A Dynamic Survey of Graph Labeling

Joseph A. Gallian
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Minnesota Duluth
Duluth, Minnesota 55812, U.S.A.
jgallian@d.umn.edu
Submitted: September 1, 1996; Accepted: November 14, 1997
Seventeenth edition, December 29, 2014
Mathematics Subject Classifications: 05C78

Abstract
A graph labeling is an assignment of integers to the vertices or edges, or both,
subject to certain conditions. Graph labelings were first introduced in the mid
1960s. In the intervening 50 years nearly 200 graph labelings techniques have been
studied in over 2000 papers. Finding out what has been done for any particular
kind of labeling and keeping up with new discoveries is difficult because of the sheer
number of papers and because many of the papers have appeared in journals that
are not widely available. In this survey I have collected everything I could find on
graph labeling. For the convenience of the reader the survey includes a detailed
table of contents and index.

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Contents
1 Introduction
2 Graceful and Harmonious Labelings
2.1 Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2.2 Cycle-Related Graphs . . . . . . . . . .
2.3 Product Related Graphs . . . . . . . . .
2.4 Complete Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2.5 Disconnected Graphs . . . . . . . . . . .
2.6 Joins of Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2.7 Miscellaneous Results . . . . . . . . . . .
2.8 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Table 1: Summary of Graceful Results .
Table 2: Summary of Harmonius Results

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3 Variations of Graceful Labelings

3.1 -labelings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Table 3: Summary of Results on -labelings . . . . . .
3.2 -Labelings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.3 Graceful-like Labelings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.4 k-graceful Labelings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Table 4: Summary of Results on Graceful-like labelings
3.5 Skolem-Graceful Labelings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.6 Odd-Graceful Labelings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.7 Cordial Labelings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.8 The Friendly IndexBalance Index . . . . . . . . . . .
3.9 k-equitable Labelings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3.10 Hamming-graceful Labelings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4 Variations of Harmonious Labelings
4.1 Sequential and Strongly c-harmonious Labelings .
4.2 (k, d)-arithmetic Labelings . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.3 (k, d)-indexable Labelings . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.4 Elegant Labelings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.5 Felicitous Labelings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4.6 Odd Harmonious and Even Harmonious Labelings

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5 Magic-type Labelings
Table 5: Summary of Magic Labelings . . . . . . . . . .
5.1 Edge-magic Total and Super Edge-magic Total Labelings
Table 6: Summary of Edge-magic Total Labelings . . . .
Table 7: Summary of Super Edge-magic Labelings . . . .
5.2 Vertex-magic Total Labelings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Table 8: Summary of Vertex-magic Total Labelings . . . .

Table 9: Summary of Super Vertex-magic Total Labelings
Table 10: Summary of Totally Magic Labelings . . . . . .
H-Magic Labelings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Magic Labelings of Type (a, b, c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Table 11: Summary of Magic Labelings of Type (a, b, c) . .
Sigma Labelings/1-vertex magic labelings/Distance Magic
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6.1 Antimagic Labelings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Table 12: Summary of Antimagic Labelings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6.2 (a, d)-Antimagic Labelings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Table 13: Summary of (a, d)-Antimagic Labelings . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6.3 (a, d)-Antimagic Total Labelings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Table 14: Summary of (a, d)-Vertex-Antimagic Total and Super (a, d)Vertex-Antimagic Total Labelings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Table 15: Summary of (a, d)-Edge-Antimagic Total Labelings . . . . . . .
Table 16: Summary of (a, d)-Edge-Antimagic Vertex Labelings . . . . . .
Table 17: Summary of (a, d)-Super-Edge-Antimagic Total Labelings . . .
6.4 Face Antimagic Labelings and d-antimagic Labeling of Type (1,1,1) . . .
Table 18: Summary of Face Antimagic Labelings . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Table 19: Summary of d-ntimagic Labelings of Type (1,1,1) . . . . . . . .
6.5 Product Antimagic Labelings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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7 Miscellaneous Labelings
7.1 Sum Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Table 20: Summary of Sum Graph Labelings .
7.2 Prime and Vertex Prime Labelings . . . . . .
Table 21: Summary of Prime Labelings . . . .
Table 22: Summary of Vertex Prime Labelings
7.3 Edge-graceful Labelings . . . . . . . . . . . .
Table 23: Summary of Edge-graceful Labelings
7.4 Radio Labelings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
7.5 Line-graceful Labelings . . . . . . . . . . . . .
7.6 Representations of Graphs modulo n . . . . .
7.7 k-sequential Labelings . . . . . . . . . . . . .
7.8 IC-colorings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
7.9 Product and Divisor Cordial Labelings . . . .
7.10 Edge Product Cordial Labelings . . . . . . . .
7.11 Difference Cordial Labelings . . . . . . . . . .
7.12 Prime Cordial Labelings . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Mean Labelings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Pair Sum and Pair Mean Graphs . . . . . .
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Minimal k-rankings . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Set Graceful and Set Sequential Graphs . . .
Vertex Equitable Graphs . . . . . . . . . . .
Sequentially Additive Graphs . . . . . . . .
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Permutation and Combination Graphs . . .
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Introduction

Most graph labeling methods trace their origin to one introduced by Rosa [1373] in 1967,
or one given by Graham and Sloane [662] in 1980. Rosa [1373] called a function f a
-valuation of a graph G with q edges if f is an injection from the vertices of G to the set
{0, 1, . . . , q} such that, when each edge xy is assigned the label |f (x) f (y)|, the resulting
edge labels are distinct. Golomb [650] subsequently called such labelings graceful and this
is now the popular term. Alternatively, Buratti, Rinaldi, and Traetta [374] define a graph
G with q edges to be graceful if there is an injection f from the vertices of G to the
set {0, 1, . . . , q} such that every possible difference of the vertex labels of all the edges is
the set {1, 2, . . . , q}. Rosa introduced -valuations as well as a number of other labelings
as tools for decomposing the complete graph into isomorphic subgraphs. In particular,
-valuations originated as a means of attacking the conjecture of Ringel [1360] that K2n+1
can be decomposed into 2n + 1 subgraphs that are all isomorphic to a given tree with n
edges. Although an unpublished result of Erdos says that most graphs are not graceful (see
[662]), most graphs that have some sort of regularity of structure are graceful. Sheppard
[1505] has shown that there are exactly q! gracefully labeled graphs with q edges. Rosa
[1373] has identified essentially three reasons why a graph fails to be graceful: (1) G has
too many vertices and not enough edges, (2) G has too many edges, and (3) G has
the wrong parity. The disjoint union of trees is a case where there are too many vertices
for the number of edges. An infinite class of graphs that are not graceful for the second
reason is given in [324]. As an example of the third condition Rosa [1373] has shown that
if every vertex has even degree and the number of edges is congruent to 1 or 2 (mod 4)
then the graph is not graceful. In particular, the cycles C4n+1 and C4n+2 are not graceful.
Acharya [13] proved that every graph can be embedded as an induced subgraph of
a graceful graph and a connected graph can be embedded as an induced subgraph of a
graceful connected graph. Acharya, Rao, and Arumugam [31] proved: every trianglefree graph can be embedded as an induced subgraph of a triangle-free graceful graph;
every planar graph can be embedded as an induced subgraph of a planar graceful graph;
and every tree can be embedded as an induced subgraph of a graceful tree. Sethuraman
and Ragukumar [1485] provided an algorithm that generates a graceful tree from a given
arbitrary tree by adding a sequence of new pendent edges to the given arbitrary tree
thereby proving that every tree is a subtree of a graceful tree. They ask the question:
If G is a graceful tree and v is any vertex of G of degree 1, is it true that G v is
graceful? If the answer is firmative, then those additional edges of the input arbitrary
tree T introduced for constructing the graceful tree T by their algorithm could be deleted
in some order so that the given arbitrary tree T becomes graceful. This would imply that
the Graceful Tree Conjecture is true. These results demonstrate that there is no forbidden
subgraph characterization of these particular kinds of graceful graphs.
Harmonious graphs naturally arose in the study by Graham and Sloane [662] of modular versions of additive bases problems stemming from error-correcting codes. They
defined a graph G with q edges to be harmonious if there is an injection f from the
vertices of G to the group of integers modulo q such that when each edge xy is assigned

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the label f (x) + f (y) (mod q), the resulting edge labels are distinct. When G is a tree,
exactly one label may be used on two vertices. They proved that almost all graphs are not
harmonious. Analogous to the parity necessity condition for graceful graphs, Graham
and Sloane proved that if a harmonious graph has an even number of edges q and the
degree of every vertex is divisible by 2k then q is divisible by 2k+1 . Thus, for example, a
book with seven pages (i.e., the cartesian product of the complete bipartite graph K1,7
and a path of length 1) is not harmonious. Liu and Zhang [1100] have generalized this
condition as follows: if a harmonious graph with q edges has degree sequence d1 , d2 , . . . , dp
then gcd(d1 , d2 , . . . dp , q) divides q(q 1)/2. They have also proved that every graph is a
subgraph of a harmonious graph. More generally, Sethuraman and Elumalai [1473] have
shown that any given set of graphs G1 , G2 , . . . , Gt can be embedded in a graceful or harmonious graph. Determining whether a graph has a harmonious labeling was shown to
be NP-complete by Auparajita, Dulawat, and Rathore in 2001 (see [958]).
In the early 1980s Bloom and Hsu [334], [335],[314], [336], [389] extended graceful
labelings to directed graphs by defining a graceful labeling on a directed graph D(V, E)
as a one-to-one map from V to {0, 1, 2, . . . , |E|} such that (y) (x) mod (|E| + 1)
is distinct for every edge xy in E. Graceful labelings of directed graphs also arose in the
characterization of finite neofields by Hsu and Keedwell [744], [745]. Graceful labelings
of directed graphs was the subject of Marrs 2007 Ph.D. dissertation [1164]. In [1164]
and [1165] Marr presents results of graceful labelings of directed paths, stars, wheels, and
umbrellas. Siqinbate and Feng [1569] proved that the disjoint union of three copies of a
directed cycle of fixed even length is graceful.
Over the past five decades in excess of 2000 papers have spawned a bewildering array
of graph labeling methods. Despite the unabated procession of papers, there are few
general results on graph labelings. Indeed, the papers focus on particular classes of
graphs and methods, and feature ad hoc arguments. In part because many of the papers
have appeared in journals not widely available, frequently the same classes of graphs
have been done by several authors and in some cases the same terminology is used for
different concepts. In this article, we survey what is known about numerous graph labeling
methods. The author requests that he be sent preprints and reprints as well as corrections
for inclusion in the updated versions of the survey.
Earlier surveys, restricted to one or two labeling methods, include [308], [330], [923],
[597], and [599]. The book edited by Acharya, Arumugam, and Rosa [18] includes a
variety of labeling methods that we do not discuss in this survey. The relationship between graceful digraphs and a variety of algebraic structures including cyclic difference
sets, sequenceable groups, generalized complete mappings, near-complete mappings, and
neofields is discussed in [334] and [335]. The connection between graceful labelings and
perfect systems of difference sets is given in [311]. Labeled graphs serve as useful models
for a broad range of applications such as: coding theory, x-ray crystallography, radar,
astronomy, circuit design, communication network addressing, data base management,
secret sharing schemes,and models for constraint programming over finite domainssee
[331], [332], [1661], [1317], [1585], [122], [121], [136], [1573] and [1184] for details. Terms
and notation not defined below follow that used in [413] and [597].
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2.1

Graceful and Harmonious Labelings

Trees

The Ringel-Kotzig conjecture (GTC) that all trees are graceful has been the focus of many
papers. Kotzig [749] has called the effort to prove it a disease. Among the trees known
to be graceful are: caterpillars [1373] (a caterpillar is a tree with the property that the
removal of its endpoints leaves a path); trees with at most 4 end-vertices [749], [1948] and
[850]; trees with diameter at most 7 [1851], symmetrical trees (i.e., a rooted tree in which
every level contains vertices of the same degree) [312], [1284]; rooted trees where the roots
have odd degree and the lengths of the paths from the root to the leaves differ by at most
one and all the internal vertices have the same parity [388]; rooted trees with diameter
D where every vertex has even degree except for one root and the leaves in level bD/2c
[251]; rooted trees with diameter D where every vertex has even degree except for one
root and the leaves, which are in level bD/2c [251]; rooted trees with diameter D where
every vertex has even degree except for one root, the vertices in level bD/2c 1, and the
leaves which are in level bD/2c [251]; the graph obtained by identifying the endpoints
any number of paths of a fixed length except for the case that the length has the form
4r + 1, r > 1 and the number of paths is of the form 4m with m > r [1415]; regular
bamboo trees [1415] (a rooted tree consisting of branches of equal length the endpoints
of which are identified with end points of stars of equal size); and olive trees [1269], [4] (a
rooted tree consisting of k branches, where the ith branch is a path of length i); Bahls,
Lake, and Wertheim [240] proved that spiders for which the lengths of every path from the
center to a leaf differ by at most one are graceful. (A spider is a tree that has at most one
vertex (called the center) of degree greater than 2.) Motivated by Hortons work [738], in
2010 Fang [550] used a deterministic back-tracking algorithm to prove that all trees with
at most 35 vertices are graceful. In 2011 Fang [551] used a hybrid algorithm that involved
probabilistic backtracking, tabu searching, and constraint programming satisfaction to
verify that every tree with at most 31 vertices is harmonious. In [1154] Mahmoudzadeh
and Eshghi treat graceful labelings of graphs as an optimization problem and apply an
algorithm based on ant colony optimization metaheuristic to different classes of graphs
and compare the results with those produced by other methods.
an
an
Aldred, Sir
and Sir
[82] have proved that the number of graceful labelings of
Pn grows at least as fast as (5/3)n . They mention that this fact has an application to
topological graph theory. One such application was provided by Goddyn, Richter, and
an
and Sir
[648] who used graceful labelings of paths on 2s + 1 vertices (s 2) to obtain
2s
2 cyclic oriented triangular embeddings of the complete graph on 12s + 7 vertices. The
an
an
Aldred, Sir
and Sir
bound was improved by Adamaszek [37] to (2.37)n with the aid
of a computer. Cattell [399] has shown that when finding a graceful labeling of a path
one has almost complete freedom to choose a particular label i for any given vertex v. In
particular, he shows that the only cases of Pn when this cannot be done are when n 3
(mod 4) or n 1 (mod 12), v is in the smaller of the two partite sets of vertices, and
i = (n 1)/2. Pradhan and Kumar [1314] proved that all combs Pn  K1 with perfect

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In [541] and [542] Eshghi and Azimi [541] discuss a programming model for finding
graceful labelings of large graphs. The computational results show that the models can
easily solve the graceful labeling problems for large graphs. They used this method to
verify that all trees with 30, 35, or 40 vertices are graceful. Stanton and Zarnke [1617] and
Koh, Rogers, and Tan [924], [925], [928] gave methods for combining graceful trees to yield
larger graceful trees. In [1851] Wang, Yang, Hsu, and Cheng generalized the constructions
of Stanton and Zarnke and Koh, Rogers, and Tan for building graceful trees from two
smaller given graceful trees. Rogers in [1370] and Koh, Tan, and Rogers in [927] provide
recursive constructions to create graceful trees. Burzio and Ferrarese [375] have shown
that the graph obtained from any graceful tree by subdividing every edge is also graceful.
and trees obtained from a graceful tree by replacing each edge with a path of fixed length
is graceful.
It 1999 Broersma and Hoede [359] proved that an equivalent conjecture for the graceful tree conjecture is that all trees containing a perfect matching are strongly graceful
(graceful with an extra condition also called an -labelingsee Section 3.1). Wang, Yang,
Hsu, and Cheng [1851] extended this result by showing that there exist infinitely many
equivalent versions of the graceful tree conjecture (GTC). They verify these equivalent
conjectures of the graceful tree conjecture for trees of diameter at most 7.
Broersma and Hoede [359] proved that if T is a tree with a perfect matching M of
T such that the tree obtained from T by contracting the edges in M is caterpillar, then
T is graceful. Superdock [1659] used this result to prove that all lobsters with a perfect
matching are graceful.
In 1979 Bermond [308] conjectured that lobsters are graceful (a lobster is a tree with
the property that the removal of the endpoints leaves a caterpillar). Morgan [1210] has
shown that all lobsters with perfect matchings are graceful. Krop [959] proved that a
lobster that has a perfect matching that covers all but one vertex (i.e., that has an almost
perfect matching) is graceful. Ghosh [643] used adjacency matrices to prove that three
classes of lobsters are graceful.
A Skolem sequence of order n is a sequence s1 , s2 , . . . , s2n of 2n terms such that, for each
k {1, 2, . . . , n}, there exist exactly two subscripts i(k) and j(k) with si(k) = sj(k) = k
and |i(k) j(k)| = k. A Skolem sequence of order n exists if and only if n 0 or 1
(mod 4). Morgan [1211] has used Skolem sequences to construct classes of graceful trees.
Morgan and Rees [1212] used Skolem and Hooked-Skolem sequences to generate classes
of graceful lobsters.
Mishra and Panigrahi [1203] and [1260] found classes of graceful lobsters of diameter
at least five. They show other classes of lobsters are graceful in [1204] and [1205]. In
[1476] Sethuraman and Jesintha [1476] explores how one can generate graceful lobsters
from a graceful caterpillar while in [1480] and [1481] (see also [790]) they show how to
generate graceful trees from a graceful star. More special cases of Bermonds conjecture
have been done by Ng [1235], by Wang, Jin, Lu, and Zhang [1828], Abhyanker [3], and by
Mishra and Panigrahi [1204]. Renuka, Balaganesan, Selvaraju [1358] proved spider trees
with n legs of even length t and odd n 3 and lobsters for which each vertex of the spine
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Barrientos [270] defines a y-tree as a graph obtained from a path by appending an edge
to a vertex of a path adjacent to an end point. He proves that graphs obtained from a
y-tree T by replacing every edge ei of T by a copy of K2,ni in such a way that the ends of
ei are merged with the two independent vertices of K2,ni after removing the edge ei from
T are graceful.
Sethuraman and Jesintha [1477], [1478] and [1479] (see also [790]) proved that rooted
trees obtained by identifying one of the end vertices adjacent to either of the penultimate
vertices of any number of caterpillars having equal diameter at least 3 with the property
that all the degrees of internal vertices of all such caterpillars have the same parity are
graceful. They also proved that rooted trees obtained by identifying either of the penultimate vertices of any number of caterpillars having equal diameter at least 3 with the
property that all the degrees of internal vertices of all such caterpillars have the same
parity are graceful. In [1477], [1478], and [1479] (see also [790] and [791]) Sethuraman
and Jesintha prove that all rooted trees in which every level contains pendent vertices and
the degrees of the internal vertices in the same level are equal are graceful. Kanetkar and
Sane [885] show that trees formed by identifying one end vertex of each of six or fewer
paths whose lengths determine an arithmetic progression are graceful.
Chen, L
u, and Yeh [421] define a firecracker as a graph obtained from the concatenation
of stars by linking one leaf from each. They also define a banana tree as a graph obtained
by connecting a vertex v to one leaf of each of any number of stars (v is not in any of the
stars). They proved that firecrackers are graceful and conjecture that banana trees are
graceful. Before Sethuraman and Jesintha [1483] and [1482] (see also [790]) proved that
all banana trees and extended banana trees (graphs obtained by joining a vertex to one
leaf of each of any number of stars by a path of length of at least two) are graceful, various
kinds of bananas trees had been shown to be graceful by Bhat-Nayak and Deshmukh [319],
by Murugan and Arumugam [1226], [1224] and by Vilfred [1805].
Consider a set of caterpillars, having equal diameter, in which one of the penultimate
vertices has arbitrary degree and all the other internal vertices including the other penultimate vertex is of fixed even degree. Jesintha and Sethuraman [793] call the rooted tree
obtained by merging an end-vertex adjacent to the penultimate vertex of fixed even degree
of each caterpillar a arbitrarily fixed generalized banana tree. They prove that such trees
are graceful. From this it follows that all banana trees are graceful and all generalized
banana trees are graceful.
Zhenbin [1950] has shown that graphs obtained by starting with any number of identical stars, appending an edge to exactly one edge from each star, then joining the vertices
at which the appended edges were attached to a new vertex are graceful. He also shows
that graphs obtained by starting with any two stars, appending an edge to exactly one
edge from each star, then joining the vertices at which the appended edges were attached
to a new vertex are graceful. In [792] Jesintha and Sethuraman use a method of Hrnciar
and Havier [740] to generate graceful trees from a graceful star with n edges.
Aldred and McKay [80] used a computer to show that all trees with at most 26 vertices
are harmonious. That caterpillars are harmonious has been shown by Graham and Sloane
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[662]. In a paper published in 2004 Krishnaa [955] claims to proved that all trees have
both graceful and harmonious labelings. However, her proofs were flawed.
Vietri [1799] utilized a counting technique that generalizes Rosas graceful parity condition and provides contraints on possible graceful labelings of certain classes of trees. He
expresses doubts about the validity of the graceful tree conjecture.
Using a variant of the Matrix Tree Theorem, Whitty [1866] specifies an n n matrix
of indeterminates whose determinant is a multivariate polynomial that enumerates the
gracefully labeled (n + 1)-vertex trees. Whitty also gives a bijection between gracefully
labelled graphs and rook placements on a chessboard on the Mobius strip. In [374] Buratti,
Rinaldi, and Traetta use graceful labelings of paths to obtain a result on Hamiltonian cycle
systems.
In [356] Brankovic and Wanless describe applications of graceful and graceful-like
labelings of trees to several well known combinatorial problems including complete graph
decompositions, the Oberwolfach problem, and coloring. They also discuss the connection
between -labeling of paths and near transversals in Latin squares and show how spectral
graph theory might be used to further the progress on the graceful tree conjecture.
Arkut, Arkut, and Basak [121] and Basak [136] proposed an efficient method for
managing Internet Protocol (IP) networks by using graceful labelings of the nodes of
the spanning caterpillars of the autonomous sub-networks to assign labels to the links in
the sub-networks. Graceful labelings of trees also have been used in multi protocol label
switching (MPLS) routing platforms in IP networks [122].
Despite the efforts of many, the graceful tree conjecture remains open even for trees
with maximum degree 3. More specialized results about trees are contained in [308],
[330], [923], [1139], [382], [849], and [1374]. In [517] Edwards and Howard provide a
lengthy survey paper on graceful trees. Robeva [1368] provides an extensive survey of
graceful lableings of trees in her 2011 undergraduate honors thesis at Stanford University.
Alfalayleh, Brankovic, and Giggins [81] survey results related to the graceful tree conjecture as of 2004 and conclude with five open problems. Alfalayleh et al.: say The faith
in the [graceful tree] conjecture is so strong that if a tree without a graceful labeling were
indeed found, then it probably would not be considered a tree. In his Princeton University senior thesis Superdock [1659] provided an extensive survey of results and techniques
about graceful trees. He also obtained some specialized results about the gracefulness
of spiders and trees with diameter 6. Arumugam and Bagga [83] discuss computational
efforts aimed at verifying the graceful tree conjecture and we survey recent results on
generating all graceful labelings of certain families of unicyclic graphs.

2.2

Cycle-Related Graphs

Cycle-related graphs have been a major focus of attention. Rosa [1373] showed that the ncycle Cn is graceful if and only if n 0 or 3 (mod 4) and Graham and Sloane [662] proved
that Cn is harmonious if and only if n is odd. Wheels Wn = Cn + K1 are both graceful
and harmonious [582], [736] and [662]. As a consequence we have that a subgraph of a
graceful (harmonious) graph need not be graceful (harmonious). The n-cone (also called

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the n-point suspension of Cm ) Cm + Kn has been shown to be graceful when m 0 or 3

(mod 12) by Bhat-Nayak and Selvam [325]. When n is even and m is 2, 6 or 10 (mod 12)
Cm + Kn violates the parity condition for a graceful graph. Bhat-Nayak and Selvam [325]
also prove that the following cones are graceful: C4 +Kn , C5 +K2 , C7 +Kn , C9 +K2 , C11 +Kn
and C19 + Kn . The helm Hn is the graph obtained from a wheel by attaching a pendent
edge at each vertex of the n-cycle. Helms have been shown to be graceful [134] and
harmonious [646], [1111], [1112] (see also [1100], [1465], [1098], [481] and [1332]). Koh,
Rogers, Teo, and Yap, [926] define a web graph as one obtained by joining the pendent
points of a helm to form a cycle and then adding a single pendent edge to each vertex
of this outer cycle. They asked whether such graphs are graceful. This was proved by
Kang, Liang, Gao, and Yang [888]. Yang has extended the notion of a web by iterating
the process of adding pendent points and joining them to form a cycle and then adding
pendent points to the new cycle. In his notation, W (2, n) is the web graph whereas
W (t, n) is the generalized web with t n-cycles. Yang has shown that W (3, n) and W (4, n)
are graceful (see [888]), Abhyanker and Bhat-Nayak [5] have done W (5, n) and Abhyanker
[3] has done W (t, 5) for 5 t 13. Gnanajothi [646] has shown that webs with odd cycles
are harmonious. Seoud and Youssef [1465] define a closed helm as the graph obtained from
a helm by joining each pendent vertex to form a cycle and a flower as the graph obtained
from a helm by joining each pendent vertex to the central vertex of the helm. They prove
that closed helms and flowers are harmonious when the cycles are odd. A gear graph is
obtained from the wheel Wn by adding a vertex between every pair of adjacent vertices of
the n-cycle. In 1984 Ma and Feng [1142] proved all gears are graceful while in a Masters
thesis in 2006 Chen [422] proved all gears are harmonious. Liu [1111] has shown that if
two or more vertices are inserted between every pair of vertices of the n-cycle of the wheel
Wn , the resulting graph is graceful. Liu [1109] has also proved that the graph obtained
from a gear graph by attaching one or more pendent edges to each vertex between the
vertices of the n-cycle is graceful. Pradhan and Kumar [1314] proved that graphs obtained
by adding a pendent edge to each pendent vertex of hairy cycle Cn  K1 are graceful if
n 0 (mod 4m). They further provide a rule for determining the missing numbers in the
graceful labeling of Cn  K1 and of the graph obtained by adding pendent edges to each
pendent vertex of Cn  K1 .
Abhyanker [3] has investigated various unicyclic (that is, graphs with exactly one
cycle) graphs. He proved that the unicyclic graphs obtained by identifying one vertex of
C4 with the root of the olive tree with 2n branches and identifying an adjacent vertex on
C4 with the end point of the path P2n2 are graceful. He showed that if one attaches any
number of pendent edges to these unicyclic graphs at the vertex of C4 that is adjacent
to the root of the olive tree but not adjacent to the end vertex of the attached path, the
resulting graphs are graceful. Likewise, Abhyanker proved that the graph obtained by
deleting the branch of length 1 from an olive tree with 2n branches and identifying the
root of the edge deleted tree with a vertex of a cycle of the form C2n+3 is graceful. He
also has a number of results similar to these.
Delorme, Maheo, Thuillier, Koh, and Teo [484] and Ma and Feng [1141] showed that
any cycle with a chord is graceful. This was first conjectured by Bodendiek, Schumacher,
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and Wegner [339], who proved various special cases. In 1985 Koh and Yap [929] generalized
this by defining a cycle with a Pk -chord to be a cycle with the path Pk joining two
nonconsecutive vertices of the cycle. They proved that these graphs are graceful when
k = 3 and conjectured that all cycles with a Pk -chord are graceful. This was proved for
k 4 by Punnim and Pabhapote in 1987 [1318]. Chen [427] obtained the same result
except for three cases which were then handled by Gao [677]. In 2005, Sethuraman and
Elumalai [1472] defined a cycle with parallel Pk -chords as a graph obtained from a cycle
Cn (n 6) with consecutive vertices v0 , v1 , . . . , vn1 by adding disjoint paths Pk , (k 3),
between each pair of nonadjacent vertices v1 , vn1 , v2 , vn2 , . . . , vi , vni , . . . , v , v where
= bn/2c 1 and = bn/2c + 2 if n is odd or = bn/2c + 1 if n is even. They
proved that every cycle Cn (n 6) with parallel Pk -chords is graceful for k = 3, 4, 6, 8,
and 10 and they conjecture that the cycle Cn with parallel Pk -chords is graceful for all
even k. Xu [1885] proved that all cycles with a chord are harmonious except for C6 in the
case where the distance in C6 between the endpoints of the chord is 2. The gracefulness
of cycles with consecutive chords has also been investigated. For 3 p n r, let
Cn (p, r) denote the n-cycle with consecutive vertices v1 , v2 , . . . , vn to which the r chords
v1 vp , v1 vp+1 , . . . , v1 vp+r1 have been added. Koh and Punnin [919] and Koh, Rogers, Teo,
and Yap [926] have handled the cases r = 2, 3 and n 3 where n is the length of the cycle.
Goh and Lim [649] then proved that all remaining cases are graceful. Moreover, Ma [1144]
has shown that Cn (p, n p) is graceful when p 0, 3 (mod 4) and Ma, Liu, and Liu [1145]
have proved other special cases of these graphs are graceful. Ma also proved that if one
adds to the graph Cn (3, n 3) any number ki of paths of length 2 from the vertex v1 to
the vertex vi for i = 2, . . . , n, the resulting graph is graceful. Chen [427] has shown that
apart from four exceptional cases, a graph consisting of three independent paths joining
two vertices of a cycle is graceful. This generalizes the result that a cycle plus a chord is
graceful. Liu [1108] has shown that the n-cycle with consecutive vertices v1 , v2 , . . . , vn to
which the chords v1 vk and v1 vk+2 (2 k n 3) are adjoined is graceful.
In [482] Deb and Limaye use the notation C(n, k) to denote the cycle Cn with k cords
sharing a common endpoint called the apex. For certain choices of n and k there is a
unique C(n, k) graph and for other choices there is more than one graph possible. They
call these shell-type graphs and they call the unique graph C(n, n 3) a shell. Notice that
the shell C(n, n 3) is the same as the fan Fn1 = Pn1 + K1 . Deb and Limaye define a
multiple shell to be a collection of edge disjoint shells that have their apex in common. A
multiple shell is said to be balanced with width w if every shell has order w or every shell
has order w or w + 1. Deb and Limaye [482] have conjectured that all multiple shells are
harmonious, and have shown that the conjecture is true for the balanced double shells
and balanced triple shells. Yang, Xu, Xi, and Qiao [1908] proved the conjecture is true
for balanced quadruple shells. Liang [1083] proved the conjecture is true when each shell
has the same order and the number of copies is odd.
Sethuraman and Dhavamani [1469] use H(n, t) to denote the graph obtained from the
cycle Cn by adding t consecutive chords incident with a common vertex. If the common
vertex is u and v is adjacent to u, then for k 1, n 4, and 1 t n 3, Sethuraman
and Dhavamani denote by G(n, t, k) the graph obtained by taking the union of k copies
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of H(n, k) with the edge uv identified. They conjecture that every graph G(n, t, k) is
graceful. They prove the conjecture for the case that t = n 3.
For i = 1, 2, . . . , n let vi,1 , vi,2 , . . . , vi,2m be the successive vertices of n copies of C2m .
Sekar [1415] defines a chain of cycles C2m,n as the graph obtained by identifying vi,m and
vi+1,m for i = 1, 2, . . . , n 1. He proves that C6,2k and C8,n are graceful for all k and all
n. Barrientos [273] proved that all C8,n , C12,n , and C6,2k are graceful.
Truszczy
nski [1694] studied unicyclic graphs and proved several classes of such graphs
are graceful. Among these are what he calls dragons. A dragon is formed by joining the
end point of a path to a cycle (Koh, et al. [926] call these tadpoles; Kim and Park [914]
call them kites). This work led Truszczy
nski to conjecture that all unicyclic graphs except
Cn , where n 1 or 2 (mod 4), are graceful. Guo [676] has shown that dragons are graceful
+(m,t)
when the length of the cycle is congruent to 1 or 2 (mod 4). Lu [1138] uses Cn
to
denote the graph obtained by identifying one vertex of Cn with one endpoint of m paths
+(1,t)
each of length t. He proves that Cn
(a tadpole) is not harmonious when a + t is odd
+(2m,t)
and Cn
is harmonious when n = 3 and when n = 2k + 1 and t = k 1, k + 1 or
2k 1. In his Masters thesis, Doma [501] investigates the gracefulness of various unicyclic
graphs where the cycle has up to 9 vertices. Because of the immense diversity of unicyclic
graphs, a proof of Truszczy
nskis conjecture seems out of reach in the near future.
Cycles that share a common edge or a vertex have received some attention. Murugan
and Arumugan [1225] have shown that books with n pentagonal pages (i.e., n copies of
C5 with an edge in common) are graceful when n is even and not graceful when n is odd.
Lu [1138] uses (Cm )n to denote the graph made from n copies of Cm that share an edge
(an n page book with m-polygonal pages). He proves (C2m+1 )2n+1 is harmonious for all
m and n; (C4m+2 )4n+1 and (C4m )4n+3 are not harmonious for all m and n. Xu [1885]
proved that (Cm )2 is harmonious except when m = 3. ((Cm )2 is isomorphic to C2(m1)
with a chord in the middle.)
A kayak paddle KP (k, m, l) is the graph obtained by joining Ck and Cm by a path of
length l. Litersky [1096] proves that kayak paddles have graceful labelings in the following
cases: k 0 mod 4, m 0 or 3 (mod 4); k m 2 (mod 4) for k 3; and k 1 (mod
4), m 3 (mod 4). She conjectures that KP (4k + 4, 4m + 2, l) with 2k < m is graceful
when l 2m if l is even and when l 2m + 1 if l is odd; and KP (10, 10, l) is graceful
when l 12. The cases are open: KP (4k, 4m + 1, l); KP (4k, 4m + 2, l); KP (4k + 1, 4m +
1, l); KP (4k + 1, 4m + 2, l); KP (4k + 2, 4m + 3, l); KP (4k + 3, 4m + 3, l).
(t)
Let Cn denote the one-point union of t cycles of length n. Bermond, Brouwer, and
(t)
Germa [309] and Bermond, Kotzig, and Turgeon [311]) proved that C3 (that is, the
friendship graph or Dutch t-windmill) is graceful if and only if t 0 or 1 (mod 4) while
(t)
Graham and Sloane [662] proved C3 is harmonious if and only if t 6 2 (mod 4). Koh,
(t)
Rogers, Lee, and Toh [920] conjecture that Cn is graceful if and only if nt 0 or 3 (mod
4). Yang and Lin [1900] have proved the conjecture for the case n = 5 and Yang, Xu,
Xi, Li, and Haque [1906] did the case n = 7. Xu, Yang, Li and Xi [1889] did the case
n = 11. Xu, Yang, Han and Li [1890] did the case n = 13. Qian [1323] verifies this
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case n = 9. Figueroa-Centeno, Ichishima, and Muntaner-Batle [564] have shown that if

m 0 (mod 4) then the one-point union of 2, 3, or 4 copies of Cm admits a special kind
of graceful labeling called an -labeling (see Section 3.1) and if m 2 (mod 4), then the
one-point union of 2 or 4 copies of Cm admits an -labeling. Bodendiek, Schumacher,
and Wegner [345] proved that the one-point union of any two cycles is graceful when the
number of edges is congruent to 0 or 3 modulo 4. (The other cases violate the necessary
(t)
parity condition.) Shee [1501] has proved that C4 is graceful for all t. Seoud and Youssef
[1463] have shown that the one-point union of a triangle and Cn is harmonious if and
only if n 1 (mod 4) and that if the one-point union of two cycles is harmonious then
the number of edges is divisible by 4. The question of whether this latter condition is
sufficient is open. Figueroa-Centeno, Ichishima, and Muntaner-Batle [564] have shown
that if G is harmonious then the one-point union of an odd number of copies of G using
the vertex labeled 0 as the shared point is harmonious. Sethuraman and Selvaraju [1492]
have shown that for a variety of choices of points, the one-point union of any number of
non-isomorphic complete bipartite graphs is graceful. They raise the question of whether
this is true for all choices of the common point.
Another class of cycle-related graphs is that of triangular cacti. The block-cutpoint
graph of a graph G is a bipartite graph in which one partite set consists of the cut vertices
of G, and the other has a vertex bi for each block Bi of G. A block of a graph is a maximal
connected subgraph that has no cut-vertex. A triangular cactus is a connected graph all of
whose blocks are triangles. A triangular snake is a triangular cactus whose block-cutpointgraph is a path (a triangular snake is obtained from a path v1 , v2 , . . . , vn by joining vi and
vi+1 to a new vertex wi for i = 1, 2, . . . , n 1). Rosa [1375] conjectured that all triangular
cacti with t 0 or 1 (mod 4) blocks are graceful. (The cases where t 2 or 3 (mod 4)
fail to be graceful because of the parity condition.) Moulton [1218] proved the conjecture
for all triangular snakes. A proof of the general case (i.e., all triangular cacti) seems
hopelessly difficult. Liu and Zhang [1100] gave an incorrect proof that triangular snakes
with an odd number of triangles are harmonious whereas triangular snakes with n 2
(mod 4) triangles are not harmonious. Xu [1886] subsequently proved that triangular
snakes are harmonious if and only if the number of triangles is not congruent to 2 (mod
4).
A double triangular snake consists of two triangular snakes that have a common path.
That is, a double triangular snake is obtained from a path v1 , v2 , . . . , vn by joining vi and
vi+1 to a new vertex wi for i = 1, 2, . . . , n 1 and to a new vertex ui for i = 1, 2, . . . , n 1.
Xi, Yang, and Wang [1882] proved that all double triangular snakes are harmonious.
For any graph G defining G-snake analogous to triangular snakes, Sekar [1415] has
shown that Cn -snakes are graceful when n 0 (mod 4) (n 8) and when n 2 (mod
4) and the number of Cn is even. Gnanajothi [646, pp. 31-34] had earlier shown that
quadrilateral snakes are graceful. Grace [660] has proved that K4 -snakes are harmonious.
Rosa [1375] has also considered analogously defined quadrilateral and pentagonal cacti
and examined small cases. Yu, Lee, and Chin [1936] showed that Q2 -snakes and Q3 -snakes
are graceful and, when the number of blocks is greater than 1, Q2 -snakes,Q3 -snakes and
Q4 -snakes are harmonious.
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Barrientos [264] calls a graph a kCn -snake if it is a connected graph with k blocks whose
block-cutpoint graph is a path and each of the k blocks is isomorphic to Cn . (When n > 3
and k > 3 there is more than one kCn -snake.) If a kCn -snake where the path of minimum
length that contains all the cut-vertices of the graph has the property that the distance
between any two consecutive cut-vertices is bn/2c it is called linear. Barrientos proves
that kC4 -snakes are graceful and that the linear kC6 -snakes are graceful when k is even.
He further proves that kC8 -snakes and kC12 -snakes are graceful in the cases where the
distances between consecutive vertices of the path of minimum length that contains all
the cut-vertices of the graph are all even and that certain cases of kC4n -snakes and kC5n snakes are graceful (depending on the distances between consecutive vertices of the path
of minimum length that contains all the cut-vertices of the graph).
Several people have studied cycles with pendent edges attached. Frucht [582] proved
that any cycle with a pendent edge attached at each vertex (i.e., a crown) is graceful (see
also [746]). If G has order n, the corona of G with H, G  H is the graph obtained by
taking one copy of G and n copies of H and joining the ith vertex of G with an edge to
every vertex in the ith copy of H. Barrientos [269] also proved: if G is a graceful graph
of order m and size m 1, then G  nK1 and G + nK1 are graceful; if G is a graceful
graph of order p and size q with q > p, then (G (q + 1 p)K1 )  nK1 is graceful; and
all unicyclic graphs, other than a cycle, for which the deletion of any edge from the cycle
results in a caterpillar are graceful.
For a given cycle Cn with n 0 or 3 (mod 4) and a family of trees T = {T1 , T2 , . . . , Tn },
let ui and vi , 1 i n, be fixed vertices of Cn and Ti , respectively. Figueroa-Centeno,
Ichishima, Muntaner-Batle, and Oshima [569] provide two construction methods that generate a graceful labeling of the unicyclic graphs obtained from Cn and T by amalgamating
them at each ui and vi . Their results encompass all previously known results for unicyclic
graphs whose cycle length is 0 or 3 (mod 4) and considerably extend the known classes
of graceful unicyclic graphs.
In [266] Barrientos proved that helms (graphs obtained from a wheel by attaching one
pendent edge to each vertex) are graceful. Grace [659] showed that an odd cycle with one
or more pendent edges at each vertex is harmonious and conjectured that C2n  K1 , an
even cycle with one pendent edge attached at each vertex, is harmonious. This conjecture
has been proved by Liu and Zhang [1099], Liu [1111] and [1112], Hegde [706], Huang [748],
and Bu [362]. Sekar [1415] has shown that the graph Cm  Pn obtained by attaching the
path Pn to each vertex of Cm is graceful. For any n 3 and any t with 1 t n, let
Cn+t denote the class of graphs formed by adding a single pendent edge to t vertices of
a cycle of length n. Ropp [1372] proved that for every n and t the class Cn+t contains a
graceful graph. Gallian and Ropp [597] conjectured that for all n and t, all members of
Cn+t are graceful. This was proved by Qian [1323] and by Kang, Liang, Gao, and Yang
[888]. Of course, such graphs are just a special case of the aforementioned conjecture of
Truszczy
nski that all unicyclic graphs except Cn for n 1 or 2 (mod 4) are graceful.
Sekar [1415] proved that the graph obtained by identifying an endpoint of a star with a
vertex of a cycle is graceful. Lu [1138] shows that the graph obtained by identifying each
vertex of an odd cycle with a vertex disjoint copy of C2m+1 is harmonious if and only if
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m is odd.
Sudha [1625] proved that the graphs obtained by starting with two or more copies
of C4 and identifying a vertex of the ith copy with a vertex of the i + 1th copy and the
graphs obtained by starting with two or more cycles (not necessarily of the same size)
and identifying an edge from the ith copy with an edge of the i + 1th copy are graceful.
Sudha and Kanniga [1631] proved that the graphs obtained by identifying any vertex of
Cm with any vertex of degree 1 of Sn where n = d(m 1)/2e are graceful.
For a given cycle Cn with n 0 or 3 (mod 4) and a family of trees T = {T1 , T2 , . . . , Tn },
let ui and vi , 1 i n, be fixed vertices of Cn and Ti , respectively. Figueroa-Centeno,
Ichishima, Muntaner-Batle, and Oshima [569] provide two construction methods that generate a graceful labeling of the unicyclic graphs obtained from Cn and T by amalgamating
them at each ui and vi . Their results encompass all previously known results for unicyclic
graphs whose cycle length is 0 or 3 (mod 4) and considerably extend the known classes
of graceful unicyclic graphs.
Solairaju and Chithra [1594] defined three classes of graphs obtained by connecting
copies of C4 in various ways. Denote the four consecutive vertices of ith copy of C4
by vi,1 , vi,2 , vi,3 , vi4 . They show that the graphs obtained by identifying vi,4 with vi+1,2
for i = 1, 2, . . . , n 1 is graceful; the graphs obtained by joining vi,4 with vi+1,2 for
i = 1, 2, . . . , n 1 by an edge is graceful; and the graphs obtained by joining vi,4 with
vi+1,2 for i = 1, 2, . . . , n 1 with a path of length 2 is graceful.
Venkatesh [1795] showed that for positive integers m and n divisible by 4 the graphs
obtained by appending a copy of Cn to each vertex of Cm by identifying one vertex of Cn
with each vertex of Cm is graceful.
In a paper published in 1985, Bloom and Hsu [336] say a directed graph D with e edges
has a graceful labeling if for each vertex v there is a vertex labeling that assigns each
vertex a distinct integer from 0 to e such that for each directed edge (u, v) the integers
(v) (u) mod (e + 1) are distinct and nonzero . They conjectured that digraphs whose
underlying graphs are wheels and that have all directed edges joining the hub and the
rim in the same direction and all directed edges in the same direction are graceful. This
conjecture was proved in 2009 by Hegde and Shivarajkumarn [726].
Yao, Yao, and Cheng [1911] investigated the gracefulness for many orientations of
undirected trees with short diameters and proved some directed trees do not have graceful
labelings.

2.3

Product Related Graphs

Graphs that are cartesian products and related graphs have been the subject of many
papers. That planar grids, Pm Pn (m, n 2), (some authors use G  H to denote the
Cartesian product of G and H) are graceful was proved by Acharya and Gill [25] in 1978
although the much simpler labeling scheme given by Maheo [1151] in 1980 for Pm P2
readily extends to all grids. Liu, T. Zou, Y. Lu [1106] proved Pm Pn P2 is graceful.
In 1980 Graham and Sloane [662] proved ladders, Pm P2 , are harmonious when m > 2
and in 1992 Jungreis and Reid [861] showed that the grids Pm Pn are harmonious when
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(m, n) 6= (2, 2). A few people have looked at graphs obtained from planar grids in various
ways. Kathiresan [892] has shown that graphs obtained from ladders by subdividing each
step exactly once are graceful and that graphs obtained by appending an edge to each
vertex of a ladder are graceful [894]. Acharya [16] has shown that certain subgraphs of
grid graphs are graceful. Lee [991] defines a Mongolian tent as a graph obtained from
Pm Pn , n odd, by adding one extra vertex above the grid and joining every other vertex
of the top row of Pm Pn to the new vertex. A Mongolian village is a graph formed
by successively amalgamating copies of Mongolian tents with the same number of rows
so that adjacent tents share a column. Lee proves that Mongolian tents and villages are
graceful. A Young tableau is a subgraph of Pm Pn obtained by retaining the first two
rows of Pm Pn and deleting vertices from the right hand end of other rows in such a way
that the lengths of the successive rows form a nonincreasing sequence. Lee and Ng [1013]
have proved that all Young tableaus are graceful. Lee [991] has also defined a variation
of Mongolian tents by adding an extra vertex above the top row of a Young tableau and
joining every other vertex of that row to the extra vertex. He proves these graphs are
graceful. In [1593] and [1592] Solairaju and Arockiasamy prove that various families of
subgraphs of grids Pm Pn are graceful. Sudha [1625] proved that certain subgraphs of
the grid Pn P2 are graceful.
Prisms are graphs of the form Cm Pn . These can be viewed as grids on cylinders.
In 1977 Bodendiek, Schumacher, and Wegner [339] proved that Cm P2 is graceful when
m 0 (mod 4). According to the survey by Bermond [308], Gangopadhyay and Rao
Hebbare did the case that m is even about the same time. In a 1979 paper, Frucht [582]
stated without proof that he had done all Cm P2 . A complete proof of all cases and
some related results were given by Frucht and Gallian [585] in 1988.
In 1992 Jungreis and Reid [861] proved that all Cm Pn are graceful when m and
n are even or when m 0 (mod 4). They also investigated the existence of a stronger
form of graceful labeling called an -labeling (see Section 3.1) for graphs of the form
Pm Pn , Cm Pn , and Cm Cn (see also [599]).
Yang and Wang have shown that the prisms C4n+2 P4m+3 [1905], Cn P2 [1903], and
C6 Pm (m 2) (see [1905]) are graceful. Singh [1550] proved that C3 Pn is graceful for
all n. In their 1980 paper Graham and Sloane [662] proved that Cm Pn is harmonious
when n is odd and they used a computer to show C4 P2 , the cube, is not harmonious. In
1992 Gallian, Prout, and Winters [601] proved that Cm P2 is harmonious when m 6= 4.
In 1992, Jungreis and Reid [861] showed that C4 Pn is harmonious when n 3. Huang
and Skiena [750] have shown that Cm Pn is graceful for all n when m is even and for all
n with 3 n 12 when m is odd. Abhyanker [3] proved that the graphs obtained from
C2m+1 P5 by adding a pendent edge to each vertex of an outer cycle is graceful.
Torus grids are graphs of the form Cm Cn (m > 2, n > 2). Very little success has
been achieved with these graphs. The graceful parity condition is violated for Cm Cn
when m and n are odd and the harmonious parity condition [662, Theorem 11] is violated
for Cm Cn when m 1, 2, 3 (mod 4) and n is odd. In 1992 Jungreis and Reid [861]
showed that Cm Cn is graceful when m 0 (mod 4) and n is even. A complete solution
to both the graceful and harmonious torus grid problems will most likely involve a large
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number of cases.
There has been some work done on prism-related graphs. Gallian, Prout, and Winters
[601] proved that all prisms Cm P2 with a single vertex deleted or single edge deleted
are graceful and harmonious. The Mobius ladder Mn is the graph obtained from the
ladder Pn P2 by joining the opposite end points of the two copies of Pn . In 1989 Gallian
[596] showed that all Mobius ladders are graceful and all but M3 are harmonious. Ropp
[1372] has examined two classes of prisms with pendent edges attached. He proved that
all Cm P2 with a single pendent edge at each vertex are graceful and all Cm P2 with a
single pendent edge at each vertex of one of the cycles are graceful. Ramachandran and
Sekar [1338] proved that the graph obtained from the ladder Ln (Pn P2 ) by identifying
one vertex of Ln with any vertex of the star Sm other than the center of Sm is graceful.
Another class of cartesian products that has been studied is that of books and
stacked books. The book Bm is the graph Sm P2 where Sm is the star with m edges.
In 1980 Maheo [1151] proved that the books of the form B2m are graceful and conjectured
that the books B4m+1 were also graceful. (The books B4m+3 do not satisfy the graceful
parity condition.) This conjecture was verified by Delorme [483] in 1980. Maheo [1151]
also proved that Ln P2 and B2m P2 are graceful. Both Grace [658] and Reid (see [600])
have given harmonious labelings for B2m . The books B4m+3 do not satisfy the harmonious parity condition [662, Theorem 11]. Gallian and Jungreis [600] conjectured that the
books B4m+1 are harmonious. Gnanajothi [646] has verified this conjecture by showing
B4m+1 has an even stronger form of labeling see Section 4.1. Liang [1079] also proved
the conjecture. In 1988 Gallian and Jungreis [600] defined a stacked book as a graph of
the form Sm Pn . They proved that the stacked books of the form S2m Pn are graceful
and posed the case S2m+1 Pn as an open question. The n-cube K2 K2 K2 (n
copies) was shown to be graceful by Kotzig [943]see also [1151]. Although Graham and
Sloane [662] used a computer in 1980 to show that the 3-cube is not harmonious (see also
[1261]), Ichishima and Oshima [761] proved that the n-cube Qn has a stronger form of
harmonious labeling (see Section 4.1) for n 4.
In 1986 Reid [1357] found a harmonious labeling for K4 Pn . Petrie and Smith [1273]
have investigated graceful labelings of graphs as an exercise in constraint programming satisfaction. They have shown that Km Pn is graceful for (m, n) = (4, 2), (4, 3), (4, 4), (4, 5),
(see also [1356]) and (5,2) but is not graceful for (3, 3) and (6, 2). Redl [1356] also proved
that K4 Pn is graceful for n = 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 using a constraint programming approach.
Their labeling for K5 P2 is the unique graceful labeling. They also considered the graph
obtained by identifying the hubs of two copies of Wn . The resulting graph is not graceful
when n = 3 but is graceful when n is 4 and 5. Smith and Puget [1585] has used a computer
search to prove that Km P2 is not graceful for m = 7, 8, 9, and 10. She conjectures that
Km P2 is not graceful for m > 5. Redl [1356] asks if all graphs of the form K4 Pn are
graceful.
Vaidya, Kaneria, Srivastav, and Dani [1731] proved that Pn Pt (Pr Ps ) where
t < min{r, s} and Pn Pt Kr,s where t min{r, s} and r, s 3 are graceful. Kaneria,
Vaidya, Ghodasara, and Srivastav [863] proved Kmn (Pr Ps ) where m, n, r, s > 1;
(Pr Ps ) Pt where r, s > 1 and t 6= 2; and Kmn (Pr Ps ) Pt where m, n, r, s > 1 and
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t 6= 2 are graceful.
The composition G1 [G2 ] is the graph having vertex set V (G1 ) V (G2 ) and edge set
{(x1 , y1 ), (x2 , y2 )| x1 x2 E(G1 ) or x1 = x2 and y1 y2 E(G2 )}. The symmetric product
G1 G2 of graphs G1 and G2 is the graph with vertex set V (G1 ) V (G2 ) and edge
set {(x1 , y1 ), (x2 , y2 )| x1 x2 E(G1 ) or y1 y2 E(G2 ) but not both}. Seoud and Youssef
[1464] have proved that Pn K2 is graceful when n > 1 and Pn [P2 ] is harmonious for all
n. They also observe that the graphs Cm Cn and Cm [Cn ] violate the parity conditions
for graceful and harmonious graphs when m and n are odd.

2.4

Complete Graphs

The questions of the gracefulness and harmoniousness of the complete graphs Kn have
been answered. In each case the answer is positive if and only if n 4 ([650], [1549], [662],
[314]). Both Rosa [1373] and Golomb [650] proved that the complete bipartite graphs Km,n
are graceful while Graham and Sloane [662] showed they are harmonious if and only if m or
n = 1. Aravamudhan and Murugan [120] have shown that the complete tripartite graph
K1,m,n is both graceful and harmonious while Gnanajothi [646, pp. 2531] has shown
that K1,1,m,n is both graceful and harmonious and K2,m,n is graceful. Some of the same
results have been obtained by Seoud and Youssef [1459] who also observed that when m, n,
and p are congruent to 2 (mod 4), Km,n,p violates the parity conditions for harmonious
graphs. Beutner and Harborth [314] give graceful labelings for K1,m,n , K2,m,n , K1,1,m,n
and conjecture that these and Km,n are the only complete multipartite graphs that are
graceful. They have verified this conjecture for graphs with up to 23 vertices via computer.
Beutner and Harborth [314] also show that Kn e (Kn with an edge deleted) is graceful
only if n 5; any Kn 2e (Kn with two edges deleted) is graceful only if n 6; and any
Kn 3e is graceful only if n 6. They also determine all graceful graphs of the form
Kn G where G is K1,a with a n 2 and where G is a matching Ma with 2a n.
(m)
The windmill graph Kn (n > 3) consists of m copies of Kn with a vertex in common.
(m)
A necessary condition for Kn to be graceful is that n 5 see [926]. Bermond [308] has
(m)
(m)
conjectured that K4 is graceful for all m 4. The gracefulness of K4 is equivalent
to the existence of a (12m + 1, 4, 1)-perfect difference family, which are known to exit for
m 1000 (see [750], [2], [1853], and [632]). Bermond, Kotzig, and Turgeon [311] proved
(m)
that Kn is not graceful when n = 4 and m = 2 or 3, and when m = 2 and n = 5.
(m)
In 1982 Hsu [743] proved that K4 is harmonious for all m. Graham and Sloane [662]
(2)
conjectured that Kn is harmonious if and only if n = 4. They verified this conjecture
(2)
for the cases that n is odd or n = 6. Liu [1098] has shown that Kn is not harmonious
if n = 2a pa11 pas s where a, a1 , . . . , as are positive integers and p1 , . . . , ps are distinct odd
(3)
primes and there is a j for which pj 3 (mod 4) and aj is odd. He also shows that Kn
is not harmonious when n 0 (mod 4) and 3n = 4e (8k + 7) or n 5 (mod 8). Koh,
(t)
Rogers, Lee, and Toh [920] and Rajasingh and Pushpam [1333] have shown that Km,n ,
the one-point union of t copies of Km,n , is graceful. Sethuraman and Selvaraju [1488] have
proved that the one-point union of graphs of the form K2,mi for i = 1, 2, . . . , n, where the

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union is taken at a vertex from the partite set with exactly 2 vertices is graceful if at most
two of the mi are equal. They conjecture that the restriction that at most two of the
mi are equal is not necessary. Sudha [1626] proved that two or more complete bipartite
graphs having one bipartite vertex set in common are graceful.
Koh, Rogers, Lee, and Toh [926] introduced the notation B(n, r, m) for the graph
consisting of m copies of Kn with a Kr in common (n r). (We note that Guo [677] has
used the notation B(n, r, m) to denote the graph obtained by joining opposite endpoints
of three disjoint paths of lengths n, r and m.) Bermond [308] raised the question: For
(m)
which m, n, and r is B(n, r, m) graceful? Of course, the case r = 1 is the same as Kn .
For r > 1, B(n, r, m) is graceful in the following cases: n = 3, r = 2, m 1 [921];
n = 4, r = 2, m 1 [483]; n = 4, r = 3, m 1 (see [308]), [921]. Seoud and Youssef
[1459] have proved B(3, 2, m) and B(4, 3, m) are harmonious. Liu [1097] has shown that
if there is a prime p such that p 3 (mod 4) and p divides both n and n 2 and
the highest power of p that divides n and n 2 is odd, then B(n, 2, 2) is not graceful.
Smith and Puget [1585] has shown that up to symmetry, B(5, 2, 2) has a unique graceful
labeling; B(n, 3, 2) is not graceful for n = 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10; B(6, 3, 3) and B(7, 3, 3) are
not graceful; and B(5, 3, 3) is graceful. Combining results of Bermond and Farhi [310]
and Smith and Puget [1585] show that B(n, 2, 2) is not graceful for n > 5. Lu [1138]
obtained the following results: B(m, 2, 3) and B(m, 3, 3) are not harmonious when m 1
(mod 8); B(m, 4, 2) and B(m, 5, 2) are not harmonious when m satisfies certain special
conditions; B(m, 1, n) is not harmonious when m 5 (mod 8) and n 1, 2, 3 (mod 4);
B(2m + 1, 2m, 2n + 1)
= K2m + K2n+1 is not harmonious when m 2 (mod 4).
More generally, Bermond and Farhi [310] have investigated the class of graphs consisting of m copies of Kn having exactly k copies of Kr in common. They proved such
graphs are not graceful for n sufficiently large compared to r. Barrientos [270] proved that
the graph obtained by performing the one-point union of any collection of the complete
bipartite graphs Km1 ,n1 , Km2 ,n2 , . . . , Kmt ,nt , where each Kmi ,ni appears at most twice and
gcd(n1 , n2 , . . . , nt ) = 1, is graceful.
Sethuraman and Elumalai [1471] have shown that K1,m,n with a pendent edge attached to each vertex is graceful and Jirimutu [853] has shown that the graph obtained
by attaching a pendent edge to every vertex of Km,n is graceful (see also [101]). In [1484]
Sethuraman and Kishore determine the graceful graphs that are the union of n copies of
K4 with i edges deleted for 1 i 5 and with one edge in common. The only cases that
are not graceful are those graphs where the members of the union are C4 for n 3 (mod
4) and where the members of the union are P2 . They conjecture that these two cases are
the only instances of edge induced subgraphs of the union of n copies of K4 with one edge
in common that are not graceful.
Renuka, Balaganesan, Selvaraju [1358] proved the graphs obtained by joining a vertex
of K1,m to a vertex of K1,n by a path are harmonious. Sethuraman and Selvaraju [1494]
have shown that union of any number of copies of K4 with an edge deleted and one edge
in common is harmonious.
Clemens, Coulibaly, Garvens, Gonnering, Lucas, and Winters [466] investigated the
gracefulness of the one-point and two-point unions of graphs. They show the following
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graphs are graceful: the one-point union of an end vertex of Pn and K4 ; the graph obtained
by taking the one-point union of K4 with one end vertex of Pn and the one-point union of
the other end vertex of Pn with the central vertex of K1,r ; the graph obtained by taking
the one-point union of K4 with one end vertex of Pn and the one-point union of the other
end of Pn with a vertex from the partite set of order 2 of K2,r ; the graph obtained from
the graph just described by appending any number of edges to the other vertex of the
partite set of order 2; the two-point union of the two vertices of the partite set of order 2
in K2,r and two vertices from K4 ; and the graph obtained from the graph just described
by appending any number of edges to one of the vertices from the partite set of order 2.
A Golomb ruler is a marked straightedge such that the distances between different
pairs of marks on the straightedge are distinct. If the set of distances between marks is
every positive integer up to and including the length of the ruler, then ruler is a called
a perfect Golomb ruler. Golomb [650] proved that perfect Golomb rulers exist only for
rulers with at most 4 marks. Beavers [295] examines the relationship between Golomb
rulers and graceful graphs through a correspondence between rulers and complete graphs.
He proves that Kn is graceful if and only if there is a perfect Golomb ruler with n marks
and Golomb rulers are equivalent to complete subgraphs of graceful graphs.

2.5

Disconnected Graphs

There have been many papers dealing with graphs that are not connected. For any graph
G the graph mG denotes the disjoint union of m copies of G. In 1975 Kotzig [942]
investigated the gracefulness of the graphs rCs . When rs 1 or 2 (mod 4), these graphs
violate the gracefulness parity condition. Kotzig proved that when r = 3 and 4k > 4, then
rC4k has a stronger form of graceful labeling called -labeling (see 3.1) whereas when
r 2 and s = 3 or 5, rCs is not graceful. In 1984 Kotzig [944] once again investigated
the gracefulness of rCs as well as graphs that are the disjoint union of odd cycles. For
graphs of the latter kind he gives several necessary conditions. His paper concludes with
an elaborate table that summarizes what was then known about the gracefulness of rCs .
M. He [695] has shown that graphs of the form 2C2m and graphs obtained by connecting
two copies of C2m with an edge are graceful. Cahit [385] has shown that rCs is harmonious
when r and s are odd and Seoud, Abdel Maqsoud, and Sheehan [1430] noted that when r
or s is even, rCs is not harmonious. Seoud, Abdel Maqsoud, and Sheehan [1430] proved
that Cn Cn+1 is harmonious if and only if n 4. They conjecture that C3 C2n is
harmonious when n 3. This conjecture was proved when Yang, Lu, and Zeng [1901]
showed that all graphs of the form C2j+1 C2n are harmonious except for (n, j) = (2, 1).
As a consequence of their results about super edge-magic labelings (see 5.2) FigueroaCenteno, Ichishima, Muntaner-Batle, and Oshima [568] have that Cn C3 is harmonious
if and only if n 6 and n is even. Renuka, Balaganesan, Selvaraju [1358] proved that for
odd n Cn P3 and Cn  Km P3 are harmonious.
In 1978 Kotzig and Turgeon [947] proved that mKn is graceful if and only if m = 1
and n 4. Liu and Zhang [1100] have shown that mKn is not harmonious for n odd and
m 2 (mod 4) and is harmonious for n = 3 and m odd. They conjecture that mK3 is
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not harmonious when m 0 (mod 4). Bu and Cao [363] give some sufficient conditions
for the gracefulness of graphs of the form Km,n G and they prove that Km,n Pt and
the disjoint union of complete bipartite graphs are graceful under some conditions.
Recall a Skolem sequence of order n is a sequence s1 , s2 , . . . , s2n of 2n terms such
that, for each k {1, 2, . . . , n}, there exist exactly two subscripts i(k) and j(k) with
si(k) = sj(k) = k and |i(k) j(k)| = k. (A Skolem sequence of order n exists if and only
if n 0 or 1 (mod 4)). Abrham [7] has proved that any graceful 2-regular graph of order
n 0 (mod 4) in which all the component cycles are even or of order n 3 (mod 4),
with exactly one component an odd cycle, can be used to construct a Skolem sequence
of order n + 1. Also, he showed that certain special Skolem sequences of order n can be
used to generate graceful labelings on certain 2-regular graphs.
The graph Hn obtained from the cycle with consecutive vertices u1 , u2 , . . . , un (n 6)
by adding the chords u2 un , u3 un1 , . . . , u u , where = (n 1)/2 for all n and =
(n 1)/2 + 3 if n is odd or = n/2 + 2 if n is even is called the cycle with parallel
chords. In Elumalai and Sethuraman [522] prove the following: for odd n 5, Hn Kp,q
is graceful; for even n 6 and m = (n 2)/2 or m = n/2 Hn K1,m is graceful; for
n 6, Hn Pm is graceful, where m = n or n 2 depending on n 1 or 3 (mod 4) or
m n1 or n3 depending on n 0 or 2 (mod 4). Elumali and Sethuraman [525] proved
that every n-cycle (n 6) with parallel chords is graceful and every n-cycle with parallel
Pk -chords of increasing lengths is graceful for n = 2 (mod 4) with 1 k (bn/2c 1).
In 1985 Frucht and Salinas [586] conjectured that Cs Pn is graceful if and only
if s + n 6 and proved the conjecture for the case that s = 4. The conjecture was
proved by Traetta [1688] in 2012 who used his result to get a complete solution to the
well known two-table Oberwolfach problem; that is, given odd number of people and two
round tables when is it possible to arrange series of seatings so that each person sits next
to each other person exactly once during the series. The t-table Oberwolfach
problem
P
OP(n1 , n2 , . . . , nt ) asks to arrange a series of meals for an odd number n =
ni of people
around t tables of sizes n1 , n2 , . . . , nt so that each person sits next to each other exactly
once. A solution to OP(n1 , n2 , . . . , nt ) is a 2factorization of Kn whose factors consists of t
cycles of lengths n1 , n2 , . . . , nt . The fold Oberwolfach problem OP (n1 , n2 , . . . , nt ) refers
to the case where Kn is replaced by Kn . Traetta used his proof of the Frucht and Salinas
conjecture to provide a complete solutions to both OP (2r + 1, 2s) and OP (2r + 1, s, s),
except possibly for OP (3, s, s). He also gave a complete solution of the general -fold
Oberwolfach problem OP (r, s).
Seoud and Youssef [1466] have shown that K5 Km,n , Km,n Kp,q (m, n, p, q
2), Km,n Kp,q Kr,s (m, n, p, q, r, s 2, (p, q) 6= (2, 2)), and pKm,n (m, n 2, (m, n) 6=
(2, 2)) are graceful. They also prove that C4 K1,n (n 6= 2) is not graceful whereas
Choudum and Kishore [447], [918] have proved that Cs K1,n is graceful for s 7 and
n 1. Lee, Quach, and Wang [1028] established the gracefulness of Ps K1,n . Seoud and
Wilson [1458] have shown that C3 K4 , C3 C3 K4 , and certain graphs of the form C3 Pn
and C3 C3 Pn are not graceful. Abrham and Kotzig [12] proved that Cp Cq is graceful
if and only if p + q 0 or 3 (mod 4). Zhou [1953] proved that Km Kn (n > 1, m > 1) is
graceful if and only if {m, n} = {4, 2} or {5, 2}. (C. Barrientos has called to my attention
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that K1 Kn is graceful if and only if n = 3 or 4.) Shee [1500] has shown that graphs of
the form P2 C2k+1 (k > 1), P3 C2k+1 , Pn C3 , and Sn C2k+1 all satisfy a condition
that is a bit weaker than harmonious. Bhat-Nayak and Deshmukh [320] have shown that
C4t K1,4t1 and C4t+3 K1,4t+2 are graceful. Section 3.1 includes numerous families of
disconnected graphs that have a stronger form of graceful labelings.
For m = 2p + 3 or 2p + 4, Wang, Liu, and Li [1845] proved the following graphs are
graceful: Wm Kn,p and Wm,2m+1 Kn,p ; for n m, Wm,2m+1 K1,n ; for m = 2n + 5,
Wm,2m+1 (C3 + Kn ). If Gp is a graceful graph with p edges, they proved W2p+3 Gp is
graceful.
In considering graceful labelings of the disjoint unions of two or three stars Se with
e edges Yang and Wang [1904] permitted the vertex labels to range from 0 to e + 1 and
0 to e + 2, respectively. With these definitions of graceful, they proved that Sm Sn is
graceful if and only if m or n is even and that Sm Sn Sk is graceful if and only if at
least one of m, n, or k is even (m > 1, n > 1, k > 1).
Seoud and Youssef [1462] investigated the gracefulness of specific families of the form
G Km,n . They obtained the following results: C3 Km,n is graceful if and only if m 2
and n 2; C4 Km,n is graceful if and only if (m, n) 6= (1, 1); C7 Km,n and C8 Km,n
are graceful for all m and n; mK3 nK1,r is not graceful for all m, n and r; Ki Km,n
is graceful for i 4 and m 2, n 2 except for i = 2 and (m, n) = (2, 2); K5 K1,n
is graceful for all n; K6 K1,n is graceful if and only if n is not 1 or 3. Youssef [1922]
completed the characterization of the graceful graphs of the form Cn Kp,q where n 0
or 3 (mod 4) by showing that for n > 8 and n 0 or 3 (mod 4), Cn Kp,q is graceful for
all p and q (see also [268]). Note that when n 1 or 2 (mod 4) certain cases of Cn Kp,q
violate the parity condition for gracefulness.
For i = 1, 2, . . . , m let vi,1 , vi,2 , vi,3 , vi,4 be a 4-cycle. Yang and Pan [1899] define Fk,4
to be the graph obtained by identifying vi,3 and vi+1,1 for i = 1, 2, . . . , k 1. They prove
that Fm1 ,4 Fm2 ,4 Fmn ,4 is graceful for all n. Pan and Lu [1258] have shown that
(P2 + Kn ) K1,m and (P2 + Kn ) Tn are graceful.
St
Barrientos [268] has shown
the
following
graphs
are
graceful:
C

K
;
6
1,2n+1
i=1 Kmi ,ni
S
for 2 mi < ni ; and Cm ti=1 Kmi ,ni for 2 mi < ni , m 0 or 3 (mod 4), m 11.
Youssef [1920] has shown that if G is harmonious then mG is harmonious for all odd
m.
Wang and Li [1843] use St(n) to denote the star Kn,1 , Fn to denote the fan Pn  K1 ,
and Fm,n to denote the graph obtained by identifying the vertex of Fm with degree m
and the vertex of Fn with degree n. They showed: for all positive integers n and p and
m 2p + 2, Fm Kn,p and Fm,2m Kn,p are graceful; Fm St(n) is graceful; and
Fm,2m St(n) and Fm,2m Gr are graceful. In [1848] Wang, Wang, and Li gave a sufficient
condition for the gracefulness of graphs of the form (P3 + Km ) G and (C3 + Km ) G.
They proved the gracefulness of such graphs for a variety of cases when G involves stars
and paths. More technical results like these are given in [1850] and [1849].

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2.6

Joins of Graphs

A number of classes of graphs that are the join of graphs have been shown to be graceful
or harmonious. Acharya [13] proved that if G is a connected graceful graph, then G +
Kn is graceful. Redl [1356] showed that the double cone Cn + K2 is graceful for n =
3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11. That Cn + K2 is not graceful for n 2 (mod 4) follows that Rosas
parity condition. Redl asks what other double cones are graceful. Bras, Gomes, and
Selman [160] showed that double wheels (Cn Cn ) + K1 are graceful. Reid [1357] proved
that Pn + Kt is harmonious. Sethuraman and Selvaraju [1493] and [1419] have shown
that Pn + K2 is harmonious. They ask whether Sn + Pn or Pm + Pn is harmonious. Of
course, wheels are of the form Cn + K1 and are graceful and harmonious. In 2006 Chen
[422] proved that multiple wheels nCm + K1 are harmonious for all n 6 0 mod 4. She
believes that the n 6 0 (mod 4) case is also harmonious. Chen also proved that if H has
at least one edge, H + K1 is harmonious, and if n is odd, then nH + K is harmonious.
Shee [1500] has proved Km,n + K1 is harmonious and observed that various cases of
Km,n + Kt violate the harmonious parity condition in [662]. Liu and Zhang [1100] have
proved that K2 + K2 + + K2 is harmonious. Youssef [1920] has shown that if G is
harmonious then Gm is harmonious for all odd m. He asks the question of whether G is
harmonious implies Gm is harmonious when m 0 (mod 4). Yuan and Zhu [1938] proved
that Km,n + K2 is graceful and harmonious. Gnanajothi [646, pp. 80127] obtained the
following: Cn +K2 is harmonious when n is odd and not harmonious when n 2, 4, 6 (mod
8); Sn +Kt is harmonious; and Pn +Kt is harmonious. Balakrishnan and Kumar [253] have
proved that the join of K n and two disjoint copies of K2 is harmonious if and only if n is
even. Ramrez-Alfonsn [1342] has proved that if G is graceful and |V (G)| = |E(G)| = e
and either 1 or e is not a vertex label then G + Kt is graceful for all t. Sudha and Kanniga
[1628] proved that the graph Pm + Kn is graceful.
Seoud and Youssef [1464] have proved: the join of any two stars is graceful and harmonious; the join of any path and any star is graceful; and Cn + Kt is harmonious for
every t when n is odd. They also prove that if any edge is added to Km,n the resulting
graph is harmonious if m or n is at least 2. Deng [485] has shown certain cases of Cn + Kt
are harmonious. Seoud and Youssef [1461] proved: the graph obtained by appending any
number of edges from the two vertices of degree n 2 in K2,n is not harmonious; dragons
Dm,n (i.e., an endpoint of Pm is appended to Cn ) are not harmonious when m + n is odd;
and the disjoint union of any dragon and any number of cycles is not harmonious when
the resulting graph has odd order. Youssef [1919] has shown that if G is a graceful graph
with p vertices and q edges with p = q + 1, then G + Sn is graceful.
Sethuraman and Elumalai [1475] have proved that for every graph G with p vertices
and q edges the graph G+K1 +Km is graceful when m 2p p1q. As a corollary they
deduce that every graph is a vertex induced subgraph of a graceful graph. Balakrishnan
and Sampathkumar [254] ask for which m 3 is the graph mK2 + Kn graceful for all n.
Bhat-Nayak and Gokhale [324] have proved that 2K2 + Kn is not graceful. Youssef [1919]
has shown that mK2 + Kn is graceful if m 0 or 1 (mod 4) and that mK2 + Kn is not
graceful if n is odd and m 2 or 3 (mod 4). Ma [1143] proved that if G is a graceful tree

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then, G + K1,n is graceful. Amutha and Kathiresan [101] proved that the graph obtained
by attaching a pendent edge to each vertex of 2K2 + Kn is graceful.
Wu [1875] proves that if G is a graceful graph with n edges and n + 1 vertices then
the join of G and Km and the join of G and any star are graceful. Wei and Zhang [1859]
proved that for n 3 the disjoint union of P1 +Pn and a star, the disjoint union of P1 +Pn
and P1 + P2n , and the disjoint union of P2 + Kn and a graceful graph with n edges are
graceful. More technical results on disjoint unions and joins are given in [1858],[1859],
[1860],[1857], and [391].

