Abstract

A total-colored graph G is total rainbow connected if any two vertices are connected by a path whose edges and inner vertices have distinct colors. A graph G is total rainbow k-connected if there is a total-coloring of G with k colors such that G is total rainbow connected. The total rainbow connection number, denoted by trc(G), of a graph G is the smallest k to make G total rainbow k-connected. For n, k ≥ 1, define h(n, k) to be the minimum size of a total rainbow k-connected graph G of order n. In this paper, we prove a sharp upper bound for trc(G) in terms of the number of vertex-disjoint cycles of G. We also compute exact values and upper bounds for h(n, k).

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