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Coupon coloring of some special graphs

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  • Yongtang Shi

    (Nankai University)

  • Meiqin Wei

    (Nankai University)

  • Jun Yue

    (Shandong Normal University)

  • Yan Zhao

    (Taizhou University)

Abstract

Let G be a graph without isolated vertices. A k-coupon coloring of G is a k-coloring of G such that the neighborhood of every vertex of G contains vertices of all colors from $$[k] =\{1, 2, \ldots , k\}$$ [ k ] = { 1 , 2 , … , k } , which was recently introduced by Chen, Kim, Tait and Verstraete. The coupon coloring number $$\chi _c(G)$$ χ c ( G ) of G is the maximum k for which a k-coupon coloring exists. In this paper, we mainly study the coupon coloring of some special classes of graphs. We determine the coupon coloring numbers of complete graphs, complete k-partite graphs, wheels, cycles, unicyclic graphs, bicyclic graphs and generalised $$\Theta $$ Θ -graphs.

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  • Yongtang Shi & Meiqin Wei & Jun Yue & Yan Zhao, 2017. "Coupon coloring of some special graphs," Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, Springer, vol. 33(1), pages 156-164, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:jcomop:v:33:y:2017:i:1:d:10.1007_s10878-015-9942-2
    DOI: 10.1007/s10878-015-9942-2
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