2.7

Miscellaneous Results

It is easy to see that Pn2 is harmonious [659] while a proof that Pn2 is graceful has been
given by Kang, Liang, Gao, and Yang [888]. (Pnk , the kth power of Pn , is the graph
obtained from Pn by adding edges that join all vertices u and v with d(u, v) = k.) This
latter result proved a conjecture of Grace [659]. Seoud, Abdel Maqsoud, and Sheehan
[1430] proved that Pn3 is harmonious and conjecture that Pnk is not harmonious when
k > 3. The same conjecture was made by Fu and Wu [589]. However, Youssef [1928] has
proved that P84 is harmonious and Pnk is harmonious when k is odd. Yuan and Zhu [1938]
proved that Pn2k is harmonious when 1 k (n 1)/2. Selvaraju [1417] has shown that
Pn3 and the graphs obtained by joining the centers of any two stars with the end vertices
of the path of length n in Pn3 are harmonious.
Cahit [385] proves that the graphs obtained by joining p disjoint paths of a fixed
length k to single vertex are harmonious when p is odd and when k = 2 and p is even.
Gnanajothi [646, p. 50] has shown that the graph that consists of n copies of C6 that have
exactly P4 in common is graceful if and only if n is even. For a fixed n, let vi1 , vi2 , vi3 and
vi4 (1 i n) be consecutive vertices of n 4-cycles. Gnanajothi [646, p. 35] also proves
that the graph obtained by joining each vi1 to vi+1,3 is graceful for all n and the generalized
Petersen graph P (n, k) is harmonious in all cases (see also [1033]). Recall P (n, k), where
n 5 and 1 k n, has vertex set {a0 , a1 , . . . , an1 , b0 , b1 , . . . , bn1 } and edge set
{ai ai+1 | i = 0, 1, . . . , n1}{ai bi | i = 0, 1, . . . , n1}{bi bi+k | i = 0, 1, . . . , n1} where
all subscripts are taken modulo n [1856]. The standard Petersen graph is P (5, 2).) Redl
[1356] has used a constraint programming approach to show that P (n, k) is graceful for
n = 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. In [1794] and [1797] Vietri proved that P (8t, 3) and P (8t+4, 3) are
graceful for all t. He conjectures that the graphs P (8t, 3) have a stronger form a graceful
labeling called an -labeling (see 3.1). The gracefulness of the generalized Petersen
graphs is an open problem. A conjecture in the graph theory book by Chartrand and
Lesniak [413, p. 266] that graceful graphs with arbitrarily large chromatic numbers do not
exist was shown to be false by Acharya, Rao, and Arumugam [31] (see also Mahmoody
[1153]).
Baca and Youssef [239] investigated the existence of harmonious labelings for the
corona graphs of a cycle and a graph G. They proved that if G+K1 is strongly harmonious
with the 0 label on the vertex of K1 , then Cn  G is harmonious for all odd n 3. By
combining this with existing results they have as corollaries that the following graphs are

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harmonious: Cn  Cm for odd n 3 and m 6 2 (mod 3); Cn  Ks,t for odd n 3; and
Cn  K1,s,t for odd n 3.
Sethuraman and Selvaraju [1487] define a graph H to be a supersubdivision of a graph
G, if every edge uv of G is replaced by K2,m (m may vary for each edge) by identifying
u and v with the two vertices in K2,m that form the partite set with exactly two members. Sethuraman and Selvaraju prove that every supersubdivision of a path is graceful
and every cycle has some supersubdivision that is graceful. They conjecture that every
supersubdivision of a star is graceful and that paths and stars are the only graphs for
which every supersubdivision is graceful. Barrientos [270] disproved this latter conjecture
by proving that every supersubdivision of a y-trees is graceful (recall a y-tree is obtained
from a path by appending an edge to a vertex of a path adjacent to an end point). Barrientos asks if paths and y-trees are the only graphs for which every supersubdivision is
graceful. This seems unlikely to be the case. The conjecture that every supersubdivision
of a star is graceful was proved by Kathiresan and Amutha [896]. In [1491] Sethuraman
and Selvaraju prove that every connected graph has some supersubdivision that is graceful. They pose the question as to whether this result is valid for disconnected graphs.
Barrientos and Barrientos [277] answered this question by proving that any disconnected
graph has a supersubdivision that admits an -labeling. They also proved that every
supersubdivision of a connected graph admits an -labeling. Sekar and Ramachandren
proved that an arbitrary supersubdivision of disconnected graph is graceful [1416] and
supersubdivisions of ladders are graceful [1340]. Sethuraman and Selvaraju also asked if
there is any graph other than K2,m that can be used to replace an edge of a connected
graph to obtain a supersubdivision that is graceful.
Sethuraman and Selvaraju [1487] call superdivision graphs of G where every edge uv
of G is replaced by K2,m and m is fixed an arbitrary supersubdivision of G. Barrientos
and Barrientos [277] answered the question of Sethuraman and Selvaraju by proving
that any graph obtained from K2,m by attaching k pendent edges and n pendent edges
to the vertices of its 2-element stable set can be used instead of K2,m to produce an
arbitrary supersubdivision that admits an -labeling. K. Kathiresan and R. Sumathi
[902] affirmatively answer the question posed by Sethuraman and Selvaraju in [1487]
of whether there are graphs different from paths whose arbitrary supersubdivisions are
graceful.
For a graph G Ambili and Singh [100] call the graph G a strong supersubdivision of
G if G is obtained from G by replacing every edge ei of G by a complete bipartite graph
Kri ,si . A strong supersubdivision G of G is said to be an arbitrary strong supersubdivision
if G is obtained from G by replacing every edge ei of G by a complete bipartite graph
Kr,si (r is fixed and si may vary). They proved that arbitrary strong supersubdivisions
of paths, cycles, and stars are graceful. They conjecture that every arbitrary strong
supersubdivision of a tree is graceful and ask if it is true that for any non-trivial connected
graph G, an arbitrary strong supersubdivision of G is graceful?
In [1490] Sethuraman and Selvaraju present an algorithm that permits one to start
with any non-trivial connected graph and successively form supersubdivisions that have
a strong form of graceful labeling called an -labeling (see 3.1 for the definition).
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Kathiresan [893] uses the notation Pa,b to denote the graph obtained by identifying
the end points of b internally disjoint paths each of length a. He conjectures that Pa,b is
graceful except when a is odd and b 2 (mod 4) and proves the conjecture for the case
that a is even and b is odd. Liang and Zuo [1084] proved that the graph Pa,b is graceful
when both a and b are even. Daili, Wang and Xie [479] provided an algorithm for finding
a graceful labeling of P2r,2 and showed that a P2r,2(2k+1) is graceful for all positives r and
k. Sekar [1415] has shown that Pa,b is graceful when a 6= 4r + 1, r > 1, b = 4m, and
m > r. Yang (see [1902]) proved that Pa,b is graceful when a = 3, 5, 7, and 9 and b is odd
and when a = 2, 4, 6, and 8 and b is even (see [1902]). Yang, Rong, and Xu [1902] proved
that Pa,b is graceful when a = 10, 12, and 14 and b is even. Yan [1895] proved P2r,2m is
graceful when r is odd. Yang showed that P2r+1,2m+1 and P2r,2m (r 7, and r = 9) are
graceful (see [1371]). Rong and Xiong [1371] showed that P2r,b is graceful for all positive
integers r and b. Kathiresan also shows that the graph obtained by identifying a vertex
of Kn with any noncenter vertex of the star with 2n1 n(n 1)/2 edges is graceful.
For a family of graphs G1 (u1 , u2 ), G2 (u2 , u3 ), . . . , Gm (um , um+1 ) where ui and ui+1 are
vertices in Gi Cheng, Yao, Chen, and Zhang [431] define a graph-block chain Hm as the
graph obtained by identifying ui+1 of Gi with ui+1 of Gi+1 for i = 1, 2, . . . , m. They
denote this graph by Hm = G1 (u1 , u2 ) G2 (u2 , u3 ) Gm (um , um+1 ). The case where
each Gi has the form Pai ,bi they call a path-block chain. The vertex u1 is called the initial

vertex of Hm . They define a generalized spider Sm

as a graph obtained by starting with
an initial vertex u0 and m path-block graphs and join u0 with each initial vertex of each
of the path-block graphs. Similarly, they define a generalized caterpillar Tm as a graph
obtained by starting with m path-block chains H1 , H2 , . . . , Hm and a caterpillar T with
m isolated vertices v1 , v2 , . . . , vm and join each vi with the initial vertex of each Hi . They
prove several classes of path-block chains, generalized spiders, and generalized caterpillars
are graceful.
The graph Tn with 3n vertices and 6n 3 edges is defined as follows. Start with a
triangle T1 with vertices v1,1 , v1,2 and v1,3 . Then Ti+1 consists of Ti together with three
new vertices vi+1,1 , vi+1,2 , vi+1,3 and edges vi+1,1 vi,2 , vi+1,1 vi,3 , vi+1,2 vi,1 , vi+1,2 vi,3 , vi+1,3 vi,1 ,
vi+1,3 vi,2 . Gnanajothi [646] proved that Tn is graceful if and only if n is odd. Sekar [1415]
proved Tn is graceful when n is odd and Tn with a pendent edge attached to the starting
triangle is graceful when n is even.
In [298] and [682] Begam, Palanivelrajan, Gunasekaran, and Hameed give graceful
labelings for graphs constructed by combining theta graphs with paths and stars.
For a graph G, the splitting graph of G, S 1 (G), is obtained from G by adding for
each vertex v of G a new vertex v 1 so that v 1 is adjacent to every vertex that is adjacent
to v. Sekar [1415] has shown that S 1 (Pn ) is graceful for all n and S 1 (Cn ) is graceful for
n 0, 1 (mod 4). Vaidya and Shah [1754] proved that the square graph of a bistar, the
splitting graph of a bistar, and the splitting graph of a star are graceful graphs.
In [1629] Sudha and Kanniga proved that fans and the splitting graph of a star are
graceful. They also proved that tensor product of a star and P2 is odd-even graceful. (The
tensor product G H of graphs G and H, has the vertex set V (G) V (H) and any two
vertices (u, u0 ) and (v, v 0 ) are adjacent in G H if and only if u0 is adjacent with v 0 and
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u is adjacent with v.) Sudha and Kanniga [1630] proved that the following graphs are
graceful: arbitrary supersubdivisions of wheels; combs (Pn  K1 ); double fans (Pn  K2 );
(Pm Pn )  K1 ; and graphs obtained by starting with two star graphs Sm and Sn and
identiying some of the pendent vertices of each. Sudha and Kanniga [1631] proved that
the graphs obtained from Pn  K1 by identifying the center of a Sn with the endpoint of a
pendent edge attached to the endpoint of Pn are graceful; and the graphs obtained from a
fan Pn  K1 by deleting a pendent edge attached to an endpoint of Pn are graceful. Sunda
[1625] provided some results on graphs obtained by connecting copies of Km,n in certian
ways. Sudha and Kanniga [1627] proved that the graphs obtained by joining the vertices
of a path to any number isolated points are graceful. They also proved that the arbitrary
supersubdivision of all the edges of helms, combs (Pn  K1 ) and ladders (Pn P2 ) with
pendent edges at the vertices of degree 2 by a complete bipartite graphs K2,m are graceful.
The duplication of an edge e = uv of a graph G is the graph G0 obtained from G by
adding an edge e0 = u0 v 0 such that N (u) = N (u0 ) and N (v) = N (v 0 ). The duplication
of a vertex of a graph G is the graph G0 obtained from G by adding a new vertex v 0 to
G such that N (v 0 ) = N (v). Kaneria, Vaidya, Ghodasara, and Srivastav [863] proved the
duplication of a vertex of a cycle, the duplication of an edge of an even cycle, and the
graph obtained by joining two copies of a fixed cycle by an edge are graceful.
Kaneria and Makadia [870] [871] proved the following graphs are graceful: (Pm Pn )
(Pr Ps ); C2f +3 (Pm Pn ) (Pr Ps ), where f = 2(mn + rs) (m + n + r + s); the
tensor product of Pn and P3 ; the tensor product of Pm and Pn for odd m and n; the star
of C4n (the star of a graph G is the graph obtained from G by replacing each vertex of
star K1,n by G); the tsupersubdivision of Pm Pn ; and the graph obtained by joining
C4n and a grid graph with a path.
The join sum of complete bipartite graphs < Km1 ,n1 , . . . , Kmt ,nt > is the graph obtained by starting with Km1 ,n1 , . . . , Kmt ,nt and joining a vertex of each pair Kmi ,ni and
Kmi+1 ,ni+1 to a new vertex vi where 1 i k 1. The path-union of a graph G is the
graph obtained by adding an edge from n copies G1 , G2 , . . . , Gn of G from Gi to Gi+1 for
i = 1, . . . , n 1. Kaneria, Makadia, and Meghpara [874] proved the following graphs are
graceful: the graph obtained by joining C4m and C4n by a path of arbitrary length; the
path union of finite many copies of C4n ; and C4n with twin chords. Kaneria, Makadia,
Jariya, and Meghpara [873] proved that the join sum of complete bipartite graphs, the
star of complete bipartite graphs, and the path union of a complete bipartite graphs are
graceful.
Given connected graphs G1 , G2 , . . . , Gn , Kaneria, Makadia, and Jariya [872] define a
cycle of graphs C(G1 , G2 , . . . , Gn ) as the graph obtained by adding an edge joining Gi to
Gi+1 for i = 1, . . . , n 1 and an edge joining Gn to G1 . (The resulting graph can vary
depending on which vertices of the Gi s are chosen.) When the n graphs are isomorphic
to G the notation C(n G) is used. Kaneria et al. proved that C(2t C4n ) and C(2t Kn,n )
are graceful. In [878] and [880] Kaneria, Makadia, and Meghpara prove that the following
P 2t
graphs
are
graceful:
C(2t

K
);
C(C
,
C
,
.
.
.
,
C
)
when
t
is
even
and
m,n
4n
4n
4n
t
1
2
i=1 ni =
Pt
n
;
C(2t

P
);
the
star
of
P

P
;
and
the
path
union
of
t
copies
of
P
i
m
n
m
n
m Pn .
i= 2t
Kaneria, Viradia, Jariya, and Makadia [883] proved the cycle graph C(t Pn ) is graceful.
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The star of graphs G1 , G2 , . . . , Gn , denoted by S(G1 , G2 , . . . , Gn ), is the graph obtained by identifying each vertex of K1,n , except the center, with one vertex from each
of G1 , G2 , . . . , Gn . The case that G1 = G2 = = Gn = G is denoted by S(n G). In
[875] and [876] Kaneria, Meghpara, and Makadia proved the following graphs are graceful:
S(t Km,n ); S(t Pm Pn ); the barycentric subdivision of Pm Pn (that is, the graph
obtained from Pm Pn by inserting a new vertex in each edge); the graph obtained by
replacing each edge of K1,t by Pn ; the graph obtained by identifying each end point of
K1,n with a vertex of Km,n ; and the graph obtained by identifying each end point of K1,n
with a vertex of Pm Pn .
The graph Pnt is obtained by identifying one end point from each of t copies of Pn . The
graph Pnt (G1 , G2 , . . . , Gtn ) obtained by replacing each edge of Pnt , except those adjacent
to the vertex of degree t, by the graphs G1 , G2 , . . . , Gtn is called the one point union for
the path of G1 , G2 , . . . , Gtn . The case where G1 = G2 = = Gtn = H is denoted by
Pnt (tnH). In [875] and [876] Kaneria, Meghpara, and Makadia proved Pnt and Pnt (tnKm,r )
are graceful.
In [868] and [867] Kaneria and Jariya define a smooth graceful graph as a bipartite
graph G with q edges with the property that for all positive integers l there exists a map
c, b q+1
c+l, b q+3
c+l, . . . , q+l} such that the induced edge labeling
g : V {0, 1, . . . , b q1
2
2
2
?
map g : E {1 + l, 2 + l, . . . , q + l} defined by g ? (e) = |g(u) g(v)| is a bijection.
Note that by taking l = 0 a smooth graceful labeling is a graceful labeling. Kaneria and
Jariya proved the following graphs are smooth graceful: Pn ; C4n ; K2,n ; Pm Pn ; and the
graph obtained by joining a cycle C4m+2 with twin chords to C4n . They also proved that
the graph obtained by joining C4m to Wn with a path is graceful. They proved that the
star of K1,n is graceful, the path union of a smooth graceful tree is graceful, and the star
of a smooth graceful tree is a graceful tree.
For a bipartite graph G with partite sets X and Y let G0 be a copy of G and X 0
and Y 0 be copies of X and Y . Lee and Liu [1007] define the mirror graph, M (G), of G
as the disjoint union of G and G0 with additional edges joining each vertex of Y to its
corresponding vertex in Y 0 . The case that G = Km,n is more simply denoted by M (m, n).
They proved that for many cases M (m, n) has a stronger form of graceful labeling (see
3.1 for details).
The total graph T (Pn ) has vertex set V (Pn ) E(Pn ) with two vertices adjacent whenever they are neighbors in Pn . Balakrishnan, Selvam, and Yegnanarayanan [255] have
proved that T (Pn ) is harmonious.
For any graph G with vertices v1 , . . . , vn and a vector m = (m1 , . . . , mn ) of positive
integers the corresponding replicated graph, Rm (G), of G is defined as follows. For each
vi form a stable set Si consisting of mi new vertices i = 1, 2, . . . , n (a stable set S consists
of a set of vertices such that there is not an edge vi vj for all pairs vi , vj in S); two
stable sets Si , Sj , i 6= j, form a complete bipartite graph if each vi vj is an edge in G
and otherwise there are no edges between Si and Sj . Ramrez-Alfonsn [1342] has proved
that Rm (Pn ) is graceful for all m and all n > 1 (see 3.4 for a stronger result) and that
R(m,1,...,1) (C4n ), R(2,1,...,1) (Cn ) (n 8) and, R(2,2,1,...,1) (C4n ) (n 12) are graceful.
For any permutation f on 1, . . . , n, the f -permutation graph on a graph G, P (G, f ),
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consists of two disjoint copies of G, G1 and G2 , each of which has vertices labeled
v1 , v2 , . . . , vn with n edges obtained by joining each vi in G1 to vf (i) in G2 . In 1983 Lee
(see [1070]) conjectured that for all n > 1 and all permutations on 1, 2, . . . , n, the permutation graph P (Pn , f ) is graceful. Lee, Wang, and Kiang [1070] proved that P (P2k , f ) is
graceful when f = (12)(34) (k, k + 1) (2k 1, 2k). They conjectured that if G is a
graceful nonbipartite graph with n vertices, then for any permutation f on 1, 2, . . . , n, the
permutation graph P (G, f ) is graceful. Fan and Liang [549] have shown that if f is a permutation in Sn where n 2(m Q1) + 2l then the permutation graph P (Pn , f ) is graceful
if the disjoint cycle form of f is l1
2(m 1) + 4l the
k=0 (m + 2k, m + 2k + 1), and if n Q
permutation graph P (Pn , f ) is graceful the disjoint cycle form of f is l1
k=0 (m + 4k, m +
4k + 2)(m + 4k + 1, m + 4k + 3). For any integer n 5 and some permutations f in
S(n), Liang and Y. Miao, [1086] discuss gracefulness of the permutation graphs P (Pn , f )
if f = (m, m+1, m+2, m+3, m+4), (m, m+2)(m+1, m+3), (m, m+1, m+2, m+4, m+
3), (m, m+1, m+4, m+3, m+2), (m, m+2, m+3, m+4, m+1), (m, m+3, m+4, m+2, m+1)
and (m, m + 4, m + 3, m + 2, m + 1). Some families of graceful permutation graphs are
given in [1000], [1081], and [683].
Gnanajothi [646, p. 51] calls a graph G bigraceful if both G and its line graph are
graceful. She shows the following are bigraceful: Pm ; Pm Pn ; Cn if and only if n 0, 3
(mod 4); Sn ; Kn if and only if n 3; and Bn if and only if n 3 (mod 4). She also shows
that Km,n is not bigraceful when n 3 (mod 4). (Gangopadhyay and Hebbare [605]
used the term bigraceful to mean a bipartite graceful graph.) Murugan and Arumugan
[1223] have shown that graphs obtained from C4 by attaching two disjoint paths of equal
length to two adjacent vertices are bigraceful.
Several well-known isolated graphs have been examined. Graceful labelings have been
found for the Petersen graph [582], the cube [614], the icosahedron and the dodecahedron.
Graham and Sloane [662] showed that all of these except the cube are harmonious. Winters
[1870] verified that the Grotzsch graph (see [348, p. 118]), the Heawood graph (see [348,
p. 236]), and the Herschel graph (see [348, p. 53]) are graceful. Graham and Sloane [662]
determined all harmonious graphs with at most five vertices. Seoud and Youssef [1463]
did the same for graphs with six vertices.
A number of authors have investigated the gracefulness of the directed graphs obtained
~ m that have a vertex in common or have an edge in
from copies of directed cycles C
common. A digraph D(V, E) is said to be graceful if there exists an injection f : V (G)
{0, 1, . . . , |E|} such that the induced function f 0 : E(G) {1, 2, . . . , |E|} that is defined
by f 0 (u, v) = (f (v) f (u)) (mod |E| + 1) for every directed edge uv is a bijection. The
~ m and n C
~ m are used to denote the digraphs obtained from n copies of
notations n C
~
~m
Cm with exactly one point in common and the digraphs obtained from n copies of C
with exactly one edge in common. Du and Sun [512] proved that a necessary condition for
~ m to be graceful is that mn is even and that n C
~ m is graceful when m is even. They
nC
~
conjectured that n Cm is graceful for any odd m and even n. This conjecture was proved
by Jirimutu, Xu, Feng, and Bao in [858]. Xu, Jirimutu, Wang, and Min [1887] proved
~ m is graceful for m = 4, 6, 8, 10 and even n. Feng and Jirimutu (see [1947])
that n C
~ m is graceful for even n and asked about the situation for odd n.
conjectured that n C
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The cases where m = 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13 and even n were proved Zhao and Jirimutu [1945].
The cases for m = 15, 17, and 19 and even n were proved by Zhao et al. in [1946], [1947],
and [1570]. Zhao, Siqintuya, and Jirimutu [1947] also proved that a necessary condition
~ m to be graceful is that nm is even. A survey of results on graceful digraphs by
for n C
Feng, Xu, and Jirimutu in given in [555].
Marr [1165] and [1164] summarizes previously known results on graceful directed
graphs and presents some new results on directed paths, stars, wheels, and umbrellas.
In 2009 Zak [1941] defined the following generalization of harmonious labelings. For a
graph G(V, E) and a positive integer t |E| a function h from V (G) to Zt (the additive
group of integers modulo t) is called a t-harmonious labeling of G if h is injective for
t |V | or surjective for t < |V |, and h(u) + h(v) 6= h(x) + h(y) for all distinct edges
uv and xy. The smallest such t for which G has a t-harmonious labeling is called the
harmonious order of G . Obviously, a graph G(V, E)with |E| |V | is harmonious if
and only if the harmonious order of G is |E|. Zak determines the harmonious order of
complete graphs, complete bipartite graphs, even cycles, some cases of Pnk , and 2nK3 . He
presents some results about the harmonious order of the Cartesian products of graphs,
the disjoint union of copies of a given graph, and gives an upper bound for the harmonious
order of trees. He conjectures that the harmonious order of a tree of order n is n + o(n).
For a graph with e edges Vietri [1798] generalizes the notion of a graceful labeling by
allowing the vertex labels to be real numbers in the interval [0, e]. For a simple graph
G(V, E) he defines an injective map from V to [0, e] to be a real-graceful labeling of G
provided
that
P (u)(v)
2
+ 2(v)(u) = 2e+1 2e 1, where the sum is taken over all edges uv. In the
case that the labels are integers, he shows that a real-graceful labeling is equivalent to a
graceful labeling. In contrast to the case for graceful labelings, he shows that the cycles
C4t+1 and C4t+2 have real-graceful labelings. He also shows that the non-graceful graphs
K5 , K6 and K7 have real-graceful labelings. With one exception, his real-graceful labels
are integers.

2.8

Summary

The results and conjectures discussed above are summarized in the tables following. The
letter G after a class of graphs indicates that the graphs in that class are known to be
graceful; a question mark indicates that the gracefulness of the graphs in the class is an
open problem; we put a question mark after a G if the graphs have been conjectured
to be graceful. The analogous notation with the letter H is used to indicate the status of
the graphs with regard to being harmonious. The tables impart at a glimpse what has
been done and what needs to be done to close out a particular class of graphs. Of course,
there is an unlimited number of graphs one could consider. One wishes for some general
results that would handle several broad classes at once but the experience of many people
suggests that this is unlikely to occur soon. The Graceful Tree Conjecture alone has
withstood the efforts of scores of people over the past four decades. Analogous sweeping
conjectures are probably true but appear hopelessly difficult to prove.
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Table 1: Summary of Graceful Results

Graph
trees

Graceful
G if 35 vertices [550]
G if symmetrical [312]
G if at most 4 end-vertices [749]
G with diameter at most 7 [1851]
G? Ringel-Kotzig
G caterpillars [1373]
G firecrakers [421]
G bananas [1483], [1482]
G? lobsters [308]

cycles Cn

G iff n 0, 3 (mod 4) [1373]

wheels Wn

G [582], [736]

helms (see 2.2)

G [134]

webs (see 2.2)

G [888]

gears (see 2.2)

cycles with Pk -chord (see 2.2)

G [1142]
G [484], [1141], [929], [1318]

Cn with k consecutive chords (see 2.2) G if k = 2, 3, n 3 [919], [926]

unicyclic graphs

G? iff G 6= Cn , n 1, 2 (mod 4) [1694]

Pnk

G if k = 2 [888]

(t)

Cn (see 2.2)

n = 3 G iff t 0, 1 (mod 4)
[309], [311]
G? if nt 0, 3 (mod 4) [920]
G if n = 6, t even [920]
G if n = 4, t > 1 [1501]
G if n = 5, t > 1 [1900]
G if n = 7 and t 0, 3 (mod 4) [1906]
G if n = 9 and t 0, 3 (mod 4) [1907]
G if t = 2 n 6 1 (mod 4) [1323], [345]
G if n = 11 [1889]

triangular snakes (see 2.2)

G iff number of blocks 0, 1 (mod 4) [1218]

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Graceful

K4 -snakes (see 2.2)

quadrilateral snakes (see 2.2)

G [646], [1323]

crowns Cn  K1

G [582]

C n  Pk

G [1415]

grids Pm Pn

G [25]

prisms Cm Pn

G if n = 2 [585], [1903]
G if m even [750]
G if m odd and 3 n 12 [750]
G if m = 3 [1550]
G if m = 6 see [1905]
G if m 2 (mod 4) and n 3 (mod 4) [1905]
G if (m, n) = (4, 2), (4, 3), (4, 4), (4, 5), (5, 2)
not G if (m, n) = (3, 3), (6, 2), (7, 2),
(8, 2), (9, 2), (10, 2)
not G? for (m, 2) with m > 5
[1585]

K m Pn

Km,n  K1

G [853]

torus grids Cm Cn

G if m 0 (mod 4), n even [861]

not G if m, n odd (parity condition)

vertex-deleted Cm Pn

G if n = 2 [601]

edge-deleted Cm Pn

G if n = 2 [601]

Mobius ladders Mn (see 2.3)

G [596]

stacked books Sm Pn (see 2.3)

n-cube K2 K2 K2

n = 2, G iff m 6 3 (mod 4) [1151], [483], [600]

G if m even [600]
G [943]

K 4 Pn

G if n = 2, 3, 4, 5 [1273]
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Table 1 Continued from previous page

Graceful
G iff n 4 [650], [1549]

Graph
Kn
Km,n

G [1373], [650]

K1,m,n

G [120]

K1,1,m,n

G [646]
(m)

windmills Kn (n > 3) (see 2.4)

G if n = 4, m 1000 [750],[2],[1853],[632]
G? if n = 4, m 4 [308]
not G if n = 4, m = 2, 3 [308]
not G if (m, n) = (2, 5) [311]
not G if n > 5 [926]

B(n, r, m) r > 1 (see 2.4)

G if (n, r) = (3, 2), (4, 3) [921], (4,2) [483]

G (n, r, m) = (5, 2, 2) [1585]
not G for (n, 2, 2) for n > 5 [310], [1585]

mKn (see 2.5)

C s Pn

G iff m = 1, n 4 [947]
G iff s + n 6 [1688]

Cp Cq

G iff p + q 0, 3 (mod 4) [12]

Cn Kp,q

for n > 8 G iff n 0, 3 (mod 4) [1922]

G C6 K1,2n+1 [268]
G C3 Km,n iff m, n 2 [1462]
G C4 Km,n iff (m, n) 6= (1, 1)[1462]
G C7 Km,n [1462]
G C8 Km,n [1462]

Ki Km,n

G [268]

St

Kmi ,ni

G 2 mi < ni [268]

St

G 2 mi < ni ,
m 0 or 3 (mod 4), m 11 [268]

i=1

Cm

i=1

Kmi ,ni

G + Kt

G for connected graceful G [13]

double cones Cn + K2

G for n = 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12
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Graceful
not G for n 2 (mod 4) [1356]

t-point suspension Cn + Kt

G if n 0 or 3 (mod 12) [325]

not G if t is even and n 2, 6, 10 (mod 12)
G if n = 4, 7, 11 or 19 [325]
G if n = 5 or 9 and t = 2 [325]

Pn2 (see 2.7)

G [999]

Petersen P (n, k) (see 2.7)

G for n = 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 [1356],
(n, k) = (8t, 3) [1794]

Table 2: Summary of Harmonius Results

Graph
trees

Harmonius
H if 31 vertices [551]
H? [662]
H caterpillars [662]
? lobsters

cycles Cn

H iff n is odd [662]

wheels Wn

H [662]

helms (see 2.2)

H [646], [1112]

webs (see 2.2)

H if cycle is odd

gears (see 2.2)

H [422]

cycles with Pk -chord (see 2.2)

Cn with k consecutive chords (see 2.2) ?

unicyclic graphs

Pnk

H if k = 2 [659], k odd [1430], [1928]

H if k is even and k/2 (n 1)/2 [1938]
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Harmonius

(t)

Cn (see 2.2)

n = 3 H iff t 6 2 (mod 4) [662]

H if n = 4, t > 1 [1501]

triangular snakes (see 2.2)

H if number of blocks is odd [1886]

not H if number of blocks 2
(mod 4) [1886]

K4 -snakes (see 2.2)

H [660]

quadrilateral snakes (see 2.2)

crowns Cn  K1

H [659], [1099]

grids Pm Pn
prisms Cm Pn

H
H
H
H

torus grids Cm Cn ,

H if m = 4, n > 1 [861]
not H if m 6 0 (mod 4) and n odd [861]

vertex-deleted Cm Pn

H if n = 2 [601]

edge-deleted Cm Pn

H if n = 2 [601]

Mobius ladders Mn (see 2.3)

H iff n 6= 3 [596]

stacked books Sm Pn (see 2.3)

n = 2, H if m even [658], [1357]

not H m 3 (mod 4), n = 2,
(parity condition)
H if m 1 (mod 4), n = 2 [646]

n-cube K2 K2 K2

H if and only if n 4 [761]

K 4 Pn

H [1357]

Kn

H iff n 4 [662]

Km,n

H iff m or n = 1 [662]
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iff (m, n) 6= (2, 2) [861]

if n = 2, m 6= 4 [601]
if n odd [662]
if m = 4 and n 3 [861]

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Harmonius

Graph
K1,m,n

H [120]

K1,1,m,n

H [646]
(m)

windmills Kn

(n > 3) (see 2.4)

B(n, r, m) r > 1 (see 2.4)

H if n = 4 [743]
m = 2, H? iff n = 4 [662]
not H if m = 2, n odd or 6 [662]
not H for some cases m = 3 [1098]
(n, r) = (3, 2), (4, 3) [1459]

mKn (see 2.5)

H n = 3, m odd [1100]
not H for n odd, m 2 (mod 4) [1100]

nG

H when G is harmonious and n odd [1920]

Gn

H when G is harmonious and n odd [1920]

C s Pn

fans Fn = Pn + K1

H [662]

nCm + K1 n 6 0 mod 4

H [422]

double fans Pn + K2

H [662]

t-point suspension Pn + Kt of Pn

H [1357]

S m + K1

H [646], [403]

t-point suspension Cn + Kt of Cn

H if n odd and t = 2 [1357], [646]

not H if n 2, 4, 6 (mod 8) and t = 2 [646]

Petersen P (n, k) (see 2.7)

H [646], [1033]

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3
3.1

Variations of Graceful Labelings

-labelings

In 1966 Rosa [1373] defined an -labeling (or -valuation) as a graceful labeling with
the additional property that there exists an integer k so that for each edge xy either
f (x) k < f (y) or f (y) k < f (x). (Other names for such labelings are balanced,
interlaced, and strongly graceful.) It follows that such a k must be the smaller of the two
vertex labels that yield the edge labeled 1. Also, a graph with an -labeling is necessarily
bipartite and therefore can not contain a cycle of odd length. Wu [1878] has shown that a
necessary condition for a bipartite graph with n edges and degree sequence d1 , d2 , . . . , dp
to have an -labeling is that the gcd(d1 , d2 , . . . , dp , n) divides n(n 1)/2.
A common theme in graph labeling papers is to build up graphs that have desired
labelings from pieces with particular properties. In these situations, starting with a
graph that possesses an -labeling is a typical approach. (See [403], [659], [421], and
[861].) Moreover, Jungreis and Reid [861] showed how sequential labelings of graphs (see
Section 4.1) can often be obtained by modifying -labelings of the graphs.
Graphs with -labelings have proved to be useful in the development of the theory of
graph decompositions. Rosa [1373], for instance, has shown that if G is a graph with q
edges and has an -labeling, then for every natural number p, the complete graph K2qp+1
can be decomposed into copies of G in such a way that the automorphism group of the
decomposition itself contains the cyclic group of order p. In the same vein El-Zanati
and Vanden Eynden [529] proved that if G has q edges and admits an -labeling then
Kqm,qn can be partitioned into subgraphs isomorphic to G for all positive integers m and
n. Although a proof of Ringels conjecture that every tree has a graceful labeling has
withstood many attempts, examples of trees that do not have -labelings are easy to
construct (one exmple is the subdivision graph of K1,3 see [1373]). Kotzig [941] has
shown however that almost all trees have -labelings. Sethuraman and Ragukumar [1485]
have proved that every tree is a subtree of a graph with an -labeling.
As to which graphs have -labelings, Rosa [1373] observed that the n-cycle has an
-labeling if and only if n 0 (mod 4) whereas Pn always has an -labeling. Other
familiar graphs that have -labelings include caterpillars [1373], the n-cube [940], Mobius
ladders Mn when n is odd (see 2.3) for the definition) [1265], B4n+1 (i.e., books with
4n + 1 pages) [600], C2m C2m and C4m C4m C4m for all m > 1 [942], C4m C4m C4n
for all (m, n) 6= 1, 1) [543], Pn Qn [1151], K1,2k Qn [1151], C4m C4m C4m C4m [979],
C4m C4n+2 C4r+2 , C4m C4n C4r when m + n r [12], C4m C4n C4r C4s when
m n + r + s [8], C4m C4n C4r+2 C4s+2 when m n + r + s + 1 [8], ((m + 1)2 + 1)C4
for all m [1952], k 2 C4 for all k [1952], and (k 2 + k)C4 for all k [1952]. Abrham and Kotzig
[10] have shown kC4 has an -labeling for 4 k 10 and that if kC4 has an -labeling
then so does (4k + 1)C4 , (5k + 1)C4 and (9k + 1)C4 . Eshghi [538] proved that 5C4k has
an -labeling for all k. In [543] Eshghi and Carter show several families of graphs of the
form C4n1 C4n2 C4nk have -labelings. Pei-Shan Lee [990] proved that C6 P2t+1
and gear graphs have -labelings. He raises the question of whether C4m+2 P2t+1 has an

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-labeling for all m. Brankovic, Murch, Pond, and Rosa [354] conjectured that all trees
with maximum degree three and a perfect matching have an -labeling.
Figueroa-Centeno, Ichishima, and Muntaner-Batle [564] have shown that if m 0
(mod 4) then the one-point union of 2, 3, or 4 copies of Cm admits an -labeling, and
if m 2 (mod 4) then the one-point union of 2 or 4 copies of Cm admits an -labeling.
They conjecture that the one-point union of n copies of Cm admits an -labeling if and
only if mn 0 (mod 4).
In his 2001 Ph. D. thesis Selvaraju [1417] investigated the one-point union of complete
bipartite graphs. He proves that the one-point unions of the following forms have an
-labeling: Km,n1 and Km,n2 ; Km1 ,n1 , Km2 ,n2 , and Km3 ,n3 where m1 m2 m3 and
n1 < n2 < n3 ; Km1 ,n , Km2 ,n , and Km3 ,n where m1 < m2 < m3 2n.
Zhile [1952] uses Cm (n) to denote the connected graph all of whose blocks are Cm and
whose block-cutpoint-graph is a path. He proves that for all positive integers m and n,
C4m (n) has an -labeling but Cm (n) does not have an -labeling when m is odd.
Abrham and Kotzig [12] have proved that Cm Cn has an -labeling if and only
if both m and n are even and m + n 0 (mod 4). Kotzig [942] has also shown that
C4 C4 C4 does not have an -labeling. He asked if n = 3 is the only integer such that
the disjoint union of n copies of C4 does not have an -labeling. This was confirmed by
Abrham and Kotzig in [11]. Eshghi [537] proved that every 2-regular bipartite graph with
3 components has an -labeling if and only if the number of edges is a multiple of four
except for C4 C4 C4 . In [540] Eshghi gives more results on the existence of -labelings
for various families of disjoint union of cycles.
Jungreis and Reid [861] investigated the existence of -labelings for graphs of the form
Pm Pn , Cm Pn , and Cm Cn (see also [599]). Of course, the cases involving Cm with
m odd are not bipartite, so there is no -labeling. The only unresolved cases among these
three families are C4m+2 P2n+1 and C4m+2 C4n+2 . All other cases result in -labelings.
Balakrishman [249] uses the notation Qn (G) to denote the graph P2 P2 P2 G
where P2 occurs n 1 times. Snevily [1588] has shown that the graphs Qn (C4m ) and the
cycles C4m with the path Pn adjoined at each vertex have -labelings. He [1589] also has
shown that compositions of the form G[Kn ] (see 2.3 for the definition) have an -labeling
whenever G does (see 2.3 for the definition of composition). Balakrishman and Kumar
[252] have shown that all graphs of the form Qn (G) where G is K3,3 , K4,4 , or Pm have an
-labeling. Balakrishman [249] poses the following two problems. For which graphs G
does Qn (G) have an -labeling? For which graphs G does Qn (G) have a graceful labeling?
Rosa [1373] has shown that Km,n has an -labeling (see also [265]). In [764] Ichishima
and Oshima proved that if m, s and t are integers with m 1, s 2, and t 2, then
the graph mKs,t has an -labeling if and only if (m, s, t) 6= (3, 2, 2). Barrientos [265] has
shown that for n even the graph obtained from the wheel Wn by attaching a pendent edge
at each vertex has an -labeling. In [272] Barrientos shows how to construct graceful
graphs that are formed from the one-point union of a tree that has an -labeling, P2 , and
the cycle Cn . In some cases, P2 is not needed. Qian [1323] has proved that quadrilateral
snakes have -labelings. Yu, Lee, and Chin [1936] showed that Q3 -and Q3 -snakes have
-labelings. Fu and Wu [589] showed that if T is a tree that has an -labeling with partite
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sets V1 and V2 then the graph obtained from T by joining new vertices w1 , w2 , . . . , wk to
every vertex of V1 has an -labeling. Similarly, they prove that the graph obtained from T
by joining new vertices w1 , w2 , . . . , wk to the vertices of V1 and new vertices u1 , u2 , . . . , ut
to every vertex of V2 has an -labeling. They also prove that if one of the new vertices of
either of these two graphs is replaced by a star and every vertex of the star is joined to
the vertices of V1 or the vertices of both V1 and V2 , the resulting graphs have -labelings.
Fu and Wu [589] further show that if T is a tree with an -labeling and the sizes of the
two partite sets of T differ at by at most 1, then T Pm has an -labeling.
Selvaraju and G. Sethurman [1419] prove that the graphs obtained from a path Pn
by joining all the pairs of vertices u, v of Pn with d(u, v) = 3 and the graphs obtained by
identifying one of vertices of degree 2 of such graphs with the center of a star and the
other vertex the graph of degree 2 with the center of another star (the two stars needs
need not have the same size) have labelings. They conjecture that the analogous graphs
where 3 is replaced with any t with 2 t n 2 have -labelings.
Lee and Liu [1007] investigated the mirror graph M (m, n) of Km,n (see 2.3 for the
definition) for -labelings. They proved: M (m, n) has an -labeling when n is odd or
m is even; M (1, n) has an -labeling when n 0 (mod 4); M (m, n) does not have an
-labeling when m is odd and n 2 (mod 4), or when m 3 (mod 4) and n 4 (mod
8).
Barrientos [266] defines a chain graph as one with blocks B1 , B2 , . . . , Bm such that for
every i, Bi and Bi+1 have a common vertex in such a way that the block-cutpoint graph
is a path. He shows that if B1 , B2 , . . . , Bm are blocks that have -labelings then there
exists a chain graph G with blocks B1 , B2 , . . . , Bm that has an -labeling. He also shows
that if B1 , B2 , . . . , Bm are complete bipartite graphs, then any chain graph G obtained by
concatenation of these blocks has an -labeling.
A snake of length n > 1 is a packing of n congruent geometrical objects, called cells,
such that the first and the last cell each has only one neighbor and all n 2 cells in
between have exactly two neighbors. A snake polyomino is a snake with square cells.
In [282] Barrientos and Minion prove that given two graphs of sizes m and n with labelings, the graph that results from the edge amalgamation (identification of two edges)
of the edges of weight 1 and n, also has an -labeling. They use that result to prove the
existence of -labelings of snake polyominoes and hexagonal chains. In [283], they prove
that the third power of a caterpillar admits an -labeling and that the symmetric product
G 2K1 has an -labeling when G does. In addition they prove that G Pm is graceful
provided that G admits an -labeling that does not assign the integer + 2 as a label,
where is its boundary value. They ask if all triangular chains are graceful.
Golomb [651] introduced polyominoes in 1953 in a talk to the Harvard Mathematics
Club. Polyominoes are planar shapes made by connecting a certain number of equal-sized
squares, each joined together with at least one other square along an edge.
Pasotti [1268] generalized the notion of graceful labelings for graphs G with e =
d m edges by defining a d-graceful labeling as an injective function f from V (G) to
{0, 1, 2, . . . , d(m + 1) 1} such that {|f (x) f (y)| | xy E(G)} = {1, 2, . . . , d(m + 1)
1} {m + 1, 2(m + 1), . . . , (d 1)(m + 1)}. The case d = 1 is a graceful labeling and
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the case that d = e is an odd graceful labeling. A d-graceful -labeling of a bipartite

graph is a d-graceful labeling with the property that the maximum value in one of the
two bipartite sets is less than the minimum value on the other bipartite set. Pasotti
[1268] proved that paths and stars have d-graceful -labelings for all admissible d, ladders
Pn P2 have a 2-graceful labeling if and only if n is even, and provided partial results
about cycles of even length. He showed that the existence of d-graceful labelings can be
used to prove that certain complete graphs have cyclic decompositions. Benini and Pasotti
[300] used d-divisible -labelings to construct an infinite class of cyclic -decompositions
of the complete multipartite graphs, where is a caterpillar, a hairy cycle or a cycle. Such
labelings imply the existence of cyclic -decompositions of certain complete multipartite
graphs.
Wu ([1877] and [1879]) has given a number of methods for constructing larger graceful graphs from graceful graphs. Let G1 , G2 , . . . , Gp be disjoint connected graphs. Let
wi be in Gi for 1 i p. Let w be a new vertex not in any Gi . Form a new
graph w (G1 , G2 , . . . , Gp ) by adjoining to the graph G1 G2 Gp the edges
ww1 , ww2 , . . . , wwp . In the case where each of G1 , G2 , . . . , Gp is isomorphic to a graph G
that has an -labeling and each wi is the isomorphic image of the same vertex in Gi , Wu
shows that the resulting graph is graceful. If f is an -labeling of a graph, the integer
k with the property that for any edge uv either f (u) k < f (v) or f (v) k < f (u)
is called the boundary value or critical number of f . Wu [1877] has also shown that if
G1 , G2 , . . . , Gp are graphs of the same order and have -labelings where the labelings for
each pair of graphs Gi and Gpi+1 have the same boundary value for 1 i n/2, then
w (G1 , G2 , . . . , Gp ) is graceful. In [1875] Wu proves that if G has n edges and n + 1
vertices and G has an -labeling with boundary value , where |n 2 1| 1, then
G Pm is graceful for all m.
Given graceful graphs H and G with at least one having an -labeling Wu and Lu
[1880] define four graph operations on H and G that when used repeatedly or in turns
provide a large number of graceful graphs. In particular, if both H and G have -labelings,
then each of the graphs obtained by the four operations on H and G has an -labeling.
Ajitha, Arumugan, and Germina [91] use a construction of Koh, Tan, and Rogers [928]
to create trees with -labelings from smaller trees with graceful labelings. These in turn
allows them to generate large classes of trees that have a type of called edge-antimagic
labelings (see 6.1). Shiue and Lu [1539] prove that the graph obtained from K1,k by
replacing each edge with a path of length 3 has an -labeling if and only if k 4.
Seoud and Helmi [1444] have shown that all gear graphs have an -labeling, all dragons
with a cycle of order n 0 (mod 4) have an -labeling, and the graphs obtained by
identifying an endpoint of a star Sm (m 3) with a vertex of C4n has an -labeling.
Mavonicolas and Michael [1172] say that trees hT1 , 1 , w1 i and hT2 , 2 , w2 i with roots
w1 and w2 and |V (T1 )| = |V (T2 )| are gracefully consistent if either they are identical or
they have -labelings with the same boundary value and 1 (w1 ) = 2 (w2 ). They use this
concept to show that a number of known constructions of new graceful trees using several
identical copies of a given graceful rooted tree can be extended to the case where the copies
are replaced by a set of pairwise gracefully consistent trees. In particular, let hT, , wi
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and hT0 , 0 , w0 i be gracefully labeled trees rooted at w and w0 respectively. They show
that the following four constructions are adaptable to the case when a set of copies of
hT, , wi is replaced by a set of pairwise gracefully consistent trees. When (w) = |E(T )|
the garland construction due to Koh, Rogers, and Tan [922] gracefully labels the tree
consisting of h copies of hT, wi with their roots connected to a new vertex r. In the case
when (w) = |E(T )| and whenever uw E(T ) and (u) 6= 0, then vw E(T ) where
(u)+(v) = |E(T )|, the attachment construction of Koh, Tan and Rogers [928] gracefully
labels the tree formed by identifying the roots of h copies of hT, wi. A construction given
by Koh, Tan and Rogers [928] gracefully labels the tree formed by merging each vertex of
hT0 , w0 i with the root of a distinct copy of hT, wi. When 0 (w0 ) = |E(T0 )|, let N be the
set of neighbors of w0 and let x be the vertex of T at even distance from w with (x) = 0
or (x) = |E(T )|. Then a construction of Burzio and Ferrarese [375] gracefully labels the
tree formed by merging each non-root vertex of T0 with the root of a distinct copy of
hT, wi so that for each v N the edge vw0 is replaced with a new edge xw0 (where x is
in the corresponding copy of T ).
Snevily [1589] says that a graph G eventually has an -labeling provided that there is
a graph H, called a host of G, which has an -labeling and that the edge set of H can
be partitioned into subgraphs isomorphic to G. He defines the -labeling number of G to
be G = min{t : there is a host H of G with |E(H)| = t|G|}. Snevily proved that even
cycles have -labeling number at most 2 and he conjectured that every bipartite graph
has an -labeling number. This conjecture was proved by El-Zanati, Fu, and Shiue [526].
There are no known examples of a graph G with G > 2. In [1589] Snevily conjectured
that the -labeling number for a tree with n edges is at most n. Ahmed and Snevily [66]
further conjectured that the -labeling number of any tree is at most 2. Shiue and Fu
[1537] proved that the -labeling number for a tree with n edges and radius r is at most
dr/2en. They also prove that a tree with n edges and radius r decomposes Kt for some
t (r + 1)n2 + 1.
Ahmed and Snevily [66] investigated the claim that for every tree T there exists an
-labeling of T , or else there exists a graph HT with an -labeling such that HT can be
decomposed into two edge-disjoint copies of T . They proved this claim is true for the
graphs Cm,k obtained from K1,m by replacing each edge in K1,m with a path of length k.
For a tree T with m edges, the -deficit def (T ) equals m(T ) where (T ) is defined
as the maximum number of distinct edge labels over all bipartite labelings of T . Rosa
and Siran [1376] showed that for every m 1, def (Cm,2 ) = bm/3c, which implies that
0
(Cm,2 ) 2 for m 3. Ahmed and Snevily [66] define the graph Cm,j
as a comet-like tree
with a central vertex of degree m where each neighbor of the central vertex is attached
to j pendent vertices for 1 j (m 1). For m 3 and 1 j (m 1) they
0
0
prove: (Cm,j
) 2; (C2k+1,j
) = 2 for 1 j 2k and conjecture if T = (2k + 1), then
def (T ) k.
Given two bipartite graphs G1 and G2 with partite sets H1 and
N L1 and H2 and L2 ,
respectively, Snevily [1588] defines their weak tensor product G1 G2 as the bipartite
graph with vertex set (H1 H2 , L1 L2 ) and with edge (h1 , h2 )(l1 , l2 ) if h1 l1 E(G
N 1)
and h2 l2 E(G2 ). He proves that if G1 and G2 have -labelings then so does G1 G2 .
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This result considerably enlarges the class of graphs known to have -labelings. In [1117]
Lopez and Muntaner-Batle gave a generalization of Snevilys weak tensor product that
allows them to significantly enlarges the classes of graphs admitting -labelings, near
-labelings (defined later in this section), and bigraceful graphs.
The sequential join of graphs G1 , G2 , . . . , Gn is formed from G1 G2 Gn by
adding edges joining each vertex of Gi with each vertex of Gi+1 for 1 i n 1. Lee
and Wang [1058] have shown that for all n 2 and any positive integers a1 , a2 , . . . , an
the sequential join of the graphs K a1 , K a2 , . . . , K an has an -labeling.
In [597] Gallian and Ropp conjectured that every graph obtained by adding a single
pendent edge to one or more vertices of a cycle is graceful. Qian [1323] proved this
conjecture and in the case that the cycle is even he shows the graphs have an -labeling.
He further proves that for n even any graph obtained from an n-cycle by adding one or
more pendent edges at some vertices has an -labeling as long as at least one vertex has
degree 3 and one vertex has degree 2.
In [1266] Pasotti introduced the following generalization of a graceful labeling. Given a
graph G with e = dm edges, an injective function from V () to the set {0, 1, 2, . . . , d(m+
1) 1} such that {|f (x) f (y)| | [x, y] E()} = {1, 2, 3, . . . , d(m + 1) 1} {m +
1, 2(m + 1), . . . , (d 1)(m + 1)} is called a d-divisible graceful labeling of G. Note that
for d = 1 and of d = e one obtains the classical notion of a graceful labeling and of
an odd-graceful labeling (see 3.6 for the definition), respectively. A d-divisible graceful
labeling of a bipartite graph G with the property that the maximum value on one of the
two bipartite sets is less than the minimum value on the other one is called a d-divisible
-labeling of G. Pasotti proved that these new concepts allow to obtain certain cyclic
graph decompositions. In particular, if there exists a d-divisible graceful labeling of a
graph G of size e = d m then there exists a cyclic G-decomposition of K( e +1)2d and
d
that if there exists a d-divisible -labeling of a graph of size e then there exists a
cyclic G-decomposition of K( e +1)2dn for any integer n 1. She also it is proved the
d
following: paths and stars admit a d-divisible -labeling for any admissible d; C4k admits
a 2-divisible -labeling and a 4-divisible -labeling for any k 1; C2k admits a 2-divisible
labeling for any odd integer k > 1; and the ladder graph L2k has a 2-divisible -labeling
if and only if k is even.
In [1267], Pasotti proved the existence of d-divisible -labelings for C4k Pm for any
integers k 1, m 2 for d = 2m 1, 2(2m 1), 4(2m 1).
Benini and Pasotti [301] proved that the generalized Petersen graph P8n,3 admits an
-labeling for any integer n 1 confirming that the conjecture posed by A. Vietri in
[1794] is true.
an
For any tree T (V, E) whose vertices are properly 2-colored Rosa and Sir
[1376] define
a bipartite labeling of T as a bijection f : V {0, 1, 2, . . . , |E|} for which there is a k
such that whenever f (u) k f (v), then u and v have different colors. They define the
-size of a tree T as the maximum number of distinct values of the induced edge labels
|f (u) f (v)|, uv E, taken over all bipartite labelings f of T . They prove that the -size
of any tree with n edges is at least 5(n + 1)/7 and that there exist trees whose -size is at
most (5n+9)/6. They conjectured that minimum of the -sizes over all trees with n edges
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is asymptotically 5n/6. This conjecture has been proved for trees of maximum degree 3 by
an
Bonnington and Sir
[376]. For trees with n vertices and maximum degree 3 Brankovic,

Rosa, and Siran

[355] have shown that the -size is at least b 6n
c 1. In [354] Brankovic,
7
Murch, Pond, and Rose provide a lower bound for the -size trees with maximum degree
three and a perfect matching as a function of a lower bound for minimum order of such
a tree that does not have an -labeling. Using a computer search they showed that all
such trees on less than 30 vertices have an -labeling. This brought the lower bound
for the -size to 14n/15, for such trees of order n. They conjecture that all trees with
maximum degree three and a perfect matching have an -labeling. Heinrich and Hell [729]
defined the gracesize of a graph G with n vertices as the maximum, over all bijections
f : V (G) {1, 2, . . . , n}, of the number of distinct values |f (u) f (v)| over all edges uv
an
of G. So, from Rosa and Sir
s result, the gracesize of any tree with n edges is at least
5(n + 1)/7.
In [358] Brinkmann, Crevals, Melot, Rylands, and Steffan define the parameter def
which measures how far a tree is from having an -labeling as it counts the minimum
number of errors, that is, the minimum number of edge labels that are missing from the
set of all possible labels. Trees with an -labeling have deficit 0. For a tree T = (V, E)
with bipartition classes V1 and V2 and a bipartite labeling f : V {0, . . . , |V | 1} the
P
1
edge parity of T is ( |E|
i=1 i) mod 2 = 2 (|V | 1)|V | mod 2. So if f is an -labeling this is
the sum of all edge labels modulo 2; it is 0 if |V | 0, 1 mod 4 and 1 if |V | 2, 3 mod 4.
The vertex parity is the parity of the number of vertices of odd degree with odd label.
Brinkmann et al. [358] proved: in a tree T with -deficit 0 the edge parity and the
vertex parities are equal; and for all non-negative integers k and d and n k 2 + k, the
number of trees T with n vertices, def (T ) = d and maximum degree n k is the same.
Furthermore, they provide computer results on the -deficit of all trees with up to 26
vertices; with maximum degree 3 and up to 36 vertices, with maximum degree 4 and up
to 32 vertices, and with maximum degree 5 and up to 31 vertices.
In [601] Gallian weakened the condition for an -labeling somewhat by defining a
weakly -labeling as a graceful labeling for which there is an integer k so that for each
edge xy either f (x) k f (y) or f (y) k f (x). Unlike -labelings, this condition
allows the graph to have an odd cycle, but still places a severe restriction on the structure
of the graph; namely, that the vertex with the label k must be on every odd cycle. Gallian,
Prout, and Winters [601] showed that the prisms Cn P2 with a vertex deleted have labelings. The same paper reveals that Cn P2 with an edge deleted from a cycle has an
-labeling when n is even and a weakly -labeling when n > 3.
In [284] and [285] Barrientos and Minion focused on the enumeration of graphs with
graceful and -labelings, respectively. They used an extended version of the adjacency
matrix of a graph to count the number of labeled graphs. In [284] they count the number
of gracefully-labeled graphs of size n and order m, for all possible values of m. In [699]
they count the number of -labeled graphs of size n and order m, for all possible values
of m, as well as those -labeled graphs of size n with boundary value . They also count
the number of -labeled graphs of size n, order m, and boundary value for all possible
values of m and .
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A special case of -labeling called strongly graceful was introduced by Maheo [1151]
in 1980. A graceful labeling f of a graph G is called strongly graceful if G is bipartite with
two partite sets A and B of the same order s, the number of edges is 2t + s, there is an
integer k with t s k t + s 1 such that if a A, f (a) k, and if b B, f (b) > k,
and there is an involution that is an automorphism of G such that: exchanges A and
B and the s edges a(a) where a A have as labels the integers between t + 1 and t + s.
Maheos main result is that if G is strongly graceful then so is G Qn . In particular, she
proved that (Pn Qn ) K2 , B2n , and B2n Qn have strongly graceful labelings.
In 1999 Broersma and Hoede [359] conjectured that every tree containing a perfect
matching is strongly graceful. Yao, Cheng, Yao, and Zhao [1909] proved that this conjecture is true for every tree with diameter at most 5 and provided a method for constructing
strongly graceful trees.
El-Zanati and Vanden Eynden [530] call a strongly graceful labeling a strong -labeling.
They show that if G has a strong -labeling, then G Pn has an -labeling. They show
that Km,2 K2 has a strong -labeling and that Km,2 Pn has an -labeling. They also
show that if G is a bipartite graph with one more vertex than the number of edges, and if
G has an -labeling such that the cardinalities of the sets of the corresponding bipartition
of the vertices differ by at most 1, then G K2 has a strong -labeling and G Pn has
an -labeling. El-Zanati and Vanden Eynden [530] also note that K3,3 K2 , K3,4 K2 ,
K4,4 K2 , and C4k K2 all have strong -labelings. El-Zanati and Vanden Eynden proved
that Km,2 Qn has a strong -labeling and that Km,2 Pn has an -labeling for all n.
They also prove that if G is a connected bipartite graph with partite sets of odd order
such that in each partite set each vertex has the same degree, then G K2 does not have
a strong -labeling. As a corollary they have that Km,n K2 does not have a strong
-labeling when m and n are odd.
An -labeling f of a graph G is called free by El-Zanati and Vanden Eynden in [531]
if the critical number k (in the definition of -labeling) is greater than 2 and if neither 1
nor k 1 is used in the labeling. Their main result is that the union of graphs with free
-labelings has an -labeling. In particular, they show that Km,n , m > 1, n > 2, has a
free -labeling. They also show that Qn , n 3, and Km,2 Qn , m > 1, n 1, have free
-labelings. El-Zanati [personal communication] has shown that the Heawood graph has
a free -labeling.
Wannasit and El-Zanati [1855] proved that if G is a cubic bipartite graph each of
whose components is either a prism, a Mobius ladder, or has order at most 14, then G
admits free --labeling. They conjecture that every bipartite cubic graph admits a free
-labeling.
For connected bipartite graphs Grannell, Griggs, and Holroyd [663] introduced a labeling that lies between -labelings and graceful labelings. They call a vertex labeling
f of a bipartite graph G with q edges and partite sets D and U gracious if f is a bijection from the vertex set of G to {0, 1, . . . , q} such that the set of edge labels induced by
f (u) f (v) for every edge uv with u U and v D is {1, 2, . . . , q}. Thus a gracious
labeling of G with partite sets D and U is a graceful labeling in which every vertex in D
has a label lower than every adjacent vertex. They verified by computer that every tree
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of size up to 20 has a gracious labeling. This led them to conjecture that every tree has a
gracious labeling. For any k > 1 and any tree T Grannell et al. say that T has a gracious
k-labeling if the vertices of T can be partitioned into sets D and U in such a way that
there is a function f from the verticies of G to the integers modulo k such that the edge
labels induced by f (u) f (v) where u U and v D have the following properties: the
number of edges labeled with 0 is one less than the number of verticies labeled with 0 and
for each nonzero integer t the number of edges labeled with t is the same as the number
of verticies labeled with t. They prove that every nontrivial tree has a k-gracious labeling
for k = 2, 3, 4, and 5 and that caterpillars are k-gracious for all k 2.
The same labeling that is called gracious by Grannell, Griggs, and Holroyd is called
a near -labeling by El-Zanati, Kenig, and Vanden Eynden [528]. The latter prove that
if G is a graph with n edges that has a near -labeling then there exists a cyclic Gdecomposition of K2nx+1 for all positive integers x and a cyclic G-decomposition of Kn,n .
They further prove that if G and H have near -labelings, then so does their weak
tensor product (see earlier part of this section) with respect to the corresponding vertex
partitions. They conjecture that every tree has a near -labeling.
Another kind of labelings for trees was introduced by Ringel, Llado, and Serra [1362]
in an approach to proving their conjecture Kn,n is edge-decomposable into n copies of
any given tree with n edges. If T is a tree with n edges and partite sets A and B, they
define a labeling f from the set of vertices to {1, 2, . . . , n} to be a bigraceful labeling of
T if f restricted to A is injective, f restricted to B is injective, and the edge labels given
by f (y) f (x) where yx is an edge with y in B and x in A is the set {0, 1, 2, . . . , n 1}.
(Notice that this terminology conflicts with that given in Section 2.7 In particular, the
Ringel, Llado, and Serra bigraceful does not imply the usual graceful.) Among the graphs
that they show are bigraceful are: lobsters, trees of diameter at most 5, stars Sk,m with
k spokes of paths of length m, and complete d-ary trees for d odd. They also prove that
if T is a tree then there is a vertex v and a nonnegative integer m such that the addition
of m leaves to v results in a bigraceful tree. They conjecture that all trees are bigraceful.
Table 3 summarizes some of the main results about -labelings. indicates that the
graphs have an -labeling.

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Table 3: Summary of Results on -labelings

Graph
cycles Cn

-labeling
iff n 0 (mod 4) [1373]

caterpillars

[1373]

n-cube

[940]

books B2n , B4n+1

[1151],[600]

Mobius ladders M2k+1

[1265]

Cm Cn

iff m, n are even and m + n 0 (mod 4)[12]

C4m C4m C4m (m > 1)

[942]

C4m C4m C4m C4m

[942]

mKs,t (m 1, s, t 2)

iff (m, s, t) 6= (3, 2, 2) [764]

Pn Qn

[1151]

B2n Qn

[1151]

K1,n Qn

[1151]

Km,2 Qn

[530]

Km,2 Pn

[530]

P2 P2 P2 G

when G = C4m , Pm , K3,3 , K4,4 [1588]

P2 P2 P2 P m

[1588]

P2 P2 P2 Km,m

[1588] when m = 3 or 4

G[Kn ]

when G is [1589]

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3.2

-Labelings

In 2004 Chartrand, Erwin, VanderJagt, and Zhang [405] define a -labeling of a graph
G of size m as a one-to-one function f from the vertices of G to {0, 1, 2, . . . , m} that
induces an edge labeling f 0 defined by f 0 (uv) = |f (u) f (v)| for each edge uv. They
define the following parameters of a -labeling: val(f ) = f 0 (e) over all edges e of
G; valmax (G) = max{val(f ) : f is a -labeling of G}, valmin (G) =
min{val(f ) : f is a labeling of G}. Among their results are the following:
valmin (Pn ) = valmax (Pn ) = b(n2 2)/2c; valmin (Cn ) = 2(n 1); for n 4, n
even, valmax (Cn ) =
 n(n +2)/2; for n 3, n odd, valmax (Cn ) = (n 1)(n +
n+1
3)/2; valmin (Kn ) =
; for odd n, valmax (Kn ) = (n2 1)(3n2 5n + 6)/24; for
3
even
n, 
valmax
n(3n3 5n2 + 6n 4)/24; for every n 3, valmin (K1,n1 ) =
n) =
 (K

 n+1
d n+1
e
b 2 c
2
+
;
2
2
 
n
valmax (K1,n1 ) =
; for a connected graph of order n and size m, valmin (G) = m
2
if and only if G is isomorphic to Pn ; if G is maximal outerplanar of order n 2,
valmin (G) 3n5 and equality occurs if and only if G = Pn2 ; if G is a connected r-regular
bipartite graph of order n and size m where r 2, then valmax (G) = rn(2m n + 2)/4.
In another paper on -labelings of trees Chartrand, Erwin, VanderJagt, and Zhang
[406] prove for p, q 2, valmin (Sp,q ) (that is, the graph obtained by joining the centers of
K1,p and K1,q by an edge)= (bp/2c+1)2 +(bq/2c+1)2 (np bp/2c+1)2 +(nq b(q+2)/2c+1)2 ),
where ni is 1 if i is even and ni is 0 if ni is odd; valmin (Sp,q ) = (p2 +q 2 +4pq3p3q+2)/2;
for a connected graph G of order n at least 4, valmin (G) = n if and only if G is a caterpillar
with maximum degree 3 and has a unique vertex of degree 3; for a tree T of order n at
least 4, maximum degree , and diameter d, valmin (T ) (8n + 2 6 4d + )/4
where is 0 if is even and is 0 if is odd. They also give a characterization of all
trees of order n at least 5 whose minimum value is n + 1.
In [1400] Sanaka determined valmax (Km,n ) and valmin (Km,n ). In [373] Bunge, Chantasartraaamee, El-Zanati, and Vanden Eynden generalized -labelings by introducing two
labelings for tripartite graphs. Graphs G that admit either of these labelings guarantee
the existence of cyclic G-decompositions of K2nx+1 for all positive integers x. They also
proved that, except for C3 C3 , the disjoint union of two cycles of odd length admits one
of these labelings.

3.3

Graceful-like Labelings

As a means of attacking graph decomposition problems, Rosa [1373] invented another

analogue of graceful labelings by permitting the vertices of a graph with q edges to assume
labels from the set {0, 1, . . . , q + 1}, while the edge labels induced by the absolute value
of the difference of the vertex labels are {1, 2, . . . , q 1, q} or {1, 2, . . . , q 1, q + 1}. He
calls these -labelings. Frucht [584] used the term nearly graceful labeling instead of labelings. Frucht [584] has shown that the following graphs have nearly graceful labelings
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with edge labels from {1, 2, . . . , q 1, q + 1}: Pm Pn ; Sm Sn ; Sm Pn ; G K2 where G

is graceful; and C3 K2 Sm where m is even or m 3 (mod 14). Seoud and Elsakhawi
[1438] have shown that all cycles are nearly graceful. Barrientos [264] proved that Cn is
nearly graceful with edge labels 1, 2, . . . , n 1, n + 1 if and only if n 1 or 2 (mod 4).
Gao [611] shows that a variation of banana trees is odd-graceful (see 3.6 definitiion)
and in some cases has a nearly graceful labeling. In 1988 Rosa [1375] conjectured that
triangular snakes with t 0 or 1 (mod 4) blocks are graceful and those with t 2 or 3
(mod 4) blocks are nearly graceful (a parity condition ensures that the graphs in the latter
case cannot be graceful). Moulton [1218] proved Rosas conjecture while introducing the
slightly stronger concept of almost graceful by permitting the vertex labels to come from
{0, 1, 2, . . . , q 1, q + 1} while the edge labels are 1, 2, . . . , q 1, q, or 1, 2, . . . , q 1, q + 1.
More generally, Rosa [1375] conjectured that all triangular cacti are either graceful or
near graceful and suggested the use of Skolem sequences to label some types of triangular
cacti. Dyer, Payne, Shalaby, and Wicks [516] verified the conjecture for two families of
triangular cacti using Langford sequences to obtain Skolem and hooked Skolem sequences
with specific subsequences.
Seoud and Elsakhawi [1438] and [1439] have shown that the following graphs are
almost graceful: Cn ; Pn + Km ; Pn + K1,m ; Km,n ; K1,m,n ; K2,2,m ; K1,1,m,n ; Pn P3 (n 3);
K5 K1,n ; K6 K1,n , and ladders.
The symmetric product G1 G2 of G1 and G2 is the graph with vertex set V (G1 )
V (G2 ) and edge set {(u1 , v1 )(u2 , v2 )} where u1 u2 is an edge in G1 or v1 v2 is an edge in G2
but not both u1 u2 is an edge in G1 and v1 v2 is an edge in G2 .
For a graph G with p vertices, q edges, and 1 k q, Eshghi [539] defines a holey labeling with respect to k as an injective vertex labeling f for which f (v) {1, 2, . . . , q +1}
for all v, {|f (u) f (v)| | for all edges uv} = {1, 2, . . . , k 1, k + 1, . . . , q + 1}, and there
exist an integer with 0 q such that min{f (u), f (v)} max{f (u), f (v)}. He
proves the following: Pn has a holey -labeling with respect to all k; Cn has a holey labeling with respect to k if and only if either n 2 (mod 4), k is even, and (n, k) 6= (10, 6),
or n 0 (mod 4) and k is odd.
Recall from Section 2.2 that a kCn -snake is a connected graph with k blocks whose
block-cutpoint graph is a path and each of the k blocks is isomorphic to Cn . In addition
to his results on the graceful kCn -snakes given in Section 2.2, Barrientos [268] proved that
when k is odd the linear kC6 -snake is nearly graceful and that Cm K1,n is nearly graceful
when m = 3, 4, 5, and 6.
Yet another kind of labeling introduced by Rosa in his 1967 paper [1373] is a -labeling.
(Sometimes called a rosy labeling ). A -labeling (or -valuation) of a graph is an injection
from the vertices of the graph with q edges to the set {0, 1, . . . , 2q}, where if the edge
labels induced by the absolute value of the difference of the vertex labels are a1 , a2 , . . . , aq ,
then ai = i or ai = 2q + 1 i. Rosa [1373] proved that a cyclic decomposition of the
edge set of the complete graph K2q+1 into subgraphs isomorphic to a given graph G with
q edges exists if and only if G has a -labeling. (A decomposition of Kn into copies of G
is called cyclic if the automorphism group of the decomposition itself contains the cyclic
group of order n.) It is known that every graph with at most 11 edges has a -labeling
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and that all lobsters have a -labeling (see [397]). Donovan, El-Zanati, Vanden Eyden,
and Sutinuntopas [502] prove that rCm has a -labeling (or a more restrictive labeling)
when r 4. They conjecture that every 2-regular graph has a -labeling. Gannon and
El-Zanati [606] proved that for any odd n 7, rCn admits -labelings. The cases n = 3
and n = 5 were done in [500] and [527]. Aguado, El-Zanati, Hake, Stob, and Yayla [42]
give a -labeling of Cr Cs Ct for each of the cases where r 0, s 1, t 1 (mod 4);
r 0, s 3, t 3 (mod 4); and r 1, s 1, t 3 (mod 4); (iv) r 1, s 2, t 3
(mod 4); (v) r 3, s 3, t 3 (mod 4). Caro, Roditty, and Schonheim [397] provide
a construction for the adjacency matrix for every graph that has a -labeling. They ask
the following question: If H is a connected graph having a -labeling and q edges and G
is a new graph with q edges constructed by breaking H up into disconnected parts, does
G also have a -labeling? Kezdy [908] defines a stunted tree as one whose edges can be
labeled with e1 , e2 , . . . , en so that e1 and e2 are incident and, for all j = 3, 4, . . . , n, edge
ej is incident to at least one edge ek satisfying 2k j 1. He uses Alons Combinatorial
Nullstellensatz to prove that if 2n + 1 is prime, then every stunted tree with n edges has
a -labeling.
Recall a kayak paddle KP (k, m, l) is the graph obtained by joining Ck and Cm by
a path of length l. Froncek and Tollefeson [579], [580] proved that KP (r, s, l) has a
-labeling for all cases. As a corollary they have that the complete graph K2n+1 is decomposable into kayak paddles with n edges.
In [575] Froncek generalizes the notion of an -labeling by showing that if a graph G
on n edges allows a certain type of -labeling), called 2 -labeling, then for any positive
integer k the complete graph K2nk+1 can be decomposed into copies of G.
In their investigation of cyclic decompositions of complete graphs El-Zanati, Vanden
Eynden, and Punnim [533] introduced two kinds of labelings. They say a bipartite graph
G with n edges and partite sets A and B has a -labeling h if h is a one-to-one function from
V (G) to {0, 1, . . . , 2n} such that {|h(b) h(a)| ab E(G), a A, b B} = {1, 2, . . . , n}.
They call h a + -labeling of G if h is a one-to-one function from V (G) to {0, 1, . . . , 2n}
and the integers h(x) h(y) are distinct modulo 2n + 1 taken over all ordered pairs (x, y)
where xy is an edge in G, and h(b) > h(a) whenever a A, b B and ab is an edge in
G. Note that -labelings are + -labelings and + -labelings are -labelings. They prove
that if G is a bipartite graph with n edges and a + -labeling, then for every positive
integer x there is a cyclic G-decomposition of K2nx+1 . They prove the following graphs
have + -labelings: trees of diameter at most 5, C2n , lobsters, and comets (that is, graphs
obtained from stars by replacing each edge by a path of some fixed length). They also
prove that the disjoint union of graphs with -labelings have a -labeling and conjecture
that all forests have -labelings.
A -labeling of G(V, E) is a one-to-one function f from V to {0, 1, . . . , 2|E|} such that
{|f (u) f (v)| | uv E(G)} = {1, 2, . . . , |E|}. Such a labeling of G yields cyclic Gdecompositions of K2n+1 and of K2n+2 F , where F is a 1-factor of K2n+2 . El-Zanati and
Vanden Eynden (see [41]) have conjectured that that every 2-regular graph with n edges
has a -labeling and, if n 0 or 3 (mod 4), then every 2-regular graph has a -labeling.
Aguado and El-Zanati [41] have proved that the latter conjecture holds when the graph
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has at most three components.

