Remarks on the Local Irregularity Conjecture

A locally irregular graph is a graph in which the end vertices of every edge have distinct degrees. A locally irregular edge coloring of a graph G is any edge coloring of G such that each of the colors induces a locally irregular subgraph of G. A graph G is colorable if it allows a locally irregular edge coloring. The locally irregular chromatic index of a colorable graph G, denoted by χirr′(G), is the smallest number of colors used by a locally irregular edge coloring of G. The local irregularity conjecture claims that all graphs, except odd-length paths, odd-length cycles and a certain class of cacti are colorable by three colors. As the conjecture is valid for graphs with a large minimum degree and all non-colorable graphs are vertex disjoint cacti, we study rather sparse graphs. In this paper, we give a cactus graph B which contradicts this conjecture, i.e., χirr′(B)=4. Nevertheless, we show that the conjecture holds for unicyclic graphs and cacti with vertex disjoint cycles.

On the local irregularity vertex coloring of volcano, broom, parachute, double broom and complete multipartite graphs

Let [Formula: see text] be a simple, finite, undirected, and connected graph with vertex set [Formula: see text] and edge set [Formula: see text]. A bijection [Formula: see text] is label function [Formula: see text] if [Formula: see text] and for any two adjacent vertices [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] where [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] is set ofvertices adjacent to [Formula: see text]. [Formula: see text] is called local irregularity vertex coloring. The minimum cardinality of local irregularity vertex coloring of [Formula: see text] is called chromatic number local irregular denoted by [Formula: see text]. In this paper, we verify the exact values of volcano, broom, parachute, double broom and complete multipartite graphs.