Packing chromatic number of distance graphs

  • Authors:
  • Jan Ekstein;Přemysl Holub;Bernard Lidický

  • Affiliations:
  • University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic;University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic;Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The packing chromatic number @g"@r(G) of a graph G is the smallest integer k such that vertices of G can be partitioned into disjoint classes X"1,...,X"k where vertices in X"i have pairwise distance greater than i. We study the packing chromatic number of infinite distance graphs G(Z,D), i.e., graphs with the set Z of integers as vertex set and in which two distinct vertices i,j@?Z are adjacent if and only if |i-j|@?D. In this paper we focus on distance graphs with D={1,t}. We improve some results of Togni who initiated the study. It is shown that @g"@r(G(Z,D))@?35 for sufficiently large odd t and @g"@r(G(Z,D))@?56 for sufficiently large even t. We also give a lower bound 12 for t=9 and tighten several gaps for @g"@r(G(Z,D)) with small t.