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Locally identifying colourings for graphs with given maximum degree




AuthorsFoucaud F, Honkala I, Laihonen T, Parreau A, Perarnau G

PublisherELSEVIER SCIENCE BV

Publication year2012

JournalDiscrete Mathematics

Journal name in sourceDISCRETE MATHEMATICS

Journal acronymDISCRETE MATH

Number in series10

Volume312

Issue10

First page 1832

Last page1837

Number of pages6

ISSN0012-365X

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.disc.2012.01.034(external)

Self-archived copy’s web addresshttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/2227592(external)


Abstract
A proper vertex-colouring of a graph G is said to be locally identifying if for any pair u, v of adjacent vertices with distinct closed neighbourhoods, the sets of colours in the closed neighbourhoods of u and v are different. We show that any graph G has a locally identifying colouring with 2 Delta(2) - 3 Delta + 3 colours, where Delta is the maximum degree of G, answering in a positive way a question asked by Esperet et al. We also provide similar results for locally identifying colourings which have the property that the colours in the neighbourhood of each vertex are all different and apply our method to the class of chordal graphs. (c) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.


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