Given a bipartite graph G with partite sets X and Y and graphs H1 with p vertices
and H2 with q vertices, Froncek and Winters [581] define the bicomposition of G and H1
and H2 , G[H1 , H2 ], as the graph obtained from G by replacing each vertex of X by a
copy of H1 , each vertex of Y by a copy of H2 , and every edge xy by a graph isomorphic to
Kp,q with the partite sets corresponding to the vertices x and y. They prove that if G is a
bipartite graph with n edges and G has a -labeling that maps the vertex set V = X Y
into a subset of {0, 1, 2, . . . , 2n}, then the bicomposition G[Kp , Kq ] has a -labeling for
every p, q 1. As corollaries they have: if a bipartite graph G with n edges and at most
n + 1 vertices has a gracious labeling (see 3.1), then the bicomposition graph G[Kp , Kq ]
has a gracious labeling for every p, q 1, and if a bipartite graph G with n edges has a
-labeling, then for every p, q 1, the bicomposition G[Kp , Kq ] decomposes the complete
graph K2npq+1 .
In a paper published in 2009 [532] El-Zannati and Vanden Eynden survey Rosatype labelings. That is, labelings of a graph G that yield cyclic G-decompositions of
K2n+1 or K2nx+1 for all natural numbers x. The 2009 survey by Froncek [574] includes
generalizations of - and -labelings that have been used for finding decompositions of
complete graphs that are not covered in [532].
Blinco, El-Zanati, and Vanden Eynden [329] call a non-bipartite graph almost-bipartite
if the removal of some edge results in a bipartite graph. For these kinds of graphs G they
call a labeling f a -labeling of G if the following conditions are met: f is a -labeling;
G is tripartite with vertex tripartition A, B, C with C = {c} and b B such that {b, c}
is the unique edge joining an element of B to c; if av is an edge of G with a A, then
f (a) < f (v); and f (c) f (b) = n. (In 3.2 the term -labeling is used for a different kind
of labeling.) They prove that if an almost-bipartite graph G with n edges has a -labeling
then there is a cyclic G-decomposition of K2nx+1 for all x. They prove that all odd cycles
with more than 3 vertices have a -labeling and that C3 C4m has a -labeling if and
only if m > 1. In [372] Bunge, El-Zanati, and Vanden Eynden prove that every 2-regular
almost bipartite graph other than C3 and C3 C4 have a -labeling.
In [329] Blinco, El-Zanati, and Vanden Eynden consider a slightly restricted + labeling for a bipartite graph with partite sets A and B by requiring that there exists a
number with the property that + (a) for all a A and + (b) > for all b B.
They denote such a labeling by ++ . They use this kind of labeling to show that if G is a
2-regular graph of order n in which each component has even order then there is a cyclic
G-decomposition of K2nx+1 for all x. They also conjecture that every bipartite graph has
a -labeling and every 2-regular graph has a -labeling.
Dufour [514] and Eldergill [518] have some results on the decomposition of complete
graphs using labeling methods. Balakrishnan and Sampathkumar [254] showed that for
each positive integer n the graph Kn + 2K2 admits a -labeling. Balakrishnan [249] asks
if it is true that Kn + mK2 admits a -labeling for all n and m. Froncek [573] and Froncek
and Kubesa [578] have introduced several kinds of labelings for the purpose of proving
the existence of special kinds of decompositions of complete graphs into spanning trees.
For (p, q)-graphs with p = q + 1, Frucht [584] has introduced a stronger version of
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almost graceful graphs by permitting as vertex labels {0, 1, . . . , q 1, q + 1} and as edge

labels {1, 2, . . . , q}. He calls such a labeling pseudograceful. Frucht proved that Pn (n 3),
combs, sparklers (i.e., graphs obtained by joining an end vertex of a path to the center of
a star), C3 Pn (n 6= 3), and C4 Pn (n 6= 1) are pseudograceful whereas K1,n (n 3) is
not. Kishore [918] proved that Cs Pn is pseudograceful when s 5 and n (s + 7)/2
and that Cs Sn is pseudograceful when s = 3, s = 4, and s 7. Seoud and Youssef
[1466] and [1462] extended the definition of pseudograceful to all graphs with p q + 1.
They proved that Km is pseudograceful if and only if m = 1, 3, or 4 [1462]; Km,n is
pseudograceful when n 2, and Pm + Kn (m 2) [1466] is pseudograceful. They also
proved that if G is pseudograceful, then G Km,n is graceful for m 2 and n 2 and
G Km,n is pseudograceful for m 2, n 2 and (m, n) 6= (2, 2) [1462]. They ask if
G K2,2 is pseudograceful whenever G is. Seoud and Youssef [1462] observed that if G
is a pseudograceful Eulerian graph with q edges, then q 0 or 3 (mod 4). Youssef [1922]
has shown that Cn is pseudograceful if and only if n 0 or 3 (mod 4), and for n > 8
and n 0 or 3 (mod 4), Cn Kp,q is pseudograceful for all p, q 2 except (p, q) = (2, 2).
Youssef [1919] has shown that if H is pseudograceful and G has an -labeling with k
being the smaller vertex label of the edge labeled with 1 and if either k + 2 or k 1 is
not a vertex label of G, then G H is graceful. In [1923] Youssef shows that if G is (p, q)
pseudograceful graph with p = q + 1, then G Sm is Skolem-graceful. As a corollary he
obtains that for all n 2, Pn Sm is Skolem-graceful if and only if n 3 or n = 2 and
m is even.
For a graph G without isolated vertices Ichishima, Muntaner-Batle, and Oshima [758]
defined the beta-number of G to be either the smallest positive integer n for which there
exists an injective function f from the vertices of G to {1, 2, . . . n} such that when each
edge uv is labeled |f (u)f (v)| the resulting set of edge labels is {c, c+1, . . . , c+|E(G)|1}
for some positive integer c or + if there exists no such integer n. They defined the strong
beta-number of G to be either the smallest positive integer n for which there exists an
injective function f from the vertices of G to {1, 2, . . . n} such that when each edge uv is
labeled |f (u) f (v)| the resulting set of edge labels is {1, 2, . . . , |E(G)|} or + if there
exists no such integer n. They gave some necessary conditions for a graph to have a
finite (strong) beta-number and some sufficient conditions for a graph to have a finite
(strong) beta-number. They also determined formulas for the beta-numbers and strong
beta-numbers of Cn , 2Cn , Kn (n 2), Sm Sn , Pm Sn , and prove that nontrivial trees
and forests without isolated vertices have finite strong beta-numbers.
McTavish [1181] has investigated labelings of graphs with q edges where the vertex
and edge labels are from {0, . . . , q, q + 1}. She calls these -labelings. Graphs that have
-labelings include cycles and the disjoint union of Pn or Sn with any graceful graph.
Frucht [584] has made an observation about graceful labelings that yields nearly graceful analogs of -labelings and weakly -labelings in a natural way. Suppose G(V, E) is a
graceful graph with the vertex labeling f . For each edge xy in E, let [f (x), f (y)] (where
f (x) f (y)) denote the interval of real numbers r with f (x) r f (y). Then the
intersection [f (x), f (y)] over all edges xy E is a unit interval, a single point, or empty.
Indeed, if f is an -labeling of G then the intersection is a unit interval; if f is a weakly
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-labeling, but not an -labeling, then the intersection is a point; and, if f is a graceful
but not a weakly -labeling, then the intersection is empty. For nearly graceful labelings,
the intersection also gives three distinct classes.
A (p, q)-graph G is said to be a super graceful graph if there is a a bijective function
f : V (G) E(G) {1, 2, . . . , p + q} such that f (uv) = |f (u) f (v)| for every edge
uv E(G) labeling. Perumal, Navaneethakrishnan, Nagarajan, Arockiaraj [1272] show
that the graphs Pn , Cn , Pm  nK1 , Pn  K1 minus a pendent edge at an endpoint of Pn
are super graceful graphs.
Singh and Devaraj [1557] call a graph G with p vertices and q edges triangular graceful if there is an injection f from V (G) to {0, 1, 2, . . . , Tq } where Tq is the qth triangular
number and the labels induced on each edge uv by |f (u) f (v)| are the first q triangular
numbers. They prove the following graphs are triangular graceful: paths, level 2 rooted
trees, olive trees (see 2.1 for the definition), complete n-ary trees, double stars, caterpillars, C4n , C4n with pendent edges, the one-point union of C3 and Pn , and unicyclic graphs
that have C3 as the unique cycle. They prove that wheels, helms, flowers (see 2.2 for the
definition) and Kn with n 3 are not triangular graceful. They conjecture that all trees
are triangular graceful. In [1496] Sethuraman and Venkatesh introduced a new method
for combining graceful trees to obtain trees that have -labelings.
Van Bussel [1785] considered two kinds of relaxations of graceful labelings as applied
to trees. He called a labeling range-relaxed graceful it is meets the same conditions as
a graceful labeling except the range of possible vertex labels and edge labels are not
restricted to the number of edges of the graph (the edges are distinctly labeled but not
necessarily labeled 1 to q where q is the number of edges). Similarly, he calls a labeling
vertex-relaxed graceful if it satisfies the conditions of a graceful labeling while permitting
repeated vertex labels. He proves that every tree T with q edges has a range-relaxed
graceful labeling with the vertex labels in the range 0, 1, . . . , 2q d where d is the diameter
of T and that every tree on n vertices has a vertex-relaxed graceful labeling such that the
number of distinct vertex labels is strictly greater than n/2.
In [281], Barrientos and Krop introduce left- and right-layered trees as trees with a
specific representation and define the excess of a tree. Applying these ideas, they show
a range-relaxed graceful labeling which improves the upper bound for maximum vertex
label given by Van Bussel in [1785]. They also improve the bounds given by Rosa and
an
Sir
in [1376] for the -size and gracesize of lobsters.
Sekar [1415] calls an injective function from the vertices of a graph with q edges to
{0, 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, . . . , 3(q 1), 3q 2} one modulo three graceful if the edge labels induced
by labeling each edge uv with |(u) (v)| is {1, 4, 7, . . . , 3q 2}. He proves that the
following graphs are one modulo three graceful: Pm ; Cn if and only if n 0 mod 4;
(2)
(t)
(t)
Km,n ; C2n (the one-point union of two copies of C2n ); Cn for n = 4 or 8 and t > 2; C6
and t 4; caterpillars; stars; lobsters; banana trees; rooted trees of height 2; ladders; the
graphs obtained by identifying the endpoints of any number of copies of Pn ; the graph
obtained by attaching pendent edges to each endpoint of two identical stars and then
identifying one endpoint from each of these graphs; the graph obtained by identifying a
vertex of C4k+2 with an endpoint of a star; n-polygonal snakes (see 2.2) for n 0 (mod
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4); n-polygonal snakes for n 2 (mod 4) where the number of polygons is even; crowns
Cn  K1 for n even; C2n  Pm (C2n with Pm attached at each vertex of the cycle) for
m 3; chains of cycles (see 2.2) of the form C4,m , C6,2m , and C8,m . He conjectures that
every one modulo three graceful graph is graceful.
In [1335] Ramachandran and Sekar introduced the notion of one modulo N graceful as follows. For a positive integer N a graph G with q edges is said to be one
modulo N graceful if there is an injective function from the vertex set of G to
{0, 1, N, (N + 1), 2N, (2N + 1), . . . , N (q1), N (q1) + 1} such that induces a bijection
from the edge set of G to {1, N + 1, 2N + 1, . . . , N (q1) + 1} where (uv) = |(u)(v)|.
They proved the following graph are one modulo N graceful for all positive integers N :
(t)
paths, caterpillars, and stars [1335]; n-polygonal snakes, Cn , Pa,b [1344]; the splitting
graphs S 0 (P2n ), S 0 (P2n+1 ), S 0 (K1,n ), all subdivision graphs of double triangular snakes,
and all subdivision graphs of 2m-triangular snakes [1336]; the graph Ln Sm obtained
from the ladder Ln (Pn P2 ) by identifying one vertex of Ln with any vertex of the star
Sm other than the center of Sm [1338]; arbitrary supersubdivisions of paths, disconnected
paths, cycles, and stars [1337]; and regular bamboo trees and coconut trees [1339].
Deviating from the standard definition of Fibonacci numbers, Kathiresan and Amutha
[897] define F1 = 1, F2 = 2, F3 = 3, F4 = 5, . . .. They call a function f : V (G)
{0, 1, 2, . . . , Fq } where Fq is their qth Fibonacci number, to be Fibonacci graceful labeling if
the induced edge labeling f (uv) = |f (u)f (v)| is a bijection onto the set {F1 , F2 , . . . , Fq }.
If a graph admits a Fibonacci graceful labeling, it is is called a Fibonacci graceful graph.
They prove the following: Kn is Fibonacci graceful if and only if n 3; if an Eulerian
graph with q edges is Fibonacci graceful then q 0 (mod 3); paths are Fibonacci graceful;
fans Pn  K1 are Fibonacci graceful; squares of paths Pn2 are Fibonacci graceful; and
caterpillars are Fibonacci graceful. They define a function f : V (G) {0, F1 , F2 , . . . , Fq }
where Fi is the ith Fibonacci number, to be super Fibonacci graceful labeling if the induced
labeling f (uv) = |f (u) f (v)| is a bijection onto the set {F1 , F2 , . . . , Fq }. They show that
bistars Bn,n are Fibonacci graceful but not super Fibonacci graceful for n 5; cycles
Cn are super Fibonacci graceful if and only if n 0 (mod 3); if G is Fibonacci or super
Fibonacci graceful then G  K1 is Fibonacci graceful; if G1 and G2 are super Fibonacci
graceful in which no two adjacent vertices have the labeling 1 and 2 then G1 G2 is
Fibonacci graceful; and if G1 , G2 , . . . , Gn are super Fibonacci graceful graphs in which no
two adjacent vertices are labeled with 1 and 2 then the amalgamation of G1 , G2 , . . . , Gn
obtained by identifying the vertices having labels 0 is also a super Fibonacci graceful.
Vaidya and Prajapati [1746] proved: the graphs obtained joining a vertex of C3m and
a vertex of C3n by a path Pk are Fibonacci graceful; the graphs obtained by starting with
any number of copies of C3m and joining each copy with a copy of the next by identifying
the end points of a path with a vertex of each succesive pair of C3m (the paths need not be
the same length) are Fibonacci graceful; the one point union of C3m and C3n is Fibonacci
graceful; the one point union of k cycles C3m is super Fibonacci graceful; every cycle
Cn with n 0 (mod 3) or n 1 (mod 3) is an induced subgraph of a super Fibonacci
graceful graph; and every cycle Cn with n 2 (mod 3) can be embedded as a subgraph
of a Fibonacci graceful graph.
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For a graph G with q edges an injective function f from the vertices of G to

{F0 , F1 , F2 , . . . , Fq1 , Fq+1 }, where Fi is the ith Fibonacci number (as defined by Kathiresan and Amuth above), is said to be almost super Fibonacci graceful if the induced
edge labeling f (uv) = |f (u) f (v)| is a bijection onto the set {F1 , F2 , . . . , Fq } or
{F0 , F1 , F2 , . . . , Fq1 , Fq+1 }. Sridevi, Navaneethakrishnan and Nagarajan [1613] proved
that paths, combs, graphs obtained by subdividing each edge of a star, and some special
types of extension of cycle related graphs are almost super Fibonacci graceful labeling.
For a graph G and a vertex v of G, Vaidya, Srivastav, Kaneria, and Kanani [1764]
define a vertex switching Gv as the graph obtained from G by removing all edges incident
to v and adding edges joining v to every vertex not adjacent to v in G. Vaidya and Vihol
[1771] prove the following: trees are Fibonacci graceful; the graph obtained by switching
of a vertex in cycle is Fibonacci graceful; wheels and helms are not Fibonacci graceful;
the graph obtained by switching of a vertex in a cycle is super Fibonacci graceful except
n 6; the graph obtained by switching of a vertex in cycle Cn for n 6 can be embedded
as an induced subgraph of a super Fibonacci graceful graph; and the graph obtained by
joining two copies of a fixed fan with an edge is Fibonacci graceful.
In [357] Bresar and Klavzar define a natural extension of graceful labelings of certain
tree subgraphs of hypercubes. A subgraph H of a graph G is called isometric if for every
two vertices u, v of H, there exists a shortest u-v path that lies in H. The isometric
subgraphs of hypercubes are called partial cubes. Two edges xy, uv of G are in -relation
if
dG (x, u) + dG (y, v) 6= dG (x, v) + dG (y, u). A -relation is an equivalence relation that
partitions E(G) into -classes. A -graceful labeling of a partial cube G on n vertices is
a bijection f : V (G) {0, 1, . . . , n 1} such that, under the induced edge labeling, all
edges in each -class of G have the same label and distinct -classes get distinct labels.
They prove that several classes of partial cubes are -graceful and the Cartesian product
of -graceful partial cubes is -graceful. They also show that if there exists a class of
partial cubes that contains all trees and every member of the class admits a -graceful
labeling then all trees are graceful.
Table 4 provides a summary results about graceful-like labelings adapted from [356].
Y indicates that all graphs in that class have the labeling; N indicates that not all
graphs in that class have the labeling; ? means unknown; C means conjectured.

3.4

k-graceful Labelings

A natural generalization of graceful graphs is the notion of k-graceful graphs introduced

independently by Slater [1579] in 1982 and by Maheo and Thuillier [1152] in 1982. A graph
G with q edges is k-graceful if there is labeling f from the vertices of G to {0, 1, 2, . . . , q +
k 1} such that the set of edge labels induced by the absolute value of the difference
of the labels of adjacent vertices is {k, k + 1, . . . , q + k 1}. Obviously, 1-graceful is
graceful and it is readily shown that any graph that has an -labeling is k-graceful for
all k. Graphs that are k-graceful for all k are sometimes called arbitrarily graceful. The
result of Barrientos and Minion [282] that all snake polyominoes are -graphs partially

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Table 4: Summary of Results on Graceful-like labelings

Graph
Cycle Cn , n 0 mod 4
Cycle Cn , n 3 mod 4
Wheels
Trees
Yes, if order
Paths
Caterpillars
Firecrackers
Lobsters
Bananas
Symmetrical trees
Olive trees
Diameter < 8
< 5 end vertices
Max degree 3
Max degree 3 and
perfect matching

-labeling
Y [1373]
N [1373]
N

-labeling
Y
Y [1373]
Y [582], [736]

-labeling
Y
Y
Y

5
Y [1373]
Y [1373]
Y [421]
N[330]
?
N [330]
?
N [1851]
N [330]
N [1376]

35 [550]
54
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
?C [308]
Y
Y [1483], [1482] Y
Y [312]
Y
Y [1269], [4]
Y
Y
Y
Y [1373]
Y
C
C

Y
Y
Y
Y [397]
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
C

C [354]

-labeling
Y
Y
Y

answers a question of Acharya [16] and supports his conjecture that if the length of every
cycle of a graph is a multiple of 4, then the graph is arbitrarily graceful. In [1439] Seoud
and Elsakhawi show that P2 K2 (n 2) is arbitrarily graceful. Ng [1234] has shown
that there are graphs that are k-graceful for all k but do not have an -labeling.
Results of Maheo and Thuillier [1152] together with those of Slater [1579] show that:
Cn is k-graceful if and only if either n 0 or 1 (mod 4) with k even and k (n 1)/2,
or n 3 (mod 4) with k odd and k (n2 1)/2. Maheo and Thuillier [1152] also proved
that the wheel W2k+1 is k-graceful and conjectured that W2k is k-graceful when k 6= 3 or
k 6= 4. This conjecture was proved by Liang, Sun, and Xu [1087]. Kang [886] proved that
Pm C4n is k-graceful for all k. Lee and Wang [1056] showed that the graphs obtained
from a nontrivial path of even length by joining every other vertex to one isolated vertex
(a lotus), the graphs obtained from a nontrivial path of even length by joining every other
vertex to two isolated vertices (a diamond), and the graphs obtained by arranging vertices
into a finite number of rows with i vertices in the ith row and in every row the jth vertex
in that row is joined to the jth vertex and j + 1st vertex of the next row (a pyramid) are
k-graceful. Liang and Liu [1075] have shown that Km,n is k-graceful. Bu, Gao, and Zhang
[366] have proved that Pn P2 and (Pn P2 ) (Pn P2 ) are k-graceful for all k. Acharya
(see [16]) has shown that a k-graceful Eulerian graph with q edges must satisfy one of the
following conditions: q 0 (mod 4), q 1 (mod 4) if k is even, or q 3 (mod 4) if k
is odd. Bu, Zhang, and He [371] have shown that an even cycle with a fixed number of

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pendent edges adjoined to each vertex is k-graceful. Lu, Pan, and Li [1140] have proved
that K1,m Kp,q is k-graceful when k > 1, and p and q are at least 2. Jirimutu, Bao, and
Kong [854] have shown that the graphs obtained from K2,n (n 2) and K3,n (n 3) by
attaching r 2 edges at each vertex is k-graceful for all k 2. Seoud and Elsakhawi
[1439] proved: paths and ladders are arbitrarily graceful; and for n 3, Kn is k-graceful
if and only if k = 1 and n = 3 or 4. Li, Li, and Yan [1074] proved that Km,n is k-graceful
graph.
Yao, Cheng, Zhongfu, and Yao [1910] have shown: a tree of order p with maximum
degree at least p/2 is k-graceful for some k; if a tree T has an edge u1 u2 such that the
two components T1 and T2 of T u1 u2 have the properties that dT1 (u1 ) |T1 |/2 and
dT2 (u2 ) |T2 |/2, then T is k-graceful for some positive k; if a tree T has two edges
u1 u2 and u2 u3 such that the three components T1 , T2 , and T3 of T {u1 u2 , u2 u3 } have
the properties that dT1 (u1 ) |T1 |/2, dT2 (u2 ) |T2 |/2, and dT3 (u3 ) |T3 |/2, then T is
k-graceful for some k > 1; and every Skolem-graceful (see 3.5 for the definition) tree is
k-graceful for all k 1. They conjecture that every tree is k-graceful for some k > 1.
Several authors have investigated the k-gracefulness of various classes of subgraphs of
grid graphs. Acharya [14] proved that all 2-dimensional polyminoes that are convex and
Eulerian are k-graceful for all k; Lee [991] showed that Mongolian tents and Mongolian
villages are k-graceful for all k (see 2.3 for the definitions); Lee and K. C. Ng [1013]
proved that all Young tableaus (see 2.3 for the definitions) are k-graceful for all k. (A
special case of this is Pn P2 .) Lee and H. K. Ng [1013] subsequently generalized these
results on Young tableaus to a wider class of planar graphs.
Duan and Qi [513] use Gt (m1 , n1 ; m2 , n2 ; . . . ; ms , ns ) to denote the graph composed of
the s complete bipartite graphs Km1 ,n1 , Km2 ,n2 , . . . , Kms ,ns that have only t
(1 t min{m1 , m2 , . . . , ms }) common vertices but no common edge and
G(m1 , n1 ; m2 , n2 ) to denote the graph composed of the complete bipartite graphs
Km1 ,n1 , Km2 ,n2 with exactly one common edge. They prove that these graphs are kgraceful graphs for all k.
Let c, m, p1 , p2 , . . . , pm be positive integers. For i = 1, 2, . . . , m, let Si be a set of pi + 1
integers and let Di be the set of positive differences of the pairs of elements of Si . If all
these differences are distinct then the system D1 , D2 , . . . , Dm is called a perfect
of


P system
pi +1
difference sets starting at c if the union of all the sets Di is c, c + 1, . . . , c 1 + m
.
i=1
2
There is a relationship between k-graceful graphs and perfect systems of difference sets. A
perfect system of difference sets starting with c describes a c-graceful labeling of a graph
that is decomposable into complete subgraphs. A survey of perfect systems of difference
sets is given in [6].
Acharya and Hegde [28] generalized k-graceful labelings to (k, d)-graceful labelings by
permitting the vertex labels to belong to {0, 1, 2, . . . , k + (q 1)d} and requiring the set
of edge labels induced by the absolute value of the difference of labels of adjacent vertices
to be {k, k + d, k + 2d, . . . , k + (q 1)d}. They also introduce an analog of -labelings
in the obvious way. Notice that a (1,1)-graceful labeling is a graceful labeling and a
(k, 1)-graceful labeling is a k-graceful labeling. Bu and Zhang [370] have shown: Km,n
is (k, d)-graceful for all k and d; for n > 2, Kn is (k, d)-graceful if and only if k = d
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and n 4; if mi , ni 2 and max{mi , ni } 3, then Km1 ,n1 Km2 ,n2 Kmr ,nr is
(k, d)-graceful for all k, d, and r; if G has an -labeling, then G is (k, d)-graceful for all k
and d; a k-graceful graph is a (kd, d)-graceful graph; a (kd, d)-graceful connected graph
is k-graceful; and a (k, d)-graceful graph with q edges that is not bipartite must have
k (q 2)d.
Let T be a tree with adjacent vertices u0 and v0 and pendent vertices u and v such
that the length of the path u0 u is the same as the length of the path v0 v. Hegde
and Shetty [721] call the graph obtained from T by deleting u0 v0 and joining u and v
an elementary parallel transformation of T . They say that a tree T is a Tp -tree if it can
be transformed into a path by a sequence of elementary parallel transformations. They
prove that every Tp -tree is (k, d)-graceful for all k and d and every graph obtained from
a Tp -tree by subdividing each edge of the tree is (k, d)-graceful for all k and d.
Yao, Cheng, Zhongfu, and Yao [1910] have shown: a tree of order p with maximum
degree at least p/2 is (k, d)-graceful for some k and d; if a tree T has an edge u1 u2 such
that the two components T1 and T2 of T u1 u2 have the properties that dT1 (u1 ) |T1 |/2
and T2 is a caterpillar, then T is Skolem-graceful (see 3.5 for the definition); if a tree T
has an edge u1 u2 such that the two components T1 and T2 of T u1 u2 have the properties
that dT1 (u1 ) |T1 |/2 and dT2 (u2 ) |T2 |/2, then T is (k, d)-graceful for some k > 1 and
d > 1; if a tree T has two edges u1 u2 and u2 u3 such that the three components T1 , T2 ,
and T3 of T {u1 u2 , u2 u3 } have the properties that dT1 (u1 ) |T1 |/2, dT2 (u2 ) |T2 |/2,
and dT3 (u3 ) |T3 |/2, then T is (k, d)-graceful for some k > 1 and d > 1; and every
Skolem-graceful tree is (k, d)-graceful for k 1 and d > 0. They conjecture that every
tree is (k, d)-graceful for some k > 1 and d > 1.
Hegde [709] has proved the following: if a graph is (k, d)-graceful for odd k and even d,
then the graph is bipartite; if a graph is (k, d)-graceful and contains C2j+1 as a subgraph,
then k jd(q j 1); Kn is (k, d)-graceful if and only if n 4; C4t is (k, d)-graceful for
all k and d; C4t+1 is (2t, 1)-graceful; C4t+2 is (2t 1, 2)-graceful; and C4t+3 is (2t + 1, 1)graceful.
Hegde [707] calls a (k, d)-graceful graph (k, d)-balanced if it has a (k, d)-graceful labeling f with the property that there is some integer m such that for every edge uv either
f (u) m and f (v) > m, or f (u) > m and f (v) m. He proves that if a graph is (1, 1)balanced then it is (k, d)-graceful for all k and d and that a graph is (1, 1)-balanced graph
if and only if it is (k, k)-balanced for all k. He conjectures that all trees are (k, d)-balanced
for some values of k and d.
Slater [1582] has extended the definition of k-graceful graphs to countable infinite
graphs in a natural way. He proved that all countably infinite trees, the complete graph
with countably many vertices, and the countably infinite Dutch windmill is k-graceful for
all k.
More specialized results on k-graceful labelings can be found in [991], [1013], [1017],
[1579], [365], [367], [366], and [419].

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3.5

Skolem-Graceful Labelings

A number of authors have invented analogues of graceful graphs by modifying the permissible vertex labels. For instance, Lee (see [1042]) calls a graph G with p vertices and q
edges Skolem-graceful if there is an injection from the set of vertices of G to {1, 2, . . . , p}
such that the edge labels induced by |f (x)f (y)| for each edge xy are 1, 2, . . . , q. A necessary condition for a graph to be Skolem-graceful is that p q+1. Lee and Wui [1071] have
shown that a connected graph is Skolem-graceful if and only if it is a graceful tree. Yao,
Cheng, Zhongfu, and Yao [1910] have shown that a tree of order p with maximum degree
at least p/2 is Skolem-graceful. Although the disjoint union of trees cannot be graceful,
they can be Skolem-graceful. Lee and Wui [1071] prove that the disjoint union of 2 or 3
stars is Skolem-graceful if and only if at least one star has even size. In [446] Choudum
and Kishore show that the disjoint union of k copies of the star K1,2p is Skolem graceful if
k 4p + 1 and the disjoint union of any number of copies of K1,2 is Skolem graceful. For
k 2, let St(n1 , n2 , . . . , nk ) denote the disjoint union of k stars with n1 , n2 , . . . , nk edges.
Lee, Wang, and Wui [1064] showed that the 4-star St(n1 , n2 , n3 , n4 ) is Skolem-graceful for
some special cases and conjectured that all 4-stars are Skolem-graceful. Denham, Leu,
and Liu [486] proved this conjecture. Kishore [918] has shown that a necessary condition
for St(n1 , n2 , . . . , nk ) to be Skolem graceful is that some ni is even or k 0 or 1 (mod
4) (see also [1937] . He conjectures that each one of these conditions is sufficient. Yue,
Yuan-sheng, and Xin-hong [1937] show that for k at most 5, a k-star is Skolem-graceful if
at one star has even size or k 0 or 1 (mod 4). Choudum and Kishore [444] proved that
all 5-stars are Skolem graceful.
Lee, Quach, and Wang [1028] showed that the disjoint union of the path Pn and the
star of size m is Skolem-graceful if and only if n = 2 and m is even or n 3 and m 1.
It follows from the work of Skolem [1571] that nP2 , the disjoint union of n copies of P2 , is
Skolem-graceful if and only if n 0 or 1 (mod 4). Harary and Hsu [689] studied Skolemgraceful graphs under the name node-graceful. Frucht [584] has shown that Pm Pn is
Skolem-graceful when m + n 5. Bhat-Nayak and Deshmukh [321] have shown that
Pn1 Pn2 Pn3 is Skolem-graceful when n1 < n2 n3 , n2 = t(n1 + 2) + 1 and n1 is even
and when n1 < n2 n3 , n2 = t(n1 + 3) + 1 and n1 is odd. They also prove that the
graphs of the form Pn1 Pn2 Pni where i 4 are Skolem-graceful under certain
conditions. In [490] Deshmukh states the following results: the sum of all the edges on
any cycle in a Skolem graceful graph is even; C5 K1,n if and only if n = 1 or 2; C6 K1,n
if and only if n = 2 or 4.
Youssef [1919] proved that if G is Skolem-graceful, then G + Kn is graceful. In [1923]
Youssef shows that that for all n 2, Pn Sm is Skolem-graceful if and only if n 3 or
n = 2 and m is even. Yao, Cheng, Zhongfu, and Yao [1910] have shown that if a tree T
has an edge u1 u2 such that the two components T1 and T2 of T u1 u2 have the properties
that dT1 (u1 ) |T1 |/2 and T2 is a caterpillar or have the properties that dT1 (u1 ) |T1 |/2
and dT2 (u2 ) |T2 |/2, then T is Skolem-graceful.
Mendelsohn and Shalaby [1187] defined a Skolem labeled graph G(V, E) as one for
which there is a positive integer d and a function L : V {d, d + 1, . . . , d + m}, satisfying

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(a) there are exactly two vertices in V such that L(v) = d + i, 0 i m; (b) the distance
in G between any two vertices with the same label is the value of the label; and (c) if G0 is
a proper spanning subgraph of G, then L restricted to G0 is not a Skolem labeled graph.
Note that this definition is different from the Skolem-graceful labeling of Lee, Quach,
and Wang. A hooked Skolem sequence of order n is a sequence s1 , s2 , . . . , s2n+1 such that
s2n = 0 and for each j {1, 2, . . . , n}, there exists a unique i {1, 2, . . . , 2n 1, 2n + 1}
such that si = si+j = j. Mendelsohn [1186] established the following: any tree can be
embedded in a Skolem labeled tree with O(v) vertices; any graph can be embedded as
an induced subgraph in a Skolem labeled graph on O(v 3 ) vertices; for d = 1, there is
a Skolem labeling or the minimum hooked Skolem (with as few unlabeled vertices as
possible) labeling for paths and cycles; for d = 1, there is a minimum Skolem labeled
graph containing a path or a cycle of length n as induced subgraph. In [1186] Mendelsohn
and Shalaby prove that the necessary conditions in [1187] are sufficient for a Skolem or
minimum hooked Skolem labeling of all trees consisting of edge-disjoint paths of the same
length from some fixed vertex. Graham, Pike, and Shalaby [661] obtained various Skolem
labeling results for grid graphs. Among them are P1 Pn and P2 Pn have Skolem
labelings if and only if n 0 or 1 mod 4; and Pm Pn has a Skolem labeling for all m
and n at least 3.

3.6

Odd-Graceful Labelings

Gnanajothi [646, p. 182] defined a graph G with q edges to be odd-graceful if there is an

injection f from V (G) to {0, 1, 2, . . . , 2q 1} such that, when each edge xy is assigned
the label |f (x) f (y)|, the resulting edge labels are {1, 3, 5, . . . , 2q 1}. She proved
that the class of odd-graceful graphs lies between the class of graphs with -labelings
and the class of bipartite graphs by showing that every graph with an -labeling has an
odd-graceful labeling and every graph with an odd cycle is not odd-graceful. She also
proved the following graphs are odd-graceful: Pn ; Cn if and only if n is even; Km,n ; combs
Pn  K1 (graphs obtained by joining a single pendent edge to each vertex of Pn ); books;
crowns Cn  K1 (graphs obtained by joining a single pendent edge to each vertex of Cn )
if and only if n is even; the disjoint union of copies of C4 ; the one-point union of copies
of C4 ; Cn K2 if and only if n is even; caterpillars; rooted trees of height 2; the graphs
obtained from Pn (n 3) by adding exactly two leaves at each vertex of degree 2 of
Pn ; the graphs obtained from Pn P2 by deleting an edge that joins to end points of
the Pn paths; the graphs obtained from a star by adjoining to each end vertex the path
P3 or by adjoining to each end vertex the path P4 . She conjectures that all trees are
odd-graceful and proves the conjecture for all trees with order up to 10. Barrientos [271]
has extended this to trees of order up to 12. Eldergill [518] generalized Gnanajothis
result on stars by showing that the graphs obtained by joining one end point from each
of any odd number of paths of equal length is odd-graceful. He also proved that the onepoint union of any number of copies of C6 is odd-graceful. Kathiresan [895] has shown
that ladders and graphs obtained from them by subdividing each step exactly once are
odd-graceful. Barrientos [274] and [271] has proved the following graphs are odd-graceful:

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every forest whose components are caterpillars; every tree with diameter at most five is
odd-graceful; and all disjoint unions of caterpillars. He conjectures that every bipartite
graph is odd-graceful. Seoud, Diab, and Elsakhawi [1436] have shown that a connected
complete r-partite graph is odd-graceful if and only if r = 2 and that the join of any two
connected graphs is not odd-graceful. Yan [1896] proved that Pm Pn is odd-graceful
labeling. Vaidya and Shah [1754] prove that the splitting graph and the shadow graph
of bistar are odd-graceful. Li, Li, and Yan [1074] proved that Km,n is odd-graceful Liu,
Wang, and Lu [1107] that proved that a class of bicyclic graphs with a common edge is
odd-graceful.
Sekar [1415] has shown the following graphs are odd-graceful: Cm  Pn (the graph
obtained by identifying an end point of Pn with every vertex of Cm ) where n 3 and m is
even; Pa,b when a 2 and b is odd (see 2.7); P2,b and b 2; P4,b and b 2; Pa,b when a
and b are even and a 4 and b 4; P4r+1,4r+2 ; P4r1,4r ; all n-polygonal snakes with n even;
(t)
Cn (see 2.2 for the definition); graphs obtained by beginning with C6 and repeatedly
forming the one-point union with additional copies of C6 in succession; graphs obtained
by beginning with C8 and repeatedly forming the one-point union with additional copies
of C8 in succession; graphs obtained from even cycles by identifying a vertex of the cycle
with the endpoint of a star; C6,n and C8,n (see 2.7); the splitting graph of Pn (see 2.7)
the splitting graph of Cn , n even; lobsters, banana trees, and regular bamboo trees (see
2.1).
Yao, Cheng, Zhongfu, and Yao [1910] have shown the following: if a tree T has an
edge u1 u2 such that the two components T1 and T2 of T u1 u2 have the properties that
dT1 (u1 ) |T1 |/2 and T2 is a caterpillar, then T is odd-graceful; and if a tree T has a
vertex of degree at least |T |/2, then T is odd-graceful. They conjecture that for trees
the properties of being Skolem-graceful and odd-graceful are equivalent. Recall a banana
tree is a graph obtained by starting with any number os stars and connecting one endvertex from each to a new vertex. Zhenbin [1950] has shown that graphs obtained by
starting with any number of stars, appending an edge to exactly one edge from each star,
then joining the vertices at which the appended edges were attached to a new vertex are
odd-graceful.
Gao [610] has proved the following graphs are odd-graceful: the union of any number
of paths; the union of any number of stars; the union of any number of stars and paths;
Cm Pn ; Cm Cn ; and the union of any number of cycles each of which has order divisible
by 4.
If f is an odd-graceful labeling of a bipartite graph G with bipartition (V1 , V2 ) such
that max{f (u) : u V1 } < min{f (v) : v V2 }, Zhou, Yao, Chen, and Tao [1957]
say that f is a set-ordered odd-graceful labeling of G. They proved that every lobster
is odd-graceful and adding leaves to a connected set-ordered odd-graceful graph is an
odd-graceful graph.
In [1426] Seoud and Abdel-Aal determined all odd-graceful graphs of order at most
6 and proved that if G is odd-graceful then G Km,n is odd-graceful. In [1444] Seoud
and Helmi proved: if G has an odd-graceful labeling f with bipartition (V1 , V2 ) such that
max{f (x) : f (x) is even, x V1 } < min{f (x) : f (x) is odd, x V2 }, then G has
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an -labeling; if G has an -labeling, then G  Kn is odd-graceful; and if G1 has an

-labeling and G2 is odd-graceful, then G1 G2 is odd-graceful. They also proved the
following graphs have odd-graceful labelings: dragons obtained from an even cycle; graphs
obtained from a gear graph by attaching a fixed number of pendent edges to each vertex
of degree 2 on rim of the wheel of the graph; C2m  Kn ; graphs obtained from an even
cycle by attaching a fixed number of pendent edges to every other vertex; graphs obtained
by identifying an endpoint of a star Sn (n 3) with a vertex of an even cycle; the graphs
consisting of two even cycles of the same order that share a common vertex with any
number of pendent edges attached at the common vertex; and the graphs obtained by
joining two even cycles of the same order by an edge. Seoud, El Sonbaty, and Abd El
Rehim [1437] proved that the conjunction Pm Pn for all n, m 2 and the conjunction
K2 Fn for n even are odd graceful.
In [1215] and [1216] Moussa proved that Cm Pn is odd graceful in some cases and
gave algorithms to prove that for all m 2 the graphs P4r1;m , r = 1, 2, 3 and P4r+1;m ,
r = 1, 2 are odd graceful. (Pn;m is the graph obtained by identifying the endpoints of m
paths each of length n). He also presented an algorithm that showed that closed spider
graphs and the graphs obtained by joining one or two copies of Pm to each vertex of the
path Pn are odd graceful. Moussa and Brader [1214] proved that Cm  Pn is odd graceful
if and only if m is even.
Moussa [1217] defines the tensor product, Pm Pn , of Pm and Pn as the graph with
j
vertices vij , i = 1, . . . , n; j = 1, . . . , m and edges v1j v2j+1 , v2j+1 v3j , . . . , vn1
vnj+1 for j odd and
j j1 j1 j
j
v1 v2 , v2 v3 , . . . , vn1 vnj1 for j even. He proves that Pm Pm is odd-graceful.
Vaidya and Bijukumar [1711] proved the following are odd-graceful: graphs obtained
by joining two copies of Cn by a path; graphs that are two copies of an even cycle that
share a common edge; graphs that are the splitting graph of a star; and graphs that are
the tensor product of a star and P2 .
Acharya, Germina, Princy, and Rao [24] proved that every bipartite graph G can be
embedded in an odd-graceful graph H. The construction is done in such a way that if G
is planar and odd-graceful, then so is H.
In [416] Chawathe and Krishna extend the definition of odd-gracefulness to countably
infinite graphs and show that all countably infinite bipartite graphs that are connected
and locally finite have odd-graceful labelings.
Solairaju and Chithra [1595] defined a graph G with q edges to be edge-odd graceful
if there is an bijection f from the edges of the graph to {1, 3, 5, . . . , 2q 1} such that,
when each vertex is assigned the sum of all the edges incident to it mod 2q, the resulting
vertex labels are distinct. They prove they following graphs are odd-graceful: paths with
at least 3 vertices; odd cycles; ladders Pn P2 (n 3); stars with an even number of
edges; and crowns Cn  K1 . In [1596] they prove the following graphs have edge-odd
graceful labelings: Pn (n > 1) with a pendent edge attached to each vertex (combs); the
graph obtained by appending 2n + 1 pendent edges to each endpoint of P2 or P3 ; and the
graph obtained by subdividing each edge of the star K1,2n .
Singhun [1563] proved the following graphs have edge-odd graceful labelings: W2n ;
Wn  K1 ; and Wn  Km , when n is odd, m is even, and n divides m.
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In [1614] Sridevi, Navaeethakrishnan, Nagarajan, and Nagarajan call a graph G with q

edges odd-even graceful if there is an injection f from the vertices of G to {1, 3, 5, . . . , 2q +
1} such that, when each edge uv is assigned the label |f (u) f (v)|, the resulting edge
labels are {2, 4, 6, . . . , 2q}. They proved that Pn , combs Pn  K1 , stars K1,n , K1,2,n , Km,n ,
and bistars Bm,n are odd-even graceful.

3.7

Cordial Labelings

Cahit [380] has introduced a variation of both graceful and harmonious labelings. Let
f be a function from the vertices of G to {0, 1} and for each edge xy assign the label
|f (x) f (y)|. Call f a cordial labeling of G if the number of vertices labeled 0 and the
number of vertices labeled 1 differ by at most 1, and the number of edges labeled 0 and
the number of edges labeled 1 differ at most by 1. Cahit [381] proved the following: every
tree is cordial; Kn is cordial if and only if n 3; Km,n is cordial for all m and n; the
(t)
friendship graph C3 (i.e., the one-point union of t 3-cycles) is cordial if and only if t 6 2
(mod 4); all fans are cordial; the wheel Wn is cordial if and only if n 6 3 (mod 4) (see also
[510]); maximal outerplanar graphs are cordial; and an Eulerian graph is not cordial if its
size is congruent to 2 (mod 4). Kuo, Chang, and Kwong [967] determine all m and n for
which mKn is cordial. Youssef [1923] proved that every Skolem-graceful graph (see 3.5
for the definition) is cordial. Liu and Zhu [1114] proved that a 3-regular graph of order n
is cordial if and only if n 6 4 (mod 8).
A k-angular cactus is a connected graph all of whose blocks are cycles with k vertices.
In [381] Cahit proved that a k-angular cactus with t cycles is cordial if and only if kt 6 2
(mod 4). This was improved by Kirchherr [916] who showed any cactus whose blocks
are cycles is cordial if and only if the size of the graph is not congruent to 2 (mod 4).
Kirchherr [917] also gave a characterization of cordial graphs in terms of their adjacency
matrices. Ho, Lee, and Shee [735] proved: Pn C4m is cordial for all m and all odd n;
the composition G and H is cordial if G is cordial and H is cordial and has odd order
and even size (see 2.3 for definition of composition); for n 4 the composition Cn [K2 ] is
cordial if and only if n 6 2 (mod 4); the Cartesian product of two cordial graphs of even
size is cordial. Ho, Lee, and Shee [734] showed that a unicyclic graph is cordial unless it
is C4k+2 and that the generalized Petersen graph (see 2.7 for the definition) P (n, k) is
cordial if and only if n 6 2 (mod 4). Khan [905] proved that a graph that consisting of
a finite number of cycles of finite length joined at a common cut vertex is cordial if and
only if the number of edges is not congruent to 2 mod 4.
Du [510] determines the maximal number of edges in a cordial graph of order n and
gives a necessary condition for a k-regular graph to be cordial. Riskin [1363] proved that
Mobius ladders Mn (see 2.3 for the definition) are cordial if and only if n 3 and n 6 2
(mod 4). (See also [1439].)
Seoud and Abdel Maqusoud [1428] proved that if G is a graph with n vertices and
m edges and every vertex has odd degree, then G is not cordial when m + n 2 (mod
4). They also prove the following: for m 2, Cn Pm is cordial except for the case
C4k+2 P2 ; Pn2 is cordial for all n; Pn3 is cordial if and only if n 6= 4; and Pn4 is cordial if and
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only if n 6= 4, 5, or 6. Seoud, Diab, and Elsakhawi [1436] have proved the following graphs
are cordial: Pn + Pm for all m and n except (m, n) = (2, 2); Cm + Cn if m 6 0 (mod 4) and
n 6= 2 (mod 4); Cn + K1,m for n 6 3 (mod 4) and odd m except (n, m) = (3, 1); Cn + Km
when n is odd, and when n is even and m is odd; K1,m,n ; K2,2,m ; the n-cube; books Bn if
and only if n 6 3 (mod 4); B(3, 2, m) for all m; B(4, 3, m) if and only if m is even; and
B(5, 3, m) if and only if m 6 1 (mod 4) (see 2.4 for the notation B(n, r, m)). In [1591]
Solairaju and Arockiasamy prove that various families of subgraphs of grids Pm Pn are
cordial.
Diab [494], [495], and [497] proved the following graphs are cordial: Cm + Pn if and
only if (m, n) 6= (3, 3), (3, 2), or (3,1); Pm + K1,n if and only if (m, n) 6= (1, 2); Pm K1,n
if and only if (m, n) 6= (1, 2); Cm K1,n ; Cm + Kn for all m and n except m 3 (mod 4)
and n odd, and m 2 (mod 4) and n even; Cm Kn for all m and n except m 2 (mod
4); Pm + Kn ; Pm Kn ; Pm2 Pn2 except for (m, n) = (2, 2) or (3,3); Pn2 + Pm except for
(m, n) = (3, 1), (3, 2), (2, 2), (3, 3) and (4,2); Pn2 Pm except for (n, m) = (2, 2), (3, 3) and
(4,2); Pn2 + Cm if and only if (n, m) 6= (1, 3), (2, 3) and (3, 3). Pn + Km ; Cn + K1,m for all
n > 3 and all m except n 3 (mod 4); Cn + K1,m for n 3 (mod 4) (n 6= 3) and even
m 2; and Cm Cn if and only if 2mn is not congruent to 2 (mod 4).
In [496] Diab proved the graphs Wn + Wm are cordial if and only if one of the following
conditions is not satisfied: (i) (n, m) = (3, 3), (ii) n = 3 and m 1 (mod 4), (iii) n 1
(mod 4) and m 3 (mod 4); the graphs Wn Wm are cordial if and only if one of the
following conditions is not satisfied: (i) n = 3 and m 1 (mod 4), (ii) n 1 (mod 4)
and m 3 (mod 4); the graphs Wn + Pm are cordial if and only if one of the following
conditions is not satisfied: (i) (n, m) = (3, 1), (3, 2) and (3, 3), (ii) n 3 (mod 4) and
m = 1. They also prove that Wn Pm and Wn Cm are cordial for all m and n and
Wn + Cm is cordial if and only if (m, n) 6= (3, 3) and (3, 4).
Youssef [1925] has proved the following: If G and H are cordial and one has even
size, then G H is cordial; if G and H are cordial and both have even size, then G + H
is cordial; if G and H are cordial and one has even size and either one has even order,
then G + H is cordial; Cm Cn is cordial if and only if m + n 6 2 (mod 4); mCn is
cordial if and only if mn 6 2 (mod 4); Cm + Cn is cordial if and only if (m, n)
6= (3, 3)
k
and {m (mod 4), n (mod 4)} 6= {0, 2}; and if Pn is cordial, then n k + 1 + k 2.
He conjectures that this latter condition is also sufficient. He confirms the conjecture for
k = 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9.
Lee and Liu [1008] have shown that the complete n-partite graph is cordial if and only
if at most three of its partite sets have odd cardinality (see also [510]). Lee, Lee, and
Chang [984] prove the following graphs are cordial: the Cartesian product of an arbitrary
number of paths; the Cartesian product of two cycles if and only if at least one of them is
even; and the Cartesian product of an arbitrary number of cycles if at least one of them
has length a multiple of 4 or at least two of them are even.
Shee and Ho [1502] have investigated the cordiality of the one-point union of n copies
(n)
of various graphs. For Cm , the one-point union of n copies of Cm , they prove:
(n)
(i) If m 0 (mod 4), then Cm is cordial for all n;
(n)
(ii) If m 1 or 3 (mod 4), then Cm is cordial if and only if n 6 2 (mod 4);
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(n)

(iii) If m 2 (mod 4), then Cm is cordial if and only if n is even.

(n)
For Km , the one-point union of n copies of Km , Shee and Ho [1502] prove:
(n)
(i) If m 0 (mod 8), then Km is not cordial for n 3 (mod 4);
(n)
(ii) If m 4 (mod 8), then Km is not cordial for n 1 (mod 4);
(n)
(iii) If m 5 (mod 8), then Km is not cordial for all odd n;
(n)
(iv) K4 is cordial if and only if n 6 1 (mod 4);
(n)
(v) K5 is cordial if and only if n is even;
(n)
(vi) K6 is cordial if and only if n > 2;
(n)
(vii) K7 is cordial if and only if n 6 2 (mod 4);
(2)
(viii) Kn is cordial if and only if n has the form p2 or p2 + 1.
(n)
For Wm , the one-point union of n copies of the wheel Wm with the common vertex being
the center, Shee and Ho [1502] show:
(n)
(i) If m 0 or 2 (mod 4), then Wm is cordial for all n;
(n)
(ii) If m 3 (mod 4), then Wm is cordial if n 6 1 (mod 4);
(n)
(iii) If m 1 (mod 4), then Wm is cordial if n 6 3 (mod 4). For all n and all m > 1
(n)
Shee and Ho [1502] prove Fm , the one-point union of n copies of the fan Fm = Pm + K1
with the common point of the fans being the center, is cordial (see also [1090]). The flag
F lm is obtained by joining one vertex of Cm to an extra vertex called the root. Shee and
(n)
Ho [1502] show all F lm , the one-point union of n copies of F lm with the common point
being the root, are cordial. In his 2001 Ph. D. thesis Selvaraju [1417] proves that the
one-point union of any number of copies of a complete bipartite graph is cordial. Benson
(n)
and Lee [303] have investigated the regular windmill graphs Km and determined precisely
which ones are cordial for m < 14.
Diab and Mohammedm [499] proved the following: the join of two fans Fn + Fm is
cordial if and only if n, m 4; Fn Fm is cordial if and only if (n, m) 6= (1,1) or (2,2);
Fn + Pm is cordial if and only if (n, m) 6= (1,2), (2,1), (2,2) (2,3), or (3,2); Fn Pm is
cordial if and only if (n, m) 6= (1,2); Fn + Cm is cordial if and only if (n, m) 6= (1,3), (2,3)
or (3,3); and Fn Cm is cordial if and only if (n, m) 6= (2, 3).
Andar, Boxwala, and Limaye [103], [104], and [107] have proved the following graphs
are cordial: helms; closed helms; generalized helms obtained by taking a web (see 2.2 for
the definitions) and attaching pendent vertices to all the vertices of the outermost cycle in
the case that the number cycles is even; flowers (graphs obtained by joining the vertices
of degree one of a helm to the central vertex); sunflower graphs (that is, graphs obtained
by taking a wheel with the central vertex v0 and the n-cycle v1 , v2 , . . . , vn and additional
vertices w1 , w2 , . . . , wn where wi is joined by edges to vi , vi+1 , where i + 1 is taken modulo
n); multiple shells (see 2.2); and the one point unions of helms, closed helms, flowers,
gears, and sunflower graphs, where in each case the central vertex is the common vertex.
Du [511] proved that the disjoint union of n 2 wheels is cordial if and only if n is
even or n is odd and the number of vertices of in each cycle is not 0 (mod 4) or n is odd
and the number of vertices of in each cycle is not 3 (mod 4).
For positive integers m and n divisible by 4 Venkatesh [1795] constructs graphs ob-

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tained by appending a copy of Cn to each vertex of Cm by identifying one vertex of Cn

with each vertex of Cm and iterating by appending a copy of Cn to each vertex of degree
2 in the previous step. He proves that the graphs obtained by successive iterations are
cordial.
Elumalai and Sethurman [521] proved: cycles with parallel cords are cordial and ncycles with parallel Pk -chords (see 2.2 for the definition) are cordial for any odd positive
integer k at least 3 and any n 6 2 (mod 4) of length at least 4. They call a graph H an
even-multiple subdivision graph of a graph G if it is obtained from G by replacing every
edge uv of G by a pair of paths of even length starting at u and ending at v. They prove
that every even-multiple subdivision graph is cordial and that every graph is a subgraph
of a cordial graph. In [1862] Wen proves that generalized wheels Cn + mK1 are cordial
when m is even and n 6 2 (mod 4) and when m is odd and n 6 3 (mod 4).
Vaidya, Ghodasara, Srivastav, and Kaneria investigated graphs obtained by joining
two identical graphs by a path. They prove: graphs obtained by joining two copies of
the same cycle by a path are cordial [1722]; graphs obtained by joining two copies of the
same cycle that has two chords with a common vertex with opposite ends of the chords
joining two consecutive vertices of the cycle by a path are cordial [1722]; graphs obtained
by joining two rim verticies of two copies of the same wheel by a path are cordial [1724];
and graphs obtained by joining two copies of the same Petersen graph by a path are
cordial [1724]. They also prove that graphs obtained by replacing one vertex of a star by
a fixed wheel or by replacing each vertex of a star by a fixed Petersen graph are cordial
[1724]. In [1762] Vaidya, Ghodasara, Srivastav, and Kaneria investigated graphs obtained
by joining two identical cycles that have a chord are cordial and the graphs obtained by
starting with copies G1 , G2 , . . . , Gn of a fixed cycle with a chord that forms a triangle
with two consecutive edges of the cycle and joining each Gi to Gi+1 (i = 1, 2, . . . , n 1)
by an edge that is incident with the endpoints of the chords in Gi and Gi+1 are cordial.
Vaidya, Dani, Kanani, and Vihol [1717] proved that the graphs obtained by starting with
copies G1 , G2 , . . . , Gn of a fixed star and joining each center of Gi to the center of Gi+1
(i = 1, 2, . . . , n 1) by an edge are cordial.
S. Vaidya, K. Kanani, S. Srivastav, and G. Ghodasara [1732] proved: graphs obtained
by subdividing every edge of a cycle with exactly two extra edges that are chords with
a common endpoint and whose other end points are joined by an edge of the cycle are
cordial; graphs obtained by subdividing every edge of the graph obtained by starting with
Cn and adding exactly three chords that result in two 3-cycles and a cycle of length n 3
are cordial; graphs obtained by subdividing every edge of a Petersen graph are cordial.
Recall the shell C(n, n3) is the cycle Cn with n3 cords sharing a common endpoint.
Vaidya, Dani, Kanani, and Vihol [1718] proved that the graphs obtained by starting with
copies G1 , G2 , . . . , Gn of a fixed shell and joining common endpoint of the chords of Gi to
the common endpoint of the chords of Gi+1 (i = 1, 2, . . . , n 1) by an edge are cordial.
Vaidya, Dani, Kanani and Vihol [1733] define Cn (Cn ) as the graph obtained by subdividing
each edge of Cn and connecting the new n vertices to form a copy of Cn inscribed the
original Cn . They prove that Cn (Cn ) is cordial if n 6= 2 (mod 4); the graphs obtained
by starting with copies G1 , G2 , . . . , Gk of Cn (Cn ) the graph obtained by joining a vertex
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of degree 2 in Gi to a vertex of degree 2 in Gi+1 (i = 1, 2, . . . , n 1) by an edge are

cordial; and the graphs obtained by joining vertex of degree 2 from one copy of Cn (Cn )
to a vertex of degree 2 to another copy of Cn (Cn ) by any finite path are cordial. Vaidya
and Shah [1759] and [1760] proved that following graphs are cordial: the shadow graph of
the bistar Bn,n , the splitting graph of Bn,n , the degree splitting graph of Bn,n , alternate
triangular snakes, alternate quadrilateral snakes, double alternate triangular snakes, and
double alternate quadrilateral snakes.
A graph C(2n, n 2) is called an alternate shell if C(2n, n 2) is obtained from
the cycle C2n (v0 , v1 , v2 , . . . , v2n1 ) by adding n 2 chords between the vertex v0 and
the vertices v2i+1 , for 1 i n 2. Sethuraman and Sankar [1486] proved that some
graphs obtained by merging alternate shells and joining certain vertices by a path have
-labelings.
Vaidya, Srivastav, Kaneria, and Ghodasara [1763] proved that a cycle with two chords
that share a common vertex and the opposite ends of which join two consecutive vertices
of the cycle is cordial. For a graph G Vaidya, Ghodasara, Srivastav, and Kaneria [1723]
introduced a graph G called star of a graph as the graph obtained by replacing each
vertex of the star K1,n by a copy of G and prove that Cn admits cordial labeling. Vaidya
and Dani [1713] proved that the graphs obtained by starting with n copies G1 , G2 , . . . , Gn
of a fixed star and joining each center of Gi to the center of Gi+1 by an edge as well as
each of the centers to a new vertex xi (1 i n 1) by an edge admit cordial labelings.
An arbitrary supersubdivison H of a graph G is the graph obtained from G by replacing
every edge of G by K2,m , where m may vary for each edge arbitrarily. Vaidya and Kanani
[1725] proved that arbitrary supersubdivisions of paths and stars admit cordial labelings.
Vaidya and Dani [1714] prove that arbitrary supersubdivisions of trees, Km,n , and Pm Pn
are cordial. They also prove that an arbitrary supersubdivision of the graph obtained by
identifying an end vertex of a path with every vertex of a cycle Cn is cordial except when
n is odd, mi (1 i n) are odd, and mi (n + 1 i mn) of the K2,mi are even. Recall
for a graph G and a vertex v of G Vaidya, Srivastav, Kaneria, and Kanani [1764] define
a vertex switching Gv as the graph obtained from G by removing all edges incident to
v and adding edges joining v to every vertex not adjacent to v in G. They proved that
the graphs obtained by the switching of a vertex in Cn admit cordial labelings. They
also show that the graphs obtained by the switching of any arbitrary vertex of cycle Cn
with one chord that forms a triangle with two consecutive edges of the cycle are cordial.
Moreover they prove that the graphs obtained by the switching of any arbitrary vertex
in cycle with two chords that share a common vertex the opposite ends of which join two
consecutive vertices of the cycle are cordial.
The middle graph M (G) of a graph G is the graph whose vertex set is V (G) E(G)
and in which two vertices are adjacent if and only if either they are adjacent edges of G
or one is a vertex of G and the other is an edge incident with it. Vaidya and Vihol [1766]
prove
Pn that 2the middle graph M (G) of an Eulerian graph is Eulerian with |E(M (G))| =
i=1 (d(vi ) + 2e)/2. They prove that middle graphs of paths, crowns Cn  K1 , stars, and
tadpoles (that is, graphs obtained by appending a path to a cycle) admit cordial labelings.
Vaidya and Dani [1716] define the duplication of an edge e = uv of a graph G by a
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new vertex w as the graph G0 obtained from G by adding a new vertex w and the edges
wv and wu. They prove that the graphs obtained by duplication of an arbitrary edge
of a cycle and a wheel admit a cordial labeling. Starting with k copies of fixed wheel
(1)
(2)
(k)
(1)
Wn , Wn , Wn , . . . Wn , Vaidya, Dani, Kanani, and Vihol [1720] define G =< Wn :
(2)
(k)
(i)
Wn : . . . : Wn > as the graph obtained by joining the center vertices of each of Wn and
(i+1)
(1)
(2)
(k)
Wn
to a new vertex xi where 1 i k1. They prove that < Wn : Wn : ... : Wn >
are cordial graphs. Kaneria and Vaidya [862] define the index of cordiality of G as n if
the disjoint union of n copies of G is cordial but the disjoint union of fewer than n copies
of G is not cordial. They obtain several results on index of cordiality of Kn . In the same
paper they investigate cordial labelings of graphs obtained by replacing each vertex of
K1,n by a graph G.
In [107] Andar et al. define a t-ply graph Pt (u, v) as a graph consisting of t internally
disjoint paths joining vertices u and v. They prove that Pt (u, v) is cordial except when it
is Eulerian and the number of edges is congruent to 2 (mod 4). In [108] Andar, Boxwala,
and Limaye prove that the one-point union of any number of plys with an endpoint as
the common vertex is cordial if and only if it is not Eulerian and the number of edges is
congruent to 2 (mod 4). They further prove that the path union of shells obtained by
joining any point of one shell to any point of the next shell is cordial; graphs obtained by
attaching a pendent edge to the common vertex of the cords of a shell are cordial; and
cycles with one pendent edge are cordial.
For a graph G and a positive integer t, Andar, Boxwala, and Limaye [105] define the
t-uniform homeomorph Pt (G) of G as the graph obtained from G by replacing every edge
of G by vertex disjoint paths of length t. They prove that if G is cordial and t is odd,
then Pt (G) is cordial; if t 2 (mod 4) a cordial labeling of G can be extended to a cordial
labeling of Pt (G) if and only if the number of edges labeled 0 in G is even; and when t 0
(mod 4) a cordial labeling of G can be extended to a cordial labeling of Pt (G) if and only
if the number of edges labeled 1 in G is even. In [106] Ander et al. prove that Pt (K2n ) is
cordial for all t 2 and that Pt (K2n+1 ) is cordial if and only if t 0 (mod 4) or t is odd
and n 6 2 (mod 4), or t 2 (mod 4) and n is even.
In [108] Andar, Boxwala, and Limaya show that a cordial labeling of G can be extended
to a cordial labeling of the graph obtained from G by attaching 2m pendent edges at each
vertex of G. For a binary labeling g of the vertices of a graph G and the induced edge
labels given by g(e) = |g(u) g(v)| let vg (j) denote the number of vertices labeled with j
and eg (j) denote the number edges labeled with j. Let i(G) = min{|eg (0) eg (1)|} taken
over all binary labelings g of G with |vg (0) vg (1)| 1. Andar et al. also prove that
a cordial labeling g of a graph G with p vertices can be extended to a cordial labeling
of the graph obtained from G by attaching 2m + 1 pendent edges at each vertex of G
if and only if G does not satisfy either of the conditions: (1) G has an even number of
edges and p 2 (mod 4); (2) G has an odd number of edges and either p 1 (mod 4)
with eg (1) = eg (0) + i(G) or n 3 (mod 4) and eg (0) = eg (1) + i(G). Andar, Boxwala,
and Limaye [109] also prove: if g is a binary labeling of the n vertices of graph G with
induced edge labels given by g(e) = |g(u) g(v)| then g can be extended to a cordial
labeling of G  K2m if and only if n is odd and i(G) 2 (mod 4); Kn  K2m is cordial
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if and only if n 6= 4 (mod 8); Kn  K2m+1 is cordial if and only if n 6= 7 (mod 8); if
g is a binary labeling of the n vertices of graph G with induced edge labels given by
g(e) = |g(u) g(v)| then g can be extended to a cordial labeling of G  Ct if t 6= 3 mod
4, n is odd and eg (0) = eg (1). For any binary labeling g of a graph G with induced edge
labels given by g(e) = |g(u) g(v)| they also characterize in terms of i(G) when g can be
extended to graphs of the form G  K2m+1 .
For graphs G1 , G2 , . . . , Gn (n 2) that are all copies of a fixed graph G, Shee and Ho
[1503] call a graph obtained by adding an edge from Gi to Gi+1 for i = 1, . . . , n 1 a pathunion of G (the resulting graph may depend on how the edges are chosen). Among their
results they show the following graphs are cordial: path-unions of cycles; path-unions of
any number of copies of Km when m = 4, 6, or 7; path-unions of three or more copies of
K5 ; and path-unions of two copies of Km if and only if m 2, m, or m + 2 is a perfect
square. They also show that there exist cordial path-unions of wheels, fans, unicyclic
graphs, Petersen graphs, trees, and various compositions.
Lee and Liu [1008] give the following general construction for the forming of cordial
graphs from smaller cordial graphs. Let H be a graph with an even number of edges and
a cordial labeling such that the vertices of H can be divided into t parts H1 , H2 , . . . , Ht
each consisting of an equal number of vertices labeled 0 and vertices labeled 1. Let
G be any graph and G1 , G2 , . . . , Gt be any t subsets of the vertices of G. Let (G, H)
be the graph that is the disjoint union of G and H augmented by edges joining every
vertex in Gi to every vertex in Hi for all i. Then G is cordial if and only if (G, H)
is. From this it follows that: all generalized fans Fm,n = Km + Pn are cordial; the
generalized bundle Bm,n is cordial if and only if m is even or n 6 2 (mod 4) (Bm,n
consists of 2n vertices v1 , v2 , . . . , vn , u1 , u2 , . . . , un with an edge from vi to ui and 2m
vertices x1 , x2 , . . . xm , y1 , y2 , . . . , ym with xi joined to vi and yi joined to ui ); if m is odd
the generalized wheel Wm,n = Km + Cn is cordial if and only if n 6 3 (mod 4). If m is
even, Wm,n is cordial if and only if n 6 2 (mod 4); a complete k-partite graph is cordial
if and only if the number of parts with an odd number of vertices is at most 3.
Sethuraman and Selvaraju [1494] have shown that certain cases of the union of any
number of copies of K4 with one or more edges deleted and one edge in common are
cordial. Youssef [1928] has shown that the kth power of Cn is cordial for all n when
k 2 (mod 4) and for all even n when k 0 (mod 4). Ramanjaneyulu, Venkaiah, and
Kothapalli [1341] give cordial labelings for a family of planar graphs for which each face is
a 3-cycle and a family for which each face is a 4-cycle. Acharya, Germina, Princy, and Rao
[24] prove that every graph G can be embedded in a cordial graph H. The construction
is done in such a way that if G is planar or connected, then so is H.
Recall from 2.7 that a graph H is a supersubdivision of a graph G, if every edge uv
of G is replaced by K2,m (m may vary for each edge) by identifying u and v with the two
vertices in K2,m that form the partite set with exactly two members. Vaidya and Kanani
[1725] prove that supersubdivisions of paths and stars are cordial. They also prove that
supersubdivisions of Cn are cordial provided that n and the various values for m are odd.
Raj and Koilraj [1331] proved that the splitting graphs of Pn , Cn , Km,n , Wn , nK2 , and
(1)
(2)
(k)
the graphs obtained by starting with k copies of stars K1,n , K1,n , . . . , K1,n and joining the
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(p)

