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Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory

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Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory 28(2) (2008) 323-333
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7151/dmgt.1408

ON ACYCLIC COLORINGS OF DIRECT PRODUCTS

Simon Spacapan

University of Maribor, FME
Smetanova 17, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia
e-mail: simon.spacapan@uni-mb.si

Aleksandra Tepeh Horvat

University of Maribor, FERI
Smetanova 17, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia
e-mail: aleksandra.tepeh@uni-mb.si

Abstract

A coloring of a graph G is an acyclic coloring if the union of any two color classes induces a forest. It is proved that the acyclic chromatic number of direct product of two trees T1 and T2 equals min{Δ(T1)+1, Δ(T2)+1}. We also prove that the acyclic chromatic number of direct product of two complete graphs Km and Kn is mn−m−2, where m ≥ n ≥ 4. Several bounds for the acyclic chromatic number of direct products are given and in connection to this some questions are raised.

Keywords: coloring, acyclic coloring, distance-two coloring, direct product.

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 05C15.

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Received 13 December 2007
Revised 18 February 2008
Accepted 20 February 2008


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