TY - JOUR
T1 - Game chromatic number of strong product graphs
AU - Enomoto, Hikoe
AU - Fujisawa, Jun
AU - Matsumoto, Naoki
N1 - Funding Information:
Supported by JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) 20K03723.Supported by JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists 19K14583.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2023/1
Y1 - 2023/1
N2 - The graph coloring game is a two-player game in which the two players properly color an uncolored vertex of G alternately. The first player wins the game if all vertices of G are colored, and the second wins otherwise. The game chromatic number of a graph G is the minimum integer k such that the first player has a winning strategy for the graph coloring game on G with k colors. There is a lot of literature on the game chromatic number of graph products, e.g., the Cartesian product and the lexicographic product. In this paper, we investigate the game chromatic number of the strong product of graphs, which is one of major graph products. In particular, we completely determine the game chromatic number of the strong product of a double star and a complete graph. Moreover, we estimate the game chromatic number of some King's graphs, which are the strong products of two paths.
AB - The graph coloring game is a two-player game in which the two players properly color an uncolored vertex of G alternately. The first player wins the game if all vertices of G are colored, and the second wins otherwise. The game chromatic number of a graph G is the minimum integer k such that the first player has a winning strategy for the graph coloring game on G with k colors. There is a lot of literature on the game chromatic number of graph products, e.g., the Cartesian product and the lexicographic product. In this paper, we investigate the game chromatic number of the strong product of graphs, which is one of major graph products. In particular, we completely determine the game chromatic number of the strong product of a double star and a complete graph. Moreover, we estimate the game chromatic number of some King's graphs, which are the strong products of two paths.
KW - Game chromatic number
KW - King's graph
KW - Strong product
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U2 - 10.1016/j.disc.2022.113162
DO - 10.1016/j.disc.2022.113162
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85139241436
SN - 0012-365X
VL - 346
JO - Discrete Mathematics
JF - Discrete Mathematics
IS - 1
M1 - 113162
ER -