Locating Chromatic Number of Powers of Paths and Cycles

The locating chromatic number of the join of graphs

‎Let $f$ be a proper $k$-coloring of a connected graph $G$ and‎ ‎$Pi=(V_1,V_2,ldots,V_k)$ be an ordered partition of $V(G)$ into‎ ‎the resulting color classes‎. ‎For a vertex $v$ of $G$‎, ‎the color‎ ‎code of $v$ with respect to $Pi$ is defined to be the ordered‎ ‎$k$-tuple $c_{{}_Pi}(v)=(d(v,V_1),d(v,V_2),ldots,d(v,V_k))$‎, ‎where $d(v,V_i)=min{d(v,x):~xin V_i}‎, ‎1leq ileq k$‎. ‎If‎ ‎distinct...

The locating-chromatic number for Halin graphs

Let G be a connected graph. Let f be a proper k -coloring of G and Π = (R_1, R_2, . . . , R_k) bean ordered partition of V (G) into color classes. For any vertex v of G, define the color code c_Π(v) of v with respect to Π to be a k -tuple (d(v, R_1), d(v, R_2), . . . , d(v, R_k)), where d(v, R_i) is the min{d(v, x)|x ∈ R_i}. If distinct vertices have distinct color codes, then we call f a locat...

The b-chromatic number of powers of cycles

Divisor orientations of powers of paths and powers of cycles

In this paper, we prove that for any positive integers k, n with k ≥ 2, the graph P k n is a divisor graph if and only if n ≤ 2k + 2, where P k n is the k power of the path Pn. For powers of cycles we show that C n is a divisor graph when n ≤ 2k + 2, but is not a divisor graph when n ≥ 2k + bk2 c+ 3, where C k n is the k th power of the cycle Cn. Moreover, for odd n with 2k + 2 < n < 2k + bk2 c...

Powers of cycles, powers of paths, and distance graphs

In 1988, Golumbic and Hammer characterized powers of cycles, relating them to circular-arc graphs. We extend their results and propose several further structural characterizations for both powers of cycles and powers of paths. The characterizations lead to linear-time recognition algorithms of these classes of graphs. Furthermore, as a generalization of powers of cycles, powers of paths, and ev...