On certain classes of graceful lobsters

نویسنده

  • Shamik Ghosh
چکیده

A (simple undirected) graph G = (V,E) with m edges is graceful if it has a distinct vertex labeling f : V −→ {0, 1, 2, 3, . . . ,m} which induces a set of distinct edge labels {|f(u)− f(v)| | uv ∈ E, u, v ∈ V }. The famous Ringel-Kotzig conjecture [9, 15] is that all trees are graceful. The base of a tree T is obtained from T by deleting its one-degree vertices. A caterpillar is a tree whose base is a path and a lobster is a tree whose base is a caterpillar. Paths and caterpillars are known to be graceful. Next it was conjectured by Bermond [2] that all lobsters are graceful. In this paper we describe various methods of joining graceful graphs and α-labeled graphs using the adjacency matrix characterization that initiated by Bloom [3] and others. We apply these results to obtain some classes of graceful lobsters and indicate how to obtain some others.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Ars Comb.

دوره 136  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2018