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A (2,1)-total labeling of a graph G is an assignment f from the vertex set V(G) and the edge set E(G) to the set {0,1,...,k} of nonnegative integers such that |f(x) − f(y)| ≥ 2 if x is a vertex and y is an edge incident to x, and |f(x) − f(y)| ≥ 1 if x and y are a pair of adjacent vertices or a pair of adjacent edges, for all x and y in V(G) ∪ E(G). The (2,1)-total labeling number \(\lambda^T_2(G)\) of G is defined as the minimum k among all possible assignments. In [D. Chen and W. Wang. (2,1)-Total labelling of outerplanar graphs. Discr. Appl. Math. 155 (2007)], it was conjectured that all outerplanar graphs G satisfy \(\lambda^T_2(G) \leq \Delta(G)+2\), where Δ(G) is the maximum degree of G, while they also showed that it is true for G with Δ(G) ≥ 5. In this paper, we solve their conjecture completely, by proving that \(\lambda^T_2(G) \leq \Delta(G)+2\) even in the case of Δ(G) ≤ 4 .
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Hasunuma, T., Ishii, T., Ono, H., Uno, Y. (2011). The (2,1)-Total Labeling Number of Outerplanar Graphs Is at Most Δ + 2. In: Iliopoulos, C.S., Smyth, W.F. (eds) Combinatorial Algorithms. IWOCA 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6460. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19222-7_11
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