Packing coloring of some undirected and oriented coronae graphs

The packing chromatic number χρ(G) of a graph G is the smallest integer k such that its set of vertices V (G) can be partitioned into k disjoint subsets V1, . . . , Vk, in such a way that every two distinct vertices in Vi are at distance greater than i in G for every i, 1 ≤ i ≤ k. For a given integer p ≥ 1, the generalized corona G⊙ pK1 of a graph G is the graph obtained from G by adding p degree-one neighbors to every vertex of G. In this paper, we determine the packing chromatic number of generalized coronae of paths and cycles. Moreover, by considering digraphs and the (weak) directed distance between vertices, we get a natural extension of the notion of packing coloring to digraphs. We then determine the packing chromatic number of orientations of generalized coronae of paths and cycles.