L(2,1)-labelling of graphs

  • Authors:
  • Frédéric Havet;Bruce Reed;Jean-Sébastien Sereni

  • Affiliations:
  • Projet Mascotte, I3S (CNRS/UNSA)-INRIA, Sophia Antioplis, France;Projet Mascotte, I3S (CNRS/UNSA)-INRIA, Sophia Antioplis, France and McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada;Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the nineteenth annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

An L(2, 1)-labelling of a graph is a function f from the vertex set to the positive integers such that |f(x) - f(y)| ≥ 2 if dist(x, y) = 1 and |f(x) - f(y)| ≥ 1 if dist(x, y) = 2, where dist(x, y) is the distance between the two vertices x and y in the graph G. The span of an L(2, 1)-labelling f is the difference between the largest and the smallest labels used by f plus 1. In 1992, Griggs and Yeh conjectured that every graph with maximum degree Δ ≥ 2 has an L(2, 1)-labelling with span at most Δ2 + 1. By settling this conjecture for Δ sufficiently large, we prove the existence of a constant C such that the span of any graph of maximum degree Δ is at most Δ 2 + C.