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Locally identifying coloring in bounded expansion classes of graphs
A proper vertex coloring of a graph is said to be locally identifying if the
sets of colors in the closed neighborhood of any two adjacent non-twin vertices
are distinct. The lid-chromatic number of a graph is the minimum number of
colors used by a locally identifying vertex-coloring. In this paper, we prove
that for any graph class of bounded expansion, the lid-chromatic number is
bounded. Classes of bounded expansion include minor closed classes of graphs.
For these latter classes, we give an alternative proof to show that the
lid-chromatic number is bounded. This leads to an explicit upper bound for the
lid-chromatic number of planar graphs. This answers in a positive way a
question of Esperet et al [L. Esperet, S. Gravier, M. Montassier, P. Ochem and
A. Parreau. Locally identifying coloring of graphs. Electronic Journal of
Combinatorics, 19(2), 2012.]
On the neighbour sum distinguishing index of planar graphs
Let be a proper edge colouring of a graph with integers
. Then , while by Vizing's theorem, no more than
is necessary for constructing such . On the course of
investigating irregularities in graphs, it has been moreover conjectured that
only slightly larger , i.e., enables enforcing additional
strong feature of , namely that it attributes distinct sums of incident
colours to adjacent vertices in if only this graph has no isolated edges
and is not isomorphic to . We prove the conjecture is valid for planar
graphs of sufficiently large maximum degree. In fact even stronger statement
holds, as the necessary number of colours stemming from the result of Vizing is
proved to be sufficient for this family of graphs. Specifically, our main
result states that every planar graph of maximum degree at least which
contains no isolated edges admits a proper edge colouring
such that for every edge of .Comment: 22 page
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