On L(2,1)-coloring split, chordal bipartite, and weakly chordal graphs

  • Authors:
  • MáRcia R. Cerioli;Daniel F. D. Posner

  • Affiliations:
  • COPPE-Sistemas, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Postal 68.511, 21.941-972, Brazil and Instituto de Matemática, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Postal 68511, 21945- ...;COPPE-Sistemas, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Postal 68.511, 21.941-972, Brazil

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

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Abstract

An L(2,1)-coloring, or @l-coloring, of a graph is an assignment of non-negative integers to its vertices such that adjacent vertices get numbers at least two apart, and vertices at distance two get distinct numbers. Given a graph G, @l is the minimum range of colors for which there exists a @l-coloring of G. A conjecture by Griggs and Yeh [J.R. Griggs, R.K. Yeh, Labelling graphs with a condition at distance 2, SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics 5 (1992) 586-595] states that @l is at most @D^2, where @D is the maximum degree of a vertex in G. We prove that this conjecture holds for weakly chordal graphs. Furthermore, we improve the known upper bounds for chordal bipartite graphs, and for split graphs.