A strict strong coloring of trees

  • Authors:
  • Mohammed Haddad;Hamamache Kheddouci

  • Affiliations:
  • Université de Lyon, F-69622 Lyon, France and Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 - UFR-Informatique, Lab LIESP, 43 bd du 11 Novembre 1918, F-69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France;Université de Lyon, F-69622 Lyon, France and Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 - UFR-Informatique, Lab LIESP, 43 bd du 11 Novembre 1918, F-69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France

  • Venue:
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  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper we introduce and study a new coloring parameter of a graph called the strict strong coloring (short SSColoring). A SSColoring of a graph G is a vertex proper coloring of G such that each vertex of G is adjacent to at least one not empty color class. The minimum number of colors among all SSColorings is called strict strong chromatic (short SSChromatic) number, denoted by @g"s"s(G). In this paper we prove the NP-completeness of the problem, we discuss the @g"s"s(G) number of trees by giving some bounds. Finally, we give an optimal polynomial algorithm for SSColoring of trees.