central vertex of K1,n and K1,n to a new vertex xp1 for each 2 p k are cordial.
Seoud, El Sonbaty, and Abd El Rehim [1437] proved the following graphs are cordial:
K1,l,m,n when mn is even; Pm + K1,n if n is even or n is odd and (m 6= 2); the conjunction
graph P4 Cn is cordial if n is even; and the join of the one-point union of two copies of
Cn and K1 .
Recall < K1,n1 , . . . , K1,nt > is the graph obtained by starting with the stars
K1,n1 , . . . , K1,nt and joining the center vertices of K1,ni and K1,ni+1 to a new vertex vi where
1 i k 1. Kaneria, Jariya, and Meghpara [869] proved that < K1,n1 , . . . , K1,nt >
is cordial and every graceful graph with |vf (odd) vf (even)| 1 is cordial. Kaneria,
Meghpara, and Makadia [877] proved that the cycle of complete graphs C(t Km,n ) and
the cycle of wheels C(t Wn ) are cordial. Kaneria, Makadia, and Meghpara [878] proved
that the cycle of cycles C(t Cn ) is cordial for t 3. Kaneria, Makadia, and Meghpara
[879] proved that a star of Kn and a cycle of n copies of Kn are cordial. Kaneria, Viradia,
Jariya, and Makadia [883] proved that the cycle of paths C(t Pn ) is cordial, product
cordial, and total edge product cordial.
Cahit [386] calls a graph H-cordial if it is possible to label the edges with the numbers
from the set {1, 1} in such a way that, for some k, at each vertex v the sum of the labels
on the edges incident with v is either k or k and the inequalities |v(k) v(k)| 1 and
|e(1) e(1)| 1 are also satisfied, where v(i) and e(j) are, respectively, the number of
vertices labeled with i and the number of edges labeled with j. He calls a graph Hn -cordial
if it is possible to label the edges with the numbers from the set {1, 2, . . . , n} in such
a way that, at each vertex v the sum of the labels on the edges incident with v is in the
set {1, 2, . . . , n} and the inequalities |v(i) v(i)| 1 and |e(i) e(i)| 1 are
also satisfied for each i with 1 i n. Among Cahits results are: Kn,n is H-cordial
if and only if n > 2 and n is even; and Km,n , m 6= n, is H-cordial if and only if n 0
(mod 4), m is even and m > 2, n > 2. Unfortunately, Ghebleh and Khoeilar [642] have
shown that other statements in Cahits paper are incorrect. In particular, Cahit states
that Kn is H-cordial if and only if n 0 (mod 4); Wn is H-cordial if and only if n 1
(mod 4); and Kn is H2 -cordial if and only if n 0 (mod 4) whereas Ghebleh and Khoeilar
instead prove that Kn is H-cordial if and only if n 0 or 3 (mod 4) and n 6= 3; Wn is
H-cordial if and only if n is odd; Kn is H2 -cordial if n 0 or 3 (mod 4); and Kn is
not H2 -cordial if n 1 (mod 4). Ghebleh and Khoeilar also prove every wheel has an
H2 -cordial labeling. In [572] Freeda and Chellathurai prove that the following graphs are
H2 -cordial: the join of two paths, the join of two cycles, ladders, and the tensor product
Pn P2 . They also prove that the join of Wn and Wm where n + m 0 (mod 4) is
H-cordial. Cahit generalizes the notion of H-cordial labelings in [386].
Cahit and Yilmaz [390] call a graph Ek -cordial if it is possible to label the edges
with the numbers from the set {0, 1, 2, . . . , k 1} in such a way that, at each vertex v,
the sum of the labels on the edges incident with v modulo k satisfies the inequalities
|v(i) v(j)| 1 and |e(i) e(j)| 1, where v(s) and e(t) are, respectively, the number of
vertices labeled with s and the number of edges labeled with t. Cahit and Yilmaz prove
the following graphs are E3 -cordial: Pn (n 3); stars Sn if and only if n 6 1 (mod 3);
Kn (n 3); Cn (n 3); friendship graphs; and fans Fn (n 3). They also prove that
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Sn (n 2) is Ek -cordial if and only if n 6 1 (mod k) when k is odd or n 6 1 (mod 2k)

when k is even and k 6= 2.
Bapat and Limaye [262] provide E3 -cordial labelings for: Kn (n 3); snakes whose
blocks are all isomorphic to Kn where n 0 or 2 (mod 3); the one-point union of any
number of copies of Kn where n 0 or 2 (mod 3); graphs obtained by attaching a copy
of Kn where n 0 or 3 (mod 3) at each vertex of a path; and Km  Kn . Rani and
Sridharan [1352] proved: for odd n > 1 and k 2, Pn  K1 is Ek -cordial; for n even
and n 6= k/2, Pn  K1 is Ek -cordial; and certain cases of fans are Ek -cordial. Youssef
[1926] gives a necessary condition for a graph to be Ek -cordial for certain k. He also
gives some new families of Ek -cordial graphs and proves Lees [1038] conjecture about the
edge-gracefulness of the disjoint union of two cycles. Venkatesh, Salah, and Sethuraman
2t
[1796] proved that C2n+1 snakes and C2n+1
are E2 -cordial.
Hovey [739] has introduced a simultaneous generalization of harmonious and cordial
labelings. For any Abelian group A (under addition) and graph G(V, E) he defines G to
be A-cordial if there is a labeling of V with elements of A such that for all a and b in A
when the edge ab is labeled with f (a) + f (b), the number of vertices labeled with a and
the number of vertices labeled b differ by at most one and the number of edges labeled
with a and the number labeled with b differ by at most one. In the case where A is the
cyclic group of order k, the labeling is called k-cordial. With this definition we have: if
G(V, E) is a graph with |E| |V | 1 then G(V, E) is harmonious if and only if G is
|E|-cordial; G is cordial if and only if G is 2-cordial.
Hovey has obtained the following: caterpillars are k-cordial for all k; all trees are
k-cordial for k = 3, 4, and 5; odd cycles with pendent edges attached are k-cordial for all
k; cycles are k-cordial for all odd k; for k even, C2mk+j is k-cordial when 0 j k2 + 2
and when k < j < 2k; C(2m+1)k is not k-cordial; Km is 3-cordial; and, for k even, Kmk is
k-cordial if and only if m = 1.
Hovey advances the following conjectures: all trees are k-cordial for all k; all connected
graphs are 3-cordial; and C2mk+j is k-cordial if and only if j 6= k, where k and j are even
and 0 j < 2k. The last conjecture was verified by Tao [1675]. Taos result combined
with those of Hovey show that for all positive integers k the n-cycle is k-cordial with the
exception that k is even and n = 2mk + k. Tao also proved that the crown with 2mk + j
vertices is k-cordial unless j = k is even, and for 4 n k the wheel Wn is k-cordial
unless k 5 (mod 8) and n = (k + 1)/2.
In [1930] Youssef and Al-Kuleab proved the following: if G is a (p1 , q1 ) k-cordial graph
and G is a (p2 , q2 ) k-cordial graph with p1 or p2 0 (mod k) and q1 or q2 0 (mod k),
then G + H is k-cordial; if G is a (p1 , q1 ) 4-cordial graph and G is a (p2 , q2 ) 4-cordial
graph with p1 or p2 6 2 ( mod 4) and q1 or q2 0 ( mod k), then G + H is 4-cordial; and
Km,n,p is 4-cordial if and only if (m, n, p) mod 4 6 (0, 2, 2) or (2, 2, 2).
In [1924] Youssef obtained the following results: C2k with one pendent edge is not
(2k + 1)-cordial for k > 1; Kn is 4-cordial if and only if n 6; Cn2 is 4-cordial if and only
if n 6 2 (mod 4); and Km,n is 4-cordial if and only if n 6 2 (mod 4); He also provides
some necessary conditions for a graph to be k-cordial.
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pergraphs. They presented various sufficient conditions on a hypertree H (a connected

hypergraph without cycles) to be k-cordial. From their theorems it follows that every
k-uniform hypertree is k-cordial, and every hypertree with odd order or size is 2-cordial.
In [881] and [882] Kanani and Modha prove that fans, friendship graphs, ladders,
double fans, double wheels are 7-cordial graphs and wheels, fans and friendship graphs,
gears, double fans, and helms are 4-cordial graphs.
In [1490] Sethuraman and Selvaraju present an algorithm that permits one to start
with any non-trivial connected graph G and successively form supersubdivisions (see 2.7
for the definition) that are cordial in the case that every edge in G is replaced by K2,m
where m is even. Sethuraman and Selvaraju [1489] also show that the one-vertex union
of any number of copies of Km,n is cordial and that the one-edge union of k copies of shell
graphs C(n, n 3) (see 2.2) is cordial for all n 4 and all k. They conjectured that the
one-point union of any number of copies of graphs of the form C(ni , ni 3) for various
ni 4 is cordial. This was proved by Yue, Yuansheng, and Liping in [1940]. Riskin [1365]
claimed that Kn is Z2 Z2 -cordial if and only if n is at most 3 and Km,n is Z2 Z2
cordial if and only if (m, n) 6= (2, 2). However, Pechenik and Wise [1270] report that the
correct statement for Km,n is Km,n is Z2 Z2 cordial if and only if mv and n are not both
congruent to 2 mod 4. Seoud and Salim [1453] gave an upper bound on the number of
edges of a graph that admits a Z2 Z2 -cordial labeling in terms the number of vertices.
In [1270] Pechenik and Wise investigate Z2 Z2 -cordiality of complete bipartite graphs,
paths, cycles, ladders, prisms, and hypercubes. They proved that all complete bipartite
graphs are Z2 Z2 -cordial except Km,n where m, n 2 mod 4; all paths are Z2 Z2 -cordial
except P4 and P5 ; all cycles are Z2 Z2 -cordial except C4 , C5 , Ck , where k 2 mod 4; and
all ladders P2 Pk are Z2 Z2 -cordial except C4 . They also introduce a generalization
of A-cordiality involving digraphs and quasigroups, and we show that there are infinitely
many Q-cordial digraphs for every quasigroup Q.
Cairnie and Edwards [393] have determined the computational complexity of cordial and k-cordial labelings. They prove the conjecture of Kirchherr [917] that deciding
whether a graph admits a cordial labeling is NP-complete. As a corollary, this result
implies that the same problem for k-cordial labelings is NP-complete. They remark that
even the restricted problem of deciding whether connected graphs of diameter 2 have a
cordial labeling is also NP-complete.
In [412] Chartrand, Lee, and Zhang introduced the notion of uniform cordiality as
follows. Let f be a labeling from V (G) to {0, 1} and for each edge xy define f (xy) =
|f (x) f (y)|. For i = 0 and 1, let vi (f ) denote the number of vertices v with f (v) = i
and ei (f ) denote the number of edges e with f (e) = i. They call a such a labeling f
friendly if |v0 (f ) v1 (f )| 1. A graph G for which every friendly labeling is cordial is
called uniformly cordial. They prove that a connected graph of order n 2 is uniformly
cordial if and only if n = 3 and G = K3 , or n is even and G = K1,n1 .
In [1363] Riskin introduced two measures of the noncordiality of a graph. He defines
the cordial edge deficiency of a graph G as the minimum number of edges, taken over all
friendly labelings of G, needed to be added to G such that the resulting graph is cordial.
If a graph G has a vertex labeling f using 0 and 1 such that the edge labeling fe given
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by fe (xy) = |f (x) f (y)| has the property that the number of edges labeled 0 and the
number of edges labeled 1 differ by at most 1, the cordial vertex deficiency defined as .
Riskin proved: the cordial edge deficiency of Kn (n > 1) is b n2 c 1; the cordial vertex
deficiency of Kn is j 1 if n = j 2 + , when is 2, 0 or 2, and otherwise. In [1363]
Riskin determines the cordial edge deficiency and cordial vertex deficiency for the cases
when the Mobius ladders and wheels are not cordial. In [1364] Riskin determines the
cordial edge deficiencies for complete multipartite graphs that are not cordial and obtains
a upper bound for their cordial vertex deficiencies.
If f is a binary vertex labeling of a graph G Lee, Liu, and Tan [1009] defined a partial
edge labeling of the edges of G by f (uv) = 0 if f (u) = f (v) = 0 and f (uv) = 1 if
f (u) = f (v) = 1. They let e0 (G) denote the number of edges uv for which f (uv) = 0
and e1 (G) denote the number of edges uv for which f (uv) = 1. They say G is balanced if
it has a friendly labeling f such that if |e0 (f ) e1 (f )| 1. In the case that the number
of vertices labeled 0 and the number of vertices labeled 1 are equal and the number of
edges labeled 0 and the number of edges labeled 1 are equal they say the labeling is
strongly balanced. They prove: Pn is balanced for all n and is strongly balanced if n is
even; Km,n is balanced if and only if m and n are even, m and n are odd and differ by at
most 2, or exactly one of m or n is even (say n = 2t) and t 1, 0, 1 (mod |m n|); a
k-regular graph with p vertices is strongly balanced if and only if p is even and is balanced
if and only if p is odd and k = 2; and if G is any graph and H is strongly balanced, the
composition G[H] (see 2.3 for the definition) is strongly balanced. In [938] Kong, Lee,
Seah, and Tang show: Cm Pn is balanced if m and n are odd and is strongly balanced if
either m or n is even; and Cm  K1 is balanced for all m 3 and strongly balanced if m
is even. They also provide necessary and sufficient conditions for a graph to be balanced
or strongly balanced. Lee, Lee, and Ng [982] show that stars are balanced if and only
if the number of edges of the star is at most 4. Kwong, Lee, Lo, and Wang [973] define
a graph G to be uniformly balanced if |e0 (f ) e1 (f )| 1 for every vertex labeling f
that satisfies if |v0 (f ) v1 (f )| 1. They present several ways to construct families of
uniformly balanced graphs. Kim, Lee, and Ng [912] prove the following: for any graph
G, mG is balanced for all m; for any graph G, mG is strongly balanced for all even m;
if G is strongly balanced and H is balanced, then G H is balanced; mKn is balanced
for all m and strongly balanced if and only if n = 3 or mn is even; if H is balanced and
G is any graph, the G H is strongly balanced; if one of m or n is even, then Pm [Pn ]
is balanced; if both m and n are even, then Pm [Pn ] is balanced; and if G is any graph
and H is strongly balanced, then the tensor product G H is strongly balanced. (The
tensor product G H of graphs G and H, has the vertex set V (G) V (H) and any two
vertices (u, u0 ) and (v, v 0 ) are adjacent in G H if and only if u0 is adjacent with v 0 and
u is adjacent with v.)
A graph G is k-balanced if there is a function f from the vertices of G to {0, 1, 2, . . . , k
1} such that for the induced function f from the edges of G to {0, 1, 2, . . . , k 1} defined
by f (uv) = |f (u) f (v)| the number of vertices labeled i and the number of edges
labeled j differ by at most 1 for each i and j. Seoud, El Sonbaty, and Abd El Rehim
[1437] proved the following: if |E| 2k + 1 and |V | k then G(V, E) is not k-balanced;
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if |E| 3k + 1, (k 2) and 3k 1 |V | 2k + 1 then G(V, E) is not k-balanced;

r-regular graphs with 3 r n 1 are not r-balanced; if G1 has m vertices and G2
has n vertices then G1 + G2 is not (m + n)-balanced for m, n 5; P3 Pn with edge
set E is 3n-balanced and |E|-balanced; Ln P2 (Ln = Pn P2 ) with vertex set V and
edge set E is |V |-balanced and k-balanced for k |E| but not n-balanced for n 2; the
one-point union of two copies of K2,n is 2n-balanced, |V |-balanced, and |E|-balanced not
is 3-balanced when n 4. They also proved that the composition graph Pn [P2 ] is not
n-balanced for n 3, is not 2n-balanced for n 5, and is not |E|-balanced.
A graph whose edges are labeled with 0 and 1 so that the absolute difference in the
number of edges labeled 1 and 0 is no more than one is called edge-friendly. We say an
edge-friendly labeling induces a partial vertex labeling if vertices which are incident to
more edges labeled 1 than 0, are labeled 1, and vertices which are incident to more edges
labeled 0 than 1, are labeled 0. Vertices that are incident to an equal number of edges
of both labels are called unlabeled. Call a procedure on a labeled graph a label switching
algorithm if it consists of pairwise switches of labels. Krop, Lee, and Raridan [960] prove
that given an edge-friendly labeling of Kn , we show a label switching algorithm producing
an edge-friendly relabeling of Kn such that all the vertices are labeled.

3.8

The Friendly IndexBalance Index

Recall a function f from V (G) to {0, 1} where for each edge xy, f (xy) = |f (x)
f (y)|, vi (f ) is the number of vertices v with f (v) = i, and ei (f ) is the number of edges e with f (e) = i is called friendly if |v0 (f ) v1 (f )| 1. Lee
and Ng [1016] define the friendly index set of a graph G as FI(G)= {|e0 (f )
e1 (f )| where f runs over all friendly labelings f of G}. They proved: for any graph G
with q edges FI(G) {0, 2, 4, . . . , q} if q is even and FI(G) {1, 3, . . . , q} if q is odd;
for 1 m n, FI(Km,n )= {(m 2i)2 | 0 i bm/2c} if m + n is even; and
FI(Km,n )= {i(i + 1)| 0 i m} if m + n is odd. In [1020] Lee and Ng prove the
following: FI(C2n ) = {0, 4, 8, . . . , 2n} when n is even; FI(C2n ) = {2, 6, 10, . . . , 2n} when n
is odd; and FI(C2n+1 ) = {1, 3, 5, . . . , 2n 1}. Elumalai [520] defines a cycle with a full set
of chords as the graph P Cn obtained from Cn = v0 , v1 , v2 , . . . , vn1 by adding the cords
v1 vn1 , v2 vn2 , . . . , v(n2)/2 , v(n+2)/2 when n is even and v1 vn1 , v2 vn2 , . . . , v(n3)/2 , v(n+3)/2
when n is odd. Lee and Ng [1018] prove: FI(P C2m+1 ) = {3m 2, 3m 4, 3m 6, . . . , 0}
when m is even and FI(P C2m+1 ) = {3m 2, 3m 4, 3m 6, . . . , 1} when m is odd;
FI(P C4 ) = {1, 3}; for m 3, FI(P C2m ) = {3m 5, 3m 7, 3m 9, . . . , 1} when m is
even; FI(P C2m ) = {3m 5, 3m 7, 3m 9, . . . , 0} when m is odd.
Salehi and Lee [1392] determined the friendly index for various classes of trees. Among
their results are: for a tree with q edges that has a perfect matching, the friendly index
is the odd integers from 1 to q and for n 2, FI(Pn )= {n 1 2i| 0 ib(n 1)/2c. Lee
and Ng [1018] define P C(n, p) as the graph obtained from the cycle Cn with consecutive
vertices v0 , v1 , v2 , . . . , vn1 by adding the p cords joining vi to vni for 1 pbn/2c
1. They prove FI(P C(2m + 1, p)) = {2m + p 1, 2m + p 3, 2m + p 5, . . . , 1} if
p is even and FI(P C(2m + 1, p)) = {2m + p 1, 2m + p 3, 2m + p 5, . . . , 0} if p

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is odd; FI(P C(2m, 1)) = {2m 1, 2m 3, 2m 5, . . . , 1}; for m 3, and p 2,

FI(P C(2m, p)) = {2m + p 4, 2m + p 6, 2m + p 8, . . . , 0} when p is even, and
FI(P C(2m, p)) = {2m + p 4, 2m + p 6, 2m + p 8, . . . , 1} when p is odd. More
generally, they show that the integers in the friendly index of a cycle with an arbitrary
nonempty set of parallel chords form an arithmetic progression with a common difference
2. Shiu and Kwong [1512] determine the friendly index of the grids Pn P2 . The maximum
and minimum friendly indices for Cm Pn were given by Shiu and Wong in [1534].
In [1019] Lee and Ng prove: for n 2, FI(C2n P2 ) = {0, 4, 8, . . . , 6n8, 6n} if n is even
and FI(C2n P2 ) = {2, 6, 10, . . . , 6n 8, 6n} if n is odd; FI(C3 P2 ) = {1, 3, 5}; for n 2,
FI(C2m+1 P2 ) = {6n1}{6n52k| where k 0 and 6n52k 0}; FI(M4n ) (here
M4n is the Mobius ladder with 4n steps) = {6n44k| where k 0 and 6n44k 0};
FI(M4n+2 ) = {6n + 3} {6n 5 2k| where k 0 and 6n 5 2k > 0}. In [974] Kwong,
Lee, and Ng completely determine the friendly index of all 2-regular graphs. As a corollary,
they show that Cm Cn is cordial if and only if m + n = 0, 1 or 3 (mod 4). Ho, Lee,
and Ng [732] determine the friendly index sets of stars and various regular windmills. In
[1862] Wen determines the friendly index of generalized wheels Cn +mK1 for all m > 1. In
[1391] Salehi and De determine the friendly index sets of certain caterpillars of diameter
4 and disprove a conjecture of Lee and Ng [1020] that the friendly index sets of trees form
an arithmetic progression. The maximum and minimum friendly indices for for Cm Pn
were given by Shiu and Wong in [1534]. Salehi and Bayot [1389] have determined the
friendly index set of Pm Pn .
For positive integers a b c, Lee, Ng, amd Tong [1024] define the broken wheel
W (a, b, c) with three spokes as the graph obtained from K4 with vertices u1 , u2 , u3 , c by
inserting vertices x1,1 , x1,2 , . . . x1,a1 along the edge u1 u2 , x2,1 , x2,2 , . . . x2,b1 along the edge
u2 u3 , x3,1 , x3,2 , . . . x3,c1 along the edge u3 u1 . They determine the friendly index set for
broken wheels with three spokes.
Lee and Ng [1018] define a parallel chord of Cn as an edge of the form vi vni
(i < n 1) that is not an edge of Cn . For n 6, they call the cycle Cn with consecutive vertices v1 , v2 , . . . , vn and the edges v1 vn1 , v2 vn2 , . . . , v(n2)/2 v(n+2)/2 for n even
and v2 vn1 , v3 vn2 , . . . , v(n1)/2 v(n+3)/2 for n odd, Cn with a full set of parallel chords.
They determine the friendly index of these graphs and show that for any cycle with an
arbitrary non-empty set of parallel chords the numbers in its friendly index set form an
arithmetic progression with common difference 2.
For a graph G(V, E) and a graph H rooted at one of its vertices v, Ho, Lee, and Ng
[731] define a root-union of (H, v) by G as the graph obtained from G by replacing each
vertex of G with a copy of the root vertex v of H to which is appended the rest of the
structure of H. They investigate the friendly index set of the root-union of stars by cycles.
For a graph G(V, E), the total graph T (G) of G, is the graph with vertex set V E
and edge set E {(v, uv)| v V, uv E}. Note that the total graph of the n-star
is the friendship graph and the total graph of Pn is a triangular snake. Lee and Ng
[1015] use SP (1n , m) to denote the spider with one central vertex joining n isolated
vertices and a path of length m. They show: FI(K1 + 2nK2 ) (friendship graph with 2n
triangles) = {2n, 2n 4, 2n 8, . . . , 0} if n is even; {2n, 2n 4, 2n 8, . . . , 2} if n is odd;
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FI(K1 +(2n+1)K2 ) = {2n+1, 2n1, 2n3, . . . , 1}; for n odd, FI(T (Pn )) = {3n7, 3n
11, 3n 15, . . . , z} where z = 0 if n 1 (mod 4) and z = 2 if n 3 (mod 4); for n even,
FI(T (Pn )) = {3n7, 3n11, 3n15, . . . , n+1}{n1, n3, n5, . . . , 1}; for m n1
and m+n even, FI(T (SP (1n , m))) = {3(m+n)4, 3(m+n)8, 3(m+n)12, . . . , (m+n)
(mod 4)}; for m + n odd, FI(T (SP (1n , m))) = {3(m + n) 4, 3(m + n) 8, 3(m + n)
12, . . . , m + n + 2} {m + n, m + n 2, m + n 4, . . . , 1}; for n m and m + n even,
FI(T (SP (1n , m))) = {|4k 3(m + n)| |(n m + 2)/2 k m + n}; for n m and m + n
odd, FI(T (SP (1n , m))) = {|4k 3(m + n)| |(n m + 3)/2 k m + n}.
Kwong and Lee [970] determine the friendly index any number of copies of C3 that
share an edge in common and the friendly index any number of copies of C4 that share
an edge in common.
For a planar graph G(V, E) Sinha and Kaur [1567] extended the notion of an index
set of a friendly labeling to regions of a planar graph and determined the full region index
sets of friendly labeling of cycles, wheels fans, and grids Pn P2 .
An edge-friendly labeling f of a graph G induces a function f from V (G) to {0, 1}
defined as the sum of all edge labels mod 2. The edge-friendly index set, If (G), of f
is the number of vertices of f labeled 1 minus the number of vertices labeled 0. The
edge-friendly index set of a graph G, EFI(G), is {|If (G)|} taken over all edge-friendly
labelings f of G. The full edge-friendly index set of a graph G, FEFI(G), is {If (G)}
taken over all edge-friendly labelings f of G. Sinha and Kaur [1566] determined the full
edge-friendly index sets of stars, 2-regular graphs, wheels, and mPn . In [1568] Sinha and
Kaur extended the notion of index set of an edge-friendly labeling to regions of a planar
graph and determined the full region index set of edge-friendly labelings of cycles, wheels,
fans Pn + K1 , double fans Pn + K2 , and grids Pm Pn (m 2, n 3).
In [913] Kim, Lee, and Ng define the balance index set of a graph G as {|e0 (f )e1 (f )|}
where f runs over all friendly labelings f of G. Zhang, Lee, and Wen [982] investigate the
balance index sets for the disjoint union of up to four stars and Zhang, Ho, Lee, and Wen
[1942] investigate the balance index sets for trees with diameter at most four. Kwong,
Lee, and Sarvate [977] determine the balance index sets for cycles with one pendent edge,
flowers, and regular windmills. Lee, Ng, and Tong [1023] determine the balance index
set of certain graphs obtained by starting with copies of a given cycle and successively
identifying one particular vertex of one copy with a particular vertex of the next. For
graphs G and H and a bijection from G to H, Lee and Su [1044] define Perm(G, , H)
as the graph obtaining from the disjoint union of G and H by joining each v in G to (v)
with an edge. They determine the balanced index sets of the disjoint union of cycles and
the balanced index sets for graphs of the form Perm(G, , H) where G and H are regular
graphs, stars, paths, and cycles with a chord. They conjecture that the balanced index
set for every graph of the form Perm(G, , H) is an arithmetic progression.
Wen [1861] determines the balance index set of the graph that is constructed by
identifying the center of a star with one vertex from each of two copies of Cn and provides
a necessary and sufficient for such graphs to be balanced. In [1046] Lee, Su, and Wang
determine the balance index sets of the disjoint union of a variety of regular graphs of the
same order. Kwong [968] determines the balanced index sets of rooted trees of height at
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most 2, thereby settling the problem for trees with diameter at most 4. His method can
be used to determine the balance index set of any tree. The homeomorph Hom(G, p) of a
graph G is the collection of graphs obtained from G by adding p (p 0) additional degree
2 vertices to its edges. For any regular graph G, Kong, Lee, and Lee [932] studied the
changes of the balance index sets of Hom(G, p) with respect to the parameter p. They
derived explicit formulas for their balance index sets provided new examples of uniformly
balanced graphs. In [350] Bouchard, Clark, Lee, Lo, and Su investigate the balance index
sets of generalized books and ear expansion graphs. In [1377] Rose and Su provided an
algorithm to calculate the balance index sets of a graph.
In[1513] Shiu and Kwong made a major advance by introducing an easier approach
to find the balance index sets of a large number of families of graphs in a unified and
uniform manner. They use this method to determine the balance index sets for r-regular
graphs, amalgamations of r-regular graphs, complete bipartite graphs, wheels, one point
unions of regular graphs, sun graphs, generalized theta graphs, m-ary trees, spiders, grids
Pm Pn , and cylinders Cm Pn . They provide a formula that enables one to determine
the balance index sets of many biregular graphs (that is, graphs with the property that
there exist two distinct positive integers r and s such that every vertex has degree r or
s).
In [1512] Shiu and Kwong define the full friendly index set of a graph G as {e0 (f )
e1 (f )} where f runs over all friendly labelings of G. The full friendly index for P2 Pn
is given by Shiu and Kwong in [1512]. The full friendly index of Cm Cn is given by
Shiu and Ling in [1525]. In [1564] and [1565] Sinha and Kaur investgated the full friendly
index sets complete graphs, cycles, fans, double fans, wheels, double stars, P3 Pn , and
the tensor product of P2 and Pn . Shiu and Ho [1511] investigated the full friendly index
sets of cylinder graphs Cm P2 (m 3), Cm P3 (m 4), and C3 Pn (n 4). These
results, together with previously proven ones, completely determine the full friendly index
of all cylinder graphs. Gao [607] determined the full friendly index set of Pm Pn , but
he used the terms edge difference set instead of full friendly index set and direct
product instead of Cartesian product.
The twisted cylinder graph is the permutation graph on 4n (n 2) vertices, P (2n; ),
where = (1, 2)(3, 4) (2n 1, 2n) (the product of n transpositions). Shiu and Lee
[1523] determined the full friendly index sets of twisted cylinders.
In [440] and [971] Chopra, Lee and Su and Kwong and Lee introduce a dual of balance
index sets as follows. For an edge labeling f using 0 and 1 they define a partial vertex
labeling f by assigning 0 or 1 to f (v) depending on whether there are more 0-edges or
1-edges incident to v and leaving f (v) undefined otherwise. For i = 0 or 1 and a graph
G(V, E), let ef (i) = |{uv E : f (uv) = i}| and vf (i) = |{v V : f (v) = i}|. They
define the edge-balance index of G as EBI(G) = {|vf (0) vf (1)| : the edge labeling f
satisfies |ef (0) ef (1)| 1}. Among the graphs whose edge-balance index sets have been
investigated by Lee and his colleagues are: fans and wheels [440]; generalized theta graphs
[971]; flower graphs [972] and [972]; stars, paths, spiders, and double stars [1053]; (p, p+1)graphs [1048]; prisms and Mobius ladders [1842]; 2-regular graphs, complete graphs [1841];
and the envelope graphs of stars, paths, and cycles [450]. (The envelope graph of G(V, E)
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is the graph with vertex set V (G)E(G) and set E(G){(u, (u, v)) : U V, (u, v) E)}).
Lee, Kong, Wang, and Lee [933] found the EBI(Km,n ) for m = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and m = n.
Krop, Minion, Patel, and Raridan [962] did the case for complete bipartite graphs with
both parts of odd cardinality. Hua and Raridan [747] found the edge-balance index sets of
complete bipartite graphs where the larger part is of odd cardinality and the smaller is of
even cardinality. Krop and Sikes [964] determined EBI(Km,m2a ) for 1 a (m 3)/4
and m odd.
For a graph G and a connected graph H with a distinguished vertex s, the L-product
of G and (H, s), G L (H, s), is the graph obtained by taking |V (G)| copies of (H, s)
and identifying each vertex of G with s of a single copy of H. In [442] and [352] Chou,
Galiardi, Kong, Lee, Perry, Bouchard, Clark, and Su investigated the edge-balance index
sets of L-product of cycles with stars. Bouchard, Clark, and Su [351] gave the exact values
of the edge-balance index sets of L-product of cycles with cycles.
Chopra, Lee, and Su [443] prove that the edge-balanced index of the fan P3 + K1
is {0, 1, 2} and edge-balanced index of the fan Pn + K1 , n 4, is {0, 1, 2, . . . , n 2}.
They define the broken fan graphs BF (a, b) as the graph with V (BF (a, b)) = {c}
{v1 , . . . , va } {u1 , . . . , ub } and E(BF (a, b)) = {(c, vi )| i = 1, . . . , a} {(c, ui )| 1, . . . , b}
E(Pa ) E(Pb ) (a 2 and b 2). They prove the edge-balance index set of BF (a, b) is
{0, 1, 2, . . . , a + b 4}. In [983] Lee, Lee, and Su present a technique that determines the
balance index sets of a graph from its degree sequence. In addition, they give an explicit
formula giving the exact values of the balance indices of generalized friendship graphs,
envelope graphs of cycles, and envelope graphs of cubic trees.

3.9

k-equitable Labelings

In 1990 Cahit [382] proposed the idea of distributing the vertex and edge labels among
{0, 1, . . . , k 1} as evenly as possible to obtain a generalization of graceful labelings
as follows. For any graph G(V, E) and any positive integer k, assign vertex labels from
{0, 1, . . . , k1} so that when the edge labels induced by the absolute value of the difference
of the vertex labels, the number of vertices labeled with i and the number of vertices
labeled with j differ by at most one and the number of edges labeled with i and the
number of edges labeled with j differ by at most one. Cahit has called a graph with
such an assignment of labels k-equitable. Note that G(V, E) is graceful if and only if it
is |E| + 1-equitable and G(V, E) is cordial if and only if it is 2-equitable. Cahit [381]
has shown the following: Cn is 3-equitable if and only if n 6 3 (mod 6); the triangular
(n)
snake with n blocks is 3-equitable if and only if n is even; the friendship graph C3 is
3-equitable if and only if n is even; an Eulerian graph with q 3 (mod 6) edges is not
3-equitable; and all caterpillars are 3-equitable [381]. Cahit [381] claimed to prove that
Wn is 3-equitable if and only if n 6 3 (mod 6) but Youssef [1921] proved that Wn is
3-equitable for all n 4. Youssef [1919] also proved that if G is a k-equitable Eulerian
graph with q edges and k 2 or 3 (mod 4) then q 6 k (mod 2k). Cahit conjectures
[381] that a triangular cactus with n blocks is 3-equitable if and only if n is even. In [382]
Cahit proves that every tree with fewer than five end vertices has a 3-equitable labeling.
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He conjectures that all trees are k-equitable [383]. In 1999 Speyer and Szaniszlo [1612]
proved Cahits conjecture for k = 3. Coles, Huszar, Miller, and Szaniszlo [467] proved
caterpillars, symmetric generalized n-stars (or symmetric spiders), and complete n-ary
trees are 4-equitable. Vaidya and Shah [1753] proved that the splitting graphs of K1,n
and the bistar Bn,n and the shadow graph of Bn,n are 3-equitable.
Vaidya, Dani, Kanani and Vihol [1717] proved that the graphs obtained by starting
with copies G1 , G2 , . . . , Gn of a fixed star and joining each center of Gi to the center of
Gi+1 (i = 1, 2, . . . , n1) by an edge are 3-equitable. Recall the shell C(n, n3) is the cycle
Cn with n 3 cords sharing a common endpoint called the apex. Vaidya, Dani, Kanani,
and Vihol [1718] proved that the graphs obtained by starting with copies G1 , G2 , . . . , Gn
of a fixed shell and joining each apex of Gi to the apex of Gi+1 (i = 1, 2, . . . , n 1) by an
edge are 3-equitable. For a graph G and vertex v of G, Vaidya, Dani, Kanani, and Vihol
[1719] prove that the graphs obtained from the wheel Wn , n 5, by duplicating (see 3.7
for the definition) any rim vertex is 3-equitable and the graphs obtained from the wheel
Wn by duplicating the center is 3-equitable when n is even and not 3-equitable when n is
odd and at least 5. They also show that the graphs obtained from the wheel Wn , n 6= 5,
by duplicating every vertex is 3-equitable.
Vaidya, Srivastav, Kaneria, and Ghodasara [1763] prove that cycle with two chords
that share a common vertex with opposite ends that are incident to two consecutive
vertices of the cycle is 3-equitable. Vaidya, Ghodasara, Srivastav, and Kaneria [1723]
prove that star of cycle Cn is 3-equitable for all n. Vaidya and Dani [1713] proved
that the graphs obtained by starting with n copies G1 , G2 , . . . , Gn of a fixed star and
joining the center of Gi to the center of Gi+1 by an edge and each center to a new vertex
xi (1 i n 1) by an edge have 3-equitable labeling. Vaidya and Dani [1716] prove
that the graphs obtained by duplication of an arbitrary edge of a cycle or a wheel have
3-equitable labelings.
(1)
(2)
(k)
Recall G =< Wn : Wn : . . . : Wn > 1s the graph obtained by joining the center
(i)
(i+1)
vertices of each of Wn and Wn
to a new vertex xi where 1 i k 1. Vaidya, Dani,
(1)
(2)
(k)
Kanani, and Vihol [1720] prove that < Wn : Wn : ... : Wn > is 3-equitable. Vaidya
and Vihol [1767] prove that any graph G can be embedded as an induced subgraph of a
3-equitable graph thereby ruling out any possibiltity of obtaining any forbidden subgraph
characterization for 3-equitable graphs.
The shadow graph D2 (G) of a connected graph G is constructed by taking two copies
of G, G0 and G00 and joining each vertex u0 in G00 to the neighbors of the corresponding
vertex u00 in G00 . Vaidya, Vihol, and Barasara [1770] prove that the shadow graph of Cn is
3-equitable except for n = 3 and 5 while the shadow graph of Pn is 3-equitable except for
n = 3. They also prove that the middle graph of Pn is 3-equitable and the middle graph
of Cn is 3-equitable for n even and not 3-equitable for n odd.
Bhut-Nayak and Telang have shown that crowns Cn  K1 , are k-equitable for k =
n, . . . , 2n 1 [326] and Cn  K1 is k-equitable for all n when k = 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 [327].
In [1427] Seoud and Abdel Maqsoud prove: a graph with n vertices and q edges in
which every vertex has odd degree is not 3-equitable if n 0 (mod 3) and q 3 (mod
6); all fans except P2 + K1 are 3-equitable; all double fans Pn + K2 except P4 + K2 are
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3-equitable; Pn2 is 3-equitable for all n except 3; K1,1,n is 3-equitable if and only if n 0
or 2 (mod 3); K1,2,n , n 2, is 3-equitable if and only if n 2 (mod 3); Km,n , 3 m n,
is 3-equitable if and only if (m, n) = (4, 4); and K1,m,n , 3 m n, is 3-equitable if
and only if (m, n) = (3, 4). They conjectured that Cn2 is not 3-equitable for all n 3.
However, Youssef [1927] proved that Cn2 is 3-equitable if and only if n is at least 8. Youssef
[1927] also proved that Cn + K2 is 3-equitable if and only if n is even and at least 6 and
determined the maximum number of edges in a 3-equitable graph as a function of the
number of its vertices. For a graph with n vertices to admit a k-equitable labeling, Seoud
and Salim [1453] proved that the number of edges is at most kd(n/k)c2 + k 1.
Bapat and Limaye [260] have shown the following graphs are 3-equitable: helms
Hn , n 4; flowers (see 2.2 for the definition); the one-point union of any number
of helms; the one-point union of any number of copies of K4 ; K4 -snakes (see 2.2 for
the definition); Ct -snakes where t = 4 or 6; C5 -snakes where the number of blocks is not
congruent to 3 modulo 6. A multiple shell MS{nt11 , . . . , ntrr } is a graph formed by ti shells
each of order ni , 1 i r, that have a common apex. Bapat and Limaye [261] show that
every multiple shell is 3-equitable and Chitre and Limaye [432] show that every multiple
shell is 5-equitable. In [433] Chitre and Limaye define the H-union of a family of graphs
G1 , G2 , . . . , Gt , each having a graph H as an induced subgraph, as the graph obtained by
starting with G1 G2 Gt and identifying all the corresponding vertices and edges
of H in each of G1 , . . . , Gt . In [433] and [434] they proved that the Kn -union of gears and
helms Hn (n 6) are edge-3-equitable.
Szaniszlo [1674] has proved the following: Pn is k-equitable for all k; Kn is 2-equitable
if and only if n = 1, 2, or 3; Kn is not k-equitable for 3 k < n; Sn is k-equitable for
all k; K2,n is k-equitable if and only if n k 1 (mod k), or n 0, 1, 2, . . . , bk/2c 1
(mod k), or n = bk/2c and k is odd. She also proves that Cn is k-equitable if and only if
k meets all of the following conditions: n 6= k; if k 2, 3 (mod 4), then n 6= k 1 and
n 6 k (mod 2k).
Vickrey [1793] has determined the k-equitability of complete multipartite graphs. He
shows that for m 3 and k 3, Km,n is k-equitable if and only if Km,n is one of the
following graphs: K4,4 for k = 3; K3,k1 for all k; or Km,n for k > mn. He also shows that
when k is less than or equal to the number of edges in the graph and at least 3, the only
complete multipartite graphs that are k-equitable are Kkn+k1,2,1 and Kkn+k1,1,1 . Partial
results on the k-equitability of Km,n were obtained by Krussel [965].
In [1932] Youssef and Al-Kuleab proved the following: Cn3 is 3-equitable if and only
if n is even and n 12; gear graphs are k-equitable for k = 3, 4, 5, 6; ladders Pn P2
are 3-equitable for all n 2; Cn P2 is 3-equitable if and only if n 6 (mod6); Mobius
ladders Mn are 3-equitable if and only if n 6 (mod6); and the graphs obtained from
Pn P2 (n 2) where by adding the edges ui vi+1 (1 i n 1) to the path vertices
u1 , u2 , . . . , un and v1 , v2 , . . . , vn .
In [1122] Lopez, Muntaner-Batle, and Rius-Font prove that if n is an odd integer and
F is optimal k-equitable for all proper divisors k of |E(F )|, then nF is optimal k-equitable
for all proper divisors k of |E(F )|. They also prove that if m 1 and n are odd, then
then nCm is optimal k-equitable for all proper divisors k of |E(F )|.
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As a corollary of the result of Cairnie and Edwards [393] on the computational complexity of cordially labeling graphs it follows that the problem of finding k-equitable
labelings of graphs is NP-complete as well.
Seoud and Abdel Maqsoud [1428] call a graph k-balanced if the vertices can be labeled
from {0, 1, . . . , k 1} so that the number of edges labeled i and the number of edges
labeled j induced by the absolute value of the differences of the vertex labels differ by at
most 1. They prove that Pn2 is 3-balanced if and only if n = 2, 3, 4, or 6; for k 4, Pn2
is not k-balanced if k n 2 or n + 1 k 2n 3; for k 4, Pn2 is k-balanced if
k 2n 2; for k, m, n 3, Km,n is k-balanced if and only if k mn; for m n, K1,m,n
is k-balanced if and only if (i) m = 1, n = 1 or 2, and k = 3; (ii) m = 1 and k = n + 1
or n + 2; or (iii) k (m + 1)(n + 1).
In [1927] Youssef gave some necessary conditions for a graph to be k-balanced and
some relations between k-equitable labelings and k-balanced labelings. Among his results
are: Cn is 3-balanced for all n 3; Kn is 3-balanced if and only if n 3; and all trees
are 2-balanced and 3-balanced. He conjectures that all trees are k-balanced (k 2).
Bloom has used the term k-equitable to describe another kind of labeling (see [1871]
and [1872]). He calls a graph k-equitable if the edge labels induced by the absolute value
of the difference of the vertex labels have the property that every edge label occurs exactly
k times. Bloom calls a graph of order n minimally k-equitable if the vertex labels are 1,
2,. . ., n and it is k-equitable. Both Bloom and Wojciechowski [1871], [1872] proved that
Cn is minimally k-equitable if and only if k is a proper divisor of n. Barrientos and Hevia
[279] proved that if G is k-equitable of size q = kw (in the sense of Bloom), then (G) w
and (G) 2w. Barrientos, Dejter, and Hevia [278] have shown that forests of even size
are 2-equitable. They also prove that for k = 3 or k = 4 a forest of size kw is k-equitable
if and only if its maximum degree is at most 2w and that if 3 divides mn + 1, then the
double star Sm,n is 3-equitable if and only if q/3 m b(q 1)/2c. (Sm,n is P2 with m
pendent edges attached at one end and n pendent edges attached at the other end.) They
discuss the k-equitability of forests for k 5 and characterize all caterpillars of diameter 2
that are k-equitable for all possible values of k. Acharya and Bhat-Nayak [34] have shown
that coronas of the form C2n  K1 are minimally 4-equitable. In [263] Barrientos proves
that the one-point union of a cycle and a path (dragon) and the disjoint union of a cycle
and a path are k-equitable for all k that divide the size of the graph. Barrientos and Havia
[279] have shown the following: Cn K2 is 2-equitable when n is even; books Bn (n 3)
are 2-equitable when n is odd; the vertex union of k-equitable graphs is k-equitable; and
wheels Wn are 2-equitable when n 6 3 (mod 4). They conjecture that Wn is 2-equitable
when n 3 (mod 4) except when n = 3. Their 2-equitable labelings of Cn K2 and the
n-cube utilized graceful labelings of those graphs.
M. Acharya and Bhat-Nayak [35] have proved the following: the crowns C2n  K1
are minimally 2-equitable, minimally 2n-equitable, minimally 4-equitable, and minimally
n-equitable; the crowns C3n  K1 are minimally 3-equitable, minimally 3n-equitable,
minimally n-equitable, and minimally 6-equitable; the crowns C5n  K1 are minimally
5-equitable, minimally 5n-equitable, minimally n-equitable, and minimally 10-equitable;
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equitable.
In [265] Barrientos calls a k-equitable labeling optimal if the vertex labels are consecutive integers and complete if the induced edge labels are 1, 2, . . . , w where w is the
number of distinct edge labels. Note that a graceful labeling is a complete 1-equitable
labeling. Barrientos proves that Cm  nK1 (that is, an m-cycle with n pendent edges
attached at each vertex) is optimal 2-equitable when m is even; C3  nK1 is complete
2-equitable when n is odd; and that C3  nK1 is complete 3-equitable for all n. He also
shows that Cn  K1 is k-equitable for every proper divisor k of the size 2n. Barrientos
and Havia [279] have shown that the n-cube (n 2) has a complete 2-equitable labeling
and that Km,n has a complete 2-equitable labeling when m or n is even. They conjecture
that every tree of even size has an optimal 2-equitable labeling.

3.10

Hamming-graceful Labelings

Mollard, Payan, and Shixin [1208] introduced a generalization of graceful graphs called
Hamming-graceful. A graph G = (V, E) is called Hamming-graceful if there exists an
injective labeling g from V to the set of binary |E|-tuples such that {d(g(v), g(u))| uv
E} = {1, 2, . . . , |E|} where d is the Hamming distance. Shixin and Yu [1540] have shown
that all graceful graphs are Hamming-graceful; all trees are Hamming-graceful; Cn is
Hamming-graceful if and only if n 0 or 3 (mod 4); if Kn is Hamming-graceful, then n
has the form k 2 or k 2 + 2; and Kn is Hamming-graceful for n = 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 11, 16, and 18.
They conjecture that Kn is Hamming-graceful for n of the forms k 2 and k 2 + 2 for k 5.

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4.1

Variations of Harmonious Labelings

Sequential and Strongly c-harmonious Labelings

Chang, Hsu, and Rogers [403] and Grace [658], [659] have investigated subclasses of
harmonious graphs. Chang et al. define an injective labeling f of a graph G with q
vertices to be strongly c-harmonious if the vertex labels are from {0, 1, . . . , q 1} and the
edge labels induced by f (x) + f (y) for each edge xy are c, . . . , c + q 1. Grace called such
a labeling sequential. In the case of a tree, Chang et al. modify the definition to permit
exactly one vertex label to be assigned to two vertices whereas Grace allows the vertex
labels to range from 0 to q with no vertex label being used twice. For graphs other than
trees, we use the term c-sequential labelings interchangeably with strongly c-harmonious
labelings. By taking the edge labels of a sequentially labeled graph with q edges modulo
q, we obviously obtain a harmoniously labeled graph. It is not known if there is a graph
that can be harmoniously labeled but not sequentially labeled. Grace [659] proved that
caterpillars, caterpillars with a pendent edge, odd cycles with zero or more pendent edges,
trees with -labelings, wheels W2n+1 , and Pn2 are sequential. Liu and Zhang [1099] finished
off the crowns C2n  K1 . (The case C2n+1  K1 was a special case of Graces results. Liu
[1111] proved crowns are harmonious.)
Baca and Youssef [239] investigated the existence of harmonious labelings for the
corona graphs of a cycle and a graph G. They proved that if G+K1 is strongly harmonious
with the 0 label on the vertex of K1 , then Cn  G is harmonious for all odd n 3. By
combining this with existing results they have as corollaries that the following graphs are
harmonious: Cn  Cm for odd n 3 and m 6 2 (mod 3); Cn  Ks,t for odd n 3; and
Cn  K1,s,t for odd n 3.
Bu [362] also proved that crowns are sequential as are all even cycles with m pendent
edges attached at each vertex. Figueroa-Centeno, Ichishima, and Muntaner-Batle [563]
proved that all cycles with m pendent edges attached at each vertex are sequential. Wu
[1876] has shown that caterpillars with m pendent edges attached at each vertex are
sequential.
Singh has proved the following: Cn  K2 is sequential for all odd n > 1 [1552]; Cn  P3
is sequential for all odd n [1553]; K2  Cn (each vertex of the cycle is joined by edges to
the end points of a copy of K2 ) is sequential for all odd n [1553]; helms Hn are sequential
when n is even [1553]; and K1,n + K2 , K1,n + K 2 , and ladders are sequential [1555].
Santhosh [1404] has shown that Cn  P4 is sequential for all odd n 3. Both Grace
[658] and Reid (see [600]) have found sequential labelings for the books B2n . Jungreis
and Reid [861] have shown the following graphs are sequential: Pm Pn (m, n) 6= (2, 2);
C4m Pn (m, n) 6= (1, 2); C4m+2 P2n ; C2m+1 Pn ; and C4 C2n (n > 1). The graphs
C4m+2 C2n+1 and C2m+1 C2n+1 fail to satisfy a necessary parity condition given by
Graham and Sloane [662]. The remaining cases of Cm Pn and Cm Cn are open.
Gallian, Prout, and Winters [601] proved that all graphs Cn P2 with a vertex or an
edge deleted are sequential. Zhu and Liu [1958] give necessary and sufficient conditions
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by vertex closure, and obtain characterizations of sequential trees.

Gnanajothi [646, pp. 68-78] has shown the following graphs are sequential: K1,m,n ;
mCn , the disjoint union of m copies of Cn if and only if m and n are odd; books with
triangular pages or pentagonal pages; and books of the form B4n+1 , thereby answering
a question and proving a conjecture of Gallian and Jungreis [600]. Sun [1645] has also
proved that Bn is sequential if and only if n 6 3 (mod 4). Ichishima and Oshima [764]
pose determining whether or not mKs,t is sequential as a problem.
Yuan and Zhu [1938] have shown that mCn is sequential when m and n are odd.
Although Graham and Sloane [662] proved that the Mobius ladder M3 is not harmonious,
Gallian [596] established that all other Mobius ladders are sequential (see 2.3 for the
definition of Mobius ladder). Chung, Hsu, and Rogers [403] have shown that Km,n + K1 ,
which includes Sm + K1 , is sequential. Seoud and Youssef [1461] proved that if G is
sequential and has the same number of edges as vertices, then G + Kn is sequential for all
n. Recall that (Cm )n denotes the book with n m-polygonal pages. Lu [1138] proved that
(C2m+1 )2n is 2mn-sequential for all n and m = 1, 2, 3, 4 and (Cm )2 is (m2)-sequential
if m 3 and m 2, 3, 4, 7 (mod 8).
Zhou and Yuan [1955] have shown that for every c-sequential graph G with p vertices
and q edges and any positive integer m the graph (G + Km ) + Kn is also k-sequential
when q p + 1 m q p + c. Zhou [1954] has shown that the analogous results
hold for strongly c-harmonious graphs. Zhou and Yuan [1955] have shown that for every
c-sequential graph G with p vertices and q edges and any positive integer m the graph
(G + Km ) + Kn is c-sequential when q p + 1 m q p + c.
Shee [1033] proved that every graph is a subgraph of a sequential graph. Acharya,
Germina, Princy, and Rao [24] prove that every connected graph can be embedded in
a strongly c-harmonious graph for some c. Miao and Liang [1188] use Cn (d; i, j; Pk ) to
denote a cycle Cn with path Pk joining two nonconsecutive vertices xi and xj of the
cycle, where d is the distance between xi and xj on Cn . They proved that the graph
Cn (d; i, j; Pk ) is strongly c-harmonious when k = 2, 3 and integer n 6. Lu [1137]
provides three techniques for constructing larger sequential graphs from some smaller
one: an attaching construction, an adjoining construction, and the join of two graphs.
Using these, he obtains various families of sequential or strongly c-indexable graphs.
For 1 s n3 , let Cn (i : i1 , i2 . . . is ) denote an n-cycle with consecutive vertices
x1 , x2 , . . . xn to which the s chords xi xi1 , xi xi2 , . . . , xi xis have been added. Liang [1083]
proved a variety of graphs of the form Cn (i : i1 , i2 . . . is ) are strongly c-harmonius.
Youssef [1924] observed that a strongly c-harmonious graph with q edges is c-cordial
for all c q and a strongly k-indexable graph is k-cordial for every k. The converse of
this latter result is not true.
In [761] Ichishima and Oshima show that the hypercube Qn (n 2) is sequential if
and only if n 4. They also introduce a special kind of sequential labeling of a graph
G with size 2t + s by defining a sequential labeling f to be a partitional labeling if G is
bipartite with partite sets X and Y of the same cardinality s such that f (x) t + s 1
for all x X and f (y) t s for all y Y , and there is a positive integer m such that
the induced edge labels are partitioned into three sets [m, m + t 1], [m + t, m + t + s 1],
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and [m + t + s, m + 2t + s 1] with the properties that there is an involution , which

is an automorphism of G such that exchanges X and Y , x(x) E(G) for all x X,
and {f (x) + f ((x))| x X} = [m + t, m + t + s 1]. They prove if G has a partitional
labeling, then G Qn has a partitional labeling for every nonnegative integer n. Using
this together with existing results and the fact that every graph that has a partitional
labeling is sequential, harmonious, and felicitous (see 4.5) they show that the following
graphs are partitional, sequential, harmonious, and felicitous: for n 4, hypercubes Qn ;
generalized books S2m Qn ; and generalized ladders P2m+1 Qn .
In [762] Ichishma and Oshima proved the following: if G is a partitional graph, then
G K2 is partitional, sequential, harmonious and felicitous; if G is a connected bipartite
graph with partite sets of distinct odd order such that in each partite set each vertex has
the same degree, then G K2 is not partitional; for every positive integer m, the book
Bm is partitional if and only if m is even; the graph B2m Qn is partitional if and only if
(m, n) 6= (1, 1); the graph Km,2 Qn is partitional if and only if (m, n) 6= (2, 1); for every
positive integer n, the graph Km,3 Qn is partitional when m = 4, 8, 12, or 16. As open
problems they ask which m and n is Km,n K2 partitional and for which l, m and n is
Kl,m Qn partitional?
Ichishma and Oshima [762] also investigated the relationship between partitional
graphs and strongly graceful graphs (see 3.1 for the definition) and partitional graphs
and strongly felicitous graphs (see 4.5 for the definition). They proved the following. If G is a partitional graph, then G K2 is partitional, sequential, harmonious
and felicitous. Assume that G is a partitional graph of size 2t + s with partite sets
X and Y of the same cardinality s, and let f be a partitional labeling of G such that
1 = max{f (x) : x X} and 2 = max{f (y) : y Y }. If 1 + 1 = m + 2t + s 2 ,
where m = min{f (x) + f (y) : xy E(G)} = min{f (y) : y Y }, then G has a
strong -valuation. Assume that G is a partitional graph of size 2t + s with partite sets
X and Y of the same cardinality s, and let f be a partitional labeling of G such that
1 = max{f (x) : x X} and 2 = max{f (y) : y Y }. If 1 + 1 = m + 2t + s 2 ,
where m = min{f (x) + f (y) : xy E(G)} = min{f (y) : y Y }, then G is strongly
felicitous. Assume that G is a partitional graph of size 2t + s with partite sets X
and Y of the same cardinality s, and let f be a partitional labeling of G such that
1 = f (x1 ) = min{f (x) : x X} and 2 = f (y1 ) = min{f (y) : y Y }. If t + s = m + 1
and 1 + 2 = m, where m = min{f (x) + f (y) : xy E(G)} and x1 y1 E(G), then G
has a strong -valuation and strongly felicitous labeling.
Singh and Varkey [1559] call a graph with q edges odd sequential if the vertices can be
labeled with distinct integers from the set {0, 1, 2, . . . , q} or, in the case of a tree, from
the set {0, 1, 2, . . . , 2q 1}, such that the edge labels induced by addition of the labels
of the endpoints take on the values {1, 3, 5, . . . , 2q 1}. They prove that combs, grids,
stars, and rooted trees of level 2 are odd sequential whereas odd cycles are not. Singh and
Varkey call a graph G bisequential if both G and its line graph have a sequential labeling.
They prove paths and cycles are bisequential.
Vaidya and Lekha [1742] proved
the following graphs are odd sequential: Pn , Cn
J
for n 0 (mod 4), crowns Cn K1 for even n, the graph obtained by duplication of
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arbitrary vertex in even cycles, path unions of stars, arbitrary super subdivisions in Pn ,
and shadows of stars. They also introduced the concept of a bi-odd sequential labeling
of a graph G as one for which both G and its line graph L(G) admit odd sequential
labeling. They proved Pn and Cn for n ( mod 4) are bi-odd sequential graphs and trees
are bi-odd sequential if and only if they are paths. They also prove that P4 is the only
graph with the property that it and its complement are odd sequential.
Arockiaraj, Mahalakshmi, and Namasivayam [125] proved that the subdivision graphs
of the following graphs have odd sequential labelings (they call them odd sum labelings):
triangular snakes; quadrilateral snakes; slanting ladders SLn (n > 1) (the graphs obtained
from two paths u1 u2 . . . un and v1 v2 . . . vn by joining each ui with vi+1 ); Cp  K1 , Hn 
K1 , Cm @Cn ; Pm Pn , and graphs obtained by the duplication of a vertex of a path and
the duplication of a vertex of a cycle.
Arockiaraj and Mahalakshmi [124] proved the following graphs have odd sequential
labelings (odd sum lableings): Pn (n > 1), Cn if and only if n 0 (mod 4); C2n 
K1 ; Pn P2 (n > 1); Pm  K1 if m is even or m is odd and n = 1 or 2; the balloon
graph Pm (Cn ) obtained by identifying an end point of Pm with a vertex of Cn if either
n 0 (mod 4) or n 2 (mod 4) and m 6 1 (mod 3); quadrilateral snakes Qn ; Pm  Cn
if m > 1 and n 0 (mod 4); Pm  Q3 ; bistars; C2n P2 ; the trees Tpn obtained from n
copies of Tp by joining an edge uu0 between every pair of consecutive paths where u is a
vertex in ith copy of the path and u0 is the corresponding vertex in the (i + 1)th copy of
the path; Hn -graphs obtained by starting with two copies of Pn with vertices v1 , v2 , . . . , vn
and u1 , u2 , . . . , un and joining the vertices v(n+1)/2 and u(n+1)/2 if n is odd and the vertices
vn/2+1 and un/2 if n; and Hn  mK1 .
Arockiaraj and Mahalakshmi [126] proved the splitting graphs of following graphs have
odd sequential labelings (odd sum lableings): Pn ; Cn if and only if n 0 (mod 4); Pn 
K1 ; C2n  K1 ; K1,n if and only if n 2; Pn P2 (n > 1); slanting ladders SLn (n > 1);
the quadrilateral snake Qn ; and Hn -graphs.
Among the strongly 1-harmonious (also called strongly harmonious) graphs are: fans
Fn with n 2 [403]; wheels Wn with n 6 2 (mod 3) [403]; Km,n + K1 [403]; French
(t)
(n)
windmills K4 [743], [889]; the friendship graphs C3 if and only if n 0 or 1 (mod 4)
(t)
[743], [889], [1894]; C4k [1646]; and helms [1332].
Seoud, Diab, and Elsakhawi [1436] have shown that the following graphs are strongly
harmonious: Km,n with an edge joining two vertices in the same partite set; K1,m,n ;
the composition Pn [P2 ] (see 2.3 for the definition); B(3, 2, m) and B(4, 3, m) for all m
(see 2.4 for the notation); Pn2 (n 3); and Pn3 (n 3). Seoud et al. [1436] have also
proved: B2n is strongly 2n-harmonious; Pn is strongly bn/2c-harmonious; ladders L2k+1
are strongly (k + 1)-harmonious; and that if G is strongly c-harmonious and has an equal
number of vertices and edges, then G + Kn is also strongly c-harmonious.
Baca and Youssef [239] investigated the existence of harmonious labelings for the
corona graphs of a cycle and a graph G, and for the corona graph of K2 and a tree. They
prove: if join of a graph G of order p and K1 , G + K1 , is strongly harmonious with the 0
label on the vertex of K1 , then the corona of Cn with G, Cn  G, is harmonious for all
odd n 3; if T is a strongly c-harmonious tree of odd size q and c = q+1
then the corona
2
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of K2 with T , K2  T , is also strongly c-harmonious; if a unicyclic graph G of odd size

then the corona of K2 with G, K2  G, is also
q is a strongly c-harmonious and c = q1
2
strongly c-harmonious.
Sethuraman and Selvaraju [1493] have proved that the graph obtained by joining two
complete bipartite graphs at one edge is graceful and strongly harmonious. They ask
whether these results extend to any number of complete bipartite graphs.
For a graph G(V, E) Gayathri and Hemalatha [628] define an even sequential harmonious labeling f of G as an injection from V to {0, 1, 2, . . . , 2|E|} with the property that
the induced mapping f + from E to {2, 4, 6, . . . , 2|E|} defined by f + (uv) = f (u) + f (v)
when f (u) + f (v) is even, and f + (uv) = f (u) + f (v) + 1 when f (u) + f (v) is odd, is an injection. They prove the following have even sequential harmonious labelings (all cases are
the nontrivial ones): Pn , Pn+ , Cn ( n 3), triangular snakes, quadrilateral snakes, Mobius
ladders, Pm Pn (m 2, n 2), Km,n ; crowns Cm  K1 , graphs obtained by joining the
centers of two copies of K1,n by a path; banana trees (see 2.1), Pn2 , closed helms (see
2.2), C3  nK1 (n 2); D  K1,n where D is a dragon (see 2.2); hK1,n : mi (m, n 2)
(see 4.5); the wreath product Pn K2 (n 2) (see 4.5); combs Pn  K1 ; the one-point
union of the end point of a path to a vertex of a cycle (tadpole); the one-point union
of the end point of a tadpole and the center of a star; the graphs P Cn obtained from
Cn = v0 , v1 , v2 , . . . , vn1 by adding the cords v1 vn1 , v2 vn2 , . . . , v(n2)/2 , v(n+2)/2 when n
is even and v1 vn1 , v2 vn2 , . . . , v(n3)/2 , v(n+3)/2 when n is odd (that is, cycles with a full
set of cords); Pm nK1 ; the one-point union of a vertex of a cycle and the center of a
star; graphs obtained by joining the centers of two stars with an edge; graphs obtained by
joining two disjoint cycles with an edge (dumbbells); graphs consisting of two even cycles
of the same order sharing a common vertex with an arbitrary number of pendent edges
attached at the common vertex (butterflies).
In her PhD thesis [1228] (see also [629]) Muthuramakrishnan defined a labeling f
of a graph G(V, E) to be k-even sequential harmonious if f is an injection from V to
{k 1, k, k + 1, . . . , k + 2q 1} such that the induced mapping f + from E to {2k, 2k +
2, 2k + 4, . . . , 2k + 2q 2} defined by f + (uv) = f (u) + f (v) if f (u) + f (v) is even and
f + (uv) = f (u) + f (v) + 1 if f (u) + f (v) is odd are distinct. A graph G is called a k-even
sequential harmonious graph if it admits a k-even sequential harmonious labeling. Among
the numerous graphs that she proved to be k-even sequential harmonious are: paths,
cycles, Km,n , Pn2 (n 3), crowns Cm  K1 , Cm @Pn (the graph ontained by identifying
an endpoint of Pn with a vertex of Cm ), double triangular snakes, double quadrilateral
snakes, bistars, grids Pm Pn (m, n 2), Pn [P2 ], C3  nK1 (n 2), flags F lm (the
cycle Cm with one pendent edge), dumbbell graphs (two disjoint cycles joined by an edge)
butterfly graphs Bn (two even cycles of the same order sharing a common vertex with an
arbitrary number of pendent edges attached at the common vertex), K2 + nK1 , Kn + 2K2 ,
banana trees, sparklers Pm @K1,n (m, n 2), sparklers (graphs obtained by identifying
an endpoint of Pm with the center of a star), twigs (graphs obtained from Pn (n 3)
by attaching exactly two pendent edges at each internal vertex of Pn ), festoon graphs
Pm  nK1 (m 2), the graphs Tm,n,t obtained from a path Pt by appending m edges at
one endpoint of Pt and n edges at the other endpoint of Pt , Ln  K1 (Ln is the ladder
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Pn P2 ), shadow graphs of paths, stars and bistars, and split graphs of paths and stars.
Muthuramakrishnan also defines k-odd sequential harmonious labeling of graphs in the
natural way and obtains a handful of results.

4.2

(k, d)-arithmetic Labelings

Acharya and Hegde [28] have generalized sequential labelings as follows. Let G be a
graph with q edges and let k and d be positive integers. A labeling f of G is said to
be (k, d)-arithmetic if the vertex labels are distinct nonnegative integers and the edge
labels induced by f (x) + f (y) for each edge xy are k, k + d, k + 2d, . . . , k + (q 1)d.
They obtained a number of necessary conditions for various kinds of graphs to have a
(k, d)-arithmetic labeling. The case where k = 1 and d = 1 was called additively graceful
by Hegde [703]. Hegde [703] showed: Kn is additively graceful if and only if n = 2, 3, or
4; every additively graceful graph except K2 or K1,2 contains a triangle; and a unicyclic
graph is additively graceful if and only if it is a 3-cycle or a 3-cycle with a single pendent
edge attached. Jinnah and Singh [851] noted that Pn2 is additively graceful. Hegde [704]
proved that if G is strongly k-indexable, then G and G + Kn are (kd, d)-arithmetic.
Acharya and Hegde [30] proved that Kn is (k, d)-arithmetic if and only if n 5 (see also
[368]). They also proved that a graph with an -labeling is a (k, d)-arithmetic for all k
and d. Bu and Shi [368] proved that Km,n is (k, d)-arithmetic when k is not of the form
id for 1 i n 1. For all d 1 and all r 0, Acharya and Hegde [28] showed the
following: Km,n,1 is (d + 2r, d)-arithmetic; C4t+1 is (2dt + 2r, d)-arithmetic; C4t+2 is not
(k, d)-arithmetic for any values of k and d; C4t+3 is ((2t + 1)d + 2r, d)-arithmetic; W4t+2
is (2dt + 2r, d)-arithmetic; and W4t is ((2t + 1)d + 2r, d)-arithmetic. They conjecture that
C4t+1 is (2dt + 2r, d)-arithmetic for some r and that C4t+3 is (2dt + d + 2r, d)-arithmetic
for some r. Hegde and Shetty [719] proved the following: the generalized web W (t, n)
(see 2.2 for the definition) is ((n 1)d/2, d)-arithmetic and ((3n 1)d/2, d)-arithmetic
for odd n; the join of the generalized web W (t, n) with the center removed and Kp where
n is odd is ((n 1)d/2, d)-arithmetic; every Tp -tree (see 3.2 for the definition) with
q edges and every tree obtained by subdividing every edge of a Tp -tree exactly once is
(k + (q 1)d, d)-arithmetic for all k and d. Lu, Pan, and Li [1140] proved that K1,m Kp,q
is (k, d)-arithmetic when k > (q 1)d + 1 and d > 1.
Yu [1934] proved that a necessary condition for C4t+1 to be (k, d)-arithmetic is that
k = 2dt + r for some r 0 and a necessary condition for C4t+3 to be (k, d)-arithmetic is
that k = (2t + 1)d + 2r for some r 0. These conditions were conjectured by Acharya
and Hegde [28]. Singh proved that the graph obtained by subdividing every edge of the
ladder Ln is (5, 2)-arithmetic [1551] and that the ladder Ln is (n, 1)-arithmetic [1554].
He also proves that Pm Cn is ((n 1)/2, 1)-arithmetic when n is odd [1554]. Acharya,
Germina, and Anandavally [22] proved that the subdivision graph of the ladder Ln is
(k, d)-arithmetic if either d does not divide k or k = rd for some r 2n and that Pm Pn
and the subdivision graph of the ladder Ln are (k, k)-arithmetic if and only if k is at least
3. Lu, Pan, and Li [1140] proved that Sm Kp,q is (k, d)-arithmetic when k > (q 1)d + 1
and d > 1.

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A graph is called arithmetic if it is (k, d)-arithmetic for some k and d. Singh and
Vilfred [1561] showed that various classes of trees are arithmetic. Singh [1554] has proved
that the union of an arithmetic graph and an arithmetic bipartite graph is arithmetic. He
conjectures that the union of arithmetic graphs is arithmetic. He provides an example to
show that the converse is not true.
Germina and Anandavally [638] investigated embedding of graphs in arithmetic graphs.
They proved: every graph can be embedded as an induced subgraph of an arithmetic
graph; every bipartite graph can be embedded in a (k, d)-arithmetic graph for all k and d
such that d does not divide k; and any graph containing an odd cycle cannot be embedded
as an induced subgraph of a connected (k, d)-arithmetic with k < d.

4.3

(k, d)-indexable Labelings

Acharya and Hegde [28] call a graph with p vertices and q edges (k, d)-indexable if there is
an injective function from V to {0, 1, 2, . . . , p 1} such that the set of edge labels induced
by adding the vertex labels is a subset of {k, k+d, k+2d, . . . , k+q(d1)}. When the set of
edges is {k, k+d, k+2d, . . . , k+q(d1)} the graph is said to be strongly (k, d)-indexable. A
(k, 1)-graph is more simply called k-indexable and strongly 1-indexable graphs are simply
called strongly indexable. Notice that strongly indexable graphs are a stronger form of
sequential graphs and for trees and unicyclic graphs the notions of sequential labelings
and strongly k-indexable labelings coincide. Hegde and Shetty [724] have shown that the
notions of (1, 1)-strongly indexable graphs and super edge-magic total labelings (see 5.2)
are equivalent.
Zhou [1954] has shown that for every k-indexable graph G with p vertices and q edges
the graph (G + Kqp+k ) + K1 is strongly k-indexable. Acharaya and Hegde prove that the
only nontrivial regular graphs that are strongly indexable are K2 , K3 , and K2 K3 , and
that every strongly indexable graph has exactly one nontrivial component that is either a
star or has a triangle. Acharya and Hegde [28] call a graph with p vertices indexable if there
is an injective labeling of the vertices with labels from {0, 1, 2, . . . , p 1} such that the
edge labels induced by addition of the vertex labels are distinct. They conjecture that all
unicyclic graphs are indexable. This conjecture was proved by Arumugam and Germina
[128] who also proved that all trees are indexable. Bu and Shi [369] also proved that all
trees are indexable and that all unicyclic graphs with the cycle C3 are indexable. Hegde
[704] has shown the following: every graph can be embedded as an induced subgraph
of an indexable graph; if a connected graph with p vertices and q edges (q 2) is
(k, d)-indexable, then d 2; Pm Pn is indexable for all m and n; if G is a connected
(1, 2)-indexable graph, then G is a tree; the minimum degree of any (k, 1)-indexable graph
with at least two vertices is at most 3; a caterpillar with partite sets of orders a and b
is strongly (1, 2)-indexable if and only if |a b| 1; in a connected strongly k-indexable
graph with p vertices and q edges, k p 1; and if a graph with p vertices and q edges is
(k, d)-indexable, then q (2p 3 k + d)/d. As a corollary of the latter, it follows that
Kn (n 4) and wheels are not (k, d)-indexable.
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two given (k, d)-strongly indexable graphs. Lee and Lo [1010] show that every given (1,2)strongly indexable spider can extend to an (1,2)-strongly indexable spider with arbitrarily
many legs.
Seoud, Abd El Hamid, and Abo Shady [1425] proved the following graphs are indexable: Pm Pn (m, n 2); the graphs obtained from Pn + K1 by inserting one vertex
between every two consecutive vertices of Pn ; the one-point union of any number of copies
of K2,n ; and the graphs otained by identifying a vertex of a cycle with the center of a star.
They showed Pn is strongly dn/2e-indexable; odd cycles Cn are strongly dn/2e-indexable;
K( m, n) (m, n > 2) is indexable if and only if m or n is at most 2. For a simple indexable
graph G(V, E) they proved |E| 2|V | 3. Also, they determine all indexable graphs of
order at most 6.
Hegde and Shetty [723] also prove that if G is strongly k-indexable Eulerian graph
with q edges then q 0, 3 (mod 4) if k is even and q 0, 1 (mod 4) if k is odd. They
further showed how strongly k-indexable graphs can be used to construct polygons of
equal internal angles with sides of different lengths.
Germina [635] has proved the following: fans Pn +K1 are strongly indexable if and only
if n = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; Pn + K2 is strongly indexable if and only if n 2; the only strongly
indexable complete m-partite graphs are K1,n and K1,1,n ; ladders Pn P2 are d n2 e-strongly
indexable, if n is odd; Kn Pk is a strongly indexable if and only if n = 3; Cm Pn is
2-strongly indexable if m is odd and n 2; K1,n + Ki is not strongly indexable for n 2;
for Gi
= K1,n , 1 i n, the sequential join G
= (G1 +G2 )(G2 +G3 ) (Gn1 +Gn )
is strongly indexable if and only if, either i = n = 1 or i = 2 and n = 1 or i = 1, n = 3;
P1 Pn is strongly indexable if and only if n 3; P2 Pn is not strongly indexable; P2 Pn
e-strongly indexable; mCn is k-strongly indexable if and only if m and n are odd;
is d n+3
2
K1,n K1,n+1 is strongly indexable; and mK1,n is d 3m1
e-strongly indexable when m is
2
odd.
Acharya and Germina [19] proved that every graph can be embedded in a strongly
indexable graph and gave an algorithmic characterization of strongly indexable unicyclic
graphs. In [20] they provide necessary conditions for an Eulerian graph to be strongly
k-indexable and investigate strongly indexable (p, q)-graphs for which q = 2p 3.
Hegde and Shetty [719] proved that for n odd the generalized web graph W (t, n) with
the center removed is strongly (n 1)/2-indexable. Hegde and Shetty [724] define a level
joined planar grid as follows. Let u be a vertex of Pm Pn of degree 2. For every pair of
distinct vertices v and w that do not have degree 4, introduce an edge between v and w
provided that the distance from u to v equals the distance from u to w. They prove that
every level joined planar grid is strongly indexable. For any sequence of positive integers
(a1 , a2 , . . . , an ) Lee and Lee [1001] show how to associate a strongly indexible (1, 1)-graph.
As a corollary, they obtain the aforementioned result Hegde and Shetty on level joined
planar grids.
Section 5.1 of this survey includes a discussion of a labeling method called super edgemagic. In 2002 Hegde and Shetty [724] showed that a graph has a strongly k-indexable
labeling if and only if it has a super edge-magic labeling.

