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Distant Vertex Partitions of Graphs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1998

CHRIS JAGGER
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, 16 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1SB, England (e-mail: C.N.Jagger@dpmms.cam.ac.uk)

Abstract

We consider the function χ(Gk), defined to be the smallest number of colours that can colour a graph G in such a way that no vertices of distance at most k receive the same colour. In particular we shall look at how small a value this function can take in terms of the order and diameter of G. We get general bounds for this and tight bounds for the cases k=2 and k=3.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
1998 Cambridge University Press

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