Sizes of Graphs with Fixed Orders and Spans for Circular-Distance-Two Labelings

A k-circular-distance-two labeling (or k-c-labeling) of a simple graph G is a vertex-labeling, using the labels 0, 1, 2, · · · , k − 1, such that the “circular difference” (mod k) of the labels for adjacent vertices is at least two, and for vertices of distance-two apart is at least one. The σ-number, σ(G), of a graph G is the minimum k of a k-c-labeling of G. For any given positive integers n and k, let G(n, k) denote the set of graphs G on n vertices and σ(G) = k. We determine the maximum size (number of edges) and the minimum size of a graph G ∈ G(n, k). Furthermore, we prove that for any value p between the maximum and the minimum size, there exists a graph G ∈ G(n, k) of size p. These results are analogues of the ones by Georges and Mauro [4] on distance-two labelings.