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Elegant Labelings

In 1981 Chang, Hsu, and Rogers [403] defined an elegant labeling f of a graph G with
q edges as an injective function from the vertices of G to the set {0, 1, . . . , q} such that
when each edge xy is assigned the label f (x) + f (y) (mod (q + 1)) the resulting edge labels
are distinct and nonzero. An injective labeling f of a graph G with q vertices is called
strongly k-elegant if the vertex labels are from {0, 1, . . . , q} and the edge labels induced
by f (x) + f (y) (mod (q + 1)) for each edge xy are k, . . . , k + q 1. Note that in contrast
to the definition of a harmonious labeling, for an elegant labeling it is not necessary to
make an exception for trees.
Whereas the cycle Cn is harmonious if and only if n is odd, Chang et al. [403] proved
that Cn is elegant when n 0 or 3 (mod 4) and not elegant when n 1 (mod 4). Chang
et al. further showed that all fans are elegant and the paths Pn are elegant for n 6 0 (mod
4). Cahit [379] then showed that P4 is the only path that is not elegant. Balakrishnan,
Selvam, and Yegnanarayanan [256] have proved numerous graphs are elegant. Among
them are Km,n and the mth-subdivision graph of K1,2n for all m. They prove that the
bistar Bn,n (K2 with n pendent edges at each endpoint) is elegant if and only if n is
even. They also prove that every simple graph is a subgraph of an elegant graph and
that several families of graphs are not elegant. Deb and Limaye [480] have shown that
triangular snakes (see 2.2 for the definition) are elegant if and only if the number of
triangles is not equal to 3 (mod 4). In the case where the number of triangles is 3
(mod 4) they show the triangular snakes satisfy a weaker condition they call semi-elegant
whereby the edge label 0 is permitted. In [481] Deb and Limaye define a graph G with
q edges to be near-elegant if there is an injective function f from the vertices of G to
the set {0, 1, . . . , q} such that when each edge xy is assigned the label f (x) + f (y) (mod
(q + 1)) the resulting edge labels are distinct and not equal to q. Thus, in a near-elegant
labeling, instead of 0 being the missing value in the edge labels, q is the missing value.
Deb and Limaye show that triangular snakes where the number of triangles is 3 (mod
4) are near-elegant. For any positive integers where is at least 2, the
theta graph ,, consists of three edge disjoint paths of lengths , , and having the
same end points. Deb and Limaye [481] provide elegant and near-elegant labelings for
some theta graphs where = 1, 2, or 3. Seoud and Elsakhawi [1438] have proved that
the following graphs are elegant: K1,m,n ; K1,1,m,n ; K2 + Km ; K3 + Km ; and Km,n with
an edge joining two vertices of the same partite set. Elumalai and Sethuraman [523]
proved P2 n , Pm2 + Kn , Sm + Sn , Sm + Km , C3 Pm , and even cycles C2n with vertices
a0 , a1 , . . . , a2n1 , a0 and 2n 3 chords a0 a2 , a0 a3 , . . . , a0 a2n2 (n 2) are elegant. Zhou
[1954] has shown that for every strongly k-elegant graph G with p vertices and q edges
and any positive integer m the graph (G + Km ) + Kn is also strongly k-elegant when
q p + 1 m q p + k.
Sethuraman and Elumalai [1475] proved that every graph is a vertex induced subgraph
of a elegant graph and present an algorithm that permits one to start with any non-trivial
connected graph and successively form supersubdivisions (see 2.7) that have a strong
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graph G can be embedded in a connected elegant graph H. The construction is done in

such a way that if G is planar and elegant (harmonious), then so is H.
In [1474] Sethuraman and Elumalai define a graph H to be a K1,m -star extension of a
graph G with p vertices and q edges at a vertex v of G where m > p 1 deg(v) if H is
obtained from G by merging the center of the star K1,m with v and merging p 1 deg(v)
pendent vertices of K1,m with the p 1 deg(v) nonadjacent vertices of v in G. They
prove that for every graph G with p vertices and q edges and for every vertex v of G and
every m 2p1 1 q, there is a K1,m -star extension of G that is both graceful and
harmonious. In the case where m 2p1 q, they show that G has a K1,m -star extension
that is elegant. Sethuraman and Selvaraju [1494] have shown that certain cases of the
union of any number of copies of K4 with one or more edges deleted and one edge in
common are elegant.
Gallian extended the notion of harmoniousness to arbitrary finite Abelian groups as
follows. Let G be a graph with q edges and H a finite Abelian group (under addition)
of order q. Define G to be H-harmonious if there is an injection f from the vertices of
G to H such that when each edge xy is assigned the label f (x) + f (y) the resulting edge
labels are distinct. When G is a tree, one label may be used on exactly two vertices.
Beals, Gallian, Headley, and Jungreis [291] have shown that if H is a finite Abelian group
of order n > 1 then Cn is H-harmonious if and only if H has a non-cyclic or trivial
Sylow 2-subgroup and H is not of the form Z2 Z2 Z2 . Thus, for example, C12
is not Z12 -harmonious but is (Z2 Z2 Z3 )-harmonious. Analogously, the notion of an
elegant graph can be extended to arbitrary finite Abelian groups. Let G be a graph with
q edges and H a finite Abelian group (under addition) with q + 1 elements. We say G is
H-elegant if there is an injection f from the vertices of G to H such that when each edge
xy is assigned the label f (x) + f (y) the resulting set of edge labels is the non-identity
elements of H. Beals et al. [291] proved that if H is a finite Abelian group of order n
with n 6= 1 and n 6= 3, then Cn1 is H-elegant using only the non-identity elements of
H as vertex labels if and only if H has either a non-cyclic or trivial Sylow 2-subgroup.
This result completed a partial characterization of elegant cycles given by Chang, Hsu,
and Rogers [403] by showing that Cn is elegant when n 2 (mod 4). Mollard and Payan
[1207] also proved that Cn is elegant when n 2 (mod 4) and gave another proof that
Pn is elegant when n 6= 4. In 2014 Ollis [1256] used harmonious labelings for Zm given
by Beals, Gallian, Headley, and Jungreis in [291] to construct new Latin squares of odd
order.
A function f is said to be an odd elegant labeling of a graph G with q edges if f
is an injection from the vertices of G to the integers from 0 to 2q 1 such that the
induced mapping f (uv) = f (u) + f (v) (mod 2q) from the edges of G to the odd integers
between 1 to 2q 1 is a bijection. Zhou, Yao, and Chen [1956] proved that every lobster
is odd-elegant.
For a graph G(V, E) and an Abelian group H Valentin [1784] defines a polychrome
labeling of G by H to be a bijection f from V to H such that the edge labels induced
by f (uv) = f (v) + f (u) are distinct. Valentin investigates the existence of polychrome
labelings for paths and cycles for various Abelian groups.
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4.5

Felicitous Labelings

Another generalization of harmonious labelings are felicitous labelings. An injective function f from the vertices of a graph G with q edges to the set {0, 1, . . . , q} is called felicitous
if the edge labels induced by f (x) + f (y) (mod q) for each edge xy are distinct. (Recall
a harmonious labeling only allows the vertex labels 0, 1, . . . , q 1.) This definition first
appeared in a paper by Lee, Schmeichel, and Shee in [1033] and is attributed to E. Choo.
Balakrishnan and Kumar [253] proved the conjecture of Lee, Schmeichel, and Shee [1033]
that every graph is a subgraph of a felicitous graph by showing the stronger result that
every graph is a subgraph of a sequential graph. Among the graphs known to be felicitous
are: Cn except when n 2 (mod 4) [1033]; Km,n when m, n > 1 [1033]; P2 C2n+1 [1033];
P2 C2n [1679]; P3 C2n+1 [1033]; Sm C2n+1 [1033]; Kn if and only if n 4 [524]; Pn +Km
(n)
[524]; the friendship graph C3 for n odd [1033]; Pn C3 [1504]; Pn Cn+3 [1679]; and
the one-point union of an odd cycle and a caterpillar [1504]. Shee [1500] conjectured that
Pm Cn is felicitous when n > 2 and m > 3. Lee, Schmeichel, and Shee [1033] ask for
which m and n is the one-point union of n copies of Cm felicitous. They showed that
in the case where mn is twice an odd integer the graph is not felicitous. In contrast to
the situation for felicitous labelings, we remark that C4k and Km,n where m, n > 1 are
not harmonious and the one-point union of an odd cycle and a caterpillar is not always
harmonious. Lee, Schmeichel, and Shee [1033] conjectured that the n-cube is felicitous.
This conjecture was proved by Figueroa-Centeno and Ichishima in 2001 [558].
Balakrishnan, Selvam, and Yegnanarayanan [255] obtained numerous results on felicitous labelings. The wreath product, G H, of graphs G and H has vertex set
V (G) V (H) and (g1 , h1 ) is adjacent to (g2 , h2 ) whenever g1 g2 E(G) or g1 = g2
and h1 h2 E(H). They define Hn,n as the graph with vertex set {u1 , . . . , un ; v1 , . . . , vn }
and edge set {ui vj | 1 i j n}. They let hK1,n : mi denote the graph obtained by
taking m disjoint copies of K1,n , and joining a new vertex to the centers of the m copies
of K1,n . They prove the following are felicitous: Hn,n ; Pn K2 ; hK1,m : mi; hK1,2 : mi
when m 6 0 (mod 3), or m 3 (mod 6), or m 6 (mod 12); hK1,2n : mi for all m and
n 2; hK1,2t+1 : 2n + 1i when n t; Pnk when k = n 1 and n 6 2 (mod 4), or k = 2t
and n 3 and k < n 1; the join of a star and Kn ; and graphs obtained by joining
two end vertices or two central vertices of stars with an edge. Yegnanarayanan [1912]
conjectures that the graphs obtained from an even cycle by attaching n new vertices to
each vertex of the cycle is felicitous. This conjecture was verified by Figueroa-Centeno,
Ichishima, and Muntaner-Batle in [563]. In [1490] Sethuraman and Selvaraju [1494] have
shown that certain cases of the union of any number of copies of K4 with 3 edges deleted
and one edge in common are felicitous. Sethuraman and Selvaraju [1490] present an algorithm that permits one to start with any non-trivial connected graph and successively
form supersubdivisions (see 2.7) that have a felicitous labeling. Krisha and Dulawat [957]
give algorithms for finding graceful, harmonious, sequential, felicitous, and antimagic (see
5.7) labelings of paths.
Figueroa-Centeno, Ichishima, and Muntaner-Batle [564] define a felicitous graph to be
strongly felicitous if there exists an integer k so that for every edge uv, min{f (u), f (v)}

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 k < max{f (u), f (v)}. For a graph with p vertices and q edges with q p 1 they
show that G is strongly felicitous if and only if G has an -labeling (see 3.1). They also
show that for graphs G1 and G2 with strongly felicitous labelings f1 and f2 the graph
obtained from G1 and G2 by identifying the vertices u and v such that f1 (u) = 0 = f2 (v)
is strongly felicitous and that the one-point union of two copies of Cm where m 4 and m
is even is strongly felicitous. As a corollary they have that the one-point union of n copies
of Cm where m is even and at least 4 and n 2 (mod 4) is felicitous. They conjecture
that the one-point union of n copies of Cm is felicitous if and only if mn 0, 1, or 3
(mod 4). In [568] Figueroa-Centeno, Ichishima, and Muntaner-Batle prove that 2Cn is
strongly felicitous if and only if n is even and at least 4. They conjecture [568] that mCn
is felicitous if and only if mn 6 2 (mod 4) and that Cm Cn is felicitous if and only if
m + n 6 2 (mod 4).
As consequences of their results about super edge-magic labelings (see 5.2) FigueroaCenteno, Ichishima, Muntaner-Batle, and Oshima [568] have the following corollaries: if
m and n are odd with m 1 and n 3, then mCn is felicitous; 3Cn is felicitous if and
only if n 6 2 (mod 4); and C5 Pn is felicitous for all n.
In [1159] Manickam, Marudai, and Kala prove the following graphs are felicitous: the
one-point union of m copies of Cn if mn 1, 3 mod 4; the one-point union of m copies of
C4 ; mCn if mn 1, 3 (mod 4); and mC4 . These results partially answer questions raised
by Figueroa-Centeno, Ichishima, Muntaner-Batle, and Oshima in [564] and [568].
Chang, Hsu, and Rogers [403] have given a sequential counterpart to felicitous labelings. They call a graph with q edges strongly c-elegant if the vertex labels are from
{0, 1, . . . , q} and the edge labels induced by addition are {c, c+1, . . . , c+q1}. (A strongly
1-elegant labeling has also been called a consecutive labeling.) Notice that every strongly
c-elegant graph is felicitous and that strongly c-elegant is the same as (c, 1)-arithmetic in
the case where the vertex labels are from {0, 1, . . . , q}. Chang et al. [403] have shown:
Kn is strongly 1-elegant if and only if n = 2, 3, 4; Cn is strongly 1-elegant if and only if
n = 3; and a bipartite graph is strongly 1-elegant if and only if it is a star. Shee [1501]
has proved that Km,n is strongly c-elegant for a particular value of c and obtained several
more specialized results pertaining to graphs formed from complete bipartite graphs.
Seoud and Elsakhawi [1440] have shown: Km,n (m n) with an edge joining two
vertices of the same partite set is strongly c-elegant for c = 1, 3, 5, . . . , 2n + 2; K1,m,n is
strongly c-elegant for c = 1, 3, 5, . . . , 2m when m = n, and for c = 1, 3, 5, . . . , m + n + 1
when m 6= n; K1,1,m,m is strongly c-elegant for c = 1, 3, 5, . . . , 2m + 1; Pn + Km is strongly
bn/2c-elegant; Cm + Kn is strongly c-elegant for odd m and all n for c = (m 1)/2, (m
1)/2 + 2, . . . , 2m when (m 1)/2 is even and for c = (m 1)/2, (m 1)/2 + 2, . . . , 2m
(m 1)/2 when (m 1)/2 is odd; ladders L2k+1 (k > 1) are strongly (k + 1)-elegant; and
B(3, 2, m) and B(4, 3, m) (see 2.4 for notation) are strongly 1-elegant and strongly 3elegant for all m; the composition Pn [P2 ] (see 2.3 for the definition) is strongly c-elegant
for c = 1, 3, 5, . . . , 5n 6 when n is odd and for c = 1, 3, 5, . . . , 5n 5 when n is even;
Pn is strongly bn/2c-elegant; Pn2 is strongly c-elegant for c = 1, 3, 5, . . . , q where q is the
number of edges of Pn2 ; and Pn3 (n > 3) is strongly c-elegant for c = 1, 3, 5, . . . , 6k 1 when
n = 4k; c = 1, 3, 5, . . . , 6k + 1 when n = 4k + 1; c = 1, 3, 5, . . . , 6k + 3 when n = 4k + 2;
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4.6

Odd Harmonious and Even Harmonious Labelings

A function f is said to be an odd harmonious labeling of a graph G with q edges if f is

an injection from the vertices of G to the integers from 0 to 2q 1 such that the induced
mapping f (uv) = f (u) + f (v) from the edges of G to the odd integers between 1 to
2q 1 is a bijection. A function f is said to be an strongly odd harmonious labeling of
a graph G with q edges if f is an injection from the vertices of G to the integers from
0 to q such that the induced mapping f (uv) = f (u) + f (v) from the edges of G to
the odd integers between 1 to 2q 1 is a bijection. Liang and Bai [1085] have shown
the following: odd harmonious graphs are bipartite; if a (p, q)-graph is odd harmonious,

then 2 q p 2q 1; if a (p, q)-graph with degree sequence (d1 , d2 , . . . , dp ) is odd

harmonious, then gcd(d1 , d2 , . . . , dp ) divides q 2 ; Pn (n > 1) is odd harmonious and strongly
odd harmonious; Cn is odd harmonious if and only if n 0 mod 4; Kn is odd harmonious
if and only if n = 2; Kn1 ,n2 ,...,nk is odd harmonious if and only if k = 2; Knt is odd
harmonious if and only if n = 2; Pm Pn is odd harmonious; the tadpole graph obtained
by identifying the endpoint of a path with a vertex of an n-cycle is odd harmonious if
n 0 mod 4; the graph obtained by appending two or more pendent edges to each vertex
of C4n is odd harmonious; the graph obtained by subdividing every edge of the cycle of
a wheel (gear graphs) is odd harmonious; the graph obtained by appending an edge to
each vertex of a strongly odd harmonious graph is odd harmonious; and caterpillars and
lobsters are odd harmonious. They conjecture that every tree is odd harmonious.
Vaidya and Shah [1750] prove that the shadow graphs (see 3.8 for the definition) of
path Pn and star K1n are odd harmonious. They also show that the splitting graphs (see
2.7 for the definition) ) of path Pn and star K1n are odd harmonious. In [1751] Vaidya
and Shah proved the following graphs are odd harmonious: the shadow graph and the
splitting graph of bistar Bn,n ; the arbitrary supersubdivision of paths; graphs obtained by
joining two copies of cycle Cn for n 0(mod 4) by an edge; and the graphs Hn,n , where
V (Hn,n ) = {v1 , v2 , . . . , vn , u1 , u2 , . . . , vn } and E(Hn,n ) = {vi uj : 1 i n, n i + 1
j n}. In [1896] Yan proves that Pm Pn is odd strongly harmonious. Koppendrayer
[934] has proved that every graph with an -labeling is odd harmonious. Li, Li, and Yan
[1074] proved that Km,n is odd strongly harmonious.
Saputri, Sugeng, and Froncek [1410] proved that the graph obtained by joining Cn to
Ck by an edge (dumbbell graph Dn,k,2 ) is odd harmonious for n k 0(mod 4) and
n k 2 (mod 4), and Cn Pm is odd harmonious if and only if n 0 (mod 4). They
also observe that Cn  K1 with n 0 (mod 4) is odd harmonious.
Jeyanthi [795] proved that the shadow and splitting graphs of K2,n , C4n , the double
quadrilateral snakes DQ(n) (n 2), and the graph Hn,n with vertex set V (Hn,n ) =
{v1 , v2 , . . . , vn , u1 , u2 , . . . , un } and the edge set E(Hn,n ) = {vi uj : 1 i n, n i + 1
j n} are odd harmonious. Jeyanthi and Philo [822] proved that the shadow graphs
D2 (K2,n ) and D2 (Hn,n ) are odd harmonious and the splitting of graphs of K2,n and Hn,n
are odd harmonious. They also showed that the shadow graph D2 (Cn ) is odd harmonious
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if n 0 ( mod 4), the splitting of Cn is odd harmonious if n 0 ( mod 4), and the double
quadrilateral snake DQ(n) is odd harmonious for n 2.
Sarasija and Binthiya [1411] say a function f is an even harmonious labeling of a
graph G with q edges if f : V {0, 1, . . . , 2q} is injective and the induced function
f : E {0, 2, . . . , 2(q 1)} defined as f (uv) = f (u) + f (v) (mod 2q) is bijective. They
proved the following graphs are even harmonious: non-trivial paths; complete bipartite
graphs; odd cycles; bistars Bm,n ; K2 + Kn ; Pn2 ; and the friendship graphs F2n+1 . Lopez,
Muntaner-Batle and Rious-Font [1121] proved that every super edge-magic graph (see
Section 5.2 for the definition of super edge-magic) with p vertices and q edges where
q p 1 has an even harmonious labeling.
Because 2q is 0 modulo 2q, Gallian and Schoenhard [602] gave the following equivalent
definition of an even harmonious labeling. A function f is said to be an even harmonious
labeling of a graph G with q edges if f is a function from the vertices of G to {0, 1, . . . , 2(q
1)} and the induced function f from the edges of G to {0, 2, . . . , 2(q 1)} defined by
f (uv) = f (u)+f (v) (mod 2q) has at most one label used twice. In the case of harmonious
labelings for connected graphs there is no loss of generality to assume that all the vertex
labels are even integers and the duplicate vertex is 0. Gallian and Schoenhard also call
an even harmonious labeling a properly even harmonious if no vertex label is duplicated
and say an even harmonious labeling of a graph with q edges is strongly even harmonious
if it satisfies the additional condition that for any two adjacent vertices with labels u and
v, 0 < u + v 2q.
Jared Bass [290] has observed that for connected graphs any harmonious labeling of
a graph with q edges yields an even harmonious labeling by simply multiplying each
vertex label by 2 and adding the vertex labels modulo 2q. Thus we know that every
connected harmonious graph is an even harmonious graph and every connected graph
that is not a tree that has a harmonious labeling also has a properly even harmonious
labeling. Conversely, a properly even harmonious labeling of a connected graph with q
edges (assuming that the vertex labels are even) yields a harmonious labeling of the graph
by dividing each vertex label by 2 and adding the vertex labels modulo q.
Gallian and Schoenhard [602] proved the following: wheels Wn and helms Hn are
properly even harmonious when n is odd; nP2 is even harmonious for n odd; nP2 is
properly even harmonious if and only if n is even; Kn is even harmonius if and only if
n 4; C2n is not even harmonius when n is odd; Cn P3 is properly even harmonious
when odd n 3; C4 Pn is even harmonious when n 2; C4 Fn is even harmonious when
n 2; Sm Pn is even harmonious when n 2; K4 Sn is properly even harmonious;
Pm Pn is properly even harmonious for all m 2 and n 2; C3 Pn2 is even harmonious
when n 2; C4 Pn2 is even harmonious when n 2; the disjoint union of two or three
stars where each star has at least two edges and one has at least three edges is properly
even harmonious; Pm2 Pn is even harmonious for m 2 and 2 n < 4m5; the one-point
union of two complete graphs each with at least 3 vertices is not even harmonious; Sm Pn
is strongly even harmonious if n 2; and Sn1 Sn2 Snt is strongly even harmonious
for n1 n2 , . . . nt and t < n21 + 2. They conjecture that Sn1 Sn2 Snt is
strongly even harmonious if at least one star has more than 2 edges. They also note that
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C4 , C8 , C12 , C16 , C20 , C24 are even harmonious and conjecture that C4n is even harmonius
for all n. This conjecture was proved by Youssef [1929]. Hall, Hillesheim, Kocina, and
Schmit [681] proved that nC2m+1 is properly even harmonious for all n and m.
In [603] Gallian and Stewart investigated even harmonious labelings of unions of
graphs. They use Pm +t to denote the graph obtained from the path Pm by appending
t edges to an endpoint; Catm +t to denote a caterpillar of path length m with t pendant
edges; and Cm +t to denote an m-cycle with t pendant edges. They proved the following
graphs are properly even harmonious: nPm if and only if n is even and m > 2; Pn Km,2 for
n odd and n > 1, m > 1; Pn Sm1 Sm2 for n > 2 and m1 + m2 is odd; Cn Sm1 Sm2 for
n odd and m1 , m2 > 3; Pm +t Pn +s ; the union of any number of caterpillars; Cm Catn +t
for m > 1 odd, n > 1; C4 Catm +t ; the union of C4 and a hairy cycle; K4 Cm +n for
some cases; W4 Cm +n for some cases; C4 (Pn + K 2 ) for n > 1; K4 (Pn + K m ) for
n 1, 2 (mod 4); C3 (Pn + K m ) for n 1, 2 (mod 4); W4 (Pn + K m ) for n 1, 2
(mod 4); W4 Pn for n 1, 2 (mod 4); K4 Pn for n > 1 and n 1, 2 (mod 4);
K4 Pm2 1 Pm2 2 Pm2 n for mi > 2, n 1; W4 Pm2 1 Pm2 2 Pm2 n for mi > 2,
n 1; Cm Pn2 for m 3 (mod 4)andn > 1; and 2Pm 2Pn . They also prove that nP3
is even harmonious if n > 1 is odd and Pm2 1 Pm2 2 Pm2 n is strongly even harmonious
for m > 2, n 1.
By doubling the vertex labels of a sequentially labeled graph with edge labels a, . . . , a+
q 1 and then taking the new edge labels edges modulo 2q, we obtain a graph with the
vertex labels in {0, 2, . . . , 2q 2} and edge labels 2a+2q 2. Gallian and Stewart [603] call
such a labeling even a-sequential. They prove that if G is even a-sequential the following
graphs are properly even harmonious: G Pm2 for m > 2 and a + 2q 0 ( mod 4), G Pn
for n > 1, n 1, 2 (mod 4), G Cm +t for some cases, and G Catm +n for m > 1.
Binthiya and Sarasija [328] prove the following graphs are even harmonious: Cn mK1
(n odd), Pn  mK1 (n > 1 odd), Cn @K1 (n even), Pn (n even) with n 1 copies of mK1 ,
the shadow graph D2 (K1,n ), the splitting graph spl(K1,n ), and the graph obtained from
the Pn (n even) with n 1 copies of Km incident with first n 1 vertices of Pn .

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Magic-type Labelings

Motivated by the notion of magic squares in number theory, magic labelings were introduced by Sedlacek [1413] in 1963. Responding to a problem raised by Sedlacek, Stewart
[1618] and [1619] studied various ways to label the edges of a graph in the mid 1960s.
Stewart calls a connected graph semi-magic if there is a labeling of the edges with integers
such that for each vertex v the sum of the labels of all edges incident with v is the same
for all v. (Berge [304] used the term regularisable for this notion.) A semi-magic labeling where the edges are labeled with distinct positive integers is called a magic labeling.
Stewart calls a magic labeling supermagic if the set of edge labels consists of consecutive
positive integers. The classic concept of an n n magic square in number theory corresponds to a supermagic labeling of Kn,n . Stewart [1618] proved the following: Kn is
magic for n = 2 and all n 5; Kn,n is magic for all n 3; fans Fn are magic if and only
if n is odd and n 3; wheels Wn are magic for n 4; and Wn with one spoke deleted
is magic for n = 4 and for n 6. Stewart [1618] also proved that Km,n is semi-magic if
and only if m = n. In [1619] Stewart proved that Kn is supermagic for n 5 if and only
if n > 5 and n 6 0 (mod 4). Sedlacek [1414] showed that Mobius ladders Mn (see 2.3
for the definition) are supermagic when n 3 and n is odd and that Cn P2 is magic,
but not supermagic, when n 4 and n is even. Shiu, Lam, and Lee [1519] have proved:
the composition of Cm and K n (see 2.3 for the definition) is supermagic when m 3
and n 2; the complete m-partite graph Kn,n,...,n is supermagic when n 3, m > 5 and
m 6 0 (mod 4); and if G is an r-regular supermagic graph, then so is the composition of
G and K n for n 3. Ho and Lee [730] showed that the composition of Km and Kn is
supermagic for m = 3 or 5 and n = 2 or n odd. Baca, Hollander, and Lih [203] have found
two families of 4-regular supermagic graphs. Shiu, Lam, and Cheng [1516] proved that
for n 2, mKn,n is supermagic if and only if n is even or both m and n are odd. Ivanco
[768] gave a characterization of all supermagic regular complete multipartite graphs. He
proved that Qn is supermagic if and only if n = 1 or n is even and greater than 2 and
that Cn Cn and C2m C2n are supermagic. He conjectures that Cm Cn is supermagic
for all m and n. Trenkler [1690] has proved that a connected magic graph with p vertices
and q edges other than P2 exits if and only if 5p/4 < q p(p 1)/2. In [1647] Sun, Guan,
and Lee give an efficient algorithm for finding a magic labeling of a graph. In [1865] Wen,
Lee, and Sun show how to construct a supermagic multigraph from a given graph G by
adding extra edges to G.
In [950] Kovar provides a general technique for constructing supermagic labelings of
copies of certain kinds of regular supermagic graphs. In particular, he proves: if G is a
supermagic r-regular graph (r 3) with a proper edge r coloring, then nG is supermagic
when r is even and supermagic when r and n are odd; if G is a supermagic r-regular
graph with m vertices and has a proper edge r coloring and H is a supermagic s-regular
graph with n vertices and has a proper edge s coloring, then G H is supermagic when
r is even or n is odd and is supermagic when s or m is odd.
In [506] Drajnova, Ivanco, and Semanicova proved that the maximal number of edges
for 6 n 6 0 (mod 4), and
in a supermagic graph of order n is 8 for n = 5 and n(n1)
2
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n(n1)
1
2

for 8 n 0 (mod 4). They also establish some bounds for the minimal number
of edges in a supermagic graph of order n. Ivanco, and Semanicova [776] proved that
every 3-regular triangle-free supermagic graph has an edge such that the graph obtained
by contracting that edge is also supermagic and the graph obtained by contracting one of
the edges joining the two n-cycles of Cn K2 (n 3) is supermagic.
Ivanco [770] proved: the complement of a d-regular bipartite graph of order 8k is
supermagic if and only if d is odd; the complement of a d-regular bipartite graph of order
2n where n is odd and d is even is supermagic if and only if (n, d) 6= (3, 2); if G1 and G2
are disjoint d-regular Hamiltonian graphs of odd order and d 4 and even, then the join
G1 G2 is supermagic; and if G1 is d-regular Hamiltonian graph of odd order n, G2 is
d 2-regular Hamiltonian graph of order n and 4 d 0 (mod 4), then the join G1 G2
is supermagic.
In [315] Bezegova and Ivanco [317] extended the notion of supermagic regular graphs
by defining a graph to be degree-magic if the edges can be labeled with {1, 2, . . . , |E(G)|}
such that the sum of the labels of the edges incident with any vertex v is equal to
(1 + |E(G))/deg(v). They used this notion to give some constructions of supermagic
graphs and proved that for any graph G there is a supermagic regular graph which contains an induced subgraph isomorphic to G. In [317] they gave a characterization of
complete tripartite degree-magic graphs and in [318] they provided some bounds on the
number of edges in degree-magic graphs. They say a graph G is conservative if it admits
an orientation and a labeling of the edges by {1, 2, . . . , |E(G)|} such that at each vertex
the sum of the labels on the incoming edges is equal to the sum of the labels on the outgoing edges. In [316] Bezegova and Ivanco introduced some constructions of degree-magic
labelings for a large family of graphs using conservative graphs. Using a connection between degree-magic labelings and supermagic labelings they also constructed supermagic
labelings for the disjoint union of some regular non-isomorphic graphs. Among their results are: If G is a -regular graph where is even and at least 6, and each component
of G is a complete multipartite graph of even size, then G is a supermagic graph; for any
-regular supermagic graph H, the union of disjoint graphs H and G is supermagic; if G
is a -regular graph with 0 (mod 8) and each component is a circulant graph, then
G is a supermagic graph; for any -regular supermagic graph H, the union of disjoint
graphs H and G is a supermagic graph; and that the complement of the union of disjoint
cycles Cn1 , . . . , Cnk is supermagic when k 1 (mod 4) and 11 ni 3 (mod 8) for all
i = 1, . . . , k.
Sedlacek [1414] proved that graphs obtained from an odd cycle with consecutive vertices u1 , u2 , . . . , um , um+1 , vm , . . . , v1 (m 2) by joining each ui to vi and vi+1 and u1 to
vm+1 , um to v1 and v1 to vm+1 are magic. Trenkler and Vetch
y [1693] have shown that if
G has order at least 5, then Gn is magic for all n 3 and G2 is magic if and only if G
is not P5 and G does not have a 1-factor whose every edge is incident with an end-vertex
of G. Avadayappan, Jeyanthi, and Vasuki [132] have shown that k-sequential trees are
magic (see 4.1 for the definition). Seoud and Abdel Maqsoud [1427] proved that K1,m,n is
magic for all m and n and that Pn2 is magic for all n. However, Serverino has reported that
Pn2 is not magic for n = 2, 3, and 5 [641]. Jeurissan [789] characterized magic connected
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bipartite graphs. Ivanco [769] proved that bipartite graphs with p 8 vertices, equal
sized partite sets, and minimum degree greater than p are magic. Baca [166] characterizes the structure of magic graphs that are formed by adding edges to a bipartite graph
and proves that a regular connected magic graph of degree at least 3 remains magic if an
arbitrary edge is deleted. In [1591] Solairaju and Arockiasamy prove that various families
of subgraphs of grids Pm Pn are magic.
A prime-magic labeling is a magic labeling for which every label is a prime. Sedlacek
[1414] proved that the smallest magic constant for prime-magic labeling of K3,3 is 53
while Baca and Hollander [199] showed that the smallest magic constant for a primemagic labeling of K4,4 is 114. Letting n be the smallest natural number such that nn is
equal to the sum of n2 distinct prime numbers we have that the smallest magic constant
for a prime-magic labeling of Kn,n is n . Baca and Hollaander [199] conjecture that for
n 5, Kn,n has a prime-magic labeling with magic constant n . They proved the
conjecture for 5 n 17 and confirmed the conjecture for n = 5, 6 and 7.
Characterizations of regular magic graphs were given by Doob [505] and necessary and
sufficient conditions for a graph to be magic were given in [789], [847], and [489]. Some
sufficient conditions for a graph to be magic are given in [503], [1689], and [1219]. Bertault,
Miller, Pe-Roses, Feria-Puron, and Vaezpour [313] provided a heuristic algorithm for
finding magic labelings for specific families of graphs. The notion of magic graphs was
generalized in [504] and [1399].
Let m, n, a1 , a2 , . . . , am be positive integers where 1 ai bn/2c and the ai are distinct. The circulant graph Cn (a1 , a2 , . . . , am ) is the graph with vertex set {v1 , v2 , . . . , vm }
and edge set {vi vi+aj | 1 i n, 1 j m} where addition of indices is done modulo
n. In [1423] Semanicova characterizes magic circulant graphs and 3-regular supermagic
circulant graphs. In particular, if G = Cn (a1 , a2 , . . . , am ) has degree r at least 3 and
d = gcd(a1 , n/2) then G is magic if and only if r = 3 and n/d 2 (mod 4), a1 /d 1
(mod 2), or r 4 (a necessary condition for Cn (a1 , a2 , . . . , am ) to be 3-regular is that n
is even). In the 3-regular case, Cn (a1 , n/2) is supermagic if and only n/d 2 (mod 4),
a1 /d 1 (mod 2) and d 1 (mod 2). Semanicova also notes that a bipartite graph that
is decomposable into an even number of Hamilton cycles is supermagic. As a corollary
she obtains that Cn (a1 , a2 , . . . , a2k ) is supermagic in the case that n is even, every ai is
odd, and gcd(a2j1 , a2j , n) = 1 for i = 1, 2, . . . , 2k and j = 1, 2, . . . , k.
Ivanco, Kovar, and Semanicova-Fe
novckova [772] characterize all pairs n and r for
which an r-regular supermagic graph of order n exists. They prove that for positive
integers r and n with n r + 1 there exists an r-regular supermagic graph of order n if
and only if one of the following statements holds: r = 1 and n = 2; 3 r 1 (mod 2) and
n 2 (mod 4); and 4 r 0 (mod 2) and n > 5. The proof of the main result is based
on finding supermagic labelings of circulant graphs. The authors construct supermagic
labelings of several circulant graphs.
In [768] Ivanco completely determines the supermagic graphs that are the disjoint
unions of complete k-partite graphs where every partite set has the same order.
Trenkler [1691] extended the definition of supermagic graphs to include hypergraphs
and proved that the complete k-uniform n-partite hypergraph is supermagic if n 6= 2 or
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6 and k 2 (see also [1692]).

For connected graphs of size at least 5, Ivanco, Lastivkova, and Semanicova [773]
provide a forbidden subgraph characterization of the line graphs that can be magic. As a
corollary they obtain that the line graph of every connected graph with minimum degree
at least 3 is magic. They also prove that the line graph of every bipartite regular graph
of degree at least 3 is supermagic.
In 1976 Sedlacek [1414] defined a connected graph with at least two edges to be pseudomagic if there exists a real-valued function on the edges with the property that distinct
edges have distinct values and the sum of the values assigned to all the edges incident to
any vertex is the same for all vertices. Sedlacek proved that when n 4 and n is even,
the Mobius ladder Mn is not pseudo-magic and when m 3 and m is odd, Cm P2 is
not pseudo-magic.
Kong, Lee, and Sun [939] used the term magic labeling for a labeling of the edges
with nonnegative integers such that for each vertex v the sum of the labels of all edges
incident with v is the same for all v. In particular, the edge labels need not be distinct.
They let M (G) denote the set of all such labelings of G. For any L in M (G), they let
s(L) = max{L(e) : e in E} and define the magic strength of G as m(G) = min{s(L) : L
in M (G)}. To distinguish these notions from others with the same names and notation,
which we will introduced in the next section for labelings from the set of vertices and
edges, we call the Kong, Lee, and Sun version the edge magic strength and use em(G)
for min{s(L) : L in M (G)} instead of m(G). Kong, Lee, and Sun [939] use DS(k) to
denote the graph obtained by taking two copies of K1,k and connecting the k pairs of
corresponding leafs. They show: for k > 1, em(DS(k)) = k 1; em(Pk + K1 ) = 1 for
k = 1 or 2, em(Pk + K1 ) = k if k is even and greater than 2, and 0 if k is odd and
greater than 1; for k 3, em(W (k)) = k/2 if k is even and em(W (k)) = (k 1)/2
if k is odd; em(P2 P2 ) = 1, em(P2 Pn ) = 2 if n > 3, em(Pm Pn ) = 3 if m or
(n)
n is even and greater than 2; em(C3 ) = 1 if n = 1 (Dutch windmill, see 2.4), and
(n)
em(C3 ) = 2n 1 if n > 1. They also prove that if G and H are magic graphs then
G H is magic and em(G H) = max{em(G), em(H)} and that every connected graph
is an induced subgraph of a magic graph (see also [534] and [561]). They conjecture that
almost all connected graphs are not magic. In [1030] Lee, Saba, and Sun show that the
edge magic strength of Pnk is 0 when k and n are both odd. Sun and Lee [1648] show that
the Cartesian, conjunctive, normal, lexicographic, and disjunctive products of two magic
graphs are magic and the sum of two magic graphs is magic. They also determine the
edge magic strengths of the products and sums in terms of the edge magic strengths of
the components graphs.
In [72] Akka and Warad define the super magic strength of a graph G, sms(G) as the
minimum of all magic constants c(f ) where the minimum is taken over all super magic
labeling f of G if there exist at least one such super magic labeling. They determine
the super magic strength of paths, cycles, wheels, stars, bistars, Pn2 , < K1,n : 2 > (the
graph obtained by joining the centers of two copies of K1,n by a path of length 2), and
(2n + 1)P2 .
A Halin graph ia a planar 3-connected graphs that consist of a tree and a cycle
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connecting the end vertices of the tree. Let G be a (p, q)-graph in which the edges are
labeled k, k + 1, . . . , k + q 1, where k 0. In [1047] Lee, Su, and Wang define a graph
with p vertices to be k-edge-magic for every vertex v the sum of the labels of the incident
edges at v are constant modulo p. They investigate some classes of Halin graphs that are
k-edge-magic. Lee, Su, and Wang [1049] investigated some classes of cubic graphs that
are k-edge-magic and provided a counterexample to a conjecture that any cubic graph of
order p 2 (mod 4) is k-edge-magic for all k.
S. M. Lee and colleagues [1068] and [1003] call a graph G k-magic if there is a labeling
from the edges of G to the set {1, 2, . . . , k 1} such that for each vertex v of G the sum
of all edges incident with v is a constant independent of v. The set of all k for which G
is k-magic is denoted by IM(G) and called the integer-magic spectrum of G. In [1068]
Lee and Wong investigate the integer-magic spectrum of powers of paths. They prove:
IM(P42 ) is {4, 6, 8, 10, . . .}; for n > 5, IM(Pn2 ) is the set of all positive integers except 2; for
d
) is the set of all positive integers except 1; IM(P43 ) is the set of all
all odd d > 1, IM(P2d
positive integers; for all odd n 5, IM(Pn3 ) is the set of all positive integers except 1 and
2; and for all even n 6, IM(Pn3 ) is the set of all positive integers except 2. For k > 3 they
conjecture: IM(Pnk ) is the set of all positive integers when n = k + 1; the set of all positive
integers except 1 and 2 when n and k are odd and n k; the set of all positive integers
except 1 and 2 when n and k are even and k n/2; the set of all positive integers except
2 when n is even and k is odd and n k; and the set of all positive integers except 2
when n and k are even and k n/2. In [1045] Lee, Su, and Wang showed that besides the
natural numbers there are two types of the integer-magic spectra of honeycomb graphs.
Fu, Jhuang and Lin [587] determine the integer-magic spectra of graphs obtained from
attaching a path of length at least 2 to the end vertices of each edge of a cycle.
In [1003] Lee, Lee, Sun, and Wen investigated the integer-magic spectrum of various
graphs such as stars, double stars (trees obtained by joining the centers of two disjoint
stars K1,m and K1,n with an edge), wheels, and fans. In [1390] Salehi and Bennett report
that a number of the results of Lee et al. are incorrect and provide a detailed accounting
of these errors as well as determine the integer-magic spectra of caterpillars.
Lee, Lee, Sun, and Wen [1003] use the notation Cm @Cn to denote the graph obtained
by starting with Cm and attaching paths Pn to Cm by identifying the endpoints of the
paths with each successive pairs of vertices of Cm . They prove that IM(Cm @Cn ) is the
set of all positive integers if m or n is even and IM(Cm @Cn ) is the set of all even positive
integers if m and n are odd.
Lee, Valdes, and Ho [1055] investigate the integer magic spectrum for special kinds
of trees. For a given tree T they define the double tree DT of T as the graph obtained
by creating a second copy T of T and joining each end vertex of T to its corresponding
vertex in T . They prove that for any tree T, IM(DT ) contains every positive integer
with the possible exception of 2 and IM(DT ) contains all positive integers if and only if
the degree of every vertex that is not an end vertex is even. For a given tree T they define
ADT , the abbreviated double tree of T , as the the graph obtained from DT by identifying
the end vertices of T and T . They prove that for every tree T , IM(ADT ) contains every
positive integer with the possible exceptions of 1 and 2 and IM(ADT ) contains all positive
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integers if and only if T is a path.

Lee, Salehi, and Sun [1032] have investigated the integer-magic spectra of trees with
diameter at most four. Among their findings are: if n 3 and the prime power factorization of n 1 = pr11 pr22 prkk , then IM(K1,n ) = p1 N p2 N pk N (here pi N
means all positive integer multiples of pi ); for m, n 3, the double star IM(DS(m, m))
(that is, stars Km,1 and Kn,1 that have an edge in common) is the set of all natural numbers excluding all divisors of m 2 greater than 1; if the prime power factorization of
m n = p1r1 pr22 prkk and the prime power factorization of n 2 = ps11 ps22 pskk , (the exi
ponents are permitted to be 0) then IM(DS(m, n)) = A1 A2 Ak where Ai = p1+s
N
i
if ri > si 0 and Ai = if si ri 0; for m, n 3, IM(DS(m, n)) = if and only
if m n divides n 2; if m, n 3 and |m n| = 1, then DS(m, n) is not magic. Lee
and Salehi [1031] give formulas for the integer-magic spectra of trees of diameter four but
they are too complicated to include here.
For a graph G(V, E) and a function f from the V to the positive integers, Salehi
and Lee [1393] define the functional extension of G by f , as the graph H with
V (H) = {ui | u V (G) and i = 1, 2, . . . , f (u)} and E(H) = {ui uj | uv E(G), i =
1, 2, . . . , f (u); j = 1, 2, . . . , f (v)}. They determine the integer-magic spectra for P2 , P3 ,
and P4 .
More specialized results about the integer-magic spectra of amalgamations of stars
and cycles are given by Lee and Salehi in [1031].
Table 5 summarizes the state of knowledge about magic-type labelings. In the table,
SM means semi-magic, M means magic, and SPM means supermagic. A question mark
following an abbreviation indicates that the graph is conjectured to have the corresponding
property. The table was prepared by Petr Kovar and Tereza Kovarova.

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Table 5: Summary of Magic Labelings

Graph
Kn

Types
M
SPM

Notes
if n = 2, n 5 [1618]
for n 5 iff n > 5
n 6 0 (mod 4) [1619]

Km,n

SM

if n 3 [1618]

Kn,n

if n 3 [1618]

fans fn

M
not SM

iff n is odd, n 3 [1618]

if n 2 [641]

wheels Wn

M
SM

if n 4 [1618]
if n = 5 or 6 [641]

wheels with one

spoke deleted

if n = 4, n 6 [1618]

null graph with n vertices

Mobius ladders Mn
SPM

if n 3, n is odd [1414]

C n P2

not SPM

for n 4, n even [1414]

Cm [K n ]

SPM

if m 3, n 2 [1519]

Kn, n, . . . , n
| {z }

SPM

n 3, p > 5 and

p 6 0 (mod 4) [1519]
composition of r-regular
SPM graph and K n

SPM

if n 3 [1519]

Kk [K n ]

SPM

if k = 3 or 5, n = 2 or n odd [730]

mKn,n

SPM

for n 2 iff n is even or

both n and m are odd [1516]

Qn

SPM

iff n = 1 or n > 2 even [768]

Cm Cn

SPM
Continued on next page

m = n or m and n are even [768]

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Table 5 Continued from previous page

Graph
Types

Notes

Cm Cn

SPM?

for all m and n [768]

connected (p, q)-graph

other than P2

iff 5p/4 < q p(p 1)/2 [1690]

Gi

|G| 5, i 3 [1693]

G2

G 6= P5 and G does not have a

1-factor whose every edge is incident with
an end-vertex of G [1693]

K1,m,n

for all m, n [1427]

Pn2

for all n except 2, 3, 5 [1427], [641]

GH

iff G and H are magic [939]

5.1

Edge-magic Total and Super Edge-magic Total Labelings

In 1970 Kotzig and Rosa [945] defined a magic valuation of a graph G(V, E) as a bijection
f from V E to {1, 2, . . . , |V E|} such that for all edges xy, f (x) + f (y) + f (xy) is
constant (called the magic constant). This notion was rediscovered by Ringel and Llado
[1361] in 1996 who called this labeling edge-magic. To distinguish between this usage from
that of other kinds of labelings that use the word magic we will use the term edge-magic
total labeling as introduced by Wallis [1823] in 2001. (We note that for 2-regular graphs
a vertex-magic total labeling is an edge-magic total labeling and vice versa.) Inspired
by Kotzig-Rosa notion, Enomoto, Llado, Nakamigawa, and Ringel [534] called a graph
G(V, E) with an edge-magic total labeling that has the additional property that the vertex
labels are 1 to |V | super edge-magic total labeling. Kotzig and Rosa proved: Km,n has
an edge-magic total labeling for all m and n; Cn has an edge-magic total labeling for all
n 3 (see also [647], [1369], [307], and [534]); and the disjoint union of n copies of P2 has
an edge-magic total labeling if and only if n is odd. They further state that Kn has an
edge-magic total labeling if and only if n = 1, 2, 3, 5 or 6 (see [946], [469], and [534]) and
ask whether all trees have edge-magic total labelings. Wallis, Baskoro, Miller, and Slamin
[1827] enumerate every edge-magic total labeling of complete graphs. They also prove
that the following graphs are edge-magic total: paths, crowns, complete bipartite graphs,
and cycles with a single edge attached to one vertex. Enomoto, Llado, Nakamigana, and
Ringel [534] prove that all complete bipartite graphs are edge-magic total. They also show
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that wheels Wn are not edge-magic total when n 3 (mod 4) and conjectured that all
other wheels are edge-magic total. This conjecture was proved when n 0, 1 (mod 4) by
Phillips, Rees, and Wallis [1278] and when n 6 (mod 8) by Slamin, Baca, Lin, Miller,
and Simanjuntak [1574]. Fukuchi [593] verified all cases of the conjecture independently
of the work of others. Slamin et al. further show that all fans are edge-magic total.
Ringel and Llado [1361] prove that a graph with p vertices and q edges is not edgemagic total if q is even and p + q 2 (mod 4) and each vertex has odd degree. Ringel
and Llado conjecture that trees are edge-magic total. In [153] Babujee and Rao show that
the path with n vertices has an edge-magic total labeling with magic constant (5n + 2)/2
when n is even and (5n + 1)/2 when n is odd. For stars with n vertices they provide an
edge-magic total labeling with magic constant 3n. In [542] Eshghi and Azimi discuss a
zero-one integer programming model for finding edge-magic total labelings of large graphs.
Santhosh [1407] proved that for n odd and at least 3, the crown Cn  P2 has an
edge-magic total labeling with magic constant (27n + 3)/2 and for n odd and at least 3,
Cn  P3 has an edge-magic total labeling with magic constant (39n + 3)/2.
Ahmad, Baig, and Imran [57] define a zig-zag triangle as the graph obtained from the
path x1 , x2 , . . . , xn by adding n new vertices y1 , y2 , . . . , yn and new edges y1 x1 , yn xn1 ; xi yi
for 1 i n; yi xi1 yi xi+1 for 2 i n 1. They define a graph Cbn as one obtained
from the path x1 , x2 , . . . , xn adding n 1 new vertices y1 , y2 , . . . , yn1 and new edges
yi xi+1 for 1 i n 1. The graph Cbn is obtained from the Cbn by joining a new
edge x1 y1 . They prove that zig-zag triangles, graphs that are the disjoint union of a star
and a banana tree, certain disjoint unions of stars, and for n 4, Cbn Cbn1 are super
edge-magic total. Baig, Afzal, Imran, and Javaid [135] investigate the existence of super
edge-magic labeling of volvox and pancyclic graphs.
Beardon [293] extended the notion of edge-magic total to countable infinite graphs
G(V, E) (that is, V E is countable). His main result is that a countably infinite tree
that processes an infinite simple path has a bijective edge-magic total labeling using the
integers as labels. He asks whether all countably infinite trees have an edge-magic total
labeling with the integers as labels and whether the graph with the integers as vertices
and an edge joining every two distinct vertices has a bijective edge-magic total labeling
using the integers.
Cavenagh, Combe, and Nelson [400] investigate edge-magic total labelings of countably
infinite graphs with labels from a countable Abelian group A. Their main result is that
if G is a countable graph that has an infinite set of mutually disjoint edges and A is
isomorphic to a countable subgroup of the real numbers under addition then for any k in
A there is an edge-magic labeling of G with elements from A that has magic constant k.
Balakrishnan and Kumar [253] proved that the join of Kn and two disjoint copies of K2
is edge-magic total if and only if n = 3. Yegnanarayanan [1913] has proved the following
graphs have edge-magic total labelings: nP3 where n is odd; Pn + K1 ; Pn C3 (n 2);
the crown Cn  K1 ; and Pm C3 with n pendent vertices attached to each vertex of
the outermost C3 . He conjectures that for all n, Cn  Kn , the n-cycle with n pendent
vertices attached at each vertex of the cycle, and nP3 have edge-magic total labelings. In
fact, Figueroa-Centeno, Ichishima, and Muntaner-Batle, [568] have proved the stronger
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statement that for all n 3, the corona Cn  Km admits an edge-magic labeling where
the set of vertex labels is {1, 2, . . . , |V |}. (See also [1158].)
Yegnanarayanan [1913] also introduces several variations of edge-magic labelings and
provides some results about them. Kotzig [1825] provides some necessary conditions for
graphs with an even number of edges in which every vertex has odd degree to have an
edge-magic total labeling. Craft and Tesar [469] proved that an r-regular graph with r odd
and p 4 (mod 8) vertices can not be edge-magic total. Wallis [1823] proved that if G is
an edge-magic total r-regular graph with p vertices and q edges where r = 2t s + 1 (t > 0)
and q is even, then 2t+2 divides p.
Kojima [930] proved the following. Let G be a C4 -free super edge-magic (p, q)-graph
with the minimum degree at least one and m 2. If q odd and m = 2 or |p q| 2, then
Pm G is C4 -supermagic; if p is odd and m = 2 or |p q| = 1 and m 5, then Pm G is
C4 -supermagic; if n 3 is odd and m is even, then P2 (Cn  Km ) is C4 -supermagic; if
n 3 is odd and m is odd, then P2 (Cn Km ) is not C4 -supermagic; if G is a caterpillar,
then Pm G is C4 -supermagic for m 2; and Pm Cn is C4 -supermagic for m 2 and
n 3. The latter result solved an open problem in [1244]. Kojma also proved that if a
C4 -free bipartite (p, p 1)-graph G with the minimum degree at least one and partite sets
U and V has a super edge-magic labeling f of G such that f (U ) = {1, 2, . . . , |U |}, then
Pm (2G) is C4 -supermagic.
Figueroa-Centeno, Ichishima, and Muntaner-Batle [562] have proved the following
graphs are edge-magic total: P4 nK2 for n odd; P3 nK2 ; P5 nK2 ; nPi for n odd
and i = 3, 4, 5; 2Pn ; P1 P2 Pn ; mK1,n ; Cm  nK1 ; K1  nK2 for n even;
W2n ; K2 K n , nK3 for n odd (the case nK3 for n even and larger than 2 is done
in [1176]); binary trees, generalized Petersen graphs (see also [1237]), ladders (see also
[1867]), books, fans, and odd cycles with pendent edges attached to one vertex.
In [568] Figueroa-Centeno, Ichishima, Muntaner-Batle, and Oshima, investigate super
edge-magic total labelings of graphs with two components. Among their results are:
C3 Cn is super edge-magic total if and only if n 6 and n is even; C4 Cn is super
edge-magic total if and only if n 5 and n is odd; C5 Cn is super edge-magic total if
and only if n 4 and n is even; if m is even with m 4 and n is odd with n m/2 + 2,
then Cm Cn is super edge-magic total; for m = 6, 8, or 10, Cm Cn is super edge-magic
total if and only if n 3 and n is odd; 2Cn is strongly felicitous if and only if n 4 and
n is even (the converse was proved by Lee, Schmeichel, and Shee in [1033]); C3 Pn is
super edge-magic total for n 6; C4 Pn is super edge-magic total if and only if n 6= 3;
C5 Pn is super edge-magic total for n 4; if m is even with m 4 and n m/2 + 2
then Cm Pn is super edge-magic total; Pm Pn is super edge-magic total if and only
(m, n) 6= (2, 2) or(3,3); and Pm Pn is edge-magic total if and only (m, n) 6= (2, 2).
Enomoto, Llado, Nakamigawa, and Ringel [534] conjecture that if G is a graph of
order n + m that contains Kn , then G is not edge-magic total for n  m. Wijaya and
Baskoro [1867] proved that Pm Cn is edge-magic total for odd n at least 3. Ngurah
and Baskoro [1237] state that P2 Cn is not edge-magic total. Hegde and Shetty [715]
have shown that every Tp -tree (see 4.4 for the definition) is edge-magic total. Ngurah,
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magic total labelings. In [1242] Ngurah, Baskoro, Tomescu, gave methods for construction
new (super) edge-magic total graphs from old ones by adding some new pendent edges.
They also proved that K1,m Pn m is super edge-magic total. Wallis [1823] proves that a
cycle with one pendent edge is edge-magic total. In [1823] Wallis poses a large number of
research problems about edge-magic total graphs.
For n 3, Lopez, Muntaner-Batle, and Rius-Font [1122] (see [1123] for (corrigendum) let Sn denote the set of all super edge-magic total 1-regular labeled digraphs of
order n where each vertex takes the name of the label that has been assigned to it. For
Sn . they define a generalization of generalized Petersen graphs that they denote
by GGP (n; ), which consists of an outer n-cycle x0 , x1 , . . . , xn1 , x0 , a set of n-spokes
xi yi , 0 i n 1, and n inner edges defined by yi y(i) , i = 0, . . . , n 1. Notice that, for
the permutation defined by (i) = i + k (mod n) we have GGP (n; ) = P (n; k). They
define a second generalization of generalized Petersen graphs, GGP (n; 2 , . . . , m ), as the
j
1
1
1
1
graphs with vertex sets m
j=1 {xi : i = 0, . . . , n 1}, an outer n-cycle x0 , x1 , . . . , xn1 , x0 ,
and inner edges xij1 xji and xji xjj (i) , for j = 2, . . . , m, and i = 0, . . . , n 1. Notice that,
GGP (n; 2 , . . . , m ) = Pm Cn , when j (i) = i + 1 (mod n) for every j = 2, . . . , m.
Among their results are the Petersen graphs are super edge-magic total; for each m with
1 < l m and 1 k 2, the graph GGP (5; 2 , . . . , m ), where i = 1 for i 6= l and
l = k , is super edge-magic total; for each 1 k 2, the graph P (5n; k + 5r) where r
is the smallest integer such that k + 5r = 1 (mod n) is super edge-magic total.
A w-graph, W (n), has vertices {(c1 , c2 , b, w, d) (x1 , x2 , . . . , xn ) (y 1 , y 2 , . . . , y n )} and
edges {(c1 x1 , c1 x2 , . . . , c1 xn ) (c2 y 1 , c2 y 2 , . . . , c2 y n ) (c1 b, c1 w) (c2 w, c2 d)}. A w-tree,
W T (n, k), is a tree obtained by taking k copies of a w-graph W (n) and a new vertex a
and joining a with in each copy d where n 2 and k 3. An extended w-tree Ewt(n, k, r)
is a tree obtained by taking k copies of an extended w-graph Ew(n, r) and a new vertex
a and joining a with the vertex d in each of the k copies for n 2, k 3 and r 2.
Super edge-magic total labelings for w-trees, extended w-trees, and disjoint unions of
extended w-trees are given in [784], [781], and [88]. Javaid, Hussain, Ali, and Shaker [785]
provided super edge-magic total labelings of subdivisions of K1,4 and w-trees. Shaker,
Rana, Zobair, and Hussain [1498] gave a super edge-magic total labeling for a subdivided
star with a center of degree at least 4.
In 1988 Godbod and Slater [647] made the following conjecture. If n is odd, n 6= 5,
Cn has an edge magic labeling with valence k, when (5n + 3)/2 k (7n + 3)/2. If n
is even, Cn has an edge-magic labeling with valence k when 5n/2 + 2 k 7n/2 + 1.
Except for small values of n, very few valences for edge-magic labelings of Cn are known.
In [1127] Lopez, Muntaner-Batle, and Rius-Font use the h -product in order to prove
the following two results. Let n = p1 1 p2 2 pk k be the unique prime factorization of an
P
odd number n. Then Cn admits at least 1 + ki=1 i edge-magic labelings with at least
P
1 + ki=1 i mutually different valences. Let n = 2 p1 1 p2 2 pk k be the unique prime
factorization
of an even number n, with p1P> p2 > > pk . Then Cn admits at least
Pk
k
mutually different valences. If 2
i=1 i edge-magic labelings with at least
Pk i=1 i
this lower bound can be improved to 1 + i=1 i .
In 1996 Erdos asked for M (n), the maximum number of edges that an edge-magic
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total graph of order n can have (see [469]). In 1999 Craft and Tesar [469] gave the bound
bn2 /4c M (n) bn(n 1)/2c. For large n this was improved by Pikhurko [1281] in
2006 to 2n2 /7 + O(n) M (n) (0.489 + + o(1)n2 ).
Enomoto, Llado, Nakamigawa, and Muntaner-Batle [534] proved that a super edgemagic total graph G(V, E) with |V | 4 and with girth at least 4 has at most 2|V | 5
edges. They prove this bound is tight for graphs with girth 4 and 5 in [534] and [760].
In his Ph.D. thesis, Barrientos [267] introduced the following notion. Let L1 , L2 , . . . , Lh
be ordered paths in the grid Pr Pt that are maximal straight segments such that the
end vertex of Li is the beginning vertex of Li+1 for i = 1, 2, . . . h 1. Suppose for some
i with 1 < i < h we have V (Li ) = {u0 , v0 } where u0 is the end vertex of Li1 and the
beginning vertex of Li and v0 is the end vertex of L1 and the beginning vertex of Li+1 . Let
u V (Li1 ) {u0 } and v V (Li+1 ) {v0 }. The replacement of the edge u0 v0 by a new
edge uv is called an elementary transformation of the path Pn . A tree is called a path-like
tree if it can be obtained from Pn by a sequence of elementary transformations on an
embedding of Pn in a 2-dimensional grid. In [220] Baca, Lin, and Muntaner-Batle proved
that if T1 , T2 , . . . , Tm are path-like trees each of order n 4 where m is odd and at least
3, then T1 T2 , Tm has a super edge-magic labeling. In [219] Baca, Lin, MuntanerBatle and Rius-Font proved that the number of such trees grows at least exponentially
with m. As an open problem Baca, Lin, Muntaner-Batle and Rius-Font ask if graphs of
the form T1 T2 Tm where T1 , T2 , . . . , Tm are path-like trees each of order n 2 and
m is even have a super edge-magic labeling. In [267] Barrientos proved that all path-like
trees admit an -valuation. Using Barrientoss result, it is very easy to obtain that all
path-like trees are a special kind of super edge-magic by using a super edge-magic labeling
of the path Pn , and hence they are also super edge-magic. Furthermore in [7] FigueroaCenteno at al. proved that if a tree is super edge-magic, then it is also harmonious.
Therefore all path-like trees are also harmonious. In [1119] Lopez, Muntaner-Batle, and
Rius-Font also use a variation of the Kronecker product of matrices in order to obtain
lower bounds for the number of non isomorphic super edge-magic labeling of some types
of path-like trees. As a corollary they obtain lower bounds for the number of harmonious
labelings of the same type of trees. Lopez, Muntaner-Batle, and Rius-Font [1128] proved
that if m 4 is an even integer and n 3 is an odd divisor of m, then Cm Cn is super
edge-magic
In [1121] Lopez, Muntaner-Batle and Rius-Font proved that every super edge-magic
graph with p vertices and q edges where q p 1 has an even harmonious labeling (See
Section 4.6.) In [1126] they stated some open problems concerning relationships among
super edge-magic labelings and graceful and harmonious labelings.
Marimuthu and Balakrishnan [1162] define a graph G(p, q) to be edge magic graceful if
there exists a bijection f from V (G) E(G) to {1, 2, . . . , p + q} such |f (u) + f (v) f (uv)|
is a constant for all edges uv of G. An edge magic graceful graph is said to be super edge
magic graceful if V (G) = {1, 2, . . . , p}. They present some properties of super edge magic
graceful graphs, prove some classes of graphs are super edge magic graceful, and prove
that every super edge magic graceful graph with either f (uv) > f (u) + f (v) for all edges
uv or f (uv) < f (u) + f (v) for all edges uv is sequential, harmonious, super edge magic
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and not graceful.

Let G = (V, E) be a (p, q)-linear forest. In [219] Baca, Lin, Muntaner-Batle, and RiusFont call a labeling f a strong super edge-magic labeling of G and G a strong super edgemagic graph if f : V E {1, 2, . . . , p+q} with the extra property that if uv E, u0 , v 0
V (G) and dG (u, u0 ) = dG (v, v 0 ) < +, then we have that f (u) + f (v) = f (u0 ) + f (v 0 ).
In [62] Ahmad, Lopez, Muntaner-Batle, and Rius-Font define the concept of strong super
edge-magic labeling of a graph with respect to a linear forest as follows. Let G = (V, E)
be a (p, q)-graph and let F be any linear forest contained in G. A strong super edgemagic labeling of G with respect to F is a super edge-magic labeling f of G with the extra
property with if uv E(F ), u0 , v 0 V (F ) and dF (u, u0 ) = dF (v, v 0 ) < + then we have
that f (u) + f (v) = f (u0 ) + f (v 0 ). If a graph G admits a strong super edge-magic labeling
with respect to some linear forest F , they say that G is a strong super edge-magic graph
with respect to F . They prove that if m is odd and G is an acyclic graph which is strong
super edge-magic with respect to a linear forest F , then mG is strong super edge-magic
with respect to F1 F2 Fm , where Fi ' F for i = 1, 2, . . . , m and every regular
caterpillar is strong super edge-magic with respect to its spine.
Noting that for a super edge-magic labeling f ofPa graph G with p vertices
Pp+q and q edges,
the magic constant k is given by the formula: k = ( uV deg(u)f (u)+ i=p+1 i)/q, Lopez,
Muntaner-Batle and Rius-Font [1120] define the set
)
(P
Pp+q
i=p+1 i
uV deg(u)g(u) +
p
: the function g : V {i}i=1 is bijective .
SG =
q
If dmin SG e bmax SG c then the super edge-magic interval of G is the set IG =
[dmin SG e, bmax SG c] N. The super edge-magic set of G is G = {k IG :
there exists a super edge-magic labeling of G with valence k}. Lopez et al. call a graph
G perfect super edge-magic if IG = G . They show that the family of paths Pn is a family
of perfect super edge-magic graphs with |IPn | = 1 if n is even and |IPn | = 2 if n is odd
and raise the question of whether there is an infinite family F1 , F2 , . . . of graphs such that
each member of the family is perfect super edge-magic and limi+ |IFi | = +. They
show that graphs G
= Cpk  Kn where p > 2 is a prime is such a family.
In [1121] Lopez et al. define the irregular crown C(n; j1 , j2 , . . . , jn ) = (V, E), where
n > 2 and ji 0 for all i {1, 2, . . . , n} as follows: V = {vi }ni=1 V1 V2 Vn ,
where Vk = {vk1 , vk2 , . . . , vkjk }, if jk 6= 0 and Vk = if jk = 0, for each k {1, 2, . . . , n}
n
l jk
n
and E = {vi vi+1 }n1
i=1 {v1 vn } (k=1,jk 6=0 {vk vk }l=1 ). In particular, they denote Cm =
C(m; j1 , j2 , . . . , jm ), where j2i1 = n, for each i with 1 i (m + 1)/2, and j2i = 0, for
each i, 1 i (m 1)/2. They prove that the graphs C3n and C5n are perfect edge-magic
for all n > 1.
Lopez et al. [1124] define Fk -family and Ek -family of graphs as follows. The infinite
family of graphs (F1 , F2 , . . . ) is an Fk -family if each element Fn admits exactly k different
valences for super edge-magic labelings, and limn+ |I(Fn )| = +. The infinite family
of graphs (F1 , F2 , . . . ) is an Ek -family if each element Fn admits exactly k different valences
for edge-magic labelings, and limn+ |J(Fn )| = +.
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An easy observation is that (K1,2 , K1,3 , . . . ) is an F2 -family and an E3 -family. They

pose the two problems: for which positive integers k is it possible to find Fk -families and
Ek -families? Their main results in [1124] are that an Fk -family exits for each k = 1, 2, 3;
and an Ek -family exits for each k = 3, 4 and 7.
McSorley and Trono [1180] define a relaxed version of edge-magic total labelings of
a graph as follows. An edge-magic injection of a graph G is an injection from the
set of vertices and edges of G to the natural numbers such that for every edge uv the
sum (u) + (v) + (uv) is some constant k . They investigate (G), the smallest k
among all edge-magic injections of a graph G. They determine (G) in the cases that
G is K2 , K3 , K5 , K6 (recall that these are the only complete graphs that have edge-magic
total labelings), a path, a cycle, or certain types of trees. They also show that every graph
has an edge-magic injection and give bounds for (Kn ).
Avadayappan, Vasuki, and Jeyanthi [133] define the edge-magic total strength of a
graph G as the minimum of all constants over all edge-magic total labelings of G. We
denote this by emt(G). They use the notation < K1,n : 2 > for the tree obtained from
the bistar Bn,n (the graph obtained by joining the center vertices of two copies of K1,n
with an edge) by subdividing the edge joining the two stars. They prove: emt(P2n ) =
5n+1; emt(P2n+1 ) = 5n+3; emt(< K1,n : 2 >) = 4n+9; emt(Bn,n ) = 5n+6; emt((2n+
1)P2 ) = 9n+6; emt(C2n+1 ) = 5n+4; emt(C2n ) = 5n+2; emt(K1,n ) = 2n+4; emt(Pn2 ) =
3n; and emt(Kn,m ) (m + 2)(n + 1) where n m. Using an analogous definition for
super edge-magic total strength, Swaninathan and Jeyanthi [1668], [1668], [1669] provide
results about the super edge-magic strength of trees, fire crackers, unicyclic graphs, and
generalized theta graphs. Ngurah, Simanjuntak, and Baskoro [1245] show that certain
subdivisions of the star K1,3 have super edge-magic total labelings. In [534] Enomoto,
Llado, Nakamigawa and Ringel conjectured that all trees have a super edge-magic total
labeling. Ichishima, Muntaner-Batle, and Rius-Font [759] have shown that any tree of
order p is contained in a tree of order at most 2p 3 that has a super edge-magic total
labeling.
In [219] Baca, Lin, Muntaner-Batle, and Rius-Font call a super edge-magic labeling f
of a linear forest G of order p and size q satisfying f : V (G)E(G) {1, 2, . . . , p+q} with
the additional property that if uv E(G), u0 v 0
/ E(G) and dG (u, u0 ) = dG (v, v 0 ) < ,
0
0
then f (u) + f (v) = f (u ) + f (v ) a strong super edge-magic labeling of G. They use
a generalization of the Kronecker product of matrices introduced by Figueroa-Centeno,
Ichishima, Muntaner-Batle, and Rius-Font [570] to obtain an exponential lower bound for
the number of non-isomorphic strong super edge-magic labelings of the graph mPn , for
m odd and any n, starting from the strong super edge-magic labeling of Pn . They prove
that the number of non-isomorphic strong super edge-magic labelings of the graph mPn ,
m
n 4, is at least 25 2b 2 c + 1 where m 3 is an odd positive integer. This result allows
them to generate S
an exponential number of non-isomorphic super edge-magic labelings
m
of the forest F
= j=1 Tj , where each Tj is a path-like tree of order n and m is an odd
integer.
Lopez, Muntaner-Batle, and Rius-Font [1118] introduced a generalization of super
edge-magic graphs called super edge-magic models and prove some results about them.
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Yegnanarayanan and Vaidhyanathan [1914] use the term nice (1, 1) edge-magic labeling
for a super edge-magic totalPlabeling. They prove: a super edge-magic total labeling f of
a (p, q)-graph G satisfies 2 vV (G) f (v)deg(v) 0 mod q; if G is (p, q) r-regular graph
(r > 1) with a super edge-magic total labeling then q is odd and the magic constant is
(4p + q + 3)/2; every super edge-magic total labeling has at least two vertices of degree
less than 4; fans Pn + K1 are edge-magic total for all n and super edge-magic total if and
only if n is at most 6; books Bn are edge-magic total for all n; a super edge-magic total
(p, q)-graph with q p is sequential; a super edge-magic total tree is sequential; and a
super edge-magic total tree is cordial.
In [1913] Yegnanarayanan conjectured that the disjoint union of 2t copies of P3 , t 1,
has a (1, 1) edge-magic labeling posed the problem of determining the values of m and n
such that mPn has a (1, 1) edge-magic labeling Manickam and Marudai [1158] proved the
the conjectures and partially settle the open problem.
Hegde and Shetty [721] (see also [720]) define the maximum magic strength of a graph G
as the maximum magic constant over all edge-magic total labelings of G. We use eM t(G)
to denote the maximum magic strength of G. Hegde and Shetty call a graph G with p
vertices strong magic if eM t(G) = emt(G); ideal magic if 1 eM t(G) emt(G) p; and
weak magic if eM t(G) emt(G) > p. They prove that for an edge-magic total graph G
with p vertices and q edges, eM t(G) = 3(p + q + 1) emt(G). Using this result they
obtain: Pn is ideal magic for n > 2; K1,1 is strong magic; K1,2 and K1,3 are ideal magic;
and K1,n is weak magic for n > 3; Bn,n is ideal magic; (2n + 1)P2 is strong magic; cycles
are ideal magic; and the generalized web W (t, 3) (see 2.2 for the definition) with the
central vertex deleted is weak magic.
Santhosh [1407] has shown that for n odd and at least 3, eM t(Cn  P2 ) = (27n + 3)/2
and for n odd and at least 3, (39n + 3)/2 eM t(Cn  P2 ) (40n + 3)/2. Moreover, he
proved that for n odd and at least 3 both Cn  P2 and Cn  P3 are weak magic. In [437]
Chopra and Lee provide an number of families of super edge-magic graphs that are weak
magic.
In [1221] Murugan introduces the notions of almost-magic labeling, relaxed-magic labeling, almost-magic strength, and relaxed-magic strength of a graph. He determines the
magic strength of Huffman trees and twigs of odd order and the almost-magic strength of
nP2 (n is even) and twigs of even order. Also, he obtains a bound on the magic strength
of the path-union Pn (m) and on the relaxed-magic strength of kSn and kPn .
Enomoto, Llado, Nakamigawa, and Ringel [534] call an edge-magic total labeling super
edge-magic if the set of vertex labels is {1, 2, . . . , |V |} (Wallis [1823] calls these labelings
strongly edge-magic). They prove the following: Cn is super edge-magic if and only if n
is odd; caterpillars are super edge-magic; Km,n is super edge-magic if and only if m = 1
or n = 1; and Kn is super edge-magic if and only if n = 1, 2, or 3. They also prove that
if a graph with p vertices and q edges is super edge-magic then, q 2p 3. In [1150]
MacDougall and Wallis study super edge-magic (p, q)-graphs where q = 2p 3. Enomoto
et al. [534] conjecture that every tree is super edge-magic. Lee and Shan [1041] have
verified this conjecture for trees with up to 17 vertices with a computer. Fukuchi, and
Oshima, [595] have shown that if T is a tree of order n 2 such that T has diameter
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greater than or equal to n 5, then T has a super edge-magic labeling.

