Good edge-labelling of graphs

  • Authors:
  • J. Araujo;N. Cohen;F. Giroire;F. Havet

  • Affiliations:
  • Projet Mascotte I3S (CNRS & Univ. de Nice) and INRIA, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, 2004 route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France and ParGO Research Group, Federal University of C ...;Projet Mascotte I3S (CNRS & Univ. de Nice) and INRIA, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, 2004 route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France;Projet Mascotte I3S (CNRS & Univ. de Nice) and INRIA, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, 2004 route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France;Projet Mascotte I3S (CNRS & Univ. de Nice) and INRIA, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, 2004 route des Lucioles, BP 93, 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France

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

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Abstract

A good edge-labelling of a graph G is a labelling of its edges such that, for any ordered pair of vertices (x,y), there do not exist two paths from x to y with increasing labels. This notion was introduced by Bermond et al. (2009) [2] to solve wavelength assignment problems for specific categories of graphs. In this paper, we aim at characterizing the class of graphs that admit a good edge-labelling. First, we exhibit infinite families of graphs for which no such edge-labelling can be found. We then show that deciding whether a graph G admits a good edge-labelling is NP-complete, even if G is bipartite. Finally, we give large classes of graphs admitting a good edge-labelling: C"3-free outerplanar graphs, planar graphs of girth at least 6, {C"3,K"2","3}-free subcubic graphs and {C"3,K"2","3}-free ABC-graphs.