The packing chromatic number of infinite product graphs

  • Authors:
  • Jiří Fiala;Sandi Klavar;Bernard Lidický

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Applied Mathematics and Inst. for Theoretical Computer Science (ITI)22Supported by the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic as project 1M0021620808., Charles University, Malos ...;Department of Mathematics, University of Ljubljana, Jadranska 19, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia;Department of Applied Mathematics and Inst. for Theoretical Computer Science (ITI)22Supported by the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic as project 1M0021620808., Charles University, Malos ...

  • Venue:
  • European Journal of Combinatorics
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The packing chromatic number @g"@r(G) of a graph G is the smallest integer k such that the vertex set V(G) can be partitioned into disjoint classes X"1,...,X"k, where vertices in X"i have pairwise distance greater than i. For the Cartesian product of a path and the two-dimensional square lattice it is proved that @g"@r(P"m@?Z^2)=~ for any m=2, thus extending the result @g"@r(Z^3)=~ of [A. Finbow, D.F. Rall, On the packing chromatic number of some lattices, Discrete Appl. Math. (submitted for publication) special issue LAGOS'07]. It is also proved that @g"@r(Z^2)=10 which improves the bound @g"@r(Z^2)=9 of [W. Goddard, S.M. Hedetniemi, S.T. Hedetniemi, J.M. Harris, D.F. Rall, Broadcast chromatic numbers of graphs, Ars Combin. 86 (2008) 33-49]. Moreover, it is shown that @g"@r(G@?Z)=6.