Various classes of banana trees that have super edge-magic total labelings have been
found by Swaminathan and Jeyanthi [1668] and Hussain, Baskoro, and Slamin [755]. In
[46] Ahmad, Ali, and Baskoro [46] investigate the existence of super edge-magic labelings
of subdivisions of banana trees and disjoint unions of banana trees. They pose three open
problems.
Kotzig and Rosas ([945] and [946]) proof that nK2 is edge-magic total when n is
odd actually shows that it is super edge-magic. Kotzig and Rosa also prove that every
caterpillar is super-edge magic. Figueroa-Centeno, Ichishima, and Muntaner-Batle prove
the following: if G is a bipartite or tripartite (super) edge-magic graph, then nG is (super)
edge-magic when n is odd [565]; if m is a multiple of n + 1, then K1,m K1,n is super edgemagic [565]; K1,2 K1,n is super edge-magic if and only if n is a multiple of 3; K1,m K1,n
is edge-magic if and only if mn is even [565]; K1,3 K1,n is super edge-magic if and only
if n is a multiple of 4 [565]; Pm K1,n is super edge-magic when m 4 [565]; 2Pn is super
edge-magic if and only if n is not 2 or 3; K1,m 2nK2 is super edge-magic for all m and n
[565]; C3 Cn is super edge-magic if and only if n 6 and n is even [568] (see also [664]);
C4 Cn is super edge-magic if and only if n 5 and n is odd [568] (see also [664]); C5 Cn
is super edge-magic if and only if n 4 and n is even [568]; if m is even and at least 6
and n is odd and satisfies n m/2 + 2, then Cm Cn is super edge-magic [568]; C4 Pn
is super edge-magic if and only if n 6= 3 [568]; C5 Pn is super edge-magic if n 4 [568];
if m is even and at least 6 and n m/2 + 2, then Cm Pn is super edge-magic [568];
and Pm Pn is super edge-magic if and only if (m, n) 6= (2, 2) or (3,3) [568]. They [565]
conjecture that K1,m K1,n is super edge-magic only when m is a multiple of n + 1 and
they prove that if G is a super edge-magic graph with p vertices and q edges with p 4
and q 2p 4, then G contains triangles. In [568] Figueroa-Centeno et al. conjecture
that Cm Cn is super edge-magic if and only if m + n 9 and m + n is odd.
In [594] Fukuchi and Oshima describe a construction of super-edge-magic labelings of
some families of trees with diameter 4. Salman, Ngurah, and Izzati [1397] use Snm (n 3)
to denote the graph obtained by inserting m vertices in every edge of the star Sn . They
prove that Snm is super edge-magic when m = 1 or 2.
In [1129] Lopez, Muntaner-Batle, and Ruis-Font introduce a new construction for
super edge-magic labelings of 2-regular graphs which allows loops and is related to the
knight jump in the game of chess. They also study the super edge-magic properties of
cycles with cords.
Muntaner-Batle calls a bipartite graph with partite sets V1 and V2 special super edgemagic if is has a super edge-magic total labeling f with the property that f (V1 ) =
{1, 2, . . . , |V1 |}. He proves that a tree has a special super edge-magic labeling if and
only if it has an -labeling (see 3.1 for the definition). Figueroa-Centeno, Ichishima,
Muntaner-Batle, and Rius-Font [570] use matrices to generate edge-magic total labeling
and define the concept of super edge-magic total labelings for digraphs. They prove that
if G is a graph with a super edge-magic total labeling then for every natural number d
there exists a natural number k such that G has a (k, d)-arithmetic labeling (see 4.2 for
the definition). In [981] Lee and Lee prove that a graph is super edge-magic if and only
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if it is (k, 1)-strongly indexable (see 4.3 for the definition of (k, d)-strongly indexable
graphs). They also provide a way to construct (k, d)-strongly indexable graphs from two
given (k, d)-strongly indexable graphs. This allows them to obtain several existing results
about super edge-magic graphs as special cases of their constructions. Acharya and Germina [19] proved that the class of strongly indexable graphs is a proper subclass of super
edge-magic graphs.
In [756] Ichishima, Lopez, Muntaner-Batle and Rius-Font show how one can use the
product h of super edge-magic 1-regular labeled digraphs and digraphs with harmonious,
or sequential labelings to create new undirected graphs that have harmonious, sequential
labelings or partitional labelings (see 4.1 for the definition). They define the product

h as follows. Let D = (V, E) be a digraph with adjacency matrix A( D ) = (aij ) and

0
let = {Fi }m
i=1 be a family of m digraphs all with the same set of vertices V . Assume
that h : E is any function that assigns elements of to the arcs of D. Then the

digraph D h is defined by V (D h ) = V V 0 and ((a1 , b1 ), (a2 , b2 )) E(D h )

[(a1 , a2 ) E(D)(b1 , b2 ) E(h(a1 , a2 ))]. An alternative way of defining the same product

is through adjacency matrices, since one can obtain the adjacency matrix of D h as
follows: if aij = 0 then aij is multiplied by the p0 p0 0-square matrix, where p0 = |V 0 |.
If aij = 1 then aij is multiplied by A(h(i, j)) where A(h(i, j)) is the adjacency matrix of

the digraph h(i, j). They prove the following. Let D = (V, E) be a harmonious (p, q)digraph with p q and let h be any function from E to the set of all super edge-magic
1-regular labeled digraphs of order n, which we denote by Sn . Then the undirected graph

und( D h Sn ) is harmonious. Let D = (V, E) be a sequential digraph and let h : E Sn

be any function. Then und( D h Sn ) is sequential. Let D be a partitional graph and let

h : E Sn be any function, where D = (V, E) is the digraph obtained by orienting all

edges from one stable set to the other one. Then und( D h Sn ) is partitional.
In [1125] Lopez, Muntaner-Batle and Rius-Font introduce the concept of {Hi }iI -super
edge-magic decomposable as follows: Let G = (V, E) be any graph and let {Hi }iI be a
set of graphs such that G = iI Hi (that is, G decomposes into the graphs in the set
{Hi }iI ). Then we say that G is {Hi }iI -super edge-magic decomposable if there is a
bijection : V [1, |V |] such that for each i I the subgraph Hi meets the following
two requirements: (i) (V (Hi )) = [1, |V (Hi )|] and (ii) {(a) + (b) : ab E(Hi )} is a
set of consecutive integers. Such function is called an {Hi }iI -super edge-magic labeling
of G. When Hi = H for every i I we just use the notation H-super edge-magic
decomposable labeling.
Among their results are the following. Let G = (V, E) be a (p, q)-graph which is
{H1 , H2 }-super edge-magic decomposable for a pair of graphs H1 and H2 . Then G is
super edge-bimagic; Let n be an even integer. Then the cycle Cn is (n/2)K2 -super edgemagic decomposable if and only if n 2 (mod 4). Let n be odd. Then for any super
edge-magic tree T there exists a bipartite connected graph G = G(T, n) such that G is
(nT )-super edge-magic decomposable. Let G be a {Hi }iI -super edge magic decomposable

graph, where Hi is an acyclic digraph for each i I. Assume that G is any orientation of

G and h : E( G ) Sp is any function. Then und( G h Sp ) is {pHi }iI -super edge magic
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decomposable.
As a corollary of the last result they have that if G is a 2-regular, (1-factor)-super

edge-magic decomposable graph and G is any orientation of G and h : E( G ) Sp is

any function, then und( G h Sp ) is a 2-regular, (1-factor)-super edge-magic decomposable

graph. Moreover, if we denote the 1-factor of G by F then pF is the 1-factor of und( G h

Sp ).
They pose the following two open questions: Fix p N. Find the maximum r N such
that there is a r-regular graph of order p which is (p/2)K2 -super edge-magic decomposable:
and characterize the set of 2-regular graphs of order n, n 2 (mod 4), such that each
component has even order and admits an (n/2)K2 -super edge-magic decomposition.
In connection to open question 1 they prove: For all r N, there is n N such that
there exists a k-regular bipartite graph B(n), with k > r and |V (B(n))| = 2 3n , such
that B(n) is (3n K2 )-super edge-magic decomposable.
Avadayappan, Jeyanthi, and Vasuki [132] define the super magic strength of a graph G
as sm(G) = min{s(L)} where L runs over all super edge-magic labelings of G. They use
the notation < K1,n : 2 > for the tree obtained from the bistar Bn,n (the graph obtained
by joining the center vertices of two copies of K1,n with an edge) by subdividing the
edge joining the two stars. They prove: sm(P2n ) = 5n + 1; sm(P2n+1 ) = 5n + 3; sm(<
K1,n : 2 >) = 4n + 9; sm(Bn,n ) = 5n + 6; sm((2n + 1)P2 ) = 9n + 6; sm(C2n+1 ) =
5n + 4; emt(C2n ) = 5n + 2; sm(K1,n ) = 2n + 4; and sm(Pn2 ) = 3n. Note that in each
case the super magic strength of the graph is the same as its magic strength.
Santhosh and Singh [1406] proved that Cn  P2 and Cn  P3 are super edge-magic for
all odd n 3 and prove for odd n 3, sm(Cn  P2 ) = (15n + 3)/2 and (20n + 3)
sm(Cn  P3 ) (21n + 3)/2.
In his Ph.D. thesis [665] Gray proves that C3 Cn is super edge-magic if and only if
n 6 and C4 Cn is super edge-magic if and only if n 5. His computer search shows
that C5 2C3 does not have a super edge-magic labeling.
In [1823] Wallis posed the problem of investigating the edge-magic properties of Cn
with the path of length t attached to one vertex. Kim and Park [914] call such a graph an
(n, t)-kite. They prove that an (n, 1)-kite is super edge-magic if and only if n is odd and
an (n, 3)-kite is super edge-magic if and only if n is odd and at least 5. Park, Choi, and
Bae [1264] show that (n, 2)-kite is super edge-magic if and only if n is even. Wallis [1823]
also posed the problem of determining when K2 Cn is super edge-magic. In [1264] and
[914] Park et al. prove that K2 Cn is super edge-magic if and only if n is even. Kim
and Park [914] show that the graph obtained by attaching a pendent edge to a vertex of
degree one of a star is super-edge magic and that a super edge-magic graph with edge
magic constant k and q edges satisfies q 2k/3 3.
Lee and Kong [999] use St(a1 , a2 , . . . , an ) to denote the disjoint union of the n stars
St(a1 ), St(a2 ), . . . , St(an ). They prove the following graphs are super edge-magic:
St(m, n) where n 0 mod(m+1); St(1, 1, n); St(1, 2, n); St(1, n, n); St(2, 2, n); St(2, 3, n);
St(1, 1, 2, n) (n 2); St(1, 1, 3, n); St(1, 2, 2, n); and St(2, 2, 2, n). They conjecture that
St(a1 , a2 , . . . , an ) is super edge-magic when n > 1 is odd. Gao and Fan [612] proved
that St(1, m, n); St(3, m, m + 1); and St(n, n + 1, n + 2) are super edge-magic, and under
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certain conditions St(a1 , a2 , . . . , a2n+1 ), St(a1 , a2 , . . . , a4n+1 ), and St(a1 , a2 , . . . , a4n+3 ) are
also super edge magic.
In [1149] MacDougall and Wallis investigate the existence of super edge-magic labelings
of cycles with a chord. They use Cvt to denote the graph obtained from Cv by joining
t
two vertices that are distance t apart in Cv . They prove: C4m+1
(m 3) has a super
t
edge-magic labeling for every t except 4m 4 and 4m 8; C4m (m 3) has a super
t
edge-magic labeling when t 2 mod 4; and that C4m+2
(m > 1) has a super edge-magic
labeling for all odd t other than 5, and for t = 2 and 6. They pose the problem of what
t
have a super edge-magic labeling.
values of t does C2n
Enomoto, Masuda, and Nakamigawa [535] have proved that every graph can be embedded in a connected super edge-magic graph as an induced subgraph. Slamin, Baca,
Lin, Miller, Simanjuntak [1574] proved that the friendship graph consisting of n triangles
is super edge-magic if and only if n is 3, 4, 5 or 7. Fukuchi proved [592] the generalized
Petersen graph P (n, 2) (see 2.7 for the definition) is super edge-magic if n is odd and at
least 3 while Xu, Yang, Xi, Haque, and Shen [1892] showed that P (n, 3) is super edgemagic for odd n is odd and at least 5. Baskoro and Ngurah [288] showed that nP3 is super
edge-magic for n 4 and n even.
Hegde and Shetty [724] showed that a graph is super edge-magic if and only if it
is strongly k-indexable (see 4.1 for the definition). Figueroa-Centeno, Ichishima, and
Muntaner-Batle [561] proved that a graph is super edge-magic if and only if it is strongly
1-harmonious and that every super edge-magic graph is cordial. They also proved that
Pn2 and K2 C2n+1 are super edge-magic. In [562] Figueroa-Centeno et al. show that the
following graphs are super edge-magic: P3 kP2 for all k; kPn when k is odd; k(P2 Pn )
when k is odd and n = 3 or n = 4; and fans Fn if and only if n 6. They conjecture that
kP2 is not super edge-magic when k is even. This conjecture has been proved by Z. Chen
[425] who showed that kP2 is super edge-magic if and only if k is odd. Figueroa-Centeno
et al. proved that the book Bn is not super edge-magic when n 1, 3, 7 (mod 8) and
when n = 4. They proved that Bn is super edge-magic for n = 2 and 5 and conjectured
that for every n 5, Bn is super edge-magic if and only if n is even or n 5(mod) 8.
Yuansheng, Yue, Xirong, and Xinhong [1939] proved this conjecture for the case that n
is even. They prove that every tree with an -labeling is super edge-magic. Yokomura
(see [534]) has shown that P2m+1 P2 and C2m+1 Pm are super edge-magic (see also
[561]). In [563], Figueroa-Centeno et al. proved that if G is a (super) edge-magic 2-regular
graph, then GK n is (super) edge-magic and that Cm K n is super edge-magic. Fukuchi
[591] shows how to recursively create super edge-magic trees from certain kinds of existing
super edge-magic trees. Ngurah, Baskoro, and Simanjuntak [1241] provide a method for
constructing new (super) edge-magic graphs from existing ones. One of their results is
that if G has an edge-magic total labeling and G has order p and size p or p 1, then
G  nK1 has an edge-magic total labeling.
Ichishima, Muntaner-Batle, Oshima [757] enlarged the classes of super edge-magic
2-regular graphs by presenting some constructions that generate large classes of super
edge-magic 2-regular graphs from previously known super edge-magic 2-regular graphs or
pseudo super edge-magic graphs. By virtue of known relationships among other classes
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of labelings the 2-regular graphs obtained from their constructions are also harmonious,
sequential, felicitous and equitable. Their results add credence to the conjecture of Holden
et al. [737] that all 2-regular graphs of odd order with the exceptions of C3 C4 , 3C3 C4 ,
and 2C3 C5 possess a strong vertex-magic total labeling, which is equivalent to super
edge-magic labelings for 2-regular graphs.
Lee and Lee [1002] investigate the existence of total edge-magic labelings and super
edge-magic labelings of unicylic graphs. They obtain a variety of positive and negative
results and conjecture that all unicyclic are edge-magic total.
Shiu and Lee [1522] investigated edge labelings of multigraphs. Given a multigraph
G with q edges they call a bijection from the set of edges of G to {1, 2, . . . , q} with the
property that for each vertex v the sum of all edge labels incident to v is a constant
independent of v a supermagic labeling of G. They use K2 [n] to denote the multigraph
consisting of n edges joining 2 vertices and mK2 [n] to denote the disjoint union of m
copies of K2 [n]. They prove that for m and n at least 2, mK2 [n] is supermagic if and
only if n is even or if both m and n are odd.
In 1970 Kotzig and Rosa [945] defined the edge-magic deficiency, (G), of a graph G
as the minimum n such that G nK1 is edge-magic total. If no such n exists they define
(G) = . In 1999 Figueroa-Centeno, Ichishima, and Muntaner-Batle [567] extended
this notion to super edge-magic deficiency, s (G), is the analogous way. They prove the
following: s (nK2 ) = (nK2 ) = n1 (mod 2); s (Cn ) = 0 if n is odd; s (Cn ) = 1 if n 0
(mod 4); s (Cn ) = if n 2 (mod 4); s (Kn ) = if and only if n 5; s (Km,n )
(m 1)(n 1); s (K2,n ) = n 1; and s (F ) is finite for all forests F . They also prove
that if a graph G has q edges with q/2 odd, and every vertex is even, then s (G) =
and conjecture that s (Km,n ) (m 1)(n 1). This conjecture was proved for m = 3, 4,
and 5 by Hegde, Shetty, and Shankaran [725] using the notion of strongly k-indexable
labelings.
For an (n, t)-kite graph (a path of length t attached to a vertex of an n-cycle) G
Ahmad, Siddiqui, Nadeem, and Imran [64] proved the following: for odd n 5 and even
t 4, s (G) = 1; for odd n 5 t 5, t 6= 11, and t 3, 7 (mod 8), s (G) 1; for
n 10, n 2 (mod 4) and t = 4, s (G) 1; and for t = 5, s (G) = 1.
In [241] Baig, Ahmad, Baskoro, and Simanjuntak provide an upper bound for the
super edge-magic deficiency of a forest formed by paths, stars, combs, banana trees, and
subdivisions of K1,3 . Baig, Baskoro, and Semanicova-Fe
novckova [242] investigate the
super edge-magic deficiency of forests consisting of stars. Among their results are: a
forest consisting of k 3 stars has super edge-magic deficiency at most k 2; for every
positive integer n a forest consisting of 4 stars with exactly 1, n, n, and n + 2 leaves has a
super edge-magic total labeling; for every positive integer n a forest consisting of 4 stars
with exactly 1, n + 5, 2n + 6, and n + 1 leaves has a super edge-magic total labeling;
and for every positive integers n and k a forest consisting of k identical stars has super
edge-magic deficiency at most 1 when k is even and deficiency 0 when k is odd. In [61]
Ahmad, Javaid, Nadeem, and Hasni investigate the super edge-magic deficiency of some
families of graphs related to ladder graphs.
The generalized Jahangir graph Jn,m for m 3 is a graph on nm+1 vertices, consisting
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of a cycle Cnm with one additional vertex that is adjacent to m vertices of Cnm at distance
n to each other on Cnm . In [243] Baig, Imran, Javaid, and Semanicova-Fe
novcikova study
the super edge-magic deficiencies of the web graph W bn,m , the generalized Jahangir graph
J2,n , crown products Ln  K1 , K4  nK1 and gave the exact value of super edge-magic
deficiency for one class of lobsters.
In [566] Figueroa-Centeno, Ichishima, and Muntaner-Batle proved that s (Pm
K1,n ) = 1 if m = 2 and n is odd, or m = 3 and n is not congruent to 0 mod 3, whereas
in all other cases s (Pm K1,n ) = 0. They also proved that s (2K1,n ) = 1 when n is odd
and s (2K1,n ) 1 when n is even. They conjecture that s (2K1,n ) = 1 in all cases. Other
results in [566] are: s (Pm Pn ) = 1 when (m, n) = (2, 2) or (3, 3) and s (Pm Pn ) = 0 in
all other cases; s (K1,m K1,n ) = 0 when mn is even and s (K1,m K1,n ) = 1 when mn is
odd; (Pm K1,n ) = 1 when m = 2 and n is odd and (Pm K1,n ) = 0 in all other cases;
(Pm Pn ) = 1 when (m, n) = (2, 2) and (Pm Pn ) = 0 in all other cases; s (2Cn ) = 1
when n is even and when n is odd; s (3Cn ) = 0 when n is odd; s (3Cn ) = 1 when
n 0 (mod 4); s (3Cn ) = when n 2 (mod 4); and s (4Cn ) = 1 when n 0 (mod 4).
They conjecture the following: s (mCn ) = 0 when mn is odd; s (mCn ) = 1 when mn 0
(mod 4); s (mCn ) = when mn 2 (mod 4); s (2K1,n ) = 1; and if F is a forest with
two components, then (F ) 1 and s (F ) 1. Santhosh and Singh [1405] proved: for
n odd at least 3, s (K2  Cn ) (n 3)/2; for n > 1, 1 s (Pn [P2 ]) = d(n 1)/2e; and
for n 1, 1 s (Pn K4 ) n.
Ichishima and Oshima [764] prove the following: if a graph G(V, E) has an -labeling
and no isolated vertices, then s (G) |E| |V | + 1; if a graph G(V, E) has an -labeling,
is not sequential, and has no isolated vertices, then s (G) = |E| |V | + 1; and, if m is
even, then s (mK1,n ) 1. As corollaries of the last result they have: s (2K1,n ) = 1; when
m 2 (mod 4) and n is odd, s (mK1,n ) = 1; s (mK1,3 ) = 0 when m 4 (mod 8) or m
is odd; s (mK1,3 ) = 1 when m 2 (mod 4); s (mK2,2 ) = 1; for n 4, (n 4)2n2 + 3
s (Qn ) (n 2)2n1 4; and for s 2 and t 2, s (mKs,t ) m(st s t) + 1. They
conjecture that for s 2 and t 2, s (mKs,t ) = m(st s t) + 1 and pose as a problem
determining the exact value of s (Qn ).
Ichishima and Oshima [762] determined the super edge-magic deficiency of graphs of
the form Cm Cn for m and n even and for arbitrary n when m = 3, 4, 5, and 7. They
state a conjecture for the super edge-magic deficiency of Cm Cn in the general case.
A block of a graph is a maximal subgraph with no cut-vertex. The block-cut-vertex
graph of a graph G is a graph H whose vertices are the blocks and cut-vertices in G; two
vertices are adjacent in H if and only if one vertex is a block in G and the other is a cutvertex in G belonging to the block. A chain graph is a graph with blocks B1 , B2 , B3 , . . . , Bk
such that for every i, Bi and Bi+1 have a common vertex in such a way that the blockcut-vertex graph is a path. The chain graph with k blocks where each block is identical
and isomorphic to the complete graph Kn is called the kKn -path.
Ngurah, Baskoro, and Simanjuntak [1240] investigate the exact values of s (kKn -path)
when n = 2 or 4 for all values of k and when n = 3 for k 0, 1, 2 (mod 4), and give an
upper bound for k 3 (mod 4). They determine the exact super edge-magic deficiencies
for fans, double fans, wheels of small order and provide upper and lower bounds for the
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general case as well as bounds for some complete partite graphs. They also include some
open problems. Lee and Wang [1060] show that various chain graphs with blocks that are
complete graphs are super edge-magic. In [60] investigate the super edge-magic deficiency
of some kites and Cn K2 .
Figueroa-Centeno and Ichishima [559] introduce the notion of the sequential number
(G) of a graph G without isolated vertices to be either the smallest positive integer
n for which it is possible to label the vertices of G with distinct elements from the set
{0, 1, . . . , n} in such a way that each uv E(G) is labeled f (u) + f (v) and the resulting
edge labels are |E(G)| consecutive integers or + if there exists no such integer n.
They prove that (G) = s (G) + |V (G)| 1 for any graph G without isolated vertices,
and (Km,n) = mn, which settles the conjecture of Figueroa-Centeno, Ichishima, and
Muntaner-Batle [567] that s (Km,n ) = (m 1)(n 1).
Z. Chen [425] has proved: the join of K1 with any subgraph of a star is super edgemagic; the join of two nontrivial graphs is super edge-magic if and only if at least one of
them has exactly two vertices and their union has exactly one edge; and if a k-regular graph
is super edge-magic, then k 3. Chen also obtained the following: there is a connected
super edge-magic graph with p vertices and q edges if and only if p 1 q 2p 3;
there is a connected 3-regular super edge-magic graph with p vertices if and only if p 2
(mod 4); and if G is a k-regular edge-magic total graph with p vertices and q edges then
(p + q)(1 + p + q) 0 (mod 2d) where d = gcd(k 1, q). As a corollary of the last result,
Chen observes that nK2 + nK2 is not edge-magic total.
Another labeling that has been called edge-magic was introduced by Lee, Seah, and
Tan in 1992 [1039]. They defined a graph G = (V, E) to be edge-magic if there exists
a bijection fP
: E {1, 2, . . . , |E|} such that the induced mapping f + : V N defined
by f + (u) = (u,v)E f (u, v) (mod |V |) is a constant map. Lee (see [1027]) conjectured
that a cubic graph with p vertices is edge-magic if and only if p 2 (mod 4). Lee,
Pigg, and Cox [1027] verified this conjecture for prisms and several other classes of cubic
graphs. They also show that Cn K2 is edge-magic if and only if n is odd. Shiu and Lee
[1522] showed that the conjecture is not true for multigraphs and disconnected graphs. In
[1522] Lees conjecture was modified by restricting it to simple connected cubic graphs.
A computer search by Lee, Wang, and Wen [1063] showed that the new conjecture was
false for a graph of order 10. Using different methods, Shiu [1509] and Lee, Su, and Wang
[1049] gave proofs that it is was false.
Lee, Seah, and Tan [1039] establish that a necessary condition for a multigraph with
p vertices and q edges to be edge-magic is that p divides q(q + 1) and they exhibit several
new classes of cubic edge-magic graphs. They also proved: Kn,n (n 3) is edge-magic
and Kn is edge-magic for n 1, 2 (mod 4) and for n 3 (mod 4) (n 7). Lee, Seah,
and Tan further proved that following graphs are not edge-magic: all trees except P2 ; all
unicyclic graphs; and Kn where n 0 (mod 4). Schaffer and Lee [1412] have proved that
Cm Cn is always edge-magic. Lee, Tong, and Seah [1054] have conjectured that the total
graph of a (p, p)-graph is edge-magic if and only if p is odd. They prove this conjecture
for cycles. Lee, Kitagaki, Young, and Kocay [998] proved that a maximal outerplanar
graph with p vertices is edge-magic if and only if p = 6. Shiu [1508] used matrices with
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special properties to prove that the composition of Pn with Kn and the composition of
Pn with Kkn where kn is odd and n is at least 3 have edge-magic labelings.
Chopra, Dios, and Lee [436] investigated the edge-magicness of joins of graphs. Among
their results are: K2,m is edge-magic if and only if m = 4 or 10; the only possible edgemagic graphs of the form K3,m are those with m = 3, 5, 6, 15, 33, and 69; for any fixed m
there are only finitely many n such that Km,n is edge-magic; for any fixed m there are only
finitely many trees T such that T + Km is edge-magic; and wheels are not edge-magic.
Lee, Ho, Tan, and Su [997] define the edge-magic index of a graph G to be the smallest
positive integer k such that the graph kG is edge-magic. They completely determined the
edge-magic indices of graphs which are stars.
For any graph G and any positive integer k the graph G[k], called the k-fold G, is
the hypergraph obtained from G by replacing each edge of G with k parallel edges. Lee,
Seah, and Tan [1039] proved that for any graph G with p vertices, G[2p] is edge-magic
and, if p is odd, G[p] is edge-magic. Shiu, Lam, and Lee [1520] show that if G is an
(n + 1, n)-multigraph, then G is edge-magic if and only if n is odd and G is isomorphic
to the disjoint union of K2 and (n 1)/2 copies of K2 [2]. They also prove that if G is a
(2m + 1, 2m)-multigraph and k 2, then G[k] is edge-magic if and only if 2m + 1 divides
k(k 1). For a (2m, 2m 1)-multigraph G and k at least 2, they show that G[k] is edgemagic if 4m divides (2m 1)k((2m 1)k + 1) or if 4m divides (2m + k 1)k. In [1518]
Shiu, Lam, and Lee characterize the (p, p)-multigraphs that are edge-magic as mK2 [2]
or the disjoint union of mK2 [2] and two particular multigraphs or the disjoint union of
K2 , mK2 [2], and four particular multigraphs. They also show for every (2m + 1, 2m + 1)multigraph G, G[k] is edge-magic for all k at least 2. Lee, Seah, and Tan [1039] prove
that the multigraph Cn [k] is edge-magic for k 2.
Tables 6 and 7 summarize what is known about edge-magic total labelings and super
edge-magic total labelings. We use SEM to indicate the graphs have super edge-magic
total labelings and EMT to indicate the graphs have edge-magic total labelings. A
question mark following SEM or EMT indicates that the graph is conjectured to have the
corresponding property. The tables were prepared by Petr Kovar and Tereza Kovarova.

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Table 6: Summary of Edge-magic Total Labelings

Graph
Pn

Types
EMT

Notes
[1827]

trees

EMT?

[946], [1361]

Cn

EMT

for n 3 [945], [647], [1369], [307]

Kn

EMT

iff n = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 [946], [469], [534]

enumeration of all EMT of Kn [1827]

Km,n

EMT

[1827], [945]

crowns Cn  K1

EMT

[1913], [1827]

Cn with a single edge

attached to one vertex

EMT

[1827]

wheels Wn

EMT

iff n 6 3 (mod 4) [534], [593]

fans

EMT

[1574], [561], [562]

(p, q)-graph
nP2

not EMT
EMT

if q even and p + q 2 (mod 4) [1361]

iff n odd [945]

Pn + K 1

EMT

[1913]

r-regular graph

not EMT

r odd and p 4 (mod 8) [469]

P3 nK2 and P5 nK2

EMT

[561], [562]

P4 nK2

EMT

n odd [561], [562]

nPi

EMT

n odd, i = 3, 4, 5 [1913] [561], [562]

nP3

EMT?

[1913]

2Pn

EMT

[561], [562]

P1 P2 Pn

EMT

[561], [562]

Continued on next page

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Table 6 Continued from previous page

Graph
Types
mK1,n
EMT

Notes
[561], [562]

unicylic graphs
K1  nK2

EMT?
EMT

[1002]
n even [561], [562]

K2 K n

EMT

[561], [562]

nK3

EMT

iff n 6= 2 odd [561], [562], [1176]

binary trees

EMT

[561], [562]

P (m, n) (generalized
Petersen graph see 2.7)

EMT

[561], [562], [1237]

ladders

EMT

[561], [562]

books

EMT

[561], [562]

odd cycle with pendent edges

attached to one vertex

EMT

[561], [562]

Pm C n

EMT

n odd n 3 [1867]

Pm P2

EMT

m odd m 3 [1867]

K1,m K1,n

EMT

iff mn is even [565]

G  Kn

EMT

if G is EMT 2-regular graph [563]

Table 7: Summary of Super Edge-magic Labelings

Graph
Cn

Types
SEM

Notes
iff n is odd [534]

caterpillars

SEM

[534], [945], [946]

Km,n

SEM

iff m = 1 or n = 1 [534]

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Table 7 Continued from previous page

Graph
Types
Kn
SEM

Notes
iff n = 1, 2 or 3 [534]

trees

SEM?

[534]

nK2

SEM

iff n odd [425]

nG

SEM

if G is a bipartite or tripartite
SEM graph and n odd [565]

K1,m K1,n

SEM

if m is a multiple of n + 1 [565]

K1,m K1,n

SEM?

iff m is a multiple of n + 1 [565]

K1,2 K1,n

SEM

iff n is a multiple of 3 [565]

K1,3 K1,n

SEM

iff n is a multiple of 4 [565]

Pm K1,n

SEM

if m 4 is even [565]

2Pn

SEM

iff n is not 2 or 3 [565]

2P4n

SEM

for all n [565]

K1,m 2nK1,2

SEM

for all m and n [565]

C3 Cn

SEM

iff n 6 even [568], [664]

C4 Cn

SEM

iff n 5 odd [568], [664]

C5 Cn

SEM

iff n 4 even [568]

Cm Cn

SEM

if m 6 even and n odd n m/2 + 2 [568]

Cm Cn
C4 P n

SEM?
SEM

iff m + n 9 and m + n odd [568]

iff n =
6 3 [568]

C5 P n

SEM

if n 6= 4 [568]

C m Pn

SEM

if m 6 even and n m/2 + 2 [568]

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Graph
Types
Pm Pn
SEM

Notes
iff (m, n) 6= (2, 2) or (3, 3) [568]

corona Cn  K m

SEM

n 3 [568]

St(m, n)

SEM

n 0 (mod m + 1) [999]

St(1, k, n)

SEM

k = 1, 2 or n [999]

St(2, k, n)

SEM

k = 2, 3 [999]

St(1, 1, k, n)

SEM

k = 2, 3 [999]

St(k, 2, 2, n)

SEM

k = 1, 2 [999]

St(a1 , . . . , an )

SEM?

for n > 1 odd [999]

t
C4m

SEM

[1149]

t
C4m+1

SEM

[1149]

friendship graph of n triangles SEM

iff n = 3, 4, 5, or 7 [1574]

generalized Petersen
graph P (n, 2) (see 2.7)

SEM

if n 3 odd [591]

nP3

SEM

if n 4 even [288]

Pn2

SEM

[561]

K2 C2n+1

SEM

[561]

P3 kP2

SEM

for all k [562]

kPn

SEM

if k is odd [562]

k(P2 Pn )

SEM

if k is odd and n = 3, 4 [562]

fans Fn

SEM

iff n 6 [562]

books Bn

SEM
Continued on next page

if n even [1939]

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Graph
Types

Notes

books Bn

SEM?

if n 5 (mod 8)[562]

trees with -labelings

SEM

[562]

P2m+1 P2

SEM

[534], [561]

C2m+1 Pm

SEM

[561]

G  Kn

SEM

if G is SEM 2-regular graph [563]

Cm  K n

SEM

[563]

join of K1 with any subgraph

of a star

SEM

[425]

then k 3 [425]

if G is k-regular SEM graph

G is connected (p, q)-graph

SEM

G exists iff p 1 q 2p 3 [425]

G is connected 3-regular
graph on p vertices

SEM

iff p 2 (mod 4) [425]

nK2 + nK2

not SEM

[425]

5.2

Vertex-magic Total Labelings

MacDougall, Miller, Slamin, and Wallis [1146] introduced the notion of a vertex-magic
total labeling in 1999. For a graph G(V, E) an injective mapping f from V E to the
set {1, 2, . . . , |V | + |E|} is a vertex-magic total labelingPif there is a constant k, called the
magic constant, such that for every vertex v, f (v) + f (vu) = k where the sum is over
all vertices u adjacent to v (some authors use the term vertex-magic for this concept).
They prove that the following graphs have vertex-magic total labelings: Cn ; Pn (n >
2); Km,m (m > 1); Km,m e (m > 2); and Kn for n odd. They also prove that when
n > m + 1, Km,n does not have a vertex-magic total labeling. They conjectured that
Km,m+1 has a vertex-magic total labeling for all m and that Kn has vertex-magic total
labeling for all n 3. The latter conjecture was proved by Lin and Miller [1092] for the
case that n is divisible by 4 while the remaining cases were done by MacDougall, Miller,
Slamin, and Wallis [1146]. McQuillan [1175] provided many vertex-magic total labelings
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for cycles Cnk for k 3 and odd n 3 using given vertex-magic labelings for Ck . Gray,
MacDougall, and Wallis [674] then gave a simpler proof that all complete graphs are
vertex-magic total. Krishnappa, Kothapalli, and Venkaiah [937] gave another proof that
all complete graphs are vertex-magic total.
In [1146] MacDougall, Miller, Slamin, and Wallis conjectured that for n 5, Kn
has a vertex-magic total labeling with magic constant h if and only if h is an integer
satisfying n3 + 3n 4h n3 + 2n2 + n. In [1177] McQuillan and Smith proved that this
conjecture is true when n is odd. Armstrong and McQuillan [123] proved that if n 2
(mod 4) (n 6) then Kn has a vertex-magic total labeling with magic constant h for
each integer h satisfying n3 + 6n 4h n3 + 2n2 2n. If, in addition, n 2 (mod
8), then Kn has a vertex-magic total labeling with magic constant h for each integer h
satisfying n3 + 4n 4h n3 + 2n2 . They further showed that for each odd integer
n 5, 2Kn has a vertex-magic total labeling with magic constant h for each integer
h such that n3 + 5n 2h n3 + 2n2 3n. If, in addition, n 1(mod 4), then 2Kn
has a vertex-magic total labeling with magic constant h for each integer h such that
n3 + 3n 2h n3 + 2n2 n.
In [1176] McQuillan and McQuillan investigate the existence of vertex-magic labelings
of nC3 . They prove: for every even integer n 4, nC3 is vertex-magic (and therefore
also edge-magic); for each even integer n 6, nC3 has vertex-magic total labelings
with at least 2n 2 different magic constants; if n 2 mod 4, two extra vertex-magic
total labelings with the highest possible and lowest possible magic constants exist; if
n = 2 3k , k > 1, nC3 has a vertex-magic total labeling with magic constant k if and only
if (1/2)(15n + 4) k (1/2)(21n + 2); if n is odd, there are vertex-magic total labelings
for nC3 with n + 1 different magic constants. In [1174] McQuillan provides a technique
for constructing vertex-magic total labelings of 2-regular graphs. In particular, if m is an
odd positive integer, G = Cn1 Cn2 Cnk has a vertex-magic total labeling, and J
is any subset of I = {1, 2, . . . , k} then (iJ mCni ) (iIJ mCni ) has a vertex-magic
total labeling.
Lin and Miller [1092] have shown that Km,m is vertex-magic total for all m > 1 and
that Kn is vertex-magic total for all n 0 (mod 4). Phillips, Rees, and Wallis [1279]
generalized the Lin and Miller result by proving that Km,n is vertex-magic total if and
only if m and n differ by at most 1. Cattell [398] has shown that a necessary condition for
a graph of the form H + Kn to be vertex-magic total is that the number of vertices of H is
at least n 1. As a corollary he gets that a necessary condition for Km1 ,m2 ,...,mr ,n where n
is the largest size of any partite set to be vertex-magic total is that m1 +m2 + +mr n.
He poses as an open question whether graphs that meet the conditions of the theorem
are vertex-magic total. Cattell also proves that K1,n,n has a vertex-magic total labeling
when n is odd and K2,n,n has a vertex-magic total labeling when n 3 (mod 4). In [1328]
Rahim and Slamin proved the disjoint union of coronas CP
t1 K1 Ct2 K1 Ctn K1
has a vertex-magic total labeling with magic constant 6 nk=1 tk + 1.
Miller, Baca, and MacDougall [1193] have proved that the generalized Petersen graphs
P (n, k) (see 2.7) for the definition) are vertex-magic total when n is even and k n/21.
They conjecture that all P (n, k) are vertex-magic total when k (n 1)/2 and all
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prisms Cn P2 are vertex-magic total. Baca, Miller, and Slamin [231] proved the first
of these conjectures (see also [1576] for partial results) while Slamin and Miller prove
the second. Slamin, Prihandoko, Setiawan, Rosita and Shaleh [1577] constructed vertexmagic total labelings for the disjoint union of two copies of P (n, k) and Silaban, Parestu,
Herawati, Sugeng, and Slamin [1546] extended this to any number of copies of P (n, k).
More generally, they proved that for nj 3 and 1 kj b(nj 1)/2c, the union
P (n1 , k1 ) P (n2 , k2 ) P (nt , kt ) has a vertex-magic total labeling with vertex magic
constant 10(n1 + n2 + + nt ) + 2. In the same article Silaban et al. define the union of t
special circulant graphs tj=1 Cn (1, mj ) as the graph with vertex set {vij | 0 i n1, 1
j
j
j t} and edge set {vij vi+1
| 0 i n1, 1 j t}{vij vi+m
| 0 i n1, 1 j t}.
j
They prove that for odd n at least 5 and mj {2, 3, . . . , (n 1)/2}, the disjoint union
tj=1 Cn (1, mj ) has a vertex-magic total labeling with constant 8tn + (n 10/2 + 3.
MacDougall et al. ([1146], [1148] and [672]) have shown: Wn has a vertex-magic total
labeling if and only if n 11; fans Fn have a vertex-magic total labelings if and only if
n 10; friendship graphs have vertex-magic total labelings if and only if the number of
triangles is at most 3; Km,n (m > 1) has a vertex-magic total labeling if and only if m
and n differ by at most 1. Wallis [1823] proved: if G and H have the same order and
G H is vertex-magic total then so is G + H; if the disjoint union of stars is vertex-magic
total, then the average size of the stars is less than 3; if a tree has n internal vertices and
more than 2n leaves then it does not have a vertex-magic total labeling. Wallis [1824] has
shown that if G is a regular graph of even degree that has a vertex-magic total labeling
then the graph consisting of an odd number of copies of G is vertex-magic total. He also
proved that if G is a regular graph of odd degree (not K1 ) that has a vertex-magic total
labeling then the graph consisting of any number of copies of G is vertex-magic total.
Gray, MacDougall, McSorley, and Wallis [673] investigated vertex-magic total labelings
of forests. They provide sufficient conditions for the nonexistence of a vertex-magic total
labeling of forests based on the maximum degree and the number of internal vertices, and
leaves or the number of components. They also use Skolem sequences to prove a star
forest with each component a K1,2 has a vertex-magic total labeling.
Recall a helm Hn is obtained from a wheel Wn by attaching a pendent edge at each
vertex of the n-cycle of the wheel. A generalized helm H(n, t) is a graph obtained from a
wheel Wn by attaching a path on t vertices at each vertex of the n-cycle. A generalized web
W(n, t) is a graph obtained from a generalized helm H(n, t) by joining the corresponding
vertices of each path to form an n-cycle. Thus W(n, t) has (t + 1)n + 1 vertices and
2(t + 1)n edges. A generalized Jahangir graph Jk,s is a graph on ks + 1 vertices consisting
of a cycle Cks and one additional vertex that is adjacent to k vertices of Cks at distance s
to each other on Cks . Rahim, Tomescu, and Slamin [1329] prove: Hn has no vertex-magic
total labeling for any n 3; W(n, t) has a vertex-magic total labeling for n = 3 or n = 4
and t = 1, but it is not vertex-magic total for n 17t + 12 and t 0; and Jn,t+1 is
vertex-magic total for n = 3 and t = 1, but it does not have this property for n 7t + 11
and t 1. Recall a flower is the graph obtained from a helm by joining each pendent
vertex to the central vertex of the helm. Ahmad and Tomescu [65] proved that flower
graph is vertex-magic if and only if the underlying cycle is C3 .
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Froncek, Kovar, and Kovarova [577] proved that Cn C2m+1 and K5 C2n+1 are
vertex-magic total. Kovar [948] furthermore proved some general results about products
of certain regular vertex-magic total graphs. In particular, if G is a (2r + 1)-regular
vertex-magic total graph that can be factored into an (r + 1)-regular graph and an rregular graph, then G K5 and G Cn for n even are vertex-magic total. He also proved
that if G an r-regular vertex-magic total graph and H is a 2s-regular supermagic graph
that can be factored into two s-regular factors, then their Cartesian product G H is
vertex-magic total if either r is odd, or r is even and |H| is odd.
Ivanco and Pollakova [775] consider supermagic graphs having a saturated vertex (i.e.,
a vertex that is adjacent to every other vertex). They characterize supermagic graphs
G + K1 , where G is a regular graph, using a connection to vertex-magic total graphs.
They prove that if G is a d-regular graph of order n then the join G + K1 is supermagic
if and only if G has a VMT labeling with constant h such that (n d 1) is a divisor of
the non-negative integer (n + 1)h n((d + 2)/2)(n(d + 2)/2) + 1). They also prove K1,n,n
is supermagic if and only if n 2; K1,2,2,...,2 is supermagic except for K1,2 ; and the graph
obtained from Kn,n (n 5) by removing all edges in a Hamilton cycle is supermagic.
They also consider circulant graphs and prove that the complement of the circulant graph
C2n (1, n), n 4, is supermagic.
MacDougall, Miller, and Sugeng [1147] define a super vertex-magic total labeling of a
graph G(V, E) as a vertex-magic total labeling f of G with the additional property that
f (V ) = {1, 2, . . . , |V |} and f (E) = {|V | + 1, |V | + 2, . . . , |V | + |E|} (some authors use the
term super vertex-magic for this concept). They show that a (p, q)-graph that has a
super vertex-magic total labeling with magic constant k satisfies the following conditions:
k = (p + q)(p + q + 1)/v (v + 1)/2; k (41p + 21)/18; if G is connected, k (7p 5)/2;
p divides q(q + 1) if p is odd, and p divides 2q(q + 1) if p is even; if G has even order either
p 0 (mod 8) and q 0 or 3 (mod 4) or p 4 (mod 8) and q 1 or 2 (mod 4); if G
is r-regular and p and r have opposite parity then p 0 (mod 8) implies q 0 (mod 4)
and p 4 (mod 8) implies q 2 (mod 4). They also show: Cn has a super vertex-magic
total labeling if and only if n is odd; and no wheel, ladder, fan, friendship graph, complete
bipartite graph or graph with a vertex of degree 1 has a super vertex-magic total labeling.
They conjecture that no tree has a super vertex-magic total labeling and that K4n has a
super vertex-magic total labeling when n > 1. The latter conjecture was proved by Gomez
in [653]. In [654] Gomez proved that if G is a d-regular graph that has a vertex-magic
total labeling and k is a positive integer such that (k 1)(d + 1) is even, then kG has a
super vertex-magic total labeling. As a corollary, we have that if n and k are odd or if
n 0 (mod 4) and n > 4, then kKn has a super vertex-magic total labeling. Gomez also
shows how graphs with super vertex-magic total labeling can be constructed from a given
graph G with super vertex-magic total labeling by adding edges to G in various ways.
Gray and MacDougall [671] establish the existence of vertex-magic total labelings
for several infinite classes of regular graphs. Their method enables them to begin with
any even-regular graph and from it construct a cubic graph possessing a vertex-magic
total labeling. A feature of the construction is that it produces strong vertex-magic
total labelings many even order regular graphs. The construction also extends to certain
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families of non-regular graphs. MacDougall has conjectured (see [949]) that every rregular (r > 1) graph with the exception of 2K3 has a vertex-magic total labeling. As a
corollary of a general result Kovar [949] has shown that every 2r-regular graph with an
odd number of vertices and a Hamiltonian cycle has a vertex-magic total labeling.
Gomez and Kovar [655] proved that a super vertex-magic total labeling of kKn exists
for n odd and any k, for 4 < n 0 (mod 4) and any k, and for n = 4 and k even. They
also showed kK4t+2 does not admit a super vertex-magic total labeling for k odd and
provide a large number of super vertex-magic total labelings of kK4t+2 for any k based
on a super vertex-magic total labeling of kK4t+1 .
Beardon [292] has shown that a necessary condition for a graph with c components, p
vertices, q edges and a vertex of degree d to be vertex-magic total is (d+2)2 (7q 2 +(6c+
5)q + c2 + 3c)/p. When the graph is connected this reduces to (d + 2)2 (7q 2 + 11q + 4)/p.
As a corollary, the following are not vertex-magic total: wheels Wn when n 12; fans Fn
(n)
when n 11; and friendship graphs C3 when n 4.
Beardon [294] has investigated how vertices of small degree effect vertex-magic total
labelings. Let G(p, q) be a graph with a vertex-magic total labeling with magic constant
k and let d0 be the minimum degree of any vertex. He proves k (1 + d0 )(p + q d0 /2)
and q < (1 + d0 )q. He also shows that if G(p, q) is a vertex-magic graph with a vertex of
degree one and t is the number of vertices of degree at least two, then t > q/3 (p 1)/3.
Beardon [294] has shown that the graph obtained by attaching a pendent edge to Kn is
vertex-magic total if and only if n = 2, 3, or 4.
Meissner and Zwierzy
nski [1184] used finding vertex-magic total labelings of graphs
as a way to compare the efficiency of parallel execution of a program versus sequential
processing.
Swaminathan and Jeyanthi [1666] prove the following graphs are super vertex-magic
total: Pn if and only if n is odd and n 3; Cn if and only if n is odd; the star graph
if and only if it is P2 ; and mCn if and only if m and n are odd. In [1667] they prove
the following: no super vertex-magic total graph has two or more isolated vertices or an
isolated edge; a tree with n internal edges and tn leaves is not super vertex-magic total
if t > (n +
1)/n; if is the largest degree of any vertex in a tree T with p vertices and
> (3 + 1 + 16p)/2, then T is not super vertex-magic total; the graph obtained from
a comb by appending a pendent edge to each vertex of degree 2 is super vertex-magic
total; the graph obtained by attaching a path with t edges to a vertex of an n-cycle is
super vertex-magic total if and only if n + t is odd. Ali, Baca, and Bashir [84] proved that
mP3 and mP4 have no super vertex-magic total labeling
For n > 1 and distinct odd integers x, y and z in [1,n 1] Javaid, Ismail, and Salman
[786] define the chordal ring of order n CRn (x, y, z), as the graph with vertex set Zn , the
additive group of integers modulo n, and edges (i, i + x), (i, i + y), (i, i + z) for all even
i. They prove that CRn (1, 3, n 1) has a super vertex-magic total labeling when n 0
mod 4 and n 8 and conjecture that for an odd integer , 3 n 3, n 0 mod 4,
CRn (1, , n 1) has a super vertex-magic total labeling with magic constant 23n/4 + 2.
The Knodel graphs W,n with n even and degree , where 1 b log2 nc have
vertices pairs (i, j) with i = 1, 2 and 0 j n/2 1 where for every 0 j n/2 1
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and there is an edge between vertex (1, j) and every vertex (2, (j + 2k 1) mod n/2), for
k = 0, 1, . . . , 1. Xi, Yang, Mominul, and Wong [1881] have shown that W3,n is super
vertex-magic total when n 0 mod 4.
A vertex magic total labeling of G(V, E) is said to be E-super if f (E(G)) =
{1, 2, 3, . . . , |E(G)|}. The cocktail party graph, Hm,n (m, n 2), is the graph with a
vertex set V = {v1 , v2 , . . . , vmn } partitioned into n independent sets V = {I1 , I2 , . . . , In }
each of size m such that vi vj E for all i, j {1, 2, . . . , mn} where i Ip , j Iq , p 6= q.
The graph Hm,n is the complement of the ladder graph and the dual graph of the hypercube. Marimuthu and Balakrishnan [1161] gave some basic properties of such labelings
and proved that Hm,n is E-super vertex magic.
Balbuena, Barker, Das, Lin, Miller, Ryan, and Slamin [245] call a vertex-magic total labeling of G(V, E) a strongly vertex-magic total labeling if the vertex labels are
{1, 2, . . . , |V |}. They prove: the minimum degree of a strongly vertex-magic total graph
is at least
2; for a strongly vertex-magic total graph G with n vertices and e edges, if
2e 10n2 6n + 1 then the minimum degree of G is at least
3; and for a strongly
vertex-magic total graph G with n vertices and e edges if 2e < 10n2 6n + 1 then the
minimum degree of G is at most 6. They also provide strongly vertex-magic total labelings for certain families of circulant graphs. In [1174] McQuillan provides a technique for
constructing vertex-magic total labelings of 2-regular graphs. In particular, if m is an
odd positive integer, G = Cn1 Cn2 Cnk has a strongly vertex-magic total labeling,
and J is any subset of I = {1, 2, . . . , k} then (iJ mCni ) (iIJ mCni ) has a strongly
vertex-magic total labeling.
Gray [665] proved that if G is a graph with a spanning subgraph H that possesses a
strongly vertex-magic total labeling and G E(H) is even regular, then G also possesses
a strongly vertex-magic total labeling. As a corollary one has that regular Hamiltonian
graphs of odd order have a strongly vertex-magic total labelings.
In a series of papers Gray and MacDougall expand on McQuillans technique to obtain
a variety of results. In [668] Gray and MacDougall show that for any r 4, every r-regular
graph of odd order at most 17 has a strong vertex-magic total labeling. They also show
that several large classes of r-regular graphs of even order, including some Hamiltonian
graphs, have vertex-magic total labelings. They conjecture that every 2-regular graph of
odd order possesses a strong vertex-magic total labeling if and only if it is not of the form
(2t 1)C3 C4 or 2tC3 C5 . They include five open problems.
In [670] Gray and MacDougall introduce a procedure called a mutation that transforms
one vertex-magic totaling labeling into another one by swapping sets of edges among
vertices that may result in different labeling of the same graph or a labeling of a different
graph. Among their results are: a description of all possible mutations of a labeling of
the path and the cycle; for all n 2 and all i from 1 to n 1 the graphs obtained by
identifying an end points of paths of lengths i, i + 1, and 2n 2i 1 have a vertex-magic
total labeling; for odd n, the graph obtained by attaching a path of length n m to an m
cycle, (such graphs are called (m; n m)-kites ) have strong vertex-magic total labelings
for m = 3, . . . , n 2; C2n+1 C4n+4 and 3C2n+1 have a strong vertex-magic total labeling;
and for n 2, C4n C6n1 has a strong vertex-magic total labeling. They conclude with
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three open problems.

Kimberley and MacDougall [915] studied mutations that involve labelings of regular
graphs into labelings of other regular graphs. They present results of extensive computations which confirm how prolific this procedure is. These computations add weight to
MacDougalls conjecture that all nontrivial regular graphs are vertex-magic.
Gray and MacDougall [669] show how to construct vertex-magic total labelings for
several families of non-regular graphs, including the disjoint union of two other graphs
already possessing vertex-magic total labelings. They prove that if G is a d-regular graph
of order v and H a t-regular graph of order u with each having a strong vertex magic
total labeling and vd2 + 2d + 2v + 2u = 2tvd + 2t + ut2 then G H possesses a strong
vertex-magic total labeling. They also provide bounds on the minimum degree of a graph
with a vertex-magic total labeling.
In [671] Gray and MacDougall establish the existence of vertex-magic total labelings
for several infinite classes of regular graphs. Their method enables them to begin with any
even-regular graph and construct a cubic graph possessing a vertex-magic total labeling
that produces strong vertex-magic total labelings for many even order regular graphs.
The construction also extends to certain families of non-regular graphs.
Rahim and Slamin [1327] give the bounds for the number of vertices for Jahangir
graphs, helms, webs, flower graphs and sunflower graphs when the graphs considered are
not vertex-magic total.
Thirusangu, Nagar, and Rajeswari [1684] show that certain Cayley digraphs of cyclic
groups have vertex-magic total labelings.
Balbuena, Barker, Lin, Miller, and Sugeng [250] call vertex-magic total labeling an
a-vertex consecutive magic labeling if the vertex labels are {a, a + 1, . . . , a + |V |}. For an
a-vertex consecutive magic labeling of a graph G with p vertices and q edges they prove:
if G has one isolated vertex, then a = q and (p 1)2 + p2 = (2q + 1)2 ; if q = p 1,
then p is odd and a = p 1; if p = q, then p is odd and if G has minimum degree 1,
then a = (p + 1)/2 or a = p; if G is 2-regular, then p is odd and a = 0 or p; and if G
is r-regular, then p and r have opposite parities. They also define an b-edge consecutive
magic labeling analogously and state some results for these labelings.
Wood [1873] generalizes vertex-magic total and edge-magic total labelings by requiring
only that the labels be positive integers rather than consecutive positive integers. He
gives upper bounds for the minimum values of the magic constant and the largest label
for complete graphs, forests, and arbitrary graphs.
Exoo, Ling, McSorley, Phillips, and Wallis [547] call a function a totally magic
labeling of a graph G if is both an edge-magic total and a vertex-magic total labeling
of G. A graph with such a labeling is called totally magic. Among their results are: P3
is the only connected totally magic graph that has a vertex of degree 1; the only totally
magic graphs with a component K1 are K1 and K1 P3 ; the only totally magic complete
graphs are K1 and K3 ; the only totally magic complete bipartite graph is K1,2 ; nK3 is
totally magic if and only if n is odd; P3 nK3 is totally magic if and only if n is even.
In [1826] Wallis asks: Is the graph K1,m nK3 ever totally magic? That question was
answered by Calhoun, Ferland, Lister, and Polhill [392] who proved that if K1,m nK3 is
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totally magic then m = 2 and K1,2 nK3 is totally magic if and only if n is even.
McSorley and Wallis [1179] examine the possible totally magic labelings of a union of
an odd number of triangles and determine the spectrum of possible values for the sum of
the label on a vertex and the labels on its incident edges and the sum of an edge label
and the labels of the endpoints of the edge for all known totally magic graphs.
Gray and MacDougall [666] define an order n sparse semi-magic square to be an n n
array containing the entries 1, 2, . . . , m once (for some m < n2 ), has its remaining entries
equal to 0, and whose rows and columns have a constant sum of k. They prove some
basic properties of such squares and provide constructions for several infinite families of
squares, including squares of all orders n 3. Moreover, they show how such arrays can
be used to construct vertex-magic total labelings for certain families of graphs.
In Tables 8, 9 and 10, VMTL means vertex-magic total labeling, SVMT means super
vertex magic total, and TM means totally magic labeling. A question mark following an
abbreviation indicates that the graph is conjectured to have the corresponding property.
The tables were prepared by Petr Kovar and Tereza Kovarova and updated by J. Gallian
in 2007.
Table 8: Summary of Vertex-magic Total Labelings
Graph
Cn

Types
VMTL

Notes
[1146]

Pn

VMTL

n > 2 [1146]

Km,m e

VMTL

m > 2 [1146]

Km,n

VMTL

iff |m n| 1 [1279], [1146], [1148]

Kn

VMTL

nK3

VMTL

for n odd [1146]

for n 2 (mod 4),n > 2 [1092]
iff n 6= 2 [561], [562], [1176]

mKn

VMTL

m 1, n 4 [1178]

Petersen P (n, k)

VMTL

[231]

prisms Cn P2

VMTL

[1576]

Wn

VMTL

iff n 11 [1146], [1148]

Fn

VMTL

iff n 10 [1146], [1148]

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Table 8 Continued from previous page

Graph
Types
friendship graphs
VMTL

Notes
iff # of triangles 3 [1146], [1148]

G+H

VMTL

|V (G)| = |V (H)|
and G H is VMTL [1823]

unions of stars

VMTL

[1823]

tree with n internal vertices not VMTL

and more than 2n leaves
nG
VMTL

[1823]

Cn C2m+1

VMTL

n odd, G regular of even

degree, VMTL [1824]
G is regular of odd
degree, VMTL, but not K1 [1824]
[577]

K5 C2n+1

VMTL

[577]

G C2n

VMTL

G 2r + 1-regular VMTL [948]

G K5

VMTL

G 2r + 1-regular VMTL [948]

GH

VMTL

G r-regular VMTL, r odd

or r even and |H| odd,
H 2s-regular supermagic [948]

Table 9: Summary of Super Vertex-magic Total

Labelings
Graph
Pn

Types
SVMT

Notes
iff n > 1 is odd [1666]

Cn

SVMT

iff n is odd [1666] and [1147]

K1,n

SVMT

iff n = 1 [1666]

mCn

SVMT

iff m and n are odd [1666]

Wn

not SVMT
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Table 9 Continued from previous page

Graph
Types

Notes

ladders

not SVMT

[1147]

friendship graphs

not SVMT

[1147]

Km,n

not SVMT

[1147]

dragons (see 2.2)

SVMT

iff order is even [1667], [1667]

Knodel graphs W3,n

SVMT

n 0 (mod 4) [1881]

graphs with minimum degree 1 not SVMT

[1147]

K4n

n > 1 [653]

SVMT

Table 10: Summary of Totally Magic Labelings

5.3

Graph
P3

Types
TM

Notes
the only connected TM graph
with vertex of degree 1 [547]

Kn

TM

iff n = 1, 3 [547]

Km,n

TM

iff Km,n = K1,2 [547]

nK3

TM

iff n is odd [547]

P3 nK3

TM

iff n is even [547]

K1,m nK3

TM

iff m = 2 and n is even [392]

H-Magic Labelings

In 2005 Gutierrez and Llado [678] introduced the notion of an H-magic labeling of a graph,
which generalizes the concept of a magic valuation. Let H and G = (V, E) be finite simple
graphs with the property that every edge of G belongs to at least one subgraph isomorphic
to H. A bijection f : V E {1, . . . , |V |+|E|} is an H-magic labeling of G if there exists
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0
0
0
a positive integer m(f ), called
P the magic sum,
P such that for any subgraph H (V , E ) of
G isomorphic to H, the sum vV 0 f (v) + eE 0 f (e) is equal to the magic sum, m(f ). A
graph is H-magic if it admits an H-magic labeling. If, in addition, the H-magic labeling
f has the property that {f (v)}vV = {1, . . . , |V |}, then the graph is H-supermagic. A
K2 -magic labeling is also known as an edge-magic total labeling. Gutierrez and Llado
investigate the cases where G = Kn or G = Km,n and H is a star or a path. Among their
results are: a d-regular graph is not K1,h for any 1 < h < d; Kn,n is K1,n -magic for all n;
Kn,n is not K1,n -supermagic for n > 1; for any integers 1 < r < s, Kr,s is K1,h -supermagic
if and only if h = s; Pn is Ph -supermagic for all 2 h n; Kn is not Ph -magic for any
2 < h n; Cn is Ph -magic for any 2 h < n such that gcd(n, h(h 1)) = 1. They
also show that by uniformly gluing copies of H along edges of another graph G, one can
construct connected H-magic graphs from a given 2-connected graph H and an H-free
supermagic graph G.
Llado and Moragas [1115] studied cycle-magic graphs. They proved: wheels Wn are
(k)
C3 -magic for odd n at least 5; for r 3 and k 2 the windmill graphs Cr (the one-point
union of k copies of Cr ) are Cr -supermagic; and if G is C4 -free supermagic graph of odd
size, then G K2 is C4 -supermagic. As corollaries of the latter result, they have that
for n odd, prisms Cn K2 and books K1,n K2 are C4 -magic. They define a subdivided
wheel Wn (r, k) as the graph obtained from a wheel Wn by replacing each radial edge
vvi , 1 i n by a vvi -path of size r 1, and every external edge vi vi+1 by a vi vi+1 -path
of size k 1. They prove that Wn (r, k) is C2r+k -magic for any odd n 6= 2r/k + 1 and that
Wn (r, 1) is C2r+1 -supermagic. They also prove that the graph obtained by joining the end
points of any number of internally disjoint paths of length p 2 is C2p -supermagic.
Jeyanthi and Muthuraja [821] established that Pm,n is C2m -supermagic for all m, n 2
and the splitting graph of Cn is C4 -supermagic for n 6= 4.
Liang [1082] proved the following: if there exist an even integer k and mi 0 (mod k)
for every i in [1,n], then there exist Kk,k - and C2k -supermagic decompositions of Km1 ,...,mn ;
if k and tn k are even integers, then for any positive integers ti 0 (mod k), i in [1, n1],
there exists a C2k -supermagic decomposition of Kt1 ,...,tn1 ,tn ; if there exists an even integer
k and Km,n is C2k -decomposable, then there exists a C2k -supermagic decomposition of
Km,n ; and if G is a graph with p vertices and p edges, H is a graph with q vertices
and q edges, and there is an H-supermagic decomposition of G, then there exists an
H-supermagic decomposition of nG.
In [1168] Maryati, Baskoro, and Salman provided Ph -(super) magic labelings of subdivisions of stars, shrubs and banana trees. Ngurah, Salman, and Sudarsana [1243] construct
Ch -(super) magic labelings for some fans and ladders. For any connected graph H, Maryati, Salman, Baskoro, and Irawati [1170] proved that the disjoint union of k isomorphic
copies of a connected graph H is a H-supermagic graph if and only if |V (H)| + |E(H)| is
even or k is odd.
Maryati, Salman, Baskoro, Ryan, and Miller [1171] define a shackle as a graph obtained
from nontrivial connected graphs G1 , G2 , . . . , Gk (k 2) such that Gs and Gt have no
common vertex for every s and t in [1, k] with |s t| 2, and for every i in [1, k 1], Gi
and Gi+1 share exactly one common vertex that are all distinct. They prove that shackles

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and amalgamations constructed from copies of a connected graph H is H-supermagic.

(Recall for finite collection of graph G1 , G2 , . . . , Gk with a fixed vertex vi from each Gi ,
an amalgamation, AmalGi , vi ), is the graph obtained by identifying the vi .)
Ngurah, Salman, and Susilowati [1244] proved the following: chain graphs with identical blocks each isomorphic to Cn are Cn -supermagic; fans are C3 -supermagic; ladders and
books are C4 -supermagic; K1,n + K1 are C3 -supermagic; grids Pm Pn are C4 -supermagic
for m 3 and n = 3, 4, and 5. They pose the case that Pm Pn are C4 -supermagic for
n > 5 as an open problem. They also have some results on Pt -(super) magic labelings of
cycles.
Roswitha, Baskoro, Maryati, Kurdhi, and Susanti [1378] proved: the generalized Jahangir graph Jk,s is Cs+2 -supermagic; K2,n is C4 -supermagic; and Wn for n even and n 4
is C3 -supermagic. As an open problem they asked if Km,n , 2 < m n, admits a C2m supermagic labeling. Roswitha and Baskoro [1379] proved that double stars, caterpillars,
firecrackers, and banana trees admit star-supermagic labelings.
Maryati, Salman, and Baskoro [1169] characterized all graphs G such that the disjoint
union of copies of G is G-supermagic. They also showed: the disjoint union of any paths is
mPn -supermagic for certain values of m and n; some subgraph amalgamations of graphs
G are G-supermagic; and for any subgraph H of G Amal(G, H, k) is G-supermagic.
Salman and Maryati [1396] proved that Amal(G, Pn , k) is G-supermagic.
Selvagopal and Jeyanthi proved: for any positive integer n, a the k-polygonal snake of
length n is Ck -supermagic [1418]; for m 2, n = 3, or n > 4, Cn Pm is C4 -supermagic
[843]; P2 Pn and P3 Pn are C4 -supermagic for all n 2 [843]; the one-point union of any
number of copies of a 2-connected H is H-magic [841]; graphs obtained by taking copies
H1 , H2 , . . . , Hn of a 2-connected graph H and two distinct edges ei , e0i from each Hi and
identifying e0i of Hi with ei+1 of Hi+1 where |V (H)| 4, |E(H)| 4 and n is odd or both
n and |V (H)| + |E(H)| are even are H-supermagic [841]. For simple graphs H and G the
H-supermagic strength of G is the minimum constant value of all H-magic total labelings
of G for which the vertex labels are {1, 2, . . . , |V |}. Jeyanthi and Selvagopal [842] found
the Cn -supermagic strength of n-polygonal snakes of any length and the H-supermagic
strength of a chain of an arbitrary 2-connected simple graph.
Let H1 , H2 , . . . , Hn be copies of a graph H. Let ui and vi be two distinct vertices of
Hi for i = 1, 2, . . . , n. The chain graph Hn of H of length n is the graph obtained by
identifying the vertices ui and vi+1 for i = 1, 2, . . . , n 1. In [840] Jayanthi and Selvagopal
show that a chain graph of any 2-connected simple graph H is H-supermagic and if H is
a 2-connected (p, q) simple graph, then Hn is H-supermagic if p + q is even or p + q + n
is even.
The antiprism on 2n vertices has vertex set {x1,1 , . . . , x1,n , x2,1 , . . . , x2,n } and edge set
{xj,i , xj,i+1 } {x1,i , x2,i } {x1,i , x2,i1 } (subscripts are taken modulo n). Jeyanthi, Selvagopal, and Sundaram [846] proved the following graphs are C3 -supermagic: antiprisms,
fans, and graphs obtained from the ladders P2 Pn with the two paths v1,1 , . . . , v1,n and
v2,1 , . . . , v2,n by adding the edges v1,j v2,j+1 .
Jeyanthi and Selvagopal [844] show that for any 2-connected simple graph H the edge
amalogamation of a finite number of copies of H is H-supermagic. They also show that
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the graph obtained by picking one endpoint vi from each of k copies of K1,k then creating
a new graph by joining each vi to a fixed new vertex v is K1,k -supermagic.

