S-Packing Colorings of Cubic Graphs

Given a non-decreasing sequence $S=(s\_1,s\_2, \ldots, s\_k)$ of positive integers, an {\em $S$-packing coloring} of a graph $G$ is a mapping $c$ from $V(G)$ to $\{s\_1,s\_2, \ldots, s\_k\}$ such that any two vertices with color $s\_i$ are at mutual distance greater than $s\_i$, $1\le i\le k$. This paper studies $S$-packing colorings of (sub)cubic graphs. We prove that subcubic graphs are $(1,2,2,2,2,2,2)$-packing colorable and $(1,1,2,2,3)$-packing colorable. For subdivisions of subcubic graphs we derive sharper bounds, and we provide an example of a cubic graph of order $38$ which is not $(1,2,\ldots,12)$-packing colorable

SS-Packing Coloring of Cubic Halin Graphs

Given a non-decreasing sequence $S = (s_{1}, s_{2}, \ldots , s_{k})$ of positive integers, an $S$-packing coloring of a graph $G$ is a partition of the vertex set of $G$ into $k$ subsets $\{V_{1}, V_{2}, \ldots , V_{k}\}$ such that for each $1 \leq i \leq k$, the distance between any two distinct vertices $u$ and $v$ in $V_{i}$ is at least $s_{i} + 1$. In this paper, we study the problem of $S$-packing coloring of cubic Halin graphs, and we prove that every cubic Halin graph is $(1,1,2,3)$-packing colorable. In addition, we prove that such graphs are $(1,2,2,2,2,2)$-packing colorable.Comment: 9 page

Graph Theory

This workshop focused on recent developments in graph theory. These included in particular recent breakthroughs on nowhere-zero flows in graphs, width parameters, applications of graph sparsity in algorithms, and matroid structure results