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Article Dans Une Revue Discrete Applied Mathematics Année : 2014

## On Packing Colorings of Distance Graphs

Olivier Togni

#### Résumé

The {\em packing chromatic number} $\chi_{\rho}(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the least integer $k$ for which there exists a mapping $f$ from $V(G)$ to $\{1,2,\ldots ,k\}$ such that any two vertices of color $i$ are at distance at least $i+1$. This paper studies the packing chromatic number of infinite distance graphs $G(\mathbb{Z},D)$, i.e. graphs with the set $\mathbb{Z}$ of integers as vertex set, with two distinct vertices $i,j\in \mathbb{Z}$ being adjacent if and only if $|i-j|\in D$. We present lower and upper bounds for $\chi_{\rho}(G(\mathbb{Z},D))$, showing that for finite $D$, the packing chromatic number is finite. Our main result concerns distance graphs with $D=\{1,t\}$ for which we prove some upper bounds on their packing chromatic numbers, the smaller ones being for $t\geq 447$: $\chi_{\rho}(G(\mathbb{Z},\{1,t\}))\leq 40$ if $t$ is odd and $\chi_{\rho}(G(\mathbb{Z},\{1,t\}))\leq 81$ if $t$ is even.

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Informatique [cs] Mathématique discrète [cs.DM]

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hal-00531583 , version 1 (03-11-2010)
hal-00531583 , version 2 (20-02-2014)

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Olivier Togni. On Packing Colorings of Distance Graphs. Discrete Applied Mathematics, 2014, 167, pp.280-289. ⟨10.1016/j.dam.2013.10.026⟩. ⟨hal-00531583v2⟩

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