Packing coloring of hypercubes with extended Hamming codes

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Main Authors: Gregor, Petr, Kranjc, Jaka, Lužar, Borut, Štorgel, Kenny
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author Gregor, Petr
Kranjc, Jaka
Lužar, Borut
Štorgel, Kenny
author_facet Gregor, Petr
Kranjc, Jaka
Lužar, Borut
Štorgel, Kenny
contents A {\em packing coloring} of a graph $G$ is a mapping assigning a positive integer (a color) to every vertex of $G$ such that every two vertices of color $k$ are at distance at least $k+1$. The least number of colors needed for a packing coloring of $G$ is called the {\em packing chromatic number} of $G$. In this paper, we continue the study of the packing chromatic number of hypercubes and we improve the upper bounds reported by Torres and Valencia-Pabon ({\em P. Torres, M. Valencia-Pabon, The packing chromatic number of hypercubes, Discrete Appl. Math. 190--191 (2015), 127--140}) by presenting recursive constructions of subsets of distant vertices making use of the properties of the extended Hamming codes. We also answer in negative a question on packing coloring of Cartesian products raised by Brešar, Klavžar, and Rall ({\em Problem 5, Brešar et al., On the packing chromatic number of Cartesian products, hexagonal lattice, and trees. Discrete Appl. Math. 155 (2007), 2303--2311.}).
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spellingShingle Packing coloring of hypercubes with extended Hamming codes
Gregor, Petr
Kranjc, Jaka
Lužar, Borut
Štorgel, Kenny
Combinatorics
Discrete Mathematics
05C15 (Primary), 05C12, 05C69, 05C70, 94B05 (Secondary)
A {\em packing coloring} of a graph $G$ is a mapping assigning a positive integer (a color) to every vertex of $G$ such that every two vertices of color $k$ are at distance at least $k+1$. The least number of colors needed for a packing coloring of $G$ is called the {\em packing chromatic number} of $G$. In this paper, we continue the study of the packing chromatic number of hypercubes and we improve the upper bounds reported by Torres and Valencia-Pabon ({\em P. Torres, M. Valencia-Pabon, The packing chromatic number of hypercubes, Discrete Appl. Math. 190--191 (2015), 127--140}) by presenting recursive constructions of subsets of distant vertices making use of the properties of the extended Hamming codes. We also answer in negative a question on packing coloring of Cartesian products raised by Brešar, Klavžar, and Rall ({\em Problem 5, Brešar et al., On the packing chromatic number of Cartesian products, hexagonal lattice, and trees. Discrete Appl. Math. 155 (2007), 2303--2311.}).
title Packing coloring of hypercubes with extended Hamming codes
topic Combinatorics
Discrete Mathematics
05C15 (Primary), 05C12, 05C69, 05C70, 94B05 (Secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.14576