A note on L(2, 1)-labelling of trees

  • Ming Qing Zhai*
  • , Chang Hong Lu
  • , Jin Long Shu
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

An L(2, 1)-labelling of a graph G is a function from the vertex set V (G) to the set of all nonnegative integers such that {pipe}f(u) - f(v){pipe} ≥ 2 if d G(u, v) = 1 and {pipe}f(u) - f(v){pipe} ≥ 1 if d G(u, v) = 2. The L(2, 1)-labelling problem is to find the smallest number, denoted by λ(G), such that there exists an L(2, 1)-labelling function with no label greater than it. In this paper, we study this problem for trees. Our results improve the result of Wang [The L(2, 1)-labelling of trees, Discrete Appl. Math. 154 (2006) 598-603].

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)395-400
Number of pages6
JournalActa Mathematicae Applicatae Sinica
Volume28
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - May 2012

Keywords

  • L(2, 1)-labelling
  • distance-two labelling
  • tree

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