Packing chromatic numbers of finite super subdivisions of graphs

Abstract

Given a graph G and a positive integer i, an i-packing in G is a subset W of the vertex set of G such that the distance between any two distinct vertices from W is greater than i. The packing chromatic number of a graph G, ??(G), is the smallest integer k such that the vertex set of G can be partitioned into sets Vi, i ? {1,..., k}, where each Vi is an i-packing. In this paper, we present some general properties of packing chromatic numbers of finite super subdivisions of graphs. We determine the packing chromatic numbers of the finite super subdivisions of complete graphs, cycles and some neighborhood corona graphs.