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Neighbor sum distinguishing total colorings via the combinatorial nullstellensatz. (English) Zbl 1303.05058
Summary: Let $$G = (V,E)$$ be a graph and $$\phi$$ be a total coloring of $$G$$ by using the color set $$\{1, 2, \dots,k\}$$. Let $$f(v)$$ denote the sum of the color of the vertex $$v$$ and the colors of all incident edges of $$v$$. We say that $$\phi$$ is neighbor sum distinguishing if for each edge $$uv \in E(G)$$, $$f(u) \neq f(v)$$. The smallest number $$k$$ is called the neighbor sum distinguishing total chromatic number, denoted by $$\chi_{nsd}^{\prime\prime}(G)$$. M. Pilśniak and M. Woźniak [“On the adjacent-vertex-distinguishing index by sums in total paper colorings”, Preprint] conjectured that for any graph $$G$$ with at least two vertices, $$\chi_{nsd}^{\prime\prime}(G) \geqslant \Delta (G) + 3^{\prime\prime}$$. In this paper, by using the famous combinatorial nullstellensatz, we show that $$\chi_{nsd}^{\prime\prime}(G) \geqslant 2 \Delta (G)+\mathrm{col}(G)-1^{\prime\prime}$$, where $$\mathrm{col}(G)$$ is the coloring number of $$G$$. Moreover, we prove this assertion in its list version.

##### MSC:
 05C15 Coloring of graphs and hypergraphs
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