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The distinguishing index of infinite graphs
The distinguishing index D0(G) of a graph G is the least cardinal d such that G has an edge colouring with d colours that is only preserved by the trivial automorphism. This is similar to the notion of the distinguishing number D(G) of a graph G, which is defined with respect to vertex colourings. We derive several bounds for infinite graphs, in particular, we prove the general bound D0(G) 6 (G) for an arbitrary infinite graph. Nonetheless, the distinguish- ing index is at most two for many countable graphs, also for the infinite random graph and for uncountable tree-like graphs. We also investigate the concept of the motion of edges and its relationship with the Infinite Motion Lemma.http://www.combinatorics.orgam201
Group twin coloring of graphs
For a given graph , the least integer such that for every
Abelian group of order there exists a proper edge labeling
so that for each edge is called the \textit{group twin
chromatic index} of and denoted by . This graph invariant is
related to a few well-known problems in the field of neighbor distinguishing
graph colorings. We conjecture that for all graphs
without isolated edges, where is the maximum degree of , and
provide an infinite family of connected graph (trees) for which the equality
holds. We prove that this conjecture is valid for all trees, and then apply
this result as the base case for proving a general upper bound for all graphs
without isolated edges: , where
denotes the coloring number of . This improves the best known
upper bound known previously only for the case of cyclic groups
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