Total Chromatic Number of the Join of K_(m,n) and C_n

The total chromatic number xT（G） of a graph G is the minimum number of colors needed to color the elements（vertices and edges） of G such that no adjacent or incident pair of elements receive the same color, G is called Type 1 if xT（G） =△（G）＋1. In this paper we prove that the join of a complete bipartite graph Km,n and a cycle Cn is of Type 1.

Adjacent-Vertex-Distinguishing Total Chromatic Number of P_m×K_n

Let G be a simple graph. Let f be a mapping from V（G） U E（G） to {1, 2,..., k}. Let Cf（v） = {f（v）} U {f（vw）｜w ∈ V（G）,vw ∈ E（G）} for every v ∈ V（G）. If f is a k-propertotal-coloring, and if Cf（u） ≠ Cf（v） for uv ∈ V（G）,uv E E（G）, then f is called k-adjacentvertex-distinguishing total coloring of G（k-AVDTC of G for short）. Let χat（G） = min{k｜G has a k-adjacent-vertex-distinguishing total coloring}. Then χat（G） is called the adjacent-vertex-distinguishing total chromatic number. The adjacent-vertex-distinguishing total chromatic number on the Cartesion product of path Pm and complete graph Kn is obtained.

On total chromatic number of planar graphs without 4-cycles

Let G be a simple graph with maximum degree Δ(G) and total chromatic number x ve (G). Vizing conjectured that Δ(G) + 1 ? X ve (G) ? δ(G) + 2 (Total Chromatic Conjecture). Even for planar graphs, this conjecture has not been settled yet. The unsettled difficult case for planar graphs is Δ(G) = 6. This paper shows that if G is a simple planar graph with maximum degree 6 and without 4-cycles, then x ve (G) ? 8. Together with the previous results on this topic, this shows that every simple planar graph without 4-cycles satisfies the Total Chromatic Conjecture.

An Upper Bound for the Adjacent Vertex-Distinguishing Total Chromatic Number of a Graph

Let G = （V, E） be a simple connected graph, and ｜V（G）｜ ≥ 2. Let f be a mapping from V（G） ∪ E（G） to {1,2…, k}. If arbitary uv ∈ E（G）,f（u） ≠ f（v）,f（u） ≠ f（uv）,f（v） ≠ f（uv）; arbitary uv, uw ∈ E（G）（v ≠ w）, f（uv） ≠ f（uw）;arbitary uv ∈ E（G） and u ≠ v, C（u） ≠ C（v）, whereC（u）={f（u）}∪{f（uv）｜uv∈E（G）}.Then f is called a k-adjacent-vertex-distinguishing-proper-total coloring of the graph G（k-AVDTC of G for short）. The number min{k｜k-AVDTC of G} is called the adjacent vertex-distinguishing total chromatic number and denoted by χat（G）. In this paper we prove that if △（G） is at least a particular constant and δ ≥32√△ln△, then χat（G） ≤ △（G） ＋ 10^26 ＋ 2√△ln△.

Vertex Distinguishing Equitable Total Chromatic Number of Join Graph

A vertex distinguishing equitable total coloring of graph G is a proper total coloring of graph G such that any two distinct vertices＇ coloring sets are not identical and the difference of the elements colored by any two colors is not more than 1. In this paper we shall give vertex distinguishing equitable total chromatic number of join graphs Pn VPn, Cn VCn and prove that they satisfy conjecture 3, namely, the chromatic numbers of vertex distinguishing total and vertex distinguishing equitable total are the same for join graphs Pn V Pn and Cn ∨ Cn.

The total chromatic number of regular graphs of high degree

The total chromatic number χT (G) of a graph G is the minimum number of colors needed to color the edges and the vertices of G so that incident or adjacent elements have distinct colors. We show that if G is a regular graph and d(G) ? 2 3 |V (G)|+ 23 6 , where d(G) denotes the degree of a vertex in G, then χT (G) ? d(G) + 2.

