges and vertices of a simple graph G. As a result we obtain a vertex-colouring of G with integers, where a vertex colour is simply a sum of the weight assigned to the vertex itself and the weights of its incident edges. Can we obtain a proper colouring using only weights 1 and 2 for an arbitrary G?
We give a positive answer when G is a 3-colourable, complete or 4-regular graph. We also show that it is enough to use weights from 1 to 11, as well as from 1 to ⌊χ(G) / 2⌋+1, for an arbitrary graph G.

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