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Neighbor sum distinguishing total colorings of $$K_4$$-minor free graphs. (English) Zbl 1306.05066
Summary: A total $$[k]$$-coloring of a graph $$G$$ is a mapping $$\phi :V(G)\cup E(G) \to\{1, 2, \dots, k\}$$ such that any two adjacent elements in $$V(G)\cup E(G)$$ receive different colors. Let $$f(v)$$ denote the sum of the colors of a vertex $$v$$ and the colors of all incident edges of $$v$$. A total $$[k]$$-neighbor sum distinguishing-coloring of $$G$$ is a total $$[k]$$-coloring of $$G$$ such that for each edge $$uv\in E(G)$$, $$f(u)\neq f(v)$$. By $$\chi_{\mathrm{nsd}}^{\prime\prime}(G)$$, we denote the smallest value $$k$$ in such a coloring of G. Pilśniak and Woźniak conjectured $$\chi_{\mathrm{nsd}}^{\prime\prime} (G)\Delta (G)+3$$ for any simple graph with maximum degree $$\Delta (G)$$. This conjecture has been proved for complete graphs, cycles, bipartite graphs, and subcubic graphs. In this paper, we prove that it also holds for $$K_4$$-minor free graphs. Furthermore, we show that if $$G$$ is a $$K_4$$-minor free graph with $$\Delta(G)\geqslant 4$$, then $$\chi_{\mathrm{nsd}}^{\prime\prime}(G)\leqslant \Delta (G)+2$$. The bound $$\Delta (G)+2$$ is sharp.

##### MSC:
 05C15 Coloring of graphs and hypergraphs 05C78 Graph labelling (graceful graphs, bandwidth, etc.)
##### Keywords:
$$K_4$$-minor free graph; neighbor sum distinguishing
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