A Note on Adjacent-Vertex-Distinguishing Total Chromatic Numbers for P_m × P_n,P_m × C_n and C_m × C_n

Let G be a simple graph. Let f be a mapping from V (G) ∪ E(G) to {1,2,...,k}. Let Cf(v) = {f(v)} ∪ {f(vw)|w ∈ V (G),vw ∈ E(G)} for every v ∈ V (G). If f is a k-proper- total-coloring, and for u,v ∈ V (G),uv ∈ E(G), we have Cf(u) = Cf(v), then f is called a k- adjacent-vertex-distinguishing total coloring (k-AV DTC for short). Let χat(G) = min{k|G have a k-adjacent-vertex-distinguishing total coloring}. Then χat(G) is called the adjacent-vertex- distinguishing total chromatic number (AV DTC number for short)...

Vertex-distinguishing Total Colorings of 2Cn

Let f be a proper total k-coloring of a simple graph G. For any vertex x ∈ V（G）, let Cf（x） denote the set of colors assigned to vertex x and the edges incident with x. If Cf（u） ≠ Cf（v） for all distinct vertices u and v of V（G）, then f is called a vertex- distinguishing total k-coloring of G. The minimum number k for which there exists a vertex- distinguishing total k-coloring of G is called the vertex-distinguishing total chromatic number of G and denoted by Xvt（G）. The vertex-disjoint union of two cycles of length n is denoted by 2Cn. We will obtain Xvt（2Cn） in this paper.

Adjacent vertex-distinguishing total colorings of K_s∨K_t

Let G be a simple graph and f be a proper total kcoloring of G. The color set of each vertex v of G is the set of colors appearing on v and the edges incident to v. The coloring f is said to be an adjacent vertex-distinguishing total coloring if the color sets of any two adjacent vertices are distinct. The minimum k for which such a coloring of G exists is called the adjacent vertex-distinguishing total chromatic number of G. The join graph of two vertex-disjoint graphs is the graph union of these two graphs together with all the edges that connect the vertices of one graph with the vertices of the other. The adjacent vertex-distinguishing total chromatic numbers of the join graphs of an empty graph of order s and a complete graph of order t are determined.

ON THE TOTAL COLORING OF GRAPH G ∨H

The total chromatic number XT(G) of graph G is the least number of colorsassigned to VE(G) such that no adjacent or incident elements receive the same color.Gived graphs G1,G2, the join of G1 and G2, denoted by G1∨G2, is a graph G, V(G) =V(GI)∪V(G2) and E(G) = E(G1)∪E(G2) ∪{uv | u∈(G1), v ∈ V(G2)}. In this paper, it's proved that if v(G) = v(H), both Gc and Hc contain perfect matching and one of the followings holds: (i)Δ(G) =Δ(H) and there exist edge e∈ E(G), e' E E(H)such that both G-e and H-e' are of Class l; (ii)Δ(G)<Δ(H) and there exixst an edge e ∈E(H) such that H-e is of Class 1, then, the total coloring conjecture is true for graph G ∨H.

AVDTC Numbers of Generalized Halin Graphs with Maximum Degree at Least 6

In a paper by Zhang and Chen et al.（see [11]）, a conjecture was made concerning the minimum number of colors Xat（G） required in a proper total-coloring of G so that any two adjacent vertices have different color sets, where the color set of a vertex v is the set composed of the color of v and the colors incident to v. We find the exact values of Xat（G） and thus verify the conjecture when G is a Generalized Halin graph with maximum degree at least 6, A generalized Halin graph is a 2-connected plane graph G such that removing all the edges of the boundary of the exterior face of G （the degrees of the vertices in the boundary of exterior face of G are all three） gives a tree.

Total Coloring of G×P_n and G×C_n

It is proved that if G is a (+1)-colorable graph, so are the graphs G×Pn and C×Cn, where Pn and Cn are respectively the path and cycle with n vertices, and the maximum edge degree of the graph. The exact chromatic numbers of the product graphs and are also presented. Thus the total coloring conjecture is proved to be true for many other graphs.

Equitable Total Coloring of Some Join Graphs

The total chromatic number χt(G) of a graph G(V,E) is the minimum number of total independent partition sets of V E, satisfying that any two sets have no common element. If the difference of the numbers of any two total independent partition sets of V E is no more than one, then the minimum number of total independent partition sets of V E is called the equitable total chromatic number of G, denoted by χet(G). In this paper, we have obtained the equitable total chromatic number of Wm Kn, Fm Kn and Sm Kn whi...