Abstract

The locating-chromatic number of a graph G(V,E) is the cardinality of a minimum resolving partition of the vertex set V(G) such that all vertices have distinct coordinates with respect to this partition and every two adjacent vertices not contained in the same partition class. Determining the locating-chromatic number of any tree is a difficult task. In this paper, we propose an algorithm to compute the upper bound on the locating-chromatic number of any tree. To do so, we decompose a tree into caterpillars and then compute the upper bound of the locating-chromatic number of this tree in terms of the ones for these caterpillars.

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