Rank numbers for bent ladders

نویسندگان

  • Jobby Jacob
  • Darren A. Narayan
  • Peter Richter
  • Emily Sergel
  • Anh Tran
چکیده

A ranking on a graph is an assignment of positive integers to its vertices such that any path between two vertices with the same label contains a vertex with a larger label. The rank number of a graph is the fewest number of labels that can be used in a ranking. The rank number of a graph is known for many families, including the ladder graph P2 × Pn. We consider how ”bending” a ladder affects the rank number. We prove that in certain cases the rank number does not change, and in others the rank number differs by only 1. We investigate the rank number of a ladder with an arbitrary number of bends.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory

دوره 34  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2014