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Equitable coloring of interval graphs and products of graphs

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 Added by Ko-Wei Lih
 Publication date 2009
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We confirm the equitable $Delta$-coloring conjecture for interval graphs and establish the monotonicity of equitable colorability for them. We further obtain results on equitable colorability about square (or Cartesian) and cross (or direct) products of graphs.



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If the vertices of a graph $G$ are colored with $k$ colors such that no adjacent vertices receive the same color and the sizes of any two color classes differ by at most one, then $G$ is said to be equitably $k$-colorable. Let $|G|$ denote the number of vertices of $G$ and $Delta=Delta(G)$ the maximum degree of a vertex in $G$. We prove that a graph $G$ of order at least 6 is equitably $Delta$-colorable if $G$ satisfies $(|G|+1)/3 leq Delta < |G|/2$ and none of its components is a $K_{Delta +1}$.
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