Star coloring under some graph operations

A star coloring of a graph [Formula: see text] is a proper coloring of [Formula: see text] such that no path of length 3 in [Formula: see text] is bicolored. In this paper, the star chromatic number of join of graphs is computed. Some sharp bounds for the star chromatic number of corona, lexicographic, deleted lexicographic and hierarchical product of graphs together with a conjecture on the star chromatic number of lexicographic product of graphs are also presented.

Star chromatic number of some graphs

A proper vertex coloring of a graph [Formula: see text] is called a star coloring if every two color classes induce a forest whose each component is a star, which means there is no bicolored [Formula: see text] in [Formula: see text]. In this paper, we show that the Cartesian product of any two cycles, except [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], has a [Formula: see text]-star coloring.

Star chromatic number of Harary graphs

A proper vertex coloring of a graph [Formula: see text] is called a star coloring if every path on four vertices in [Formula: see text] is not 2-colored. The star chromatic number is the minimum number of colors required to star color [Formula: see text] and it is denoted by [Formula: see text]. In this paper, the star coloring of Harary graphs [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] is even and [Formula: see text] is odd, is discussed.

ON STAR COLORING OF DEGREE SPLITTING OF COMB PRODUCT GRAPHS

A star coloring of a graph G is a proper vertex coloring in which every path on four vertices in G is not bicolored. The star chromatic number χs (G) of G is the least number of colors needed to star color G. Let G = (V,E) be a graph with V = S1 [ S2 [ S3 [ . . . [ St [ T where each Si is a set of all vertices of the same degree with at least two elements and T =V (G) − St i=1 Si. The degree splitting graph DS (G) is obtained by adding vertices w1,w2, . . .wt and joining wi to each vertex of Si for 1 i t. The comb product between two graphs G and H, denoted by G ⊲ H, is a graph obtained by taking one copy of G and |V (G)| copies of H and grafting the ith copy of H at the vertex o to the ith vertex of G. In this paper, we give the exact value of star chromatic number of degree splitting of comb product of complete graph with complete graph, complete graph with path, complete graph with cycle, complete graph with star graph, cycle with complete graph, path with complete graph and cycle with path graph.