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Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory

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Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory

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Authors:

E.N. Eckels

Emily Nicole Eckels

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

email: eckels2@illinois.edu

E. Győri

Ervin Győri

Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics

email: gyori.ervin@renyi.hu

J. Liu

Junsheng Liu

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

email: jl49@illinois.edu

S. Nasir

Sohaib Nasir

Vassar College

email: snasir@vassar.edu

Title:

Set-sequential labelings of odd trees

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Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory 44(1) (2024) 151-170

Received: 2020-12-17 , Revised: 2021-11-06 , Accepted: 2021-11-07 , Available online: 2021-11-22 , https://doi.org/10.7151/dmgt.2439

Abstract:

A tree \(T\) on \(2^n\) vertices is called set-sequential if the elements in \(V(T)\cup E(T)\) can be labeled with distinct nonzero \((n+1)\)-dimensional \(01\)-vectors such that the vector labeling each edge is the component-wise sum modulo \(2\) of the labels of the endpoints. It has been conjectured that all trees on \(2^n\) vertices with only odd degree are set-sequential (the ``Odd Tree Conjecture''), and in this paper, we present progress toward that conjecture. We show that certain kinds of caterpillars (with restrictions on the degrees of the vertices, but no restrictions on the diameter) are set-sequential. Additionally, we introduce some constructions of new set-sequential graphs from smaller set-sequential bipartite graphs (not necessarily odd trees). We also make a conjecture about pairings of the elements of \(\mathbb{F}_2^n\) in a particular way; in the process, we provide a substantial clarification of a proof of a theorem that partitions \(\mathbb{F}_2^n\) from a paper [Coloring vertices and edges of a graph by nonempty subsets of a set, European J. Combin. 32 (2011) 533–537] by Balister et al. Finally, we put forward a result on bipartite graphs that is a modification of a theorem in the aforementioned paper.

Keywords:

trees, coloring graphs by sets, caterpillars

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