5.4

Magic Labelings of Type (a, b, c)

A magic-type method for labeling the vertices, edges, and faces of a planar graph was
introduced by Lih [1089] in 1983. Lih defines a magic labeling of type (1,1,0) of a planar
graph G(V, E) as an injective function from {1, 2, . . . , |V |+|E|} to V E with the property
that for each interior face the sum of the labels of the vertices and the edges surrounding
that face is some fixed value. Similarly, Lih defines a magic labeling of type (1, 1, 1) of a
planar graph G(V, E) with face set F as an injective function from {1, 2, . . . , |V |+|E|+|F |}
to V E F with the property that for each interior face the sum of the labels of the
face and the vertices and the edges surrounding that face is some fixed value. Lih calls a
labeling involving the faces of a plane graph consecutive if for every integer s the weights
of all s-sided faces constitute a set of consecutive integers. Lih gave consecutive magic
labelings of type (1, 1, 0) for wheels, friendship graphs, prisms, and some members of the
Platonic family. In [167] Baca shows that the cylinders Cn Pm have magic labelings
of type (1, 1, 0) when m 2, n 3, n 6= 4. In [177] Baca proves that the generalized
Petersen graph P (n, k) (see 2.7 for the definition) has a consecutive magic labeling if
and only if n is even and at least 4 and k n/2 1.
Baca gave magic labelings of type (1, 1, 1) for fans [161], ladders [161], planar bipyramids (that is, 2-point suspensions of paths) [161], grids [170], hexagonal lattices [169],
Mobius ladders [164], and Pn P3 [165]. Kathiresan and Ganesan [898] show that the
graph Pa,b consisting of b 2 internally disjoint paths of length a 2 with common end
points has a magic labeling of type (1, 1, 1) when b is odd, and when a = 2 and b 0 (mod
4). They also show that Pa,b has a consecutive labeling of type (1, 1, 1) when b is even
and a 6= 2. Ali, Hussain, Ahmad, and Miller [87] study magic labeling of type (1, 1, 1) for
wheels and subdivided wheels. They prove: wheels admits a magic labeling of type and
(1, 1, 1) and (0, 1, 1), for odd n wheels Wn n admit a magic labeling of type (0, 1, 0), and
subdivided wheels admit a magic labeling of type (1, 1, 0). As an open problem they ask
for a magic labeling of type (1, 1, 0) for Wn , n even.
Baca [163], [162], [173], [171], [165], [172] and Baca and Hollander [200] gave magic
labelings of type (1, 1, 1) and type (1, 1, 0) for certain classes of convex polytopes. Kathiresan and Gokulakrishnan [900] provided magic labelings of type (1, 1, 1) for the families
of planar graphs with 3-sided faces, 5-sided faces, 6-sided faces, and one external infinite
face. Baca [168] also provides consecutive and magic labelings of type (0, 1, 1) (that is,
an injective function from {1, 2, . . . , |E| + |F |} to E F with the property that for each
interior face the sum of the labels of the face and the edges surrounding that face is some
fixed value) and a consecutive labeling of type (1, 1, 1) for a kind of planar graph with
hexagonal faces.
A magic labeling of type (1,0,0) of a planar graph G with vertex set V is an injective
function from {1, 2, . . . , |V |} to V with the property that for each interior face the sum of
the labels of the vertices surrounding that face is some fixed value. Kathiresan, Muthuvel,

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and Nagasubbu [901] define a lotus inside a circle as the graph obtained from the cycle
with consecutive vertices a1 , a2 , . . . , an and the star with central vertex b0 and end vertices
b1 , b2 , . . . , bn by joining each bi to ai and ai+1 (an+1 = a1 ). They prove that these graphs
(n 5) and subdivisions of ladders have consecutive labelings of type (1, 0, 0). Devaraj
[492] proves that graphs obtained by subdividing each edge of a ladder exactly the same
number of times has a magic labeling of type (1, 0, 0).
In Table 11 we use following abbreviations
M(a, b, c) magic labeling of type (a, b, c)
CM(a, b, c) consecutive magic labeling of type (a, b, c).
A question mark following an abbreviation indicates that the graph is conjectured to have
the corresponding property. The table was prepared by Petr Kovar and Tereza Kovarova.

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Table 11: Summary of Magic Labelings of Type (a, b, c)

Graph
Wn

Labeling
Notes
CM(1,1,0) [1089]

friendship graphs

CM(1,1,0) [1089]

prisms

CM(1,1,0) [1089]

cylinders Cn Pm

M(1,1,0)

m 2, n 3, n 6= 4 [167]

fans Fn

M(1,1,1)

[161]

ladders

M(1,1,1)

[161]

planar bipyramids (see 5.2)

M(1,1,1)

[161]

grids

M(1,1,1)

[170]

hexagonal lattices

M(1,1,1)

[169]

Mobius ladders

M(1,1,1)

[164]

Pn P 3

M(1,1,1)

[165]

certain classes of
convex polytopes

M(1,1,1)
M(1,1,0)

[163], [173], [171], [165]

[172], [200]

certain classes of planar graphs

with hexagonal faces

M(0,1,1)
[168]
CM(0,1,1)
CM(1,1,1)

lotus inside a circle (see 5.2)

CM(1,0,0) n 5 [901]

subdivisions of ladders

M(1,0,0)
[492]
CM(1,0,0) [901]

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5.5

Sigma Labelings/1-vertex magic labelings/Distance Magic

In 1987 Vilfred [1807] (see also [1808]) defined a sigma-labeling of a graph G with n vertices
as a bijection f from the vertices of G to {1, 2,
P. . . , n} such that there is a constant k with
the property that, at any vertex v the sum
f (u) taken over all neighbors u of v is k.
The concept of sigma labeling was independently studied in 2003 by Miller, Rodger, and
Simanjuntak in [1198] under the name 1-vertex magic vertex. In a 2009 article Sugeng,
Froncek, Miller, Ryan, and Walker [1633] used the term distance magic labeling . For
convenience, we will use the term distance magic. In [1809] Vilfred and Jinnah give a
number of necessary conditions for a graph to have a distance magic labeling. One of
them is that if u and v are vertices of a graph with a distance labeling, then the order
of the symmetric difference of N (u) and N (v) (neighborhoods of u and v) is not 1 or 2.
This condition rules out a large class of graphs as having distance magic labelings. Rao,
Singh, and Parameswaran [1354] have shown Cm Cn has a distance magic labeling if
and only if m = n 2 (mod 4) and Km Kn , m 2, n 3 does not have a distance
magic labeling. In [297] Benna gives necessary and sufficient condition for Km,n to be a
distance magic graph and proves that if G1 and G2 are connected graphs with minimum
degree 1 and at least three vertices, then G1 G2 does not have a distance magic labeling.
Rao, Sighn, and Parameswaran [33] prove that every graph is an induced subgraph of a
regular graph that has a distance magic labeling. As open problems, Rao [1353] asks for
a characterize 4-regular graphs that have distance magic labelings and which graphs of
the form Cm Cn , m = n 2 (mod 4) have distance magic labelings. Kovar, Froncek,
and Kovarova [951] classified all orders n for which a 4-regular distance magic graph
exists and also showed that there exists a distance magic graph with k = 2t for every
integer t 6. Acharaya, Rao, Signh, and Parameswaran [32] proved Pm Cn does not
have a distance magic labeling when m is at least 3 and provide necessary and sufficient
conditions for Km,n to have a distance magic labeling. Kovar and Silber [952] proved that
an (n 3)-regular distance magic graph with n vertices exists if and only if n 3 (mod
6) and that its structure is determined uniquely. Moreover, they reduce constructions of
Froncek to a single construction and provide another sufficient condition for the existence
a distance magic graph with an odd number of vertices.
Among the results of Miller, Rodger, and Simanjuntak in [1198]: the only trees that
have a distance magic labeling are P1 and P3 ; Cn has a distance magic labeling if and only
if n = 4; Kn has a distance magic labeling if and only if n = 1; the wheel Wn = Cn + P1
has a distance magic labeling if and only if n = 4; the complete graph Kn,n,...,n with p
partite sets has a distance magic labeling if and only if n is even or both n and p are odd;
an r-regular graph where n is odd does not have a distance magic labeling; and G K2n
has a distance magic labeling for any regular graph G. They also give necessary and
sufficient conditions for complete tripartite graphs to have a distance magic labeling.
Anholcer, Cichacz, Peterin, and Tepeh [114] proved that the direct product of two
cycles Cm and Cn is distance magic if and only if m = 4 or n = 4, or m, n 0 (mod
4) (the direct product of graphs G and H has the vertex set V (G) V (H) and (g, h)
is adjacent to (g 0 , h0 ) if g is adjacent to g 0 in G and h is adjacent to h0 in H.) In [458]

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Cichacz gave necessary and sufficient conditions for circulant graph Cn (1, 2, . . . , p) to be
distance magic for p odd. In [460] Cichacz and Froncek characterized all distance magic
circulant graphs Cn (1, p) for p odd. Cichacz, Froncek, Krop, and Raridan [461] proved
that r-partite graph Kn,n,...,n C4 is distance magic if and only if r > 1 and n > 2 is
even. Anholcer and Cichacz [116] gave necessary and sufficient conditions for lexicographic
product of an r-regular graph G and Km,n to be distance magic. Cichacz and Gorlich
[464] gave necessary and sufficient conditions for the direct product of an r-regular graph
G and Km,n to be distance magic. Cichacz and Nikodem [465] showed that if G is an
r-regular graph of order t and H is p-regular such that tH is distance magic, then both
the lexicographic product and direct product of graphs G and H are distance magic.
In [1429] Seoud, Maqsoud, and Aldiban determined whether or not the following families of graphs have a distance magic vertex labeling: Kn {e}; Kn {2e}; Pnk ; Cn2 ; Km
Cn ; Cm + Pn ; Cm + Cn ; Pm + Pn ; K1,r,s ; K1,r,m,n ; K2,r,m,n ; Km,n + Pk ; Km,n +
Ck ; Cm + Kn ; Pm + Kn ; Pm Pn ; Km,n Pk ; Km Pn ; the splitting graph of
Km,n ; Kn + G; Km + Kn ; Km + Cn ; Km + Pn ; Km,n + Kr ; Cm Pn ; Cm K1,n ; Cm
Kn,n ; Cm Kn,n+1 ; Km Kn,r ; and Km Kn . Typically, distance magic labelings exist
only a few low parameter cases.
In [576] Froncek defined the notion of a -distance magic graph as one that has a
bijective labeling of vertices with elements of an Abelian group resulting in constant
sums of neighbor labels. A graph that is -distance magic for an Abelian group is called
group distance magic. Cichacz and Froncek [460] showed that for an r-regular distance
magic graph G on n vertices, where r is odd there does not exist an Abelian group
of order n having exactly one involution (i.e., an element that is its own inverse) that is
-distance magic. Froncek [576] proved that Cm Cn is a Zmn -distance magic graph if
and only if mn is even. He also showed that C2n C2n has a Z22n -distance magic labeling.
In [454] Cichacz showed some -distance magic labelings for Cm Cn where 6 Zmn and
6 Z22n . Anholcer, Cichacz, Peterin, and Tepeh [115] proved that if an r1 -regular graph
G1 is 1 -distance magic and an r2 -regular graph G2 is 2 -distance magic, then the direct
product of graphs G1 and G2 is 1 2 -distance magic. Moreover they showed that if
G is an r-regular graph of order n and m = 4 or m = 8 and r is even, then Cm G is
group distance magic. They proved that Cm Cn is Zmn -distance magic if and only if
m {4, 8} or n {4, 8} or m, n 0 (mod 4). They also showed that if m, n 6 0 (mod
4) then Cm Cn is not -distance magic for any Abelian group of order mn. Cichacz
[455] gave necessary and sufficient conditions for complete k-partite graphs of odd order p
to be Zp -distance magic. Moreover she showed that if p 2 (mod 4) and k is even, then
there does not exist a group of order p that has a -distance labeling for a k-partite
complete graph of order p. She also proved that Km,n is a group distance magic graph if
and only if n + m 6 2 (mod 4). In [456] Cichacz proved that if G is an Eulerian graph,
then the lexicographic product of G and C4 is group distance magic. In the same paper
she also showed that if m + n is odd, then the lexicographic product of Km,n and C4 is
group distance magic. In [457] Cichacz gave necessary and sufficient conditions for direct
product of Km,n and C4 for m + n odd and for Km,n C8 to be group distance magic.
In [459] Cichacz proved that for n even and r > 1 the Cartesian product the complete
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r-partitie graph Kn,n,...,n and C4 is group distance magic.

A survey of results on distance magic (sigma, 1-vertex) labelings through 2009 is given
in [127].

5.6

Other Types of Magic Labelings

In 2004 Babujee [137] and [138] introduced the notion of bimagic labeling in which there
exist two constants k1 and k2 such that the sums involved in a specified type of magic
labeling is k1 or k2 . Thus a vertex-bimagic total labeling with bimagic constants k1 and
k2 is the same as a vertex-magic total labeling except for each vertex v the sum of the
label of v and all edges adjacent to v may be k1 or k2 . A bimagic labeling is of interest
for graphs that do not have a magic labeling of a particular type. Bimagic labelings for
which the number of sums equal to k1 and the number of sums equal to k2 differ by at
most 1 are called equitable. When all sums except one are the same the labeling is called
almost magic. Although the wheel Wn does not have an edge-magic total labeling when
when n 3 (mod 4), Marr, Phillips and Wallis [1166] showed that these wheels have both
equitable bimagic and almost magic labelings. They also show that whereas nK2 has an
edge-magic total labeling if and only if n is odd, nK2 has an edge-bimagic total labeling
when n is even and although even cycles do not have super edge-magic total labelings all
cycles have super edge-bimagic total labelings. They conjecture that there is a constant
N such that Kn has a edge-bimagic total labeling if and only if n is at most N . They
show that such an N must be at least 8. They also prove that if G has an edge-magic
total labeling then 2G has an edge-bimagic total equitable labeling.
Babujee and Jagadesh [138], [144], [145], and [143] proved the following graphs have
super edge bimagic labelings: cycles of length 3 with a nontrivial path attached; P3 K1,n n
even; Pn + K2 (n odd);P2 + mK1 (m 2); 2Pn (n 2); the disjoint union of two stars;
3K1,n (n 2); Pn Pn+1 (n 2); C3 K1,n ;Pn ; K1,n ; K1,n,n ; the graphs obtained by joining
the centers of any two stars with an edge or a path of length 2; the graphs obtained by
joining the centers of two copies of K1,n (n 3) with a path of length 2 then joining the
center one of copies of K1,n to the center of a third copy of K1,n with a path of length 2;
combs Pn  K1 ; cycles; wheels; fans; gears; Kn if and only if n 5.
In [1122] Lopez, Muntaner-Batle, and Rius-Font give a necessary condition for a complete graph to be edge bimagic in the case that the two constants have the same parity.
In [141] Babujee, Babitha, and Vishnupriya make the following definitions. For any
natural number a, a graph G(p, q) is said to be a-additive super edge bimagic if there exists
a bijective function f from V (G) E(G) to {a + 1, a + 2, . . . , a + p + q} such that for every
edge uv, f (u)+f (v)+f (uv) = k1 or k2 . For any natural number a, a graph G(p, q) is said
to be a-multiplicative super edge bimagic if there exists a bijective f from V (G) E(G) to
{a, 2a, . . . , (p + q)a} such that for every edge uv, f (u) + f (v) + f (uv) = k1 or k2 . A graph
G(p, q) is said to be super edge-odd bimagic if there exists a bijection f from V (G) E(G)
to {1, 3, 5, . . . , 2(p + q) 1} such that for every edge uv f (u) + f (v) + f (uv) = k1 or k2 .
If f is a super edge bimagic labeling, then a function g from E(G) to {0, 1} with the
property that for every edge uv, g(uv) = 0 if f (u) + f (v) + f (uv) = k1 and g(uv) = 1 if
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f (u) + f (v) + f (uv) = k2 is called a super edge bimagic cordial labeling if the number of
edges labeled with 0 and the number of edges labeled with 1 differ by at most 1. They
prove: super edge bimagic graphs are a-additive super edge bimagic; super edge bimagic
graphs are a-multiplicative super edge bimagic; if G is super edge-magic, then G + K1
is super edge bimagic labeling; the union of two super edge magic graphs is super edge
bimagic; and Pn , C2n and K1,n are super edge bimagic cordial.
For any nontrivial Abelian group A under addition a graph G is said to be A-magic if
there exists a labeling f of the edges of G with the nonzero elements of A such that the
vertex labeling f + defined by f + (v) = f (vu) over all edges vu is a constant. In [1615]
and [1616] Stanley noted that Z-magic graphs can be viewed in the more general context
of linear homogeneous diophantine equations. Shiu, Lam, and Sun [1521] have shown
the following: the union of two edge-disjoint A-magic graphs with the same vertex set
is A-magic; the Cartesian product of two A-magic graphs is A-magic; the lexicographic
product of two A-magic connected graphs is A-magic; for an Abelian group A of even
order a graph is A-magic if and only if the degrees of all of its vertices have the same
parity; if G and H are connected and A-magic, G composed with H is A-magic; Km,n is
A-magic when m, n 2 and A has order at least 4; Kn with an edge deleted is A-magic
when n 4 and A has order at least 4; all generalized theta graphs (4.4 for the definition)
are A-magic when A has order at least 4; Cn + Km is A-magic when n 3, m 2 and
A has order at least 2; wheels are A-magic when A has order at least 4; flower graphs
Cm @Cn are A-magic when m, n 2 and A has order at least 4 (Cm @Cn is obtained from
Cn by joining the end points of a path of length m 1 to each pair of consecutive vertices
of Cn ).
When the constant sum of an A-magic graph is zero the graph is called zero-sum
A-magic. The null set N (G) of a graph G is the set of all positive integers h such that
G is zero-sum Zh -magic. Akbari, Ghareghani, Khosrovshahi, and Zare [69] and Akbari,
Kano, and Zare [70] proved that the null set N (G) of an r-regular graph G, r 3, does
not contain the numbers 2, 3 and 4. Akbari, Rahmati, and Zare [71] proved the following:
if G is an even regular graph then G is zero-sum Zh -magic for all h; if G is an odd rregular graph, r 3 and r 6= 5 then N (G) contains all positive integers except 2 and 4;
if an odd regular graph is also 2-edge connected then N (G) contains all positive integers
except 2; and a 2-edge connected bipartite graph is zero-sum Zh -magic for h 6. They
also determine the null set of 2-edge connected bipartite graphs, describe the structure of
some odd regular graphs, r 3, that are not zero-sum 4-magic, and describe the structure
of some 2-edge connected bipartite graphs that are not zero-sum Zh -magic for h = 2, 3, 4.
They conjecture that every 5-regular graph admits a zero-sum 3-magic labeling.
In [1029] Lee, Saba, Salehi, and Sun investigate graphs that are A-magic where A =
V4 Z2 Z2 is the Klein four-group. Many of theorems are special cases of the results of
Shiu, Lam, and Sun [1521] given in the previous paragraph. They also prove the following
are V4 -magic: a tree if and only if every vertex has odd degree; the star K1,n if and only if
n is odd; Km,n for all m, n 2; Kn e (edge deleted Kn ) when n > 3; even cycles with k
pendent edges if and only if k is even; odd cycles with k pendent edges if and only if k is
odd; wheels; Cn + K2 ; generalized theta graphs; graphs that are copies of Cn that share
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a common edge; and G + K2 whenever G is V4 -magic.

In [435] Choi, Georges, and Mauro explore Z2k -magic graphs in terms of even edgecoverings, graph parity, factorability, and nowhere-zero 4-flows. They prove that the
minimum k such that bridgeless G is zero-sum Z2k -magic is equal to the minimum number
of even subgraphs that cover the edges of G, known to be at most 3. They also show
that bridgeless G is zero-sum Z2k -magic for all k 2 if and only if G has a nowhere-zero
4-flow, and that G is zero-sum Z2k -magic for all k 2 if G is Hamiltonian, bridgeless
planar, or isomorphic to a bridgeless complete multipartite graph, and establish equivalent conditions for graphs of even order with bridges to be Z2k -magic for all k 4. In
[633] Georges, Mauro, and Wang utilized well-known results on edge-colorings in order to
construct infinite families that are V4 -magic but not Z4 -magic.
For k 2 and graphs G and H, the graph G k H defined as (G k1 H)  H (where
G 1 H = G  H) is called the k-multilevel corona of G with H. Marbun and Salman
[1160] proved (Wn k1 )  Cn is Wn -edge magic.
Babujee and Shobana [156] prove that the following graphs have Z3 -magic labelings:
C2n ; Kn (n 4); Km,2m (m 3); ladders Pn P2 (n 4); bistars B3n1,3n1 ; and cyclic,
dihedral and symmetric Cayley digraphs for certain generating sets. Siddiqui [1543] proved
that generalized prisms, generalized antiprisms, fans and friendship graphs are Z3k -magic
for k 1. In [441] Chou and Lee investigated Z3 -magic graphs.
Chou and Lee [441] showed that every graph is an induced subgraph of an A-magic
graph for any nontrivial Abelian group A. Thus it is impossible to find a Kuratowski
type characterization of A-magic graphs. Low and Lee [1133] have shown that if a graph
is A1 -magic then it is A2 -magic for any subgroup A2 of A1 and for any nontrivial Abelian
group A every Eulerian graph of even size is A-magic. For a connected graph G, Low and
Lee define T (G) to be the graph obtained from G by adding a disjoint uv path of length
2 for every pair of adjacent vertices u and v. They prove that for every finite nontrivial
Abelian group A the graphs T (P2k ) and T (K1,2n+1 ) are A-magic. Shiu and Low [1528]
show that Kk1 ,k2 ,...,kn (ki 2) is A-magic, for all A where |A| 3. In [1533] Shiu and Low
analyze the A-magic property for complete n-partite graphs and composition graphs with
deleted edges. Lee, Salehi and Sun [1032] have shown that for m, n 3 the double star
DS(m, n) is Z-magic if and only if m = n.
S. M. Lee [994] calls a graph G fully magic if it is A-magic for all nontrivial abelian
groups A. Low and Lee [1133] showed that if G is an eulerian graph of even size, then
G is fully magic. In [994] Lee gives several constructions that produce infinite families of
fully magic graphs and proves that every graph is an induced subgraph of a fully magic
graph.
In [969] Kwong and Lee call the set of all k for which a graph is Zk -magic the integermagic spectrum of the graph. They investigate the integer-magic spectra of the coronas
of some specific graphs including paths, cycles, complete graphs, and stars. Low and Sue
[1136] have obtained some results on the integer-magic spectra of tessellation graphs. Shiu
and Low [1529] provide the integer-magic spectra of sun graphs. Chopra and Lee [439]
determined the integer-magic spectra of all graphs consisting of any number of pairwise
disjoint paths with common end vertices (that is, generalized theta graphs). Low and
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Lee [1133] show that Eulerian graphs of even size are A-magic for every finite nontrivial
Abelian group A whereas Wen and Lee [1863] provide two families of Eularian graphs that
are not A-magic for every finite nontrivial Abelian group A and eight infinite families of
Eulerian graphs of odd sizes that are A-magic for every finite nontrivial Abelian group A.
Low and Lee [1133] also prove that if A is an Abelian group and G and H are A-magic,
then so are G H and the lexicographic product of G and H. Low and Shiu [1135] prove:
K1,n K1,n has a Zn+1 -magic labeling with magic constant 0; if G H is Z2 -magic, then
so are G and H; if G is Zm -magic and H is Zn -magic, then the integer-magic spectra
of G H contains all common multiples of m and n; if n is even and ki 3 then the
integer-magic spectra of Pk1 Pk2 Pkn = {3, 4, 5, . . .}. In [1531] Shiu and Low
determine all positive integers k for which fans and wheels have a Zk -magic labeling with
magic constant 0. Shiu and Low [1532] determined for which k 2 a connected bicyclic
graph without a pendent has a Zk -magic labeling.
Shiu and Low [1530] have introduced the notion of ring-magic as follows. Given a
commutative ring R with unity, a graph G is called R-ring-magic if there exists a labeling
f of the edges of G with the nonzero elements of R such that the vertex labeling f + defined
by f + (v) = f (vu) over all edges vu and vertex labeling f defined by f (v) = f (vu)
over all edges vu are constant. They give some results about R-ring-magic graphs.
In [387] Cahit says that a graph G(p, q) is total magic cordial (TMC) provided there
is a mapping f from V (G) E(G) to {0, 1} such that (f (a) + f (b) + f (ab)) mod 2 is a
constant modulo 2 for all edges ab E(G) and |f (0) f (1)| 1 where f (0) denotes the
sum of the number of vertices labeled with 0 and the number of edges labeled with 0 and
f (1) denotes the sum of the number of vertices labeled with 1 and the number of edges
labeled with 1. He says a graph G is total sequential cordial (TSC) if there is a mapping
f from V (G) E(G) to {0, 1} such that for each edge e = ab with f (e) = |f (a) f (b)|
it is true that |f (0) f (1)| 1 where f (0) denotes the sum of the number of vertices
labeled with 0 and the number of edges labeled with 0 and f (1) denotes the sum of the
number of vertices labeled with 1 and the number of edges labeled with 1. He proves that
the following graphs have a TMC labeling: Km,n (m, n > 1), trees, cordial graphs, and
Kn if and only if n = 2, 3, 5, or 6. He also proves that the following graphs have a TSC
labeling: trees; cycles; complete bipartite graphs; friendship graphs; cordial
graphs; cubic
graphs other than K4
; wheels Wn (n > 3); K4k+1 if and only if k 1 and k is an integer;
K4k+2 if and only if 4k + 1 is an integer; K4k if and only if 4k + 1 is an integer; and
K4k+3 if and only if k + 1 is an integer. In [800] Jeyanthi, Angel Benseera, and Cahit
prove mP2 is TMC if m 6 2 ( mod 4), mPn is TMC for all m 1 and n 3, and obtain
partial results about TMC labelings of mKn .
Jeyanthi and Angel Benseera [798] investigated the existence of totally magic cordial
(TMC) labelings of the one-point unions of copies of cycles, complete graphs and wheels.
In [799] Jeyanthi and Angel Benseera prove that if Gi (pi , qi ), i = 1, 2, 3, . . . , n are totally magic cordial graphs with C = 0 such that pi + qi , i = 1, 2, 3, ..., n are even, and
|pi 2mi | 1, where mi is the number of vertices labeled with 0 in Gi , i = 1, 2, . . . , n,
then G1 + G2 + + Gn is TMC; if G is an odd graph with p + q 2( mod 4), then
G is not TMC; fans Fn are TMC for n 2; wheels Wn (n 3) are TMC if and only if
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n 6 3 (mod 4); mW4t+3 is TMC if and only if m is even; mWn is TMC if n 6 3 (mod 4);
Cn + K 2m+1 is TMC if and only if n 6 3 (mod 4); C2n+1  K m is TMC if and only if m
is odd; the disjoint union of K1,m and K1,n is TMC if and only if m or n is even.
For a bijection f : V (G) E(G) Zk such that for each edge uv E(G), f (u) +
f (v) + f (uv) is constant (mod k) nf (i) denotes the number vertices and edges labeled
by i under f . If |nf (i) nf (j)| 1 for all 0 i < j k 1, f is called a k-totally
magic cordial labeling of G. A graph is said to be k-totally magic cordial if it admits a
k-totally magic cordial labeling. In [801] Jeyanthi, Angel Benseera, and Lau provide some
ways to construct new families of k-totally magic cordial (k-TMC) graphs from a known
k-totally magic cordial graph. Let G (respectively, H) be a (p, q)-graph (respectively,
an (n, m)-graph) that admits a k-TMC labeling f (respectively, g) with constant C such
that nf (i) and vf (i) = kp (or ng (i) and vg (i) = nk ) are constants for all 0 i k 1,
they show that G + H also admits a k-TMC labeling with constant C. They prove the
following. If G is an edge magic total graph, then G is k-TMC for k 2; if G is an
odd graph with p + q k (mod 2k) and k 2 pmod4, then G is not k-TMC; if n 7
(mod 8), Kn  K1 is not 2n-TMC; if n 2 (mod 4), Cn  C3 is not n-TMC; if n 1
(mod 2), Cn  K5 is not 2n-TMC; if n 2 (mod 4), Cn P2 is not n-TMC; Kn (n 3)
is n-TMC; Kn  K1 (n 3) is n-TMC; Sn is n-TMC for all n 1; Km,n (m n 2)
is both m-TMC and n-TMC; Wn is n-TMC for all odd n 3 and is 3-TMC for n 0
(mod 6); mKn (n 2) is n-TMC if n 3 is odd; Kn + Kn is n-TMC if n 3 is odd;
Sn + Sn (n 1) is (n + 1)-TMC; and if m 3 and n is odd, Cn Pm (n 3) is n-TMC.
In [803] Jeyanthi, Angel Benseera, and Lau call a graph G hypo-k-TMC if G {v} is
k-TMC for each vertex v in V (G) and establish that some families of graphs admit and
do not admit hypo-k-TMC labeling.
A binary magic total labeling of a graph G is a function f : V (G) E(G) {0, 1}
such that f (a) + f (b) + f (ab) C (mod 2) for all ab E(G). Jeyanthi and Angel
Benseera [802] define the totally magic cordial deficiency of G as the minimum number of
vertices taken over all binary magic total labeling of G that is necessary to add so that
that the resulting graph is totally magic cordial. The totally magic cordial deficiency of
G is denoted by T (G). They provide T (Kn ) for some cases.
Let G be a graph rooted at a vertex u and fi be a binary magic total labeling of G
and fi (u) = 0 for i = 1, 2, . . . , k and nfi (0) = i , nfi (1) = i for i = 1, 2, . . . , k. Jeyanthi
and Angel Benseera [802] determine the totally magic cordial deficiency of the one-point
union G(n) of n copies of G. They show that for n 3 (mod 4) the totally magic cordial
(4t+1)
(n)
deficiency of Wn , Wn
, W4t+1 and Cn + K 2m+1 is 1; for m odd, T (mW4t+3 ) = 1; and
(n)
for n 1 (mod 4), T (K4 ) = 1.
In 2001, Simanjuntak, Rodgers, and Miller [1198] defined a 1-vertex magic (also
known as distance magic labeling vertex labeling of G(V, E) as a bijection from V to
{1, 2, . . . ,P
|V |} with the property that there is a constant k such that at any vertex v
the sum
f (u) taken over all neighbors of v is k. Among their results are: H K 2k
has a 1-vertex-magic vertex labeling for any regular graph H; the symmetric complete
multipartite graph with p parts, each of which contains n vertices, has a 1-vertex-magic
vertex labeling if and only if whenever n is odd, p is also odd; Pn has a 1-vertex-magic
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vertex labeling if and only if n = 1 or 3; Cn has a 1-vertex-magic vertex labeling if and

only if n = 4; Kn has a 1-vertex-magic vertex labeling if and only if n = 1; Wn has a
1-vertex-magic vertex labeling if and only if n = 4; a tree has a 1-vertex-magic vertex
labeling if and only if it is P1 or P3 ; and r-regular graphs with r odd do not have a
1-vertex-magic vertex labeling.
Miller, Rogers, and Simanjuntak [1198] the complete p-partite (p > 1) graph
Kn,n,...,n (n > 1) has a 1-vertex-magic vertex labeling if and only if either n is even
or np is odd. Shafiq, Ali, Simanjuntak [1497] proved mKn,n,...,n has a 1-vertex-magic vertex labeling if n is even or mnp is odd and m 1, n > 1, and p > 1 and mKn,n,...,n does
not have a 1-vertex-magic vertex labeling if np is odd, p 3 (mod 4, and m is even.
Recall if V (G) = {v1 , v2 , . . . , vp } is the vertex set of a graph G and H1 , H2 , . . . , Hp are
isomorphic copies of a graph H, then G[H] is the graph obtained from G by replacing
each vertex vi of G by Hi and joining every vertex in Hi to every neighbor of vi . Shafiq,
Ali, Simanjuntak [1497] proved if G is an r-regular graph (r 1) then G[Cn ] has a 1vertex-magic vertex labeling if and only if n = 4. They also prove that for m 1 and
n > 1, mCp [Kn ] has 1-vertex-magic vertex labeling if and only if either n is even or mnp
is odd or n is odd and p 3 (mod 4).
For a graph G Jeyanthi and Angel Benseera [797] define a function f from V (G)
E(G) to
P{0, 1} to be a totally vertex-magic cordial labeling (TVMC) with a constant C if
f (a)+ bN (a) f (ab) C (mod 2) for all vertices a V (G) and |nf (0)nf (1)| 1, where
N (a) is the set of vertices adjacent to the vertex a and nf (i) is the sum of the number
of vertices and edges with label i. They prove the following graphs have totally vertexmagic cordial labelings: vertex-magic total graphs; trees; Kn ; Km,n whenever |m n| 1;
Pn + P2 ; friendship graphs with C = 0; and flower graphs F ln for n 3 with C= 0. They
also proved that if G is TVMC with C = 1, then the graph obtained by identifying any
vertex of G with any vertex of a tree is TVMC with C = 1; if G is a (p, q) graph with
|p q| 1, then G is TVMC with C = 1; and if G(p, q) is a TVMC graph with constant
C = 0 where p is odd, then G + K2m is TVMC with C = 1 if m is odd and with C = 0 if
m is even.
Jeyanthi, Angel Benseera and Immaculate Mary [796] showed that the following graphs
have totally magic cordial labelings: (p, q) graphs with |p q| 1; flower graphs F ln for
n 3; ladders; and graphs obtained by identifying a vertex of Cm with each vertex of Cn .
They also proved that if G1 (p1 , q1 ) and G2 (p2 , q2 ) are two disjoint totally magic cordial
graphs with p1 = q1 or p2 = q2 then G1 G2 is totally magic cordial. In Theorem 10 in
[387] Cahit stated that Kn is totally magic cordial if and only if n {2, 3, 5, 6}. Jeyanthi

and Angel Benseera [802] proved that

magic cordial if and only if 4k + 1

Kn is totally
has an integer

value when n = 4k; k + 1 or k have an integer value

when n = 4k + 1;
4k + 5 or 4k + 1 have an integer value when n = 4k + 2; or k + 1 has an integer
value when n = 4k + 3.
A graph G is said to have a totally magic cordial TMC labeling with constant C if there
exists a mapping f : V (G) E(G) {0, 1} such that f (a) + f (b) + f (ab) C (mod 2)
for all ab E(G) and |nf (0) nf (1)| 1, where nf (i) (i = 0, 1) is the sum of the number
of vertices and edges with label i. In [799] Jeyanthi and Angel Benseera prove that if
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Gi (pi , qi ), i = 1, 2, 3, . . . , n are totally magic cordial graphs with C = 0 such that pi + qi ,

i = 1, 2, 3, . . . , n are even, and |pi 2mi | 1, where mi is the number of vertices labeled
with 0 in Gi , i = 1, 2, . . . , n, then G1 + G2 + + Gn is TMC. They also prove the
following. If G be an odd graph with p + q 2 (mod 4), then G is not TMC; fan graph
Fn is TMC for n 2; the wheel graph Wn (n 3) is TMC if and only if n 6 3(mod 4);
mW4t+3 is TMC if and only if m is even; mWn is TMC if n 6 3 (mod 4) and m 1;
Cn + K 2m+1 is TMC if and only if n 6 3 (mod 4); C2n+1  K m is TMC if and only if m
is odd; and the disjoint union of K1,m and K1,n is TMC if and only if m or n is even.
Balbuena, Barker, Lin, Miller, and Sugeng [257] call a vertex-magic total labeling of a
graph G(V, E) an a-vertex consecutive magic labeling if the vertex labels are {a + 1, a +
2, . . . , a + |V |} where 0 a |E|. They prove: if a tree of order n has an a-vertex
consecutive magic labeling then n is odd and a = n 1; if G has an a-vertex consecutive
magic labeling with n vertices and e = n edges, then n is odd and if G has minimum
degree 1, then a = (n + 1)/2 or a = n; if G has an a-vertex
consecutive magic labeling
with n vertices and e edges such that 2a e and 2e 6n 1, then the minimum
degree of G is at least 2; if a 2-regular graph of order n has an a-vertex consecutive magic
labeling, then n is odd and a = 0 or n; and if a r-regular graph of order n has an a-vertex
consecutive magic labeling, then n and r have opposite parities.
Balbuena et al. also call a vertex-magic total labeling of a graph G(V, E) a b-edge
consecutive magic labeling if the edge labels are {b+1, b+2, . . . , b+|E|} where 0 b |V |.
They prove: if G has n vertices and e edges and has a b-edge consecutive magic labeling
and one isolated vertex, then b = 0 and (n 1)2 + n2 = (2e + 1)2 ; if a tree with odd
order has a b-edge consecutive magic labeling then b = 0; if a tree with even order has a
b-edge consecutive magic labeling then it is P4 ; a graph with n vertices and e edges such
that e 7n/4 and b n/4 and a b-edge consecutive magic labeling has minimum degree
2; if a 2-regular graph of order n has a b-edge consecutive magic labeling, then n is odd
and b = 0 or b = n; and if a r-regular graph of order n has an b-edge consecutive magic
labeling, then n and r have opposite parities.
Sugeng and Miller [1636] prove: If (V, E) has an a-vertex consecutive edge magic
labeling, where a 6= 0 and a 6= |E|, then G is disconnected; if (V, E) has an a-vertex
consecutive edge magic labeling, where a 6= 0 and a 6= |E|, then G cannot be the union of
three trees with more than one vertex each; for each nonnegative a and each positive n,
there is an a-vertex consecutive edge magic labeling with n vertices; the union of r stars
and a set of r 1 isolated vertices has an s-vertex consecutive edge magic labeling, where
s is the minimum order of the stars; for every b every caterpillar has a b-edge consecutive
edge magic labeling; if a connected graph G with n vertices has a b-edge consecutive edge
magic labeling where 1 b n 1, then G is a tree; the union of r stars and a set of
r 1 isolated vertices has an r-edge consecutive edge magic labeling.
Babujee, Vishnupriya, and Jagadesh [159] introduced a labeling called a-vertex consecutive edge bimagic total as a graph G(V, E) for which there are two positive integers k1 and
k2 and a bijection f from V E to {1, 2, . . . , |V | + |E|} such that f (u) + f (v) + f (uv) = k1
or k2 for all edges uv and f (V ) = {a + 1, a + 2, . . . , a + |V |}, 0 a |V |. They proved
the following graphs have such labelings: Pn , K1,n , combs, bistars Bm,n , trees obtained by
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adding a pendent edge to a vertex adjacent to the end point of a path, trees obtained by
joining the centers of two stars with a path of length 2, trees obtained from P5 by identifying the center of a copy K1,n with the two end vertices and the middle vertex. In [149]
Babujee and Jagadesh proved that cycles, fans, wheels, and gear graphs have a-vertex
consecutive edge bimagic total labelings. Babujee, Jagadesh, Vishnupriya [151] study the
properties of a-vertex consecutive edge bimagic total labeling for P3  K1,2n , Pn + K2 (n
is odd and n 3), (P2 mK1 ) + K2 , (P2 + mK1 ) (m 2), Cn , fans Pn + K1 , double
fans Pn + 2K1 , and graphs obtained by appending a path of length at least 2 to a vertex
of C3 . Babujee, Jagadesh [150] prove the following graphs have a-vertex consecutive edge
bimagic total labelings: 2Pn (n 2), Pn Pn +1(n 2), K2,n , Cn K1 , and that C3 K1,n
an a-vertex consecutive edge bimagic labeling for a = n + 3.
Vishnupriya, Manimekalai, and Babujee [1821] define a labeling f of a graph G(p, q)
to be a edge bimagic total labeling if there exists a bijection f from V (G) E(G)
{1, 2, . . . , p + q} such that for each edge e = (u, v) E(G) we have f (u) + f (e) + f (v) = k1
or k2 , where k1 and k2 are two constants. They provide edge bimagic total labelings for
Bm,n , K1,n,n , and trees obtained from a path by appending an edge to one of the vertices
adjacent to an endpoint of the path. An edge bimagic total labeling is G(V, E) is called
an a-vertex consecutive edge bimagic total labeling if the vertex labels are {a + 1, a +
2, . . . , a + |V |} where 0 a |E|. Babujee and Jagadesh [147] prove the following graphs
a-vertex consecutive edge-bimagic total labelings: the trees obtained from K1,n by adding
a new pendent edge to each of the existing n pendent vertices; the trees obtained by
adding a pendent path of length 2 to each of the n pendent vertices of K1,n ; the graphs
obtained by joining the centers of two copies of identical stars by a path of length 2; and
the trees obtained from a path by adding new pendent edges to one pendent vertex of
the path. Babujee, Vishnupriya, and Jagadesh [159] proved the following graphs have
such labelings: Pn , K1,n , combs, bistars Bm,n , trees obtained by adding a pendent edge
to a vertex adjacent to the end point of a path, trees obtained by joining the centers
of two stars with a path of length 2, trees obtained from P5 by identifying the center
of a copy K1,n with the two end vertices and the middle vertex. In [149] Babujee and
Jagadesh proved that cycles, fans, wheels, and gear graphs have a-vertex consecutive edge
bimagic total labelings. Babujee, Jagadesh, Vishnupriya [151] study the properties of avertex consecutive edge bimagic total labeling for P3  K1,2n , Pn + K2 (n is odd and
n 3), (P2 mK1 ) + K2 , (P2 + mK1 ) (m 2), Cn , fans Pn + K1 , double fans Pn + 2K1 ,
and graphs obtained by appending a path of length at least 2 to a vertex of C3 . J. Babujee,
R. Jagadesh [150] prove the following graphs have a-vertex consecutive edge bimagic total
labelings: 2Pn (n 2), Pn Pn + 1(n 2), K2,n , Cn  K1 , and that C3 K1,n an a-vertex
consecutive edge bimagic labeling for a = n + 3 Vishnupriya, Manimekalai, and Babujee
[1821] prove that bistars, trees obtained by adding a pendent edge to a vertex adjacent
to the end point of a path, and trees obtained subdividing each edge of a star have edge
bimagic total labelings. Prathap and Babujee [1315] obtain all possible edge magic total
labelings and edge bimagic total labelings for the star K1,n . Magic labelings of directed
graphs are discussed in [1164] and [337].

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6.1

Antimagic-type Labelings
Antimagic Labelings

Hartsfield and Ringel [692] introduced antimagic graphs in 1990. A graph with q edges is
called antimagic if its edges can be labeled with 1, 2, . . . , q without repetition such that
the sums of the labels of the edges incident to each vertex are distinct. Among the graphs
they prove are antimagic are: Pn (n 3), cycles, wheels, and Kn (n 3). T. Wang
[1837] has shown that the toroidal grids Cn1 Cn2 Cnk are antimagic and, more
generally, graphs of the form G Cn are antimagic if G is an r-regular antimagic graph
with r > 1. Cheng [430] proved that all Cartesian products or two or more regular graphs
of positive degree are antimagic and that if G is j-regular and H has maximum degree
at most k, minimum degree at least one (G and H need not be connected), then G H
is antimagic provided that j is odd and j 2 j 2k, or j is even and j 2 > 2k. Wang
and Hsiao [1838] prove the following graphs are antimagic: G Pn (n > 1) where G
is regular; G K1,n where G is regular; compositions G[H] (see 2.3 for the definition)
where H is d-regular with d > 1; and the Cartesian product of any double star (two
stars with an edge joining their centers) and a regular graph. In [429] Cheng proved
that Pn1 Pn2 Pnt (t 2) and Cm Pn are antimagic. In [1591] Solairaju and
Arockiasamy prove that various families of subgraphs of grids Pm Pn are antimagic.
Liang and Zhu [1077] proved that if G is k-regular (k 2), then for any graph H with
|E(H)| |V (H)| 1 1, the Cartesian product H G is anti-magic. They also showed
that if |E(H)| |V (H)| 1 and each connected component of H has a vertex of odd
degree, or H has at least 2|V (H)| 2 edges, then the prism of H is anti-magic.
Lee, Lin and Tsai [988] proved that Cn2 is antimagic and the vertex sums form a set
of successive integers when n is odd.
For a graph G and a vertex v of G, the vertex switching graph Gv is the graph obtained
from G by removing all edges incident to v and adding edges joining v to every vertex
not adjacent to v in G. Vaidya and Vyas [1777] proved that the graphs obtained by the
switching of a pendent vertex of a path, a vertex of a cycle, a rim vertex of a wheel, the
center vertex of a helm, or a vertex of degree 2 of a fan are antimagic graphs.
Phanalasy, Miller, Rylands and Lieby [1277] in 2011 showed that there is a relationship between completely separating systems and labeling of regular graphs. Based on
this relationship they proved that some regular graphs are antimagic. Phanalasy, Miller,
Iliopoulos, Pissis and Vaezpour [1275] proved the Cartesian product of regular graphs
obtained from [1277] is antimagic. Ryan, Phanalasy, Miller and Rylands introduced the
generalized web and flower graphs in [1381] and proved that these families of graphs are
antimagic. Rylands, Phanalasy, Ryan and Miller extended the concept of generalized
web graphs to the single apex multi-generalized web graphs and they proved these graphs
to be antimagic in [1384]. Ryan, Phanalasy, Rylands and Miller extended the concept
of generalized flower to the single apex multi-(complete) generalized flower graphs and
constructed antimagic labeling for this family of graphs in [1382]. For more about antimagicness of generalized web and flower graphs see [1195]. Phanalasy, Ryan, Miller and

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Arumugam [1276] introduced the concept of generalized pyramid graphs and they constructed antimagic labeling for these graphs. Baca, Miller, Phanalasy and Fe
novckova
proved that some join graphs and incomplete join graphs are antimagic in [229]. Moreover, in [211] they proved that the complete bipartite graph Km,m and complete 3-partite
graph Km,m,m are antimagic and if G is a k-regular (connected or disconnected) graph
with p vertices and k 2, then the join of G and (p k)K1 , G + (p k)K1 is antimagic.
A split graph is a graph that has a vertex set that can be partitioned into a clique and
an independent set. Tyshkevich (see [286]) defines a canonically decomposable graph as
follows. For a split graph S with a given partition of its vertex set into an independent
set A and a clique B (denoted by S(A, B)), and an arbitrary graph H the composition
S(A, B) H is the graph obtained by taking the disjoint union of S(A, B) and H and
adding to it all edges having an endpoint in each of B and V (H). If G contains nonempty
induced subgraphs H and S and vertex subsets A and B such that G = S(A, B) H,
then G is canonically decomposable; otherwise G is canonically indecomposable. Barrus
[286] proved that every connected graph on at least 3 vertices that is split or canonically
decomposable is antimagic.
Hartsfield and Ringel [692] conjecture that every tree except P2 is antimagic and,
moreover, every connected graph except P2 is antimagic. Alon, Kaplan, Lev, Roditty,
and Yuster [95] use probabilistic methods and analytic number theory to show that this
conjecture is true for all graphs with n vertices and minimum degree (log n). They
also prove that if G is a graph with n 4 vertices and (G) n 2, then G is
antimagic and all complete partite graphs except K2 are antimagic. Slva [1583] proved
the conjecture for graphs with a regular dominating subgraph. Chawathe and Krishna
[417] proved that every complete m-ary tree is antimagic. Yilma [1915] extended results
on antimagic graphs that contain vertices of large degree by proving that a connected
graph with (G) |V (G)| 3, |V (G)| 9 is antimagic and that if G is a graph with
(G) =deg(u) = |V (G)| k, where k |V (G)|/3 and there exists a vertex v in G such
that the union of neighborhoods of the vertices u and v forms the whole vertex set V (G),
then G is antimagic.
Cranston [470] proved that for k 2, every k-regular bipartite graph is antimagic.
For non-bipartite regular graphs, Liang and Zhu [1078] proved that every cubic graph is
antimagic. That result was generalized by Cranston, Liang and Zhu [472], who proved
that odd degree regular graphs are antimagic. Hartsfield and Ringel [692] proved that
every 2-regular graph is anti-magic. Chang, Liang, Pan, and Zhu [404] proved that every
even degree regular graph is antimagic.
Beck and Jackanich [296] showed that every connected bipartite graph except P2 with
|E| edges admits an edge labeling with labels from {1, 2, . . . , |E|}, with repetition allowed,
such that the sums of the labels of the edges incident to each vertex are distinct. They
call such a graph weak antimagic.
Wang, Liu, and Li [1846] proved: mP3 (m 2) is not antimagic; Pn Pn (n 4)
is antimagic;
Sn Pn is antimagic; Sn Pn+1 is antimagic; Cn Sm is antimagic for

m 2 n + 2; mSn is antimagic; if G and H are graphs of the same order and G H

is antimagic, then so is G + H; and if G and H are r-regular graphs of even order, then
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G + H is antimagic. In [1847] Wang, Liu, and Li proved that if G is an n-vertex graph

with minumum degree at least r and H is an m-vertex graph with miximum degree at
most 2r 1 (m n), then G + H is antimagic.
For any given degree sequence pertaining to a tree, Miller, Phanalasy, Ryan, and
Rylands [1196] gave a construction for two vertex antimagic edge trees with the given
degree sequence and provided a construction to obtain an antimagic unicyclic graph with
a given degree sequence pertaining to a unicyclic graph.
Kaplan, Lev, and Roditty [891] prove that every non-trivial rooted tree for which
every vertex that is a not a leaf has at least two children is antimagic (see [1076]) for a
correction of a minor error the proof). For a graph H with m vertices and an Abelian
group G they define H to be G-antimagic if there is a one-to-one mapping from the edges
of H to the nonzero elements of G such that the sums of the labels of the edges incident to
v, taken over all vertices v of H, are distinct. For any n 2 they show that a non-trivial
rooted tree with n vertices for which every vertex that is a not a leaf has at least two
children is Zn -antimagic if and only if n is odd. They also show that these same trees are
G-antimagic for elementary Abelian groups G with prime exponent congruent to 1 (mod
3).
Liang, Wong, and Zhu [1076] study trees with many degree 2 vertices with a restriction
on the subgraph induced by degree 2 vertices and its complement. Denoting the set of
degree 2 vertices of a tree T by V2 (T ) Liang, Wong, and Zhu proved that if V2 (T ) and
V \ V2 (T ) are both independent sets, or V2 (T ) induces a path and every other vertex has
an odd degree, then T is antimagic.
In [1781] Vaidya and Vyas proved that the middle graphs, total graphs, and shadow
graphs of paths and cycles are antimagic. Krishnaa [956] provided some results for antimagic labelings for graphs derived from wheels.
Bertault, Miller, Pe-Roses, Feria-Puron, and Vaezpour [313] approached labeling problems as combinatorial optimization problems. They developed a general algorithm to determine whether a graph has a magic labeling, antimagic labeling, or an (a, d)-antimagic
labeling. They verified that all trees with fewer than 10 vertices are super edge magic and
all graphs of the form P2r P3s with less than 50 vertices are antimagic. In [221] Baca,
MacDougall, Miller, Slamin, and Wallis survey results on antimagic, edge-magic total,
and vertex-magic total labelings.
In [701] Hefetz, M
utze, and Schwartz investigate antimagic labelings of directed
graphs. An antimagic labeling of a directed graph D with n vertices and m arcs is a
bijection from the set of arcs of D to the integers {1, . . . , m} such that all n oriented
vertex sums are pairwise distinct, where an oriented vertex sum is the sum of labels of
all edges entering that vertex minus the sum of labels of all edges leaving it. Hefetz et
al. raise the questions Is every orientation of any simple connected undirected graph antimagic? and Given any undirected graph G, does there exist an orientation of G which
is antimagic? They call such an orientation an antimagic orientation of G. Regarding the
first question, they state that, except for K1,2 and K3 , they know of no other counterexamples. They prove that there exists an absolute constant C such that for every undirected
graph on n vertices with minimum degree at least Clog n every orientation is antimagic.
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They also show that every orientation of Sn , n 6= 2, is antimagic; every orientation of Wn

is antimagic; and every orientation of Kn , n 6= 3, is antimagic. For the second question
they prove: for odd r, every undirected r-regular graph has an antimagic orientation; for
even r every undirected r-regular graph that admits a matching that covers all but at
most one vertex has an antimagic orientation; and if G is a graph with 2n vertices that
admits a perfect matching and has an independent set of size n such that every vertex
in the independent set has degree at least 3, then G has an antimagic orientation. They
conjecture that every connected undirected graph admits an antimagic orientation and
ask if it true that every connected directed graph with at least 4 vertices is antimagic.
Sonntag [1606] investagated antimagic labelings of hypergraphs. He shows that certain
classes of cacti, cycle, and wheel hypergraphs have antimagic labelings. Javaid and Bhatti
[780] extended some of Sonntags results to disjoint unions of hypergraphs.
Hefetz [700] calls a graph with q edges k-antimagic if its edges can be labeled with
1, 2, . . . , q + k such that the sums of the labels of the edges incident to each vertex are
distinct. In particular, antimagic is the same as 0-antimagic. More generally, given a
weight function from the vertices to the natural numbers Hefetz calls a graph with q
edges (, k)-antimagic if its edges can be labeled with 1, 2, . . . , q + k such that the sums
of the labels of the edges incident to each vertex and the weight assigned to each vertex
by are distinct. In particular, antimagic is the same as (, 0)-antimagic where is the
zero function. Using Alons combinatorial nullstellensatz [94] as his main tool, Hefetz has
proved the following: a graph with 3m vertices and a K3 factor is antimagic; a graph with
q edges and at most one isolated vertex and no isolated edges is (, 2q 4)-antimagic;
a graph with p > 2 vertices that admits a 1-factor is (p 2)-antimagic; a graph with p
vertices and maximum degree n k, where k 3 is any function of p is (3k 7)-antimagic
and, in the case that p 6k 2 , is (k 1)-antimagic. Hefetz, Saluz, and Tran [702] improved
the first of Hefetzs results by showing that a graph with pm vertices, where p is an odd
prime and m is positive, and a Cp factor is antimagic.
Ahmad, Baca, Lascsakova and Semanicova-Fe
novckova [53] call a labeling of a plane
graph d-antimagic if for every positive integer s, the set of s-sided face weights is Ws =
{as , as +d, as +2d, . . . , as +(fs 1)d} for some positive integers as as and d, where fs is the
number of the s-sided faces. (They allow different sets Ws for different s). A d-antimagic
labeling is called super if the smallest possible labels appear on the vertices. In [86] they
investigated the existence of super d-antimagic labelings of type (1, 1, 0) for disjoint union
of plane graphs for several values of difference d.
Baca, Baskoro, Jendrol, and Miller [186] investigated various k-antimagic labelings for
graphs in the shape of hexagonal honeycombs. They use Hnm to denote the honeycomb
graph with m rows, n columns, and mn 6-sided faces. They prove: for n odd Hnm ,
has a 0-antimagic vertex labeling and a 2-antimagic edge labeling, and if n is odd and
mn > 1, Hnm has a 1-antimagic face labeling.
Huang, Wong, and Zhu [751] say a graph G is weighted-k-antimagic if for any vertex
weight function w from the vertices of G to the natural numbers there is an injection f
from
to {1, 2, . . . , |E| + k} such that for any two distinct vertices u and v,
P the edges of GP
(f (e) + w(v)) 6= (f (e) + w(u)) over all edges incidence to v. They proved that if G
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has odd prime power order pz and has total domination number 2 with the degree of one
vertex in the total dominating set not a multiple of p, then G is weighted-1-antimagic, and
if G has odd prime power order pz , p 6= 3 and has maximum degree at least |V (G)| 3,
then G is weighted-1-antimagic.
Wong and Zhu [752] proved: graphs that have a vertex that is adjacent to all other
vertices are weighted-2-antimagic; graphs with a prime number of vertices that have a
Hamiltonian path are weighted-1-antimagic; and connected graphs G 6= K2 on n vertices
are weighted-b3n/2c-antimagic.
In [130] Arumugam and Kamatchi introduced the notion of (a, d)-distance antimagic
graphs as follows. Let G be a graph with vertex
P set V and f : V {1, 2, . . . , |V |} be
a bijection. If for all v in G the set of sums
f (u) taken over all neighbors u of v is
the arithmetic progression {a, a + d, a + 2d, . . . , a + (|V | 1)d}, f is called an (a, d)distance antimagic labeling and G is called a (a, d)-distance antimagic graph. Arumugam
and Kamatchi [130] proved: Cn is (a, d)-distance antimagic if and only if n is odd and
d = 1; there is no (1, d)-distance antimagic labeling for Pn when n 3; a graph G is
(1, d)-distance antimagic graph if and only if every component of G is K2 ; Cn K2 is
(n + 2, 1)-distance antimagic; and the graph obtained from C2n = (v1 , v2 , . . . , v2n ) by
adding the edges v1 vn+1 and vi v2n+2i for i = 2, 3, . . . , n is (2n + 2, 1)-distance antimagic.
In Table 12 we use the abbreviation A to mean antimagic. A question mark following
an abbreviation indicates that the graph is conjectured to have the corresponding property.
The table was prepared by Petr Kovar and Tereza Kovarova and updated by J. Gallian
in 2014.
Table 12: Summary of Antimagic Labelings
Graph
Pn

Labeling
A

Notes
for n 3 [692]

Cn

[692]

Wn

[692]

Kn

for n 3 [692]

every tree
except K2

A?

[692]

regular graphs

[1078], [692], [404]

every connected graph

except K2

A?

[692]

Continued on next page

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Graph
Labeling
n 4 vertices
A
(G) n 2

6.2

Notes
[95]

all complete partite

graphs except K2

[95]

Cm P n

[429]

Pm1 Pm2 Pmk

[429]

Cm1 Cm2 Cmk

[1837]

Cn2

[988]

mP3 m 2

not A

[1846]

(a, d)-Antimagic Labelings

The concept of an (a, d)-antimagic labelings was introduced by Bodendiek and Walther
[340] in 1993. A connected graph G = (V, E) is said to be (a, d)-antimagic if there
exist positive integers a, d and a bijection
Pf : E {1, 2, . . . , |E|} such that the induced
mapping gf : V N , defined by gf (v) = {f (uv)| uv E(G)}, is injective and gf (V ) =
{a, a + d, . . . , a + (|V | 1)d}. (In [1093] Lin, Miller, Simanjuntak, and Slamim called
these (a, d)-vertex-antimagic edge labelings). Bodendick and Walther ([342] and [343])
prove the Herschel graph is not (a, d)-antimagic and obtain both positive and negative
results about (a, d)-antimagic labelings for various cases of graphs called parachutes Pg,p .
(Pg,p is the graph obtained from the wheel Wg+p by deleting p consecutive spokes.) In [201]
Baca and Hollander prove that necessary conditions for Cn P2 to be (a, d)-antimagic are
d = 1, a = (7n + 4)/2 or d = 3, a = (3n + 6)/2 when n is even, and d = 2, a = (5n + 5)/2
or d = 4, a = (n + 7)/2 when n is odd. Bodendiek and Walther [341] conjectured
that Cn P2 (n 3) is ((7n + 4)/2, 1)-antimagic when n is even and is ((5n + 5)/2, 2)antimagic when n is odd. These conjectures were verified by Baca and Hollander [201]
who further proved that Cn P2 (n 3) is ((3n + 6)/2, 3)-antimagic when n is even.
Baca and Hollander [201] conjecture that Cn P2 is ((n + 7)/2, 4)-antimagic when n is
odd and at least 7. Bodendiek and Walther [341] also conjectured that Cn P2 (n 7) is
((n+7)/2, 4)-antimagic. Miller and Baca [1191] prove that the generalized Petersen graph
P (n, 2) is ((3n + 6)/2, 3)-antimagic for n 0 (mod 4), n 8 and conjectured that P (n, k)
is ((3n + 6)/2, 3)-antimagic for even n and 2 k n/2 1 (see 2.7 for the definition of
P (n, k)). This conjecture was proved for k = 3 by Xu, Yang, Xi, and Li [1893]. Jirimutu
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and Wang proved that P (n, 2) is ((5n + 5)/2, 2)-antimagic for n 3 (mod 4) and n 7.
Xu, Xu, L
u, Baosheng, and Nan [1888] proved that P (n, 2) is ((3n + 6)/2, 2)-antimagic
for n 2 (mod 4) and n 10. Xu, Yang, Xi, and Li [1891] proved that P (n, 3) is
((3n + 6)/2, 3)-antimagic for even n 10.
Bodendiek and Walther [344] proved that the following graphs are not (a, d)-antimagic:
(k)
(k)
even cycles; paths of even order; stars; C3 ; C4 ; trees of odd order at least 5 that have a
vertex that is adjacent to three or more end vertices; n-ary trees with at least two layers
when d = 1; the Petersen graph; K4 and K3,3 . They also prove: P2k+1 is (k, 1)-antimagic;
C2k+1 is (k + 2, 1)-antimagic; if a tree of odd order 2k + 1 (k > 1) is (a, d)-antimagic, then
d = 1 and a = k; if K4k (k 2) is (a, d)-antimagic, then d is odd and d 2k(4k 3)+1; if
K4k+2 is (a, d)-antimagic, then d is even and d (2k + 1)(4k 1) + 1; and if K2k+1 (k 2)
is (a, d)-antimagic, then d (2k + 1)(k 1). Lin, Miller, Simanjuntak, and Slamin [1093]
show that no wheel Wn (n > 3) has an (a, d)-antimagic labeling.
In [777] Ivanco, and Semanicova show that a 2-regular graph is super edge-magic if
and only if it is (a, 1)-antimagic. As a corollary we have that each of the following graphs
are (a, 1)-antimagic: kCn for n odd and at least 3; k(C3 Cn ) for n even and at least 6;
k(C4 Cn ) for n odd and at least 5; k(C5 Cn ) for n even and at least 4; k(Cm Cn ) for
m even and at least 6, n odd, and n m/2 + 2. Extending a idea of Kovar they prove
if G is (a1 , 1)-antimagic and H is obtained from G by adding an arbitrary 2k-factor then
H is (a2 , 1)-antimagic for some a2 . As corollaries they observe that the following graphs
are (a, 1)-antimagic: circulant graphs of odd order; 2r-regular Hamiltonian graphs of odd
order; and 2r-regular graphs of odd order n < 4r. They further show that if G is an
(a, 1)-antimagic r-regular graph of order n and n r 1 is a divisor of the non-negative
integer a + n(1 + r (n + 1)/2), then G K1 is supermagic. As a corollary of this result
they have if G is (n 3)-regular for n odd and n 7 or (n 7)-regular for n odd and
n 15, then G K1 is supermagic.
Bertault, Miller, Feria-Puron, and Vaezpour [313] approached labeling problems as
combinatorial optimization problems. They developed a general algorithm to determine
whether a graph has a magic labeling, antimagic labeling, or an (a, d)-antimagic labeling.
They verified that all trees with fewer than 10 vertices are super edge magic and all graphs
of the form P2r P3s with less than 50 vertices are antimagic. Javaid, Hussain, Ali, and Dar
[784] and Javaid, Bhatti, and Hussain [781] constructed super (a, d)-edge-antimagic total
labelings for w-trees and extended w-trees (see 5.1 for the definitions) as well as super
(a, d)-edge-antimagic total labelings for disjoint union of isomorphic and non-isomorphic
copies of extended w-trees. In [782] Javaid and Bhatt defined a generalized w-tree and
proved that they admit a super (a, d)-edge-antimagic total labeling. In [1844] Wang, Li,
and Wang proved that some classes of graphs derived from regular or regular bipartite
graphs are antimagic.
For graphs G and F , if every edge of G belongs to a subgraph of G isomorphic to
F and there exists a total labeling of G such that for every subgraph F 0 of G that is
isomorphic to F , the set {(F 0 ) : F 0
= F, F 0 G} forms an arithmetic progression
starting with a with common difference d, Lee, Tsai, and Lin [987] say that G is (a, d)F -antimagic. Furthermore, if (V (G)) = {1, 2, . . . , |V (G)|} then G is said to be super
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(a, d)-F -antimagic and is said to be a super (a, d)-F -antimagic labeling of G. Lee, Tsai,
and Lin [987] proved that Pm Pn (m, n 2) is super (a, 1)-C4 -antimagic.
Yegnanarayanan [1913] introduced several variations of antimagic labelings and provides some results about them.
The antiprism on 2n vertices has vertex set {x1,1 , . . . , x1,n , x2,1 , . . . , x2,n } and edge set
{xj,i , xj,i+1 } {x1,i , x2,i } {x1,i , x2,i1 } (subscripts are taken modulo n). For n 3 and
n 6 2 (mod 4) Baca [175] gives (6n + 3, 2)-antimagic labelings and (4n + 4, 4)-antimagic
labelings for the antiprism on 2n vertices. He conjectures that for n 2 (mod 4), n 6,
the antiprism on 2n vertices has a (6n+3, 2)-antimagic labeling and a (4n+4, 4)-antimagic
labeling.
Nicholas, Somasundaram, and Vilfred [1248] prove the following: If Km,n where m n
is (a, d)-antimagic, then d divides ((m n)(2a + d(m + n 1)))/4 + dmn/2; if m + n is
prime, then Km,n , where n > m > 1, is not (a, d)-antimagic; if Kn,n+2 is (a, d)-antimagic,
then d is even and n + 1 d < (n + 1)2 /2; if Kn,n+2 is (a, d)-antimagic and n is odd,
then a is even and d divides a; if Kn,n+2 is (a, d)-antimagic and n is even, then d divides
2a; if Kn,n is (a, d)-antimagic, then n and d are even and 0 < d < n2 /2; if G has order n
and is unicylic and (a, d)-antimagic, then (a, d) = (2, 2) when n is even and (a, d) = (2, 2)
or (a, d) = ((n + 3)/2, 1) when n is odd; a cycle with m pendent edges attached at each
vertex is (a, d)-antimagic if and only if m = 1; the graph obtained by joining an endpoint
of Pm with one vertex of the cycle Cn is (2, 2)-antimagic if m = n or m = n 1; if m + n
is even the graph obtained by joining an endpoint of Pm with one vertex of the cycle Cn
is (a, d)-antimagic if and only if m = n or m = n 1. They conjecture that for n odd and
at least 3, Kn,n+2 is ((n + 1)(n2 1)/2, n + 1)-antimagic and they have obtained several
results about (a, d)-antimagic labelings of caterpillars.
In [1811] Vilfred and Florida proved the following: the one-sided infinite path is (1, 2)antimagic; P2n is not (a, d)-antimagic for any a and d; P2n+1 is (a, d)-antimagic if and
only if (a, d) = (n, 1); C2n+1 has an (n + 2, 1)-antimagic labeling; and that a 2-regular
graph G is (a, d)-antimagic if and only if |V (G)| = 2n + 1 and (a, d) = (n + 2, 1). They
also prove that for a graph with an (a, d)-antimagic labeling, q edges, minimum degree
and maximum degree , the vertex labels lie between ( + 1)/2 and (2q + 1)/2.
Chelvam, Rilwan, and Kalaimurugan [418] proved that Cayley digraph of any finite
group admits a super vertex (a, d)-antimagic labeling depending on d and the size of the
generating set. They provide algorithms for constructing the labelings.
For n > 1 and distinct odd integers x, y and z in [1,n 1] Javaid, Ismail, and Salman
[786] define the chordal ring of order n, CRn (x, y, z), as the graph with vertex set Zn , the
additive group of integers modulo n, and edges (i, i + x), (i, i + y), (i, i + z) for all even i.
They prove that CRn (1, 3, 7) and CRn (1, 5, n 1) have (a, d)-antimagic labelings when
n 0 mod 4 and conjecture that for an odd integer , 3 n 3, n 0 mod 4,
CRn ((1, , n 1) has an ((7n + 8)/4, 1)-antimagic labeling.
In [1812] Vilfred and Florida call a graph G = (V, E) odd antimagic if there exist
a bijection f : E P
{1, 3, 5, . . . , 2|E| 1} such that the induced mapping gf : V N ,
defined by gf (v) = {f (uv)| uv E(G)}, is injective and odd (a, d)-antimagic if there
exist positive integers a, d and a bijection f : E {1, 3, 5, . . . , 2|E| 1} such that the
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induced mapping gf : V N , defined by gf (v) = {f (uv)| uv E(G)}, is injective
and gf (V ) = {a, a + d, a + 2d, . . . , a + (|V | 1)d}. Although every (a, d)-antimagic
graph is antimagic, C4 has an antimagic labeling but does not have an (a, d)-antimagic
labeling. They prove: P2n+1 is not odd (a, d)-antimagic for any a and d; C2n+1 has an odd
(2n + 2, 2)-antimagic labeling; if a 2-regular graph G has an odd (a, d)-antimagic labeling,
then |V (G)| = 2n + 1 and (a, d) = (2n + 2, 2); C2n is odd magic; and an odd magic graph
with at least three vertices, minimum degree , maximum degree , and q 2 edges has
all its vertex labels between 2 and (2q ).
In Table 13 we use the abbreviation (a, d)-A to mean that the graph has an (a, d)antimagic labeling. A question mark following an abbreviation indicates that the graph
is conjectured to have the corresponding property. The table was prepared by Petr Kovar
and Tereza Kovarova and updated by J. Gallian in 2008.
Table 13: Summary of (a, d)-Antimagic Labelings
Graph
P2n

Labeling
not (a, d)-A

Notes
[344]

P2n+1

iff (n, 1)-A

[344]

C2n

not (a, d)-A

[344]

C2n+1

(n + 2, 1)-A

[344]

stars

not (a, d)-A

[344]

C3 , C4
K3,3

not (a, d)-A

not (a, d)-A

[344]
[344]

K4

not (a, d)-A

[344]

Petersen graph

not (a, d)-A

[344]

Wn

not (a, d)-A

n > 3 [1093]

(k)

(k)

antiprism on 2n
vertices (see 6.2)

(6n + 3, 2)-A
(4n + 4, 4)-A
(2n + 5, 6)-A?
(6n + 3, 2)-A?
(4n + 4, 4)-A?
Hershel graph (see [413]) not (a, d)-A
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n 3, n 6 2
n 4 [175]
n 6, n 6 2
n 6, n 6 2
[340], [342]

(mod 4) [175]
(mod 4) [175]
(mod 4) [175]
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Graph
Labeling

Notes

parachutes Pg,p (see 6.2) (a, d)-A

for certain classes [340], [342]

prisms Cn P2

n 3,
n 3,
n 3,
n 7,
n 8,

generalized Petersen
graph P (n, 2)

6.3

((7n + 4)/2, 1)-A

((5n + 5)/2, 2)-A
((3n + 6)/2, 3)-A
((n + 7)/2, 4)-A?
((3n + 6)/2, 3)-A

n even [341], [201]

n odd [341], [201]
n even [201]
[342], [201]
n 0 (mod 4) [202]

