Opuscula Math. 42, no. 3 (2022), 439-458
https://doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2022.42.3.439
Opuscula Mathematica
Distance irregularity strength of graphs with pendant vertices
Faisal Susanto
Kristiana Wijaya
Slamin
Andrea Semaničová-Feňovčíková
Abstract. A vertex \(k\)-labeling \(\phi:V(G)\rightarrow\{1,2,\dots,k\}\) on a simple graph \(G\) is said to be a distance irregular vertex \(k\)-labeling of \(G\) if the weights of all vertices of \(G\) are pairwise distinct, where the weight of a vertex is the sum of labels of all vertices adjacent to that vertex in \(G\). The least integer \(k\) for which \(G\) has a distance irregular vertex \(k\)-labeling is called the distance irregularity strength of \(G\) and denoted by \(\mathrm{dis}(G)\). In this paper, we introduce a new lower bound of distance irregularity strength of graphs and provide its sharpness for some graphs with pendant vertices. Moreover, some properties on distance irregularity strength for trees are also discussed in this paper.
Keywords: vertex \(k\)-labeling, distance irregular vertex \(k\)-labeling, distance irregularity strength, pendant vertices.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 05C78, 05C12.
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- Faisal Susanto
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8012-1261
- Universitas Jember, Department of Mathematics, Jalan Kalimantan 37, Jember 68121, Indonesia
- Kristiana Wijaya
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2243-147X
- Universitas Jember, Department of Mathematics, Jalan Kalimantan 37, Jember 68121, Indonesia
- Slamin
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1280-8037
- Universitas Jember, Department of Informatics, Jalan Kalimantan 37, Jember 68121, Indonesia
- Andrea Semaničová-Feňovčíková
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8432-9836
- Technical University, Department of Applied Mathematics and Informatics, Letná 9, Košice, Slovak Republic
- Communicated by Mirko Horňák.
- Received: 2020-11-09.
- Revised: 2022-01-25.
- Accepted: 2022-01-26.
- Published online: 2022-04-29.