2-Tone Colorings in Graph Products

Abstract

A variation of graph coloring known as a t-tone k-coloring assigns a set of t colors to each vertex of a graph from the set {1, . . . , k}, where the sets of colors assigned to any two vertices distance d apart share fewer than d colors in common. The minimum integer k such that a graph G has a t- tone k-coloring is known as the t-tone chromatic number. We study the 2-tone chromatic number in three different graph products. In particular, given graphs G and H, we bound the 2-tone chromatic number for the direct product G×H, the Cartesian product G□H, and the strong product G⊠H.

Keywords

• t-tone coloring
• cartesian product
• direct product
• strong product