On star coloring of Mycielskians

K. Kaliraj, V. Kowsalya, Vernold Vivin

Abstract


In a search for triangle-free graphs with arbitrarily large chromatic numbers, Mycielski developed a graph transformation that transforms a graph G into a new graph μ(G), we now call the Mycielskian of G, which has the same clique number as G and whose chromatic number equals χ(G) + 1. In this paper, we find the star chromatic number for the Mycielskian graph of complete graphs, paths, cycles and complete bipartite graphs.


Keywords


star coloring; Mycielskians

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.19184/ijc.2018.2.2.3

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