Total Difference Chromatic Numbers of Regular Infinite Graphs
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When is it that χ_{td}(cl(G))=2 χ_{td}(G)+1 ? Are there infinitely many graphs with this property?
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Candidate 9 of the open problems stated in "Total Difference Chromatic Numbers of Regular Infinite Graphs", extracted for the Scalable Mathematical Discovery run.
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Problem: For nonempty simple graphs , with the least admitting a proper total difference labeling and , ask whether there are infinitely many such that
The wording is ambiguous if “graph” was intended to mean connected graph; literally it includes disconnected graphs.
Result: Yes. For every , let be the edgeless graph on vertices.
Since has no edges, labeling every vertex by is a proper total difference labeling, so
Its clone is
which is a matching of disjoint copies of . For a matching, : labels on the endpoints of every edge give edge label , so works; cannot work because the only distinct endpoint labels are , giving edge label , equal to an endpoint label.
Thus
The graphs are pairwise nonisomorphic, so there are infinitely many graphs with the stated property.
If the intended question required connected graphs, this is a missing connectedness hypothesis and the above family no longer applies.
Citation: No external resolution used; this is a direct observation from the definitions in Benson-Tilsen et al., “Total Difference Labeling of Regular Infinite Graphs,” arXiv:2107.11706.
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The construction is rigorous for the literal unrestricted question. For each edgeless , , while has , so
The are pairwise nonisomorphic, giving infinitely many examples. This answers the existential part as stated, though it does not give a general characterization and would not address an unstated connectedness restriction.
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Classification rationale: This is a literal but very minor resolution: it exploits disconnected edgeless graphs . The argument is immediate from definitions (, , ). It would not support a standalone paper and likely only exposes a missing connectedness/nontriviality hypothesis in the original question.
Literature check: I found no explicit published or preprint statement giving this infinite edgeless-family answer. The original Benson-Tilsen et al. paper asks the cloning-tightness question and says the lone vertex is the only known equality case. Searches for “total difference chromatic/labeling” with “clone”, “cl(G)”, the equality form, “edgeless”, “matching”, and “disjoint union” found only the original total-difference-labeling papers and no follow-up resolving the question. The needed ingredients are nevertheless completely routine and implicit in standard definitions and in the known value for .
Citation: Background sources: Benson-Tilsen et al., “Total Difference Labeling of Regular Infinite Graphs,” Involve 16 (2023), 765–781, arXiv:2107.11706; Rohatgi and Zhang, “Total difference chromatic numbers of graphs,” Involve 13 (2020), 511–528, arXiv:1912.13323.
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