The L(2,1)-labeling of unigraphs

  • Authors:
  • Tiziana Calamoneri;Rossella Petreschi

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The L(2,1)-labeling problem consists of assigning colors from the integer set 0,...,@l to the nodes of a graph G in such a way that nodes at a distance of at most two get different colors, while adjacent nodes get colors which are at least two apart. The aim of this problem is to minimize @l and it is in general NP-complete. In this paper the problem of L(2,1)-labeling unigraphs, i.e. graphs uniquely determined by their own degree sequence up to isomorphism, is addressed and a 3/2-approximate algorithm for L(2,1)-labeling unigraphs is designed. This algorithm runs in O(n) time, improving the time of the algorithm based on the greedy technique, requiring O(m) time, that may be near to @Q(n^2) for unigraphs.