Some results on the injective chromatic number of graphs

  • Authors:
  • Min Chen;Geňa Hahn;André Raspaud;Weifan Wang

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, China 321004;Département d'informatique et de recherche opérationnelle, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada H3C 3J7;LaBRI UMR CNRS 5800, Université Bordeaux I, Talence Cedex, France 33405;Department of Mathematics, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, China 321004

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Combinatorial Optimization
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

A k-coloring of a graph G=(V,E) is a mapping c:V驴{1,2,驴,k}. The coloring c is injective if, for every vertex v驴V, all the neighbors of v are assigned with distinct colors. The injective chromatic number 驴 i (G) of G is the smallest k such that G has an injective k-coloring. In this paper, we prove that every K 4-minor free graph G with maximum degree Δ驴1 has $\chi_{i}(G)\le \lceil \frac{3}{2}\Delta\rceil$ . Moreover, some related results and open problems are given.