Title
Uniqueness of Vertex Magic Constants.
Abstract
A graph G of order n is said to be Sigma' labeled if there exist a bijection f : V(G) -> [n] and a constant c such that for all v is an element of V(G), Sigma(u is an element of N[v]) f(u) = c. The uniqueness of the constant c has been an open question that was posed by Prof. Arumugam at the 2010 IWOGL Conference in Duluth. The question of the uniqueness of such a constant can be extended to arbitrary neighborhoods and to arbitrary sets of labels. For a set D subset of N, let N-D(v) = {u is an element of V(G) : d(u, v) is an element of D}, and let W be a multiset of real numbers. Graph G is said to be (D, W)-vertex magic if there exists a bijection g : V(G) -> W such that for all v is an element of V(G), Sigma(u is an element of ND(v))g(u) is a constant, called the (D, W)-vertex magic constant. In this paper we prove that, even for these more general conditions, a (D, W)-vertex magic constant will be unique. Moreover, the constant can be determined using a generalization of the fractional domination number of the graph.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1137/110834421
SIAM JOURNAL ON DISCRETE MATHEMATICS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
graph labeling,vertex magic,Sigma labeling,distance magic graphs,neighborhood sums
Journal
27
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
0895-4801
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.25
4
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Allen O'Neal141.86
Peter J. Slater2593132.02