(a, d)-Antimagic Total Labelings

Baca, Bertault, MacDougall, Miller, Simanjuntak, and Slamin [191] introduced the notion
of a (a, d)-vertex-antimagic total labeling in 2000. For a graph G(V, E), an injective
mapping f from V E toPthe set {1, 2, . . . , |V | + |E|} is a (a, d)-vertex-antimagic total
labeling if the set {f (v) + f (vu)} where the sum is over all vertices u adjacent to v for
all v in G is {a, a+d, a+2d, . . . , a+(|V |1)d}. In the case where the vertex labels are 1,2,
. . . , |V |, (a, d)-vertex-antimagic total labeling is called a super (a, d)-vertex-antimagic total
labeling. Among their results are: every super-magic graph has an (a, 1)-vertex-antimagic
total labeling; every (a, d)-antimagic graph G(V, E) is (a + |E| + 1, d + 1)-vertex-antimagic
total; and, for d > 1, every (a, d)-antimagic graph G(V, E) is (a + |V | + |E|, d 1)-vertexantimagic total. They also show that paths and cycles have (a, d)-vertex-antimagic total
labelings for a wide variety of a and d. In [192] Baca et al. use their results in [191]
to obtain numerous (a, d)-vertex-antimagic total labelings for prisms, and generalized
Petersen graphs (see 2.7 for the definition). (See also [204] and [1638] for more results
on generalized Petersen graphs.)
Sugeng, Miller, Lin, and Baca [1638] prove: Cn has a super (a, d)-vertex-antimagic
total labeling if and only if d = 0 or 2 and n is odd, or d = 1; Pn has a super (a, d)-vertexantimagic total labeling if and only if d = 2 and n 3 is odd, or d = 3 and n 3; no
even order tree has a super (a, 1)-vertex antimagic total labeling; no cycle with at least
one tail and an even number of vertices has a super (a, 1)-vertex-antimagic labeling; and
the star Sn , n 3, has no super (a, d)-super antimagic labeling. As open problems they
ask whether Kn,n has a super (a, d)-vertex-antimagic total labeling and the generalized
Petersen graph has a super (a, d)-vertex-antimagic total labeling for specific values a, d,
and n. Lin, Miller, Simanjuntak, and Slamin [1093] have shown that for n > 20, Wn
has no (a, d)-vertex-antimagic total labeling. Tezer and Cahit [1680] proved that neither
Pn nor Cn has (a, d)-vertex-antimagic total labelings for a 3 and d 6. Kovar [949]
has shown that every 2r-regular graph with n vertices has an (s, 1)-vertex antimagic total
labeling for s {(rn + 1)(r + 1) + tn | t = 0, 1, . . . , r}.
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Several papers have been written about vertex-antimagic total labeling of graphs that
are the disjoint union of suns. The sun graph Sn is Cn  K1 . Rahim and Sugeng [1326]
proved that Sn1 Sn2 Snt is (a, 0)-vertex-antimagic total (or vertex magic total);
Parestu, Silaban, and Sugeng [1262] and [1263] proved Sn1 Sn2 Snt is (a, d)-vertexantimagic total for d = 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6 and particular values of a. In [1324] Rahim, Ali,
Kashif, and Javaid provide (a, d)-vertex antimagic total labelings of disjoint unions of
cycles, sun graphs, and disjoint unions of sun graphs.
In [1238] Ngurah, Baskova, and Simanjuntak provide (a, d)-vertex-antimagic total labelings for the generalized Petersen graphs P (n, m) for the cases: n 3, 1 m
b(n 1)/2c, (a, d) = (8n + 3, 2); odd n 5, m = 2, (a, d) = ((15n + 5)/2, 1); odd
n 5, m = 2, (a, d) = ((21n + 5)/2, 1); odd n 7, m = 3, (a, d) = ((15n + 5)/2, 1); odd
n 7, m = 3, (a, d) = ((21n + 5)/2, 1); odd n 9, m = 4, (a, d) = ((15n + 5)/2, 1);
and (a, d) = ((21n + 5)/2, 1). They conjecture that for n odd and 1 m b(m 1)/2c,
P (n, m) has an ((21n + 5)/2, 1)-vertex-antimagic labeling. In [1643] Sugeng and Silaban
show: the disjoint union of any number of odd cycles of orders n1 , n2 , . . . , nt , each at least
5, has a super (3(n1 + n2 + + nt ) + 2, 1)-vertex-antimagic total labeling; for any odd
positive integer t, the disjoint union of t copies of the generalized Petersen graph P (n, 1)
has a super (10t + 2)n bn/2c + 2, 1)-vertex-antimagic total labeling; and for any odd
positive integers t and n (n 3), the disjoint union of t copies of the generalized Petersen
graph P (n, 2) has a super (21tn + 5)/2, 1)-vertex-antimagic total labeling.
Ail, Baca, Lin, and Semanicova-Fe
novcikova [86] investigated super-(a, d)-vertex antimagic total labelings of disjoint unions of regular graphs. Among their results are: if
m and (m 1)(r + 1)/2 are positive integers and G is an r-regular graph that admits
a super-vertex magic total labeling, then mG has a super-(a, 2)-vertex antimagic total
labeling; if G has a 2-regular super-(a, 1)-vertex antimagic total labeling, then mG has a
super-(m(a 2) + 2, 1), 1)-vertex antimagic total labeling; mCn has a super-(a, d)-vertex
antimagic total labeling if and only if either d is 0 or 2 and m and n are odd and at
least 3 or d = 1 and n 3; and if G is an even regular Hamilton graph, then mG has a
super-(a, 1)-vertex antimagic total labeling for all positive integers m.
Ahmad, Ali, Baca, Kovar and Semanicova-Fe
novckova [45] provided a technique that
allows one to construct several (a, r)-vertex-antimagic edge labelings for any 2r-regular
graph G of odd order provided the graph is Hamiltonian or has a 2-regular factor that
has (b, 1)-vertex-antimagic edge labeling. A similar technique allows them to construct a
super (a, d)-vertex-antimagic total labeling for any 2r-regular Hamiltonian graph of odd
order with differences d = 1, 2, . . . , r and d = 2r + 2.
Sugeng and Bong [1632] show how to construct super (a, d)-vertex antimagic total
labelings for the circulant graphs Cn (1, 2, 3), for d = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 8. Thirusangu, Nagar,
and Rajeswari [1684] show that certain Cayley digraphs of dihedral groups have (a, d)vertex-magic total labelings.
For a simple graph H we say that G(V, E) admits an H-covering, if every edge in E(G)
belongs to a subgraph of G that is isomorphic to H. Inayah, Salman, and Simanjuntak
[765] define an (a, d)-H-antimagic total labeling of G as a bijective function from V
E {1, 2, . . . , |V | + |E|} such that for all subgraphs H 0 isomorphic to H, the H-weights
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P
P
w(H 0 ) = vV (H 0 ) (v) + eE(H 0 ) (e) constitute an arithmetic progression a, a + d, a +
2d, . . . , a + (t 1)d where a and d are positive integers and t is the number of subgraphs
of G isomorphic to H. Such a labeling is called a super (a, d)-H-antimagic total labeling,
if (V ) = {1, 2, . . . , |V |}. Inayah et al. study some basic properties of such labeling and
give (a, d)-cycle-antimagic labelings of fans.
A graph G is said to have an (H1 , H2 , . . . , Hk )-covering if every edge in G belongs
to at least one of the Hi s. Susilowati, Sania, and Estuningsih [1660] investigated such
labelings for the ladders Pn P2 with C4 -, C6 - and C8 - coverings for some value of d.
Simanjuntak, Bertault, and Miller [1548] define an (a,d)-edge-antimagic vertex labeling
for a graph G(V, E) as an injective mapping f from V onto the set {1, 2, . . . , |V |} such
that the set {f (u) + f (v)|uv E} is {a, a + d, a + 2d, . . . , a + (|E| 1)d}. (The equivalent
notion of (a,d)-indexable labeling was defined by Hegde in 1989 in his Ph. D. thesissee
[704].) Similarly, Simanjuntak et al. define an (a,d)-edge-antimagic total labeling for a
graph G(V, E) as an injective mapping f from V E onto the set {1, 2, . . . , |V | + |E|}
such that the set {f (v) + f (vu) + f (v)|uv E} where v ranges over all of V is {a, a +
d, a + 2d, . . . , a + (|V | 1)d}. Among their results are: C2n has no (a, d)-edge-antimagic
vertex labeling; C2n+1 has a (n + 2, 1)-edge-antimagic vertex labeling and a (n + 3, 1)edge-antimagic vertex labeling; P2n has a (n +2, 1)-edge-antimagic vertex labeling; Pn has
a (3, 2)-edge-antimagic vertex labeling; Cn has (2n + 2, 1)- and (3n + 2, 1)-edge-antimagic
total labelings; C2n has (4n + 2, 2)- and (4n + 3, 2)-edge-antimagic total labelings; C2n+1
has (3n + 4, 3)- and (3n + 5, 3)-edge-antimagic total labelings; P2n+1 has (3n + 4, 2)-,
(3n + 4, 3)-, (2n + 4, 4)-, (5n + 4, 2)-, (3n + 5, 2)-, and (2n + 6, 4)-edge-antimagic total
labelings; P2n has (6n, 1)- and (6n+2, 2)-edge-antimagic total labelings; and several parity
conditions for (a, d)-edge-antimagic total labelings. They conjecture: C2n has a (2n+3, 4)or a (2n + 4, 4)-edge-antimagic total labeling; C2n+1 has a (n + 4, 5)- or a (n + 5, 5)-edgeantimagic total labeling; paths have no (a, d)-edge-antimagic vertex labelings with d > 2;
and cycles have no (a, d)-antimagic total labelings with d > 5. The first and last of these
conjectures were proved by Zhenbin in [1951] and the last two were verified by Baca, Lin,
Miller, and Simanjuntak [213] who proved that a graph with v vertices and e edges that
has an (a, d)-edge-antimagic vertex labeling must satisfy d(e1) 2v1a 2v4. As a
consequence, they obtain: for every path there is no (a, d)-edge-antimagic vertex labeling
with d > 2; for every cycle there is no (a, d)-edge-antimagic vertex labeling with d > 1; for
Kn (n > 1) there is no (a, d)-edge-antimagic vertex labeling (the cases for n = 2 and n = 3
are handled individually); Kn,n (n > 3) has no (a, d)-edge-antimagic vertex labeling; for
every wheel there is no (a, d)-edge-antimagic vertex labeling; for every generalized Petersen
graph there is no (a, d)-edge-antimagic vertex labeling with d > 1. They also study the
relationship between graphs with (a, d)-edge-antimagic labelings and magic and antimagic
labelings. They conjecture that every tree has an (a, 1)-edge-antimagic total labeling.
Baca and Barrientos [179] prove that if a tree T has an -labeling and {A, B} is the
bipartition of the vertices of T , then T also admits an (a, 1)-edge-antimagic vertex labeling
and it admits a (3, 2)-edge-antimagic vertex labeling if and only if ||A| |B|| 1.
In [213] Baca, Lin, Miller, and Simanjuntak prove: if Pn has an (a, d)-edge-antimagic
total labeling, then d 6; Pn has (2n + 2, 1)-, (3n, 1)-, (n + 4, 3)-, and (2n + 2, 3)-edgethe electronic journal of combinatorics 17 (2014), #DS6

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antimagic total labelings; P2n+1 has (3n + 4, 2)-,(5n + 4, 3)-, (2n + 4, 4)-, and (2n + 6, 4)edge-antimagic total labelings; and P2n has (3n+3, 2)- and (5n+1, 2)-edge-antimagic total
labelings. Ngurah [1236] proved P2n+1 has (4n + 4, 1)-, (6n + 5, 3)-,(4n + 4, 2)-,(4n + 5, 2)edge-antimagic total labelings and C2n+1 has (4n + 4, 2)- and (4n + 5, 2)-edge-antimagic
total labelings. Silaban and Sugeng [1547] prove: Pn has (n + 4, 4)- and (6, 6)-edgeantimagic total labelings; if Cm  Kn has an (a, d)-edge-antimagic total labeling, then
d 5; Cm  Kn has (a, d)-edge-antimagic total labelings for m > 3, n > 1 and d = 2
or 4; and Cm  Kn has no (a, d)-edge-antimagic total labelings for m and d and n 1
mod 4. They conjecture that Pn (n 3) has (a, 5)-edge-antimagic total labelings. In
[1644] Sugeng and Xie use adjacency methods to construct super edge magic graphs
from (a, d)-edge-antimagic vertex graphs. Pushpam and Saibulla [1319] determined super
(a, d)-edge antimagic total labelings for graphs derived from copies of generalized ladders,
fans, generalized prisms and web graphs. Ahmad, Ali, Baca, Kovar, and SemanicovaFe
novckova, investigated the vertex-antimagicness of regular graphs and the existence of
(super) (a, d)-vertex antimagic total labelings for regular graphs in general.
In [238] Baca and Youssef used parity arguments to find a large number of conditions
on p, q and d for which a graph with p vertices and q edges cannot have an (a, d)-edgeantimagic total labeling or vertex-antimagic total labeling. Baca and Youssef [238] made
the following connection between (a, d)-edge-antimagic vertex labelings and sequential
labelings: if G is a connected graph other than a tree that has an (a, d)-edge-antimagic
vertex labeling, then G + K1 has a sequential labeling.
In [1624] Sudarsana, Ismaimuza, Baskoro, and Assiyatun prove: for every n 2, Pn
Pn+1 has a (6n + 1, 1)- and a (4n + 3, 3)-edge-antimagic total labeling, for every odd
n 3, Pn Pn+1 has a (6n, 1)- and a (5n + 1, 2)-edge-antimagic total labeling, for every
n 2, nP2 Pn has a (7n, 1)- and a (6n + 1, 2)-edge-antimagic total labeling. In [1621]
the same authors show that Pn Pn+1 , nP2 Pn (n 2), and nP2 Pn+2 are super edgemagic total. They also show that under certain conditions one can construct new super
edge-magic total graphs from existing ones by joining a particular vertex of the existing
super edge-magic total graph to every vertex in a path or every vertex of a star and by
joining one extra vertex to some vertices of the existing graph. Baskoro, Sudarsana, and
Cholily [289] also provide algorithms for constructing new super edge-magic total graphs
from existing ones by adding pendent vertices to the existing graph. A corollary to one
of their results is that the graph obtained by attaching a fixed number of pendent edges
to each vertex of a path of even length is super edge-magic. Baskoro and Cholily [287]
show that the graphs obtained by attaching any numbers of pendent edges to a single
vertex or a fix number of pendent edges to every vertex of the following graphs are super
edge-magic total graphs: odd cycles, the generalized Petersen graphs P (n, 2) (n odd and
at least 5), and Cn Pm (n odd, m 2).
(n)
Arumugam and Nalliah [131] proved: the friendship graph C3 with n 0, 8 (mod 12)
(n)
has no super (a, 2)-edge-antimagic total labeling; Cn with n 2 (mod 4) has no super
(a, 2)-edge-antimagic total labeling; and the generalized friendship graph F2,p consisting
of 2 cycles of various lengths, having a common vertex, and having order p where p 5,
has a super (2p + 2, 1)-edge-antimagic total labeling if and only if p is odd.
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An (a, d)-edge-antimagic total labeling of G(V, E) is called a super (a,d)-edgeantimagic total if the vertex labels are {1, 2, . . . , |V (G)|} and the edge labels are
{|V (G)| + 1, |V (G)| + 2, . . . , |V (G)| + |E(G)|}. Baca, Baskoro, Simanjuntak, and Sugeng
[190] prove the following: Cn has a super (a, d)-edge-antimagic total labeling if and only
if either d is 0 or 2 and n is odd, or d = 1; for odd n 3 and m = 1 or 2, the generalized
Petersen graph P (n, m) has a super (11n + 3)/2, 0)-edge-antimagic total labeling and a
super ((5n + 5)/2, 2)-edge-antimagic total labeling; for odd n 3, P (n, (n 1)/2) has
a super ((11n + 3)/2, 0)-edge-antimagic total labeling and a super ((5n + 5)/2, 2)-edgeantimagic total labeling. They also prove: if P (n, m), n 3, 1 m b(n 1)/2c
is super (a, d)-edge-antimagic total, then (a, d) = (4n + 2, 1) if n is even, and either
(a, d) = ((11n + 3)/2, 0), or (a, d) = (4n + 2, 1), or (a, d) = ((5n + 5)/2, 2), if n is odd;
and for odd n 3 and m = 1, 2, or (n 1)/2, P (n, m) has an (a, 0)-edge-antimagic
total labeling and an (a, 2)-edge-antimagic total labeling. (In a personal communication MacDougall argues that edge-magic is a better term than (a, 0)-edge-antimagic
for while the latter is technically correct, antimagic suggests different weights whereas
magic emphasizes equal weights and that the edge-magic case is much more important,
interesting, and fundamental rather than being just one subcase of equal value to all the
others.) They conjecture that for odd n 9 and 3 m (n 3)/2, P (n, m) has a (a, 0)edge-antimagic total labeling and an (a, 2)-edge-antimagic total labeling. Ngurah and
Baskoro [1237] have shown that for odd n 3, P (n, 1) and P (n, 2) have ((5n + 5)/2, 2)edge-antimagic total labelings and when n 3 and 1 m < n/2, P (n, m) has a super
(4n + 2, 1)-edge-antimagic total labeling. In [1238] Ngurah, Baskova, and Simanjuntak
provide (a, d)-edge-antimagic total labelings for the generalized Petersen graphs P (n, m)
for the cases m = 1 or 2, odd n 3, and (a, d) = ((9n + 5)/2, 2).
In [1622] Sudarsana, Baskoro, Uttunggadewa, and Ismaimuza show how to construct
new larger super (a, d)-edge-antimagic-total graphs from existing smaller ones.
In [1239] Ngurah, Baskoro, and Simanjuntak prove that mCn (n 3) has an (a, d)edge-antimagic total in the following cases: (a, d) = (5mn/2 + 2, 1) where m is even;
(a, d) = (2mn + 2, 2); (a, d) = ((3mn + 5)/2, 3) for m and n odd; and (a, d) = ((mn + 3), 4)
for m and n odd; and mCn has a super (2mn + 2, 1)-edge-antimagic total labeling.
Baca and Barrientos [180] have shown that mKn has a super (a, d)-edge-antimagic total
labeling if and only if (i) d {0, 2}, n {2, 3} and m 3 is odd, or (ii) d = 1, n 2
and m 2, or (iii) d {3, 5}, n = 2 and m 2, or (iv) d = 4, n = 2, and m 3 is
odd. In [179] Baca and Barrientos proved the following: if a graph with q edges and q + 1
vertices has an -labeling, than it has an (a, 1)-edge-antimagic vertex labeling; a tree has
a (3, 2)-edge-antimagic vertex labeling if and only if it has an -labeling and the number
of vertices in its two partite sets differ by at most 1; if a tree with at least two vertices
has a super (a, d)-edge-antimagic total labeling, then d is at most 3; if a graph has an
(a, 1)-edge-antimagic vertex labeling, then it also has a super (a1 , 0)-edge-antimagic total
labeling and a super (a2 , 2)-edge-antimagic total labeling.
Baca and Youssef [237] proved the following: if G is a connected (a, d)-edge-antimagic
vertex graph that is not a tree, then G+K1 is sequential; mCn has an (a, d)-edge-antimagic
vertex labeling if and only if m and n are odd and d = 1; an odd degree (p, q)-graph G
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cannot have a (a, d)-edge-antimagic total labeling if p 2 (mod 4) and q 0 (mod 4),
or p 0 (mod 4), q 2 (mod 4), and d is even; a (p, q)-graph G cannot have a super
(a, d)-edge-antimagic total labeling if G has odd degree, p 2 (mod 4), q is even, and d
is odd, or G has even degree, q 2 (mod 4), and d is even; Cn has a (2n + 2, 3)- and an
(n + 4, 3)-edge-antimagic total labeling; a (p, q)-graph is not super (a, d)-vertex-antimagic
total if: p 2 (mod 4) and d is even; p 0 (mod 4), q 2 (mod 4), and d is odd; p 0
(mod 8) and q 2 (mod 4).
In [1624] Sudarsana, Ismaimuza, Baskoro, and Assiyatun prove: for every n 2, Pn
Pn+1 has super (n + 4, 1)- and (2n + 6, 3)-edge antimagic total labelings; for every odd
n 3, Pn Pn+1 has super (4n + 5, 1)-,(3n + 6, 2)-, (4n + 3, 1)- and (3n + 4, 2)-edge
antimagic total labelings; for every n 2, nP2 Pn has super (6n + 2, 1)- and (5n + 3, 2)edge antimagic total labelings; and for every n 1, nP2 Pn+2 has super (6n + 6, 1)- and
(5n + 6, 2)-edge antimagic total labelings. They pose a number of open problems about
constructing (a, d)-edge antimagic labelings and super (a, d)-edge antimagic labelings for
the graphs Pn Pn+1 , nP2 Pn , and nP2 Pn+2 for specific values of d.
Dafik, Miller, Ryan, and Baca [475] investigated the super edge-antimagicness of the
disconnected graph mCn and mPn . For the first case they prove that mCn , m 2, has
a super (a, d)-edge-antimagic total labeling if and only if either d is 0 or 2 and m and
n are odd and at least 3, or d = 1, m 2, and n 3. For the case of the disjoint
union of paths they determine all feasible values for m, n and d for mPn to have a super
(a, d)-edge-anti-magic total labeling except when m is even and at least 2, n 2, and d
is 0 or 2. In [477] Dafik, Miller, Ryan, and Baca obtain a number of results about super
edge-antimagicness of the disjoint union of two stars and state three open problems.
Sudarsana, Hendra, Adiwijaya, and Setyawan [1623] show that the t-joint copies of
wheel Wn have a super edge anti-magic ((2n + 2)t + 2, 1)-total labeling for n 4 and
t 2.
In [207] Baca, Lascsakova, and Semanicova investigated the connection between graphs
with -labelings and graphs with super (a, d)-edge-antimagic total labelings. Among their
results are: If G is a graph with n vertices and n 1 edges (n 3) and G has an labeling, then mG is super (a, d)-edge-antimagic total if either d is 0 or 2 and m is odd,
or d = 1 and n is even; if G has an -labeling and has n vertices and n 1 edges with
vertex bipartition sets V1 and V2 where |V1 | and |V2 | differ by at most 1, then mG is super
(a, d)edge-antimagic total for d = 1 and d = 3. In the same paper Baca et al. prove:
caterpillars with odd order at least 3 have super (a, 1)-edge-antimagic total labelings; if
G is a caterpillar of odd order at least 3 and G has a super (a, 1)-edge-antimagic total
labeling, then mG has a super (b, 1)-edge-antimagic total labeling for some b that is a
function of a and m.
In [474] Dafik, Miller, Ryan, and Baca investigated the existence of antimagic labelings
of disjoint unions of s-partite graphs. They proved: if s 0 or 1 (mod 4), s 4, m
2, n 1 or mn is even , m 2, n 1, s 4, then the complete s-partite graph mKn,n,...,n
has no super (a, 0)-edge-antimagic total labeling; if m 2 and n 1, then mKn,n,n,n has
no super (a, 2)-antimagic total labeling; and for m 2 and n 1, mKn,n,n,n has an
(8mn + 2, 1)-edge-antimagic total labeling. They conjecture that for m 2, n 1 and
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s 5, the complete s-partite graph mKn,n,...,n has a super (a, 1)-antimagic total labeling.
In [232] Baca, Muntaner-Batle, Semanicova-Fe
novcikova, and Shafiq investigate super
(a, d)-edge-antimagic total labelings of disconnected graphs. Among their results are: If
G is a (super) (a, 2)-edge-antimagic total labeling and m is odd, then mG has a (super)
(a0 , 2)-edge-antimagic-total labeling where a0 = m(a 3) + (m + 1)/2 + 2; and if d a
positive even integer and k a positive odd integer, G is a graph with all of its vertices
having odd degree, and the order and size of G have opposite parity, then 2kG has no
(a, d)-edge-antimagic total labeling. Baca and Brankovic [193] have obtained a number of
results about the existence of super (a, d)-edge-antimagic totaling of disjoint unions of the
form mKn,n . In [197] Baca, Dafik, Miller, and Ryan provide (a, d)-edge-antimagic vertex
labelings and super (a, d)-edge-antimagic total labelings for a variety of disjoint unions
of caterpillars. Baca and Youssef [238] proved that mCn has an (a, d)-edge-antimagic
vertex labeling if and only if m and n are odd and d = 1. Baca, Dafik, Miller, and
Ryan [198] constructed super (a, d)-edge-antimagic total labeling for graphs of the form
m(Cn  K s ) and mPn kCn while Dafik, Miller, Ryan, and Baca [476] do the same for
graphs of the form mKn,n,n and K1,m 2sK1,n . Both papers provide a number of open
problems. In [220] Baca, Lin, and Muntaner-Batle provide super (a, d)-edge-antimagic
total labeling of forests in which every component is a specific kind of tree. In [206] Baca,
Ko
var, Semanicova-Fe
novcikova, and Shafiq prove that every even regular graph and
every odd regular graph with a 1-factor are super (a, 1)-edge-antimagic total and provide
some constructions of non-regular super (a, 1)-edge-antimagic total graphs. Baca, Lin and
Semanicova-Fe
novcikova [222] show: the disjoint union of m graphs with super (a, 1)-edge
antimagic total labelings have super (m(a 2) + 2, 1)-edge antimagic total labelings; the
disjoint union of m graphs with super (a, 3)-edge antimagic total labelings have super
(m(a 3) + 3, 3)-edge antimagic total labelings; if G has a (a, 1)-edge antimagic total
labelings then mG has an (b, 1)-edge antimagic total labeling for some b; and if G has a
(a, 3)-edge antimagic total labelings then mG has an (b, 3)-edge antimagic total labeling
for some b.
For t 2 and n 4 the Harary graph, Cpt , is the graph obtained by joining every two
vertices of Cp that are at distance t in Cp . In [1324] Rahim, Ali, Kashif, and Javaid provide
super (a, d)-edge antimagic total labelings for disjoint unions of Harary graphs and disjoint
unions of cycles. In [753] Hussain, Ali, Rahim, and Baskoro construct various (a, d)-vertexantimagic labelings for Harary graphs and disjoint unions of identical Harary graphs. For
p odd and at least 5, Balbuena, Barker, Das, Lin, Miller, Ryan, Slamin, Sugeng, and Tkac
[245] give a super ((17p + 5)/2)-vertex-antimagic total labeling of Cpt . MacDougall and
t
Wallis [1149] have proved the following: C4m+3
, m 1, has a super (a, 0)-edge-antimagic
t
total labeling for all possible values of t with a = 10m + 9 or 10m + 10; C4m+1
, m 3, has
a super (a, 0)-edge-antimagic total labeling for all possible values except t = 5, 9, 4m 4,
t
and 4m 8 with a = 10m + 4 and 10m + 5; C4m+1
, m 1, has a super (10m + 4, 0)t
edge-antimagic total labeling for all t 1 (mod 4) except 4m 3; C4m
, m > 1, has a
t
super (10m + 2, 0)-edge-antimagic total labeling for all t 2 (mod 4); C4m+2 , m > 1, has
a super (10m + 7, 0)-edge-antimagic total labeling for all odd t other than 5 and for t = 2
or 6. In [754] Hussain, Baskoro, and Ali prove the following: for any p 4 and for any
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t 2, Cpt admits a super (2p + 2, 1)-edge-antimagic total labeling; for n 4, k 2 and

t 2, kCnt admits a super (2nk + 2, 1)-edge-antimagic total labeling; and for p 5 and
t 2, Cpt admits a super (8p + 3, 1)-vertex-antimagic total labeling, provided if p 6= 2t.
Baca and Murugan [233] have proved: if Cnt , n 4, 2 t n 2, is super (a, d)edge-antimagic total, then d = 0, 1, or 2; for n = 2k + 1 5, Cnt has a super (a, 0)edge-antimagic total labeling for all possible values of t with a = 5k + 4 or 5k + 5; for
n = 2k+1 5, Cnt has a super (a, 2)-edge-antimagic total labeling for all possible values of
t with a = 3k +3 or 3k +4; for n 0 (mod 4), Cnt has a super (5n/2+2, 0)-edge-antimagic
total labeling and a super (3n/2+2, 0)-edge-antimagic total labeling for all t 2 (mod 4);
for n = 10 and n 2 (mod 4), n 18, Cnt has a super (5n/2 + 2, 0)-edge-antimagic total
labeling and a super (3n/2 + 2, 0)-edge-antimagic total labeling for all t 3 (mod 4) and
for t = 2 and 6; for odd n 5, Cnt has a super (2n + 2, 1)-edge-antimagic total labeling
for all possible values of t; for even n 6, Cnt has a super (2n + 2, 1)-edge-antimagic
total labeling for all odd t 3; and for even n 0 (mod 4), n 4, Cnt has a super
(2n + 2, 1)-edge-antimagic total labeling for all t 2 (mod 4). They conjecture that there
is a super (2n + 2, 1)-edge-antimagic total labeling of Cnt for n 0 (mod 4) and for t 0
(mod 4) and for n 2 (mod 4) and for t even.
(n)
In [214] Baca, Lin, Miller, and Youssef prove: if the friendship C3 is super (a, d)(n)
antimagic total, then d < 3; C3 has an (a, 1)-edge antimagic vertex labeling if and only
(n)
if n = 1, 3, 4, 5, and 7; C3 has a super (a, d)-edge-antimagic total labelings for d = 0 and
(n)
2; C3 has a super (a, 1)-edge-antimagic total labeling; if a fan Fn (n 2) has a super
(a, d)-edge-antimagic total labeling, then d < 3; Fn has a super (a, d)-edge-antimagic total
labeling if 2 n 6 and d = 0, 1 or 2; the wheel Wn has a super (a, d)-edge-antimagic
total labeling if and only if d = 1 and n 6 1 (mod 4); Kn , n 3, has a super (a, d)-edgeantimagic total labeling if and only if either d = 0 and n = 3, or d = 1 and n 3, or
d = 2 and n = 3; and Kn,n has a super (a, d)-edge antimagic total labeling if and only if
d = 1 and n 2.
Baca, Lin, and Muntaner-Batle [217] have shown that if a tree with at least two vertices
has a super (a, d)-edge-antimagic total labeling, then d is at most three and Pn , n 2,
has a super (a, d)-edge-antimagic total labeling if and only if d = 0, 1, 2, or 3. They also
characterize certain path-like graphs in a grid that have super(a, d)-edge-antimagic total
labelings.
In [1637] Sugeng, Miller, and Baca prove that the ladder, Pn P2 , is super (a, d)-edgeantimagic total if n is odd and d = 0, 1, or 2 and Pn P2 is super (a, 1)-antimagic total
if n is even. They conjecture that Pn P2 is super (a, 0)- and (a, 2)-edge-antimagic when
n is even. Sugeng, Miller, and Baca [1637] prove that Cm P2 has a super (a, d)-edgeantimagic total labeling if and only if either d = 0, 1 or 2 and m is odd and at least 3, or
d = 1 and m is even and at least 4. They conjecture that if m is even, m 4, n 3,
and d = 0 or 2, then Cm Pn has a super (a, d)-edge-antimagic total labeling. In [986]
M.-J. Lee studied super (a, 1)-edge-antimagic properties of m(P4 Pn ) for m, n 1 and
m(Cn  Kt ) for n even and m, t 1. He also proved that for n 2 the graph P4 Pn
has a super (8n + 2, 1)-edge antimagic total labeling.
Sugeng, Miller, and Baca [1637] define a variation of a ladder, Ln , as the graph obtained
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from Pn P2 by joining each vertex ui of one path to the vertex vi+1 of the other path for
i = 1, 2, . . . , n 1. They prove Ln , n 2, has a super (a, d)-edge-antimagic total labeling
if and only if d = 0, 1, or 2.
In [473] Dafik, Miller, and Ryan investigate the existence of super (a, d)-edge-antimagic
total labelings of mKn,n,n and K1,m 2sK1,n . Among their results are: for d = 0 or
2, mKn,n,n has a super (a, d)-edge-antimagic total labeling if and only if n = 1 and
m is odd and at least 3; K1,m 2sK1,n has a super (a, d)-edge-antimagic labeling for
(a, d) = (4n + 5)s + 2m + 4, 0), ((2n + 5)s + m + 5, 2), ((3n + 5)s + (3m + 9)/2, 1) and
(5s + 7, 4).
In [182] Baca, Bashir, and Semanicova showed that for n 4 and d = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
and 6 the antiprism An has a super d-antimagic labeling of type (1, 1, 1). The generalized
antiprism Anm is obtained from Cm Pn by inserting the edges {vi,j+1 , vi+1,j } for 1 i m
and 1 j n 1 where the subscripts are taken modulo m. Sugeng et al. prove that
Anm , m 3, n 2, is super (a, d)-edge-antimagic total if and only if d = 1.
A toroidal polyhex (toroidal fullerene) is a cubic bipartite graph embedded on the torus
such that each face is a hexagon. Note that the torus is a closed surface that can carry a
toroidal polyhex such that all its vertices have degree 3 and all faces of the embedding are
hexagons. Baca and Shabbir [235] proved the toroidal polyhex Hnm with mn hexagons,
m, n 2, admits a super (a, d)-edge-antimagic total labeling if and only if d = 1 and
a = 4mn + 2.
Baca, Miller, Phanalasy, and A. Semanicova-Fe
novckova [227] investigated the existence of (super) 1-antimagic labelings of type (1, 1, 1) for disjoint union of plane graphs.
They prove that if a plane graph G(V, E, F ) has a (super) 1-antimagic labeling h of
type (1, 1, 1) such that h(zext ) = |V (G)| + |E(G)| + |F (G)| where zext denotes the
unique external face then, for every positive integer m, the graph mG also admits a
(super) 1-antimagic labeling of type (1, 1, 1); and if a plane graph G(V, E, F ) has 4sided inner faces and h is a (super) d-antimagic labeling of type (1, 1, 1) of G such that
h(zext ) = |V (G)| + |E(G)| + |F (G)| where d = 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 then, for every positive integer
m, the graph mG also admits a (super) d- antimagic labeling of type (1, 1, 1). They also
give a similar result about plane graphs with inner faces that are 3-sided.
Sugeng, Miller, Slamin, and Baca [1640] proved: the star Sn has a super (a, d)antimagic total labeling if and only if either d = 0, 1 or 2, or d = 3 and n = 1 or 2;
if a nontrivial caterpillar has a super (a, d)-edge-antimagic total labeling, then d 3; all
caterpillars have super (a, 0)-, (a, 1)- and (a, 2)-edge-antimagic total labelings; all caterpillars have a super (a, 1)-edge-antimagic total labeling; if m and n differ by at least 2
the double star Sm,n (that is, the graph obtained by joining the centers of K1,m and K1,n
with an edge) has no (a, 3)-edge-antimagic total labeling.
Sugeng and Miller [1635] show how to manipulate adjacency matrices of graphs with
(a, d)-edge-antimagic vertex labelings and super (a, d)-edge-antimagic total labelings to
obtain new (a, d)-edge-antimagic vertex labelings and super (a, d)-edge-antimagic total
labelings. Among their results are: every graph can be embedded in a connected (a, d)edge-antimagic vertex graph; every (a, d)-edge-antimagic vertex graph has a proper (a, d)edge-antimagic vertex subgraph; if a graph has a (a, 1)-edge-antimagic vertex labeling and
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an odd number of edges, then it has a super (a, 1)-edge-antimagic total labeling; every
super edge magic total graph has an (a, 1)-edge-antimagic vertex labeling; and every graph
can be embedded in a connected super (a, d)-edge-antimagic total graph.
Rahmawati, Sugeng, Silaban, Miller, and Baca [1330] construct new larger (a, d)edge-antimagic vertex graphs from an existing (a, d)-edge-antimagic vertex graph using
adjacency matrix for difference d = 1, 2. The results are extended for super (a, d)-edgeantimagic total graphs with differences d = 0, 1, 2, 3.
Ajitha, Arumugan, and Germina [91] show that (p, p 1) graphs with -labelings (see
3.1) and partite sets with sizes that differ by at most 1 have super (a, d)-edge antimagic
total labelings for d = 0, 1, 2 and 3. They also show how to generate large classes of trees
with super (a, d)-edge-antimagic total labelings from smaller graceful trees.
Baca, Lin, Miller, and Ryan [212] define a Mobius grid, Mnm , as the graph with vertex
set {xi,j | i = 1, 2, . . . , m + 1, j = 1, 2, . . . , n} and edge set {xi,j xi,j+1 | i = 1, 2, . . . , m +
1, j = 1, 2, . . . , n 1} {xi,j xi+1,j | i = 1, 2, . . . , m, j = 1, 2, . . . , n} {xi,n xm+2i,1 | i =
1, 2, . . . , m + 1}. They prove that for n 2 and m 4, Mnm has no d-antimagic vertex
labeling with d 5 and no d-antimagic-edge labeling with d 9.
Ali, Baca, and Bashir, [84] investigated super (a, d)-vertex-antimagic total labelings of
the disjoint unions of paths. They prove: mP2 has a super (a, d)-vertex-antimagic total
labeling if and only if m is odd and d = 1; mP3 , m > 1, has no super (a, 3)-vertexantimagic total labeling; mP3 has a super (a, 2)-vertex-antimagic total labeling for m 1
(mod 6); and mP4 has a super (a, 2)-vertex-antimagic total labeling for m 3 (mod 4).
Lee, Tsai, and Lin [989] denote the subdivision of a star Sn obtained by inserting m
n
. They proved that for n 3, the graph
vertices into every edge of the star Sn by Sm
n
kSm is super (a, d)-edge antimagic total for certain values. In [756] Ichishima, Lopez,
Muntaner-Batle and Rius-Font proved that if G is tripartite and has a (super) (a, d)edge antimagic total labeling, then nG (n 3) has a (super) (a, d)-edge antimagic total
labeling for d = 1 and for d = 0, 2 when n is odd.
Baca, Lin and Muntaner-Batle in [218] using a generalization of the Kronecker product
of matrices prove that the number of non-isomorphic super edge-magic labelings of the
disjoint union of m copies of the path Pn , m 2 (mod 4), m 2, n 4, is at least
(m/2)(2n2) .
The book [226] by Baca and Miller has a wealth of material and open problems on
super edge-antimagic labelings. In [189] Baca, Baskoro, Miller, Ryan, Simanjuntak, and
Sugeng provide detailed survey of results on edge antimagic labelings and include many
conjectures and open problems.
In Tables 14, 15, 16 and 17 we use the abbreviations
(a, d)-VAT (a, d)-vertex-antimagic total labeling
(a, d)-SVAT super (a, d)-vertex-antimagic total labeling
(a, d)-EAT (a, d)-edge-antimagic total labeling
(a, d)-SEAT super (a, d)-edge-antimagic total labeling
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(a, d)-EAV (a, d)-edge-antimagic vertex labeling

A question mark following an abbreviation indicates that the graph is conjectured to
have the corresponding property. The tables were prepared by Petr Kovar and Tereza
Kovarova and updated by J. Gallian in 2008.
Table 14: Summary of (a, d)-Vertex-Antimagic Total and Super (a, d)-VertexAntimagic Total Labelings
Graph
Pn

Labeling
(a, d)-VAT

Notes
wide variety of a and d [191]

Pn

(a, d)-SVAT

iff d = 3, d = 2, n 3 odd
or d = 3, n 3 [1638]

Cn

(a, d)-VAT

wide variety of a and d [190]

Cn

(a, d)-SVAT

iff d = 0, 2 and n odd or d = 1 [1638]

generalized Petersen (a, d)-VAT

graph P (n, k)
(a, 1)-VAT

[192]
n 3, 1 k n/2 [1639]

prisms Cn P2

(a, d)-VAT

[192]

antiprisms

(a, d)-VAT

[192]

Sn1 . . . Snt

(a, d)-VAT

d = 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 [1263], citeRahSl

Wn

not (a, d)-VAT

for n > 20 [1093]

K1,n

not (a, d)-SVAT n 3 [1638]

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Table 15: Summary of (a, d)-Edge-Antimagic Total Labelings

Graph
trees

Labeling
(a, 1)-EAT?

Notes
[213]

Pn

not (a, d)-EAT

d > 2 [213]

P2n

(6n, 1)-EAT
(6n + 2, 2)-EAT

[1548]
[1548]

P2n+1

(3n + 4, 2)-EAT
(3n + 4, 3)-EAT
(2n + 4, 4)-EAT
(5n + 4, 2)-EAT
(3n + 5, 2)-EAT
(2n + 6, 4)-EAT

[1548]
[1548]
[1548]
[1548]
[1548]
[1548]

Cn

(2n + 2, 1)-EAT
(3n + 2, 1)-EAT
not (a, d)-EAT

[1548]
[1548]
d > 5 [213]

C2n

(4n + 2, 2)-EAT
(4n + 3, 2)-EAT
(2n + 3, 4)-EAT?
(2n + 4, 4)-EAT?

[1548]
[1548]
[1548]
[1548]

C2n+1

Kn

(3n + 4, 3)-EAT
(3n + 5, 3)-EAT
(n + 4, 5)-EAT?
(n + 5, 5)-EAT?
not (a, d)-EAT

[1548]
[1548]
[1548]
[1548]
d > 5 [213]

Kn,n

(a, d)-EAT

iff d = 1, n 2 [214]

caterpillars

(a, d)-EAT

d 3 [1640]

Wn

not (a, d)-EAT

d > 4 [213]

generalized Petersen not (a, d)-EAT

d > 4 [213]

graph P (n, k)

for n odd, n 3 and k = 1, 2 [1237]

for n 3, and 1 k n/2 [1237]

((5n + 5)/2, 2)-EAT

super (4n + 2, 1)-EAT

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Table 16: Summary of (a, d)-Edge-Antimagic Vertex Labelings

Graph
Pn

Labeling
(3, 2)-EAV
not (a, d)-EAV

Notes
[1548]
d > 2 [1548]

P2n

(n + 2, 1)-EAV

[1548]

Cn

not (a, d)-EAV

d > 1 [213]

C2n

not (a, d)-EAV

[1548]

C2n+1

(n + 2, 1)-EAV
(n + 3, 1)-EAV

[1548]
[1548]

Kn

not (a, d)-EAV

for n > 1 [213]

Kn,n
Wn

not (a, d)-EAV

not (a, d)-EAV

for n > 3 [213]

[213]

(a, 1)-EAV

iff n = 1, 3, 4, 5, 7 [214]

not (a, d)-EAV

d > 1 [213]

(n)

C3

(friendship graph)

generalized Petersen
graph P (n, k)

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Table 17: Summary of (a, d)-Super-Edge-Antimagic Total Labelings

Graph
Cn+ (see 2.2)

Labeling
(a, d)-SEAT

Notes
variety of cases [172], [233]

Pn P2 (ladders)

(a, d)-SEAT

n odd, d 2 [1637]
n even, d = 1 [1637]
d = 0, 2, n even [1637]

(a, d)-SEAT?
C n P2

(a, d)-SEAT

iff d 3 n odd [1637]

or d = 1, n 4 even [1637]

Cm P n

(a, d)-SEAT?

m 4 even, n 3, d = 0, 2 [1637]

caterpillars

(a, 1)-SEAT

[1640]

(a, d)-SEAT

d = 0, 1, 2 [214]

Fn (n 2) (fans)

(a, d) SEAT
(a, d)-SEAT

only if d < 3 [214]

2 n 6, d = 0, 1, 2 [214]

Wn

(a, d)-SEAT

iff d = 1, n 6 1 (mod 4) [214]

Kn (n 3)

(a, d) SEAT

iff d = 0, n = 3 [214]
d = 1, n 3 [214]
d = 2, n = 3 [214]

trees

(a, d)-SEAT

only if d 3 [217]

Pn (n > 1)

(a, d)-SEAT

iff d 3 [217]

mKn

(a, d)-SEAT

iff d {0, 2}, n {2, 3}, m 3 odd [180]

d = 1, m, n 2 [180]
d = 3 or 5,n = 2, m 2 [180]
d = 4, n = 2, m 3 odd [180]

Cn

(a, d)-SEAT

P (m, n)

(a, d)-SEAT

iff d = 0 or 2, n odd [217]

d = 1 [190]
many cases [190]

(n)

C3

(friendship graphs)

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6.4

Face Antimagic Labelings and d-antimagic Labeling of Type

(1,1,1)

Baca [174] defines a connected plane graph G with edge set E and face set F to be (a, d)face antimagic if there exist positive integers a and d and a bijection g : E {1, 2, . . . , |E|}
such that the induced mapping g : F {a, a + d, . . . , a + (|F (G)| 1)d}, where for a
face f, g (f ) is the sum of all g(e) for all edges e surrounding f is also a bijection. In
[176] Baca proves that for n even and at least 4, the prism Cn P2 is (6n + 3, 2)-face
antimagic and (4n + 4, 4)-face antimagic. He also conjectures that Cn P2 is (2n + 5, 6)face antimagic. In [209] Baca, Lin, and Miller investigate (a, d)-face antimagic labelings of
the convex polytopes Pm+1 Cn . They show that if these graphs are (a, d)-face antimagic
then either d = 2 and a = 3n(m + 1) + 3, or d = 4 and a = 2n(m + 1) + 4, or d = 6 and
a = n(m + 1) + 5. They also prove that if n is even, n 4 and m 1 (mod 4), m 3,
then Pm+1 Cn has a (3n(m + 1) + 3, 2)-face antimagic labeling and if n is at least 4 and
even and m is at least 3 and odd, or if n 2 (mod 4), n 6 and m is even, m 4,
then Pm+1 Cn has a (3n(m + 1) + 3, 2)-face antimagic labeling and a (2n(m + 1) + 4, 4)face antimagic labeling. They conjecture that Pm+1 Cn has (3n(m + 1) + 3, 2)- and
(2n(m + 1) + 4, 4)-face antimagic labelings when m 0 (mod 4), n 4, and for m even
and m 4, that Pm+1 Cn has a (n(m + 1) + 5, 6)-face antimagic labeling when n is even
and at least 4. Baca, Baskoro, Jendrol, and Miller [186] proved that graphs in the shape
of hexagonal honeycombs with m rows, n columns, and mn 6-sided faces have d-antimagic
labelings of type (1, 1, 1) for d = 1, 2, 3, and 4 when n odd and mn > 1.
In [224] Baca and Miller define the class Qm
n of convex polytopes with vertex set
{yj,i : i = 1, 2, . . . , n; j = 1, 2, . . . , m + 1} and edge set {yj,i yj,i+1 : i = 1, 2, . . . , n; j =
1, 2, . . . , m + 1} {yj,i yj+1,i : i = 1, 2, . . . , n; j = 1, 2, . . . , m} {yj,i+1 yj+1,i : 1 +
1, 2, . . . , n; j = 1, 2, . . . , m, j odd} {yj,i yj+1,i+1 : i = 1, 2, . . . , n; j = 1, 2, . . . , m, j even}
where yj,n+1 = yj,1 . They prove that for m odd, m 3, n 3, Qm
n is (7n(m + 1)/2 + 2, 1)face antimagic and when m and n are even, m 4, n 4, Qm
is
(7n(m + 1)/2 + 2, 1)-face
n
antimagic. They conjecture that when n is odd, n 3, and m is even, then Qm
n is
((5n(m + 1) + 5)/2, 2)face antimagic and ((n(m + 1) + 7)/2, 4)-face antimagic. They
further conjecture that when n is even, n > 4, m > 1 or n is odd, n > 3 and m is odd,
m > 1, then Qm
ca proves that for
n is (3n(m + 1)/2 + 3, 3)-face antimagic. In [178] Ba
the case m = 1 and n 3 the only possibilities for (a, d)-antimagic labelings for Qm
n are
(7n + 2, 1) and (3n + 3, 3). He provides the labelings for the first case and conjectures that
they exist for the second case. Baca [174] and Baca and Miller [223] describe (a, d)-face
antimagic labelings for a certain classes of convex polytopes.
In [185] Baca et al. provide a detailed survey of results on face antimagic labelings
and include many conjectures and open problems.
For a plane graph G, Baca and Miller [225] call a bijection h from V (G)E(G)F (G)
to {1, 2, . . . , |V (G)| + |E(G)| |F (G)|} a d-antimagic labeling of type (1, 1, 1) if for every
number s the set of s-sided face weights is Ws = {as , as + d, as + 2d, . . . , as + (fs 1)d} for
some integers as and d, where fs is the number of s-sided faces (Ws varies with s). They
show that the prisms Cn P2 (n 3) have a 1-antimagic labeling of type (1, 1, 1) and

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that for n 3 (mod 4), Cn P2 have a d-antimagic labeling of type (1, 1, 1) for d = 2, 3, 4,
and 6. They conjecture that for all n 3, Cn P2 has a d-antimagic labeling of type
(1, 1, 1) for d = 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. This conjecture has been proved for the case d = 3 and
n 6= 4 by Baca, Miller, and Ryan [230] (the case d = 3 and n = 4 is open). The cases
for d = 2, 4, 5, and 6 were done by Lin, Slamin, Baca, and Miller [1094]. Baca, Lin, and
Miller [210] prove: for m, n > 8, Pm Pn has no d-antimagic edge labeling of type (1, 1, 1)
with d 9; for m 2, n 2, and (m, n) 6= (2, 2), Pm Pn has d-antimagic labelings of
type (1, 1, 1) for d = 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6. They conjecture the same is true for d = 5.
Baca, Miller, and Ryan [230] also prove that for n 4 the antiprism (see 6.1 for the
definition) on 2n vertices has a d-antimagic labeling of type (1, 1, 1) for d = 1, 2, and 4.
They conjecture the result holds for d = 3, 5, and 6 as well. Lin, Ahmad, Miller, Sugeng,
and Baca [1091] did the cases that d = 7 for n 3 and d = 12 for n 11. Sugeng, Miller,
Lin, and Baca [1639] did the cases: d = 7, 8, 9, 10 for n 5; d = 15 for n 6; d = 18 for
n 7; d = 12, 14, 17, 20, 21, 24, 27, 30, 36 for n odd and n 7; and d = 16, 26 for n odd
and n 9.
Ali, Baca, Bashir, and Semanicova-Fe
novckova [85] investigated antimagic labelings
for disjoint unions of prisms and cycles. They prove: for m 2 and n 3, m(Cn P2 )
has no super d-antimagic labeling of type (1, 1, 1) with d 30; for m 2 and n
3, n 6= 4, m(Cn P2 ) has super d-antimagic labeling of type (1, 1, 1) for d = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4,
and 5; and for m 2 and n 3, mCn has (m(n + 1) + 3, 3)- and (2mn + 2, 2)-vertexantimagic total labeling. Baca and Bashir [181] proved that for m 2 and n 3, n 6=
4, m(Cn P2 ) has super 7-antimagic labeling of type (1, 1, 1) and for n 3, n 6= 4 and
2 m 2n m(Cn P2 ) has super 6-antimagic labeling of type (1, 1, 1).
Baca, Numan and Siddiqui [215] investigated the existence of the super d-antimagic
labeling of type (1, 1, 1) for the disjoint union of m copies of antiprism mAn . They
proved that for m 2, n 4, mAn has super d-antimagic labelings of type (1, 1, 1) for
d = 1, 2, 3, 5, 6. Ahmad, Baca, Lascsakova and Semanicova-Fe
novckova [53] investigated
super d-antimagicness of type (1, 1, 0) for mG in a more general sense. They prove: if
there exists a super 0-antimagic labeling of type (1, 1, 0) of a plane graph G then, for
every positive integer m, the graph mG also admits a super 0-antimagic labeling of type
(1, 1, 0); if a plane graph G with 3-sided inner faces admits a super d-antimagic labeling
of type (1, 1, 0) for d = 0, 6 then, for every positive integer m, the graph mG also admits
a super d-antimagic labeling of type (1, 1, 0); if a plane graph G with 3-sided inner faces is
a tripartite graph with a super d-antimagic labeling of type (1, 1, 0) for d = 2, 4 then, for
every positive integer m, the graph mG also admits a super d-antimagic labeling of type
(1, 1, 0); if a plane graph G with 4-sided inner faces admits a super d-antimagic labeling of
type (1, 1, 0) for d = 0, 4, 8 then the disjoint union of arbitrary number of copies of G also
admits a super d-antimagic labeling of type (1, 1, 0); if a plane graph G with k-sided inner
faces, k 3, admits a super d-antimagic labeling of type (1, 1, 0) for d = 0, 2k then, for
every positive integer m, the graph mG also admits a super d-antimagic labeling of type
(1, 1, 0); if a plane graph G with k-sided inner faces admits a super k-antimagic labeling
of type (1, 1, 0) for k even then, for every positive integer m, the graph mG also admits
a super k-antimagic labeling of type (1, 1, 0).
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Baca, Jendral, Miller, and Ryan [204] prove: for n even, n 6, the generalized
Petersen graph P (n, 2) has a 1-antimagic labeling of type (1, 1, 1); for n even, n 6, n 6=
10, and d = 2 or 3, P (n, 2) has a d-antimagic labeling of type (1, 1, 1); and for n 0
(mod 4), n 8 and d = 6 or 9, P (n, 2) has a d-antimagic labeling of type (1, 1, 1). They
conjecture that there is an d-antimagic labeling of type (1,1,1) for P (n, 2) when n 2
(mod 4), n 6, and d = 6 or 9.
In [195] Baca, Brankovic, and A. Semanicova-Fe
novcikova provide super d-antimagic
labelings of type (1,1,1) for friendship graphs Fn (n 2) and several other families of
planar graphs.
Baca, Brankovic, Lascsakova, Phanalasy and Semanicova-Fe
novckova [194] provided
super d-antimagic labeling of type (1, 1, 0) for friendship graphs Fn , n 2, for d
{1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13}. Moreover, they show that for n 1 (mod 2) the graph Fn also
admits a super d-antimagic labeling of type (1, 1, 0) for d {0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10}.
Baca, Baskoro, and Miller [187] have proved that hexagonal planar honeycomb graphs
with an even number of columns have 2-antimagic and 4-antimagic labelings of type
(1, 1, 1). They conjecture that these honeycombs also have d-antimagic labelings of type
(1, 1, 1) for d = 3 and 5. They pose the odd number of columns case for 1 d 5 as
an open problem. Baca, Baskoro, and Miller [188] give d-antimagic labelings of a special
class of plane graphs with 3-sided internal faces for d = 0, 2, and 4. Baca, Lin, Miller,
and Ryan [212] prove for odd n 3, m 1 and d = 0, 1, 2 or 4, the Mobius grid Mnm has
an d-antimagic labeling of type (1, 1, 1). Siddiqui, Numan, and Umar [1545] examined
the existence of super d-antimagic labelings of type (1,1,1) for Jahangir graphs for certain
differences d.
Baca, Numan and Shabbir [216] studied the existence of super d-antimagic labelings
of type (1, 1, 1) for the toroidal polyhex Hnm . They labeled the edges of a 1-factor by
consecutive integers and then in successive steps they labeled the edges of 2m-cycles
(respectively 2n-cycles) in a 2-factor by consecutive integers. This technique allowed
them to construct super d-antimagic labelings of type (1, 1, 1) for Hnm with d = 1, 3, 5.
They suppose that such labelings exist also for d = 0, 2, 4.
Kathiresan and Ganesan [899] define a class of plane graphs denoted by Pab (a
3, b 2) as the graph obtained by starting with vertices v1 , v2 , . . . , va and for each i =
1, 2 . . . , a 1 joining vi and vi+1 with b internally disjoint paths of length i + 1. They
prove that Pab has d-antimagic labelings of type (1, 1, 1) for d = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6. Lin
and Sugen [1095] prove that Pab has a d-antimagic labeling of type (1, 1, 1) for d = 5, 7a
2, a + 1, a 3, a 7, a + 5, a 4, a + 2, 2a 3, 2a 1, a 1, 3a 3, a + 3, 2a + 1, 2a + 3, 3a +
1, 4a 1, 4a 3, 5a 3, 3a 1, 6a 5, 6a 7, 7a 7, and 5a 5. Similarly, Baca, Baskoro,
and Cholily [184] define a class of plane graphs denoted by Cab as the graph obtained by
starting with vertices v1 , v2 , . . . , va and for each i = 1, 2 . . . , a joining vi and vi+1 with b
internally disjoint paths of length i + 1 (subscripts are taken modulo a). In [184] and [183]
they prove that for a 3 and b 2, Cab has a d-antimagic labeling of type (1, 1, 1) for
d = 0, 1, 2, 3, a + 1, a 1, a + 2, and a 2.
In [196] Baca, Brankovic, and Semanicova-Fe
novcikova investigated the existence of
super d-antimagic labelings of type (1,1,1) for plane graphs containing a special kind
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of Hamilton path. They proved: if there exists a Hamilton path in a plane graph G
such that for every face except the external face, the Hamilton path contains all but
one of the edges surrounding that face, then G is super d-antimagic of type (1,1,1) for
d = 0, 1, 2, 3, 5; if there exists a Hamilton path in a plane graph G such that for every face
except the external face, the Hamilton path contains all but one of the edges surrounding
that face and if 2(|F (G)| 1) |V (G)|, then G is super d-antimagic of type (1, 1, 1) for
(G)|
c and a Hamilton path such
d = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; if G is a plane graph with M = b |F|V(G)|1
that for every face, except the external face, the Hamilton path contains all but one of the
edges surrounding that face, then for M = 1, G admits a super d-antimagic labeling of
type (1,1,1) for d = 0, 1, 2, 3, 5; and for M 2, G admits a super d-antimagic labeling of
type (1,1,1) for d = 0, 1, 2, 3, . . . , M + 4. They also proved that Pn P2 (n 3) admits a
super d-antimagic labeling of type (1,1,1) for d {0, 1, 2, . . . , 15} and the graph obtained
from Pn Pm (n 2) by adding a new edge in every 4-sided face such that the added edges
are parallel admits a super d-antimagic labeling of type (1,1,1) for d {0, 1, 2, . . . , 9}.
In the following tables we use the abbreviations
(a, d)-FA (a, d)-face antimagic labeling
d-AT(1,1,1) d-antimagic labeling of type (1, 1, 1).
A question mark following an abbreviation indicates that the graph is conjectured to
have the corresponding property. The tables were prepared by Petr Kovar and Tereza
Kovarova and updated by J. Gallian in 2008.
Table 18: Summary of Face Antimagic Labelings
Graph
Labeling
m
Qn (see 6.4) (7n(m + 1)/2 + 2, 1)-FA
(7n(m + 1)/2 + 2, 1)-FA
((5n(m + 1) + 5)/2, 2)-FA?
((n(m + 1) + 7)/2, 4)-FA?
(3n(m + 1)/2 + 3, 3)-FA?
(3n(m + 1)/2 + 3, 3)-FA?

Notes
m 3,
m 4,
m 2,
m 2,
m > 1,
m > 1,

C n P2

(6n + 3, 2)-FA
(4n + 4, 4)-FA
(2n + 5, 6)-FA?

n 4, n even [176]
n 4, n even [176]
[176]

Pm+1 Cn

(3n(m + 1) + 3, 2)-FA

n 4, n even and [209]

m 3, m 1 (mod 4),
n 4, n even and [209]
m 3, m odd [209],
or n 6, n 2 (mod 4) and

(3n(m + 1) + 3, 2)-FA and

(2n(m + 1) + 4, 4)-FA

n 3, m odd [224]
n 4, m, n even [224]
n 3, m even, n odd [224]
n 3, m even, n odd [224]
n > 4, n even [224]
n > 3, m odd, n odd [224]

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Table 18 Continued from previous page

Graph
Labeling
(3n(m + 1) + 3, 2)-FA?
(2n(m + 1) + 4, 4)-FA?
(n(m + 1) + 5, 6)-FA?

Notes
m 4, m even
m 4, n 4, m 0 (mod 4) [209]
m 4, n 4, m 0 (mod 4) [209]
n 4, n even [209]

Table 19: Summary of d-antimagic Labelings of

Type (1,1,1)
Graph
Pm Pn

Labeling
not d-AT(1,1,1)

Notes
m, n, d 9, [210]

Pm Pn

d-AT(1,1,1)

d = 1, 2, 3, 4, 6;
m, n 2, (m, n) 6= (2, 2) [210]

Pm Pn

5-AT(1,1,1)

m, n 2, (m, n) 6= (2, 2) [210]

Cn P 2

1-AT(1,1,1)
d-AT(1,1,1)
d-AT(1,1,1)
d-AT(1,1,1)

[225]
d = 2, 3, 4 and 6 [225]
for n 3 (mod 4)
d = 2, 4, 5, 6 for n 3 [1094]
d = 3 for n 5 [230]

Pm Pn

5-AT(1,1,1)?
not d-AT

[1094]
m, n > 8, d 9 [1094]

antiprism on 2n
vertices

d-AT(1,1,1)
d-AT(1,1,1)?

d = 1, 2 and 4 for n 4 [230]

d = 3, 5 and 6 for n 4 [230]

Mnm (Mobius grids)

d-AT(1,1,1)

n 3 odd, d = 0, 1, 2, 4 [212]
d = 7, n 3 [1091]
d = 12, n 11 [1091]
d = 7, 8, 9, 10, n 5 [1639]
d = 15, n 6 [1639]
d = 18 n 7 [1639]

P (n, 2)

d-AT(1,1,1)

d = 1; d = 2, 3, n 6, n 6= 10 [204]

P (4n, 2)

d-AT(1,1,1)
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Graph
Labeling

Notes

P (4n + 2, 2)

d-AT(1,1,1)?

d = 6, 9, n 1, n 6= 10 [204]

honeycomb graphs with

even number of columns

d-AT(1,1,1)
d-AT(1,1,1)?

d = 2, 4 [187]
d = 3, 5 [187]

Cn P 2

d-AT(1,1,1)

d = 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 [1094], [225]

Cn P 2

3-AT(1,1,1)

n 6= 4 [230]

6.5

Product Antimagic Labelings

Figueroa-Centeno, Ichishima, and Muntaner-Batle [560] have introduced multiplicative

analogs of magic and antimagic labelings. They define a graph G of size q to be product
magic if there is a labeling from E(G) onto {1, 2, . . . , q} such that, at each vertex v, the
product of the labels on the edges incident with v is the same. They call a graph G of
size q product antimagic if there is a labeling f from E(G) onto {1, 2, . . . , q} such that the
products of the labels on the edges incident at each vertex v are distinct. They prove: a
graph of size q is product magic if and only if q 1 (that is, if and only if it is K2 , Kn or
K2 Kn ); Pn (n 4) is product antimagic; every 2-regular graph is product antimagic;
and, if G is product antimagic, then so are G + K1 and G  K n . They conjecture that
a connected graph of size q is product antimagic if and only if q 3. Kaplan, Lev, and
Roditty [890] proved the following graphs are product anti-magic: the disjoint union of
cycles and paths where each path has least three edges; connected graphs with n vertices
and m edges where m 4nln n; graphs G = (V, E) where
p each component has at least
two edges and the minimum degree of G is at least 8 ln |E| ln (ln |E|); all complete
k-partite graphs except K2 and K1,2 ; and G  H where G has no isolated vertices and H
is regular.
In [1283] Pikhurko characterizes all large graphs that are product anti-magic graphs.
More precisely, it is shown that there is an n0 such that a graph with n n0 vertices is
product anti-magic if and only if it does not belong to any of the following four classes:
graphs that have at least one isolated edge; graphs that have at least two isolated vertices;
unions of vertex-disjoint of copies of K1,2 ; graphs consisting of one isolated vertex; and
graphs obtained by subdividing some edges of the star K1,k+l .
In [560] Figueroa-Centeno, Ichishima, and Muntaner-Batle also define a graph G with
p vertices and q edges to be product edge-magic if there is a labeling f from V (G) E(G)
onto {1, 2, . . . , p + q} such that f (u) f (v) f (uv) is a constant for all edges uv and product
edge-antimagic if there is a labeling f from V (G) E(G) onto {1, 2, . . . , p + q} such that
for all edges uv the products f (u)f (v)f (uv) are distinct. They prove K2 K n is product
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edge-magic, a graph of size q without isolated vertices is product edge-magic if and only
if q 1 and every graph other than K2 and K2 K n is product edge-antimagic.

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7.1

Miscellaneous Labelings
Sum Graphs

In 1990, Harary [686] introduced the notion of a sum graph. A graph G(V, E) is called a
sum graph if there is an bijection f from V to a set of positive integers S such that xy E
if and only if f (x) + f (y) S. Since the vertex with the highest label in a sum graph
cannot be adjacent to any other vertex, every sum graph must contain isolated vertices.
In 1991 Harary, Hentzel, and Jacobs [688] defined a real sum graph in an analogous way
by allowing S to be any finite set of positive real numbers. However, they proved that
every real sum graph is a sum graph. Bergstrand, Hodges, Jennings, Kuklinski, Wiener,
and Harary [306] defined a product graph analogous to a sum graph except that 1 is not
permitted to belong to S. They proved that every product graph is a sum graph and vice
versa.
For a connected graph G, let (G), the sum number of G, denote the minimum number
of isolated vertices that must be added to G so that the resulting graph is a sum graph
(some authors use s(G) for the sum number of G). A labeling that makes G together
with (G) isolated points a sum graph is called an optimal sum graph labeling. Ellingham
[519] proved the conjecture of Harary [686] that (T ) = 1 for every tree T 6= K1 . Smyth
[1586] proved that there is no graph G with e edges and (G) = 1 when n2 /4 < e
n(n 1)/2. Smyth [1587] conjectures that the disjoint union of graphs with sum number
1 has sum number 1. More generally, Kratochvil, Miller, and Nguyen [954] conjecture
that (G H) (G) + (H) 1. Hao [684] has shown that if d1 d2 dn is
the degree sequence of a graph G, then (G) > max(di i) where the maximum is taken
over all i. Bergstand et al. [305] proved that (Kn ) = 2n 3. Hartsfield and Smyth [693]
claimed to have proved that (Km,n ) = d3m + n 3e/2 when n m but Yan and Liu
[1897] found counterexamples to this assertion when m 6= n. Pyatkin [1320], Liaw, Kuo,
and Chang [1088], Wang and Liu [1854], and He, Shen, Wang, Chang, Kang,
q and Yu [698]
have shown that for 2 m n,

e where p = d
(Km,n ) = d np + (p+1)(m1)
2

2n
m1

+ 41 21 e

< n (p+1)p(m1)
.
is the unique integer such that (p1)p(m1)
2
2
Miller, Ryan, Slamin, and Smyth [1200] proved that (Wn ) = n2 + 2 for n even and
(Wn ) = n for n 5 and n odd (see also [1664]). Miller, Ryan, and Smyth [1202] prove
that the complete n-partite graph on n sets of 2 nonadjacent vertices has sum number
4n 5 and obtain upper and lower bounds on the complete n-partite graph on n sets
of m nonadjacent vertices. Fernau, Ryan, and Sugeng [557] proved that the generalized
(t)
friendship graphs Cn (see 2.2) has sum number 2 except for C4 . Gould and Rodl [657]
investigated bounds on the number of isolated points in a sum graph. A group of six
undergraduate students [656] proved that (Kn edge) 2n 4. The same group of six
students also investigated the difference between the largest and smallest labels in a sum
graph, which they called the spum. They proved spum of Kn is 4n 6 and the spum of
Cn is at most 4n 10. Kratochvil, Miller, and Nguyen [954] have proved that every sum
graph on n vertices has a sum labeling such that every label is at most 4n .
At a conference in 2000 Miller [1190] posed the following two problems: Given any
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graph G, does there exist an optimal sum graph labeling that uses the label 1; Find a
class of graphs G that have sum number of the order |V (G)|s for s > 1. (Such graphs
were shown to exist for s = 2 by Gould and Rodl in [657]).
In [1573] Slamet, Sugeng, and Miller show how one can use sum graph labelings
to distribute secret information to set of people so that only authorized subsets can
reconstruct the secret.
Chang [402] generalized the notion of sum graph by permitting x = y in the definition
of sum graph. He calls graphs that have this kind of labeling strong sum graphs and uses
i (G) to denote the minimum positive integer m such that GmK1 is a strong sum graph.
Chang proves that i (Kn ) = (Kn ) for n = 2, 3, and 4 and i (Kn ) > (Kn ) for n 5. He
further shows that for n 5, 3nlog2 3 > i (Kn ) 12bn/5c 3.
In 1994 Harary [687] generalized sum graphs by permitting S to be any set of integers.
He calls these graphs integral sum graphs. Unlike sum graphs, integral sum graphs need
not have isolated vertices. Sharary [1499] has shown that Cn and Wn are integral sum
graphs for all n 6= 4. Chen [424] proved that trees obtained from a star by extending each
edge to a path and trees all of whose vertices of degree not 2 are at least distance 4 apart
are integral sum graphs. He conjectures that all trees are integral sum graphs. In [424]
and [426] Chen gives methods for constructing new connected integral sum graphs from
given integral sum graphs by identifying vertices. Chen [426] has shown that every graph
is an induced subgraph of a connected integral sum graph. Chen [426] calls a vertex of a
graph saturated if it is adjacent to every other vertex of the graph. He proves that every
integral sum graph except K3 has at most two saturated vertices and gives the exact
structure of all integral sum graphs that have exactly two saturated vertices. Chen [426]
also proves that a connected integral sum graph with p > 1 vertices and q edges and no
saturated vertices satisfies q p(3p 2)/8 2. Wu, Mao, and Le [1874] proved that mPn
are integral sum graphs. They also show that the conjecture of Harary [687] that the sum
number of Cn equals the integral sum number of Cn if and only if n 6= 3 or 5 is false and
that for n 6= 4 or 6 the integral sum number of Cn is at most 1. Vilfred and Nicholas
[1804] prove that graphs G of order n with (G) = n 1 and |V (G)| > 2 are not integral
sum graphs, except K3 , and that integral sum graphs G of order n with (G) = n 1 and
|V (G)| = 2 exist and are unique up to isomorphism. Chen [428] proved that if G(V, E) is
an integral sum other than K3 that has vertex of degree |V | 1, then the edge-chromatic
number of G is |V | 1.
He, Wang, Mi, Shen, and Yu [696] say that a graph has a tail if the graph contains a
path for which each interior vertex has degree 2 and an end vertex of degree at least 3.
They prove that every tree with a tail of length at least 3 is an integral sum graph.
B. Xu [1884] has shown that the following are integral sum graphs: the union of any
three stars; T K1,n for all trees T ; mK3 for all m; and the union of any number of integral
sum trees. Xu also proved that if 2G and 3G are integral sum graphs, then so is mG for
all m > 1. Xu poses the question as to whether all disconnected forests are integral sum
graphs. Nicholas and Somasundaram [1246] prove that all banana trees (see Section 2.1
for the definition) and the union of any number of stars are integral sum graphs.
Liaw, Kuo, and Chang [1088] proved that all caterpillars are integral sum graphs (see
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also [1874] and [1884] for some special cases of caterpillars). This shows that the assertion
by Harary in [687] that K(1, 3) and S(2, 2) are not integral sum graphs is incorrect. They
also prove that all cycles except C4 are integral sum graphs and they conjecture that
every tree is an integral sum graph. Singh and Santhosh show that the crowns Cn  K1
are integral sum graphs for n 4 [1558] and that the subdivision graphs of Cn  K1 are
integral sum graphs for n 3 [1408].
For graphs with n vertices, Tiwari and Tripathi [1685] show that there exist sum
graphs with m edges if and only if m b(n 12 )/4c and that there exists integral
sum graphs with m edges if and only if m d3(n 1)2 /8e + b(n 1)/2c, except for
m = d3(n 1)2 /8e + b(n 1)/2c 1 when n is of the form 4k + 1. They also characterize
sets of positive integers (respectively, integers) that are in bijection with sum graphs
(respectively, integral sum graphs) of maximum size for a given order.
The integral sum number, (G), of G is the minimum number of isolated vertices
that must be added to G so that the resulting graph is an integral sum graph. Thus, by
definition, G is a integral sum graph if and only if (G) = 0. Harary [687] conjectured that
(Kn ) = 2n 3 for n 4. This conjecture was verified by Chen [423], by Sharary [1499],
and by B. Xu [1884]. Yan and Liu proved: (Kn E(Kr )) = n1 when n 6, n 0 (mod
3) and r = 2n/3 1 [1898]; (Km.m ) = 2m 1 for m 2 [1898]; (Kn \ edge) = 2n 4
for n 4 [1898], [1884]; if n 5 and n 3 r, then (Kn \E(Kr )) n 1 [1898];
if d2n/3e 1 > r 2, then (Kn \E(Kr )) 2n r 2 [1898]; and if 2 m < n,
and n = (i + 1)(im i + 2)/2, then (Km,n ) = (Km,n ) = (m 1)(i + 1) + 1 while
if (i + 1)(im i + 2)/2 < n < (i + 2)[(i + 1)m i + 1]/2, then (Km,n ) = (Km,n ) =
d((m 1)(i +1)(i +2)+2n)/(2i +2)e [1898]. Wang [1829] proved that (Kn+1 \E(K1,r )) =
(Kn+1 \E(K1,r )) = 2n 2 when r + 1, 2n 3 when 2 r n 1, and 2n 4 when
r = n.
Nagamochi, Miller, and Slamin [1229] have determined upper and lower bounds on
the sum number a graph. For most graphs G(V, E) they show that (G) = (|E|). He,
Yu, Mi, Sheng, and Wang [697] investigated (Kn \E(Kr )) where n 5 and r 2. They
proved that (Kn \E(Kr )) = 0 when r = n or n 1;
(Kn \E(Kr )) = n 2 when r = n 2;
(Kn \E(Kr )) = n 1 when n 3 r d2n/3e 1; (Kn \E(Kr )) = 3n 2r 4 when
d2n/3e 1 > r n/2;
(Kn \E(Kr )) = 2n 4 when d2n/3e 1 n/2 > r 2. Moreover, they prove that if
n 5, r 2, and r 6= n 1, then (Kn \E(Kr )) = (Kn \E(Kr )).
Dou and Gao [508] prove that for n 3, the fan Fn = Pn + K1 is an integral sum
graph, (F4 ) = 1, (Fn ) = 2 for n 6= 4, and (F4 ) = 2, (Fn ) = 3 for n = 3 or n 6 and
n even, and (Fn ) = 4 for n 6 and n odd.
Wang and Gao [1830] and [1831] determined the sum numbers and the integral sum
numbers of the complements of paths, cycles, wheels, and fans as follows.
0 = (P4 ) < (P4 ) = 1; 1 = (P5 ) < (P5 ) = 2;
3 = (P6 ) < (P6 ) = 4; (Pn ) = (Pn ) = 0, n = 1, 2, 3;
(Pn ) = (Pn ) = 2n 7, n 7.
(Cn ) = (Cn ) = 2n 7, n 7.
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(Wn ) = (Wn ) = 2n 8, n 7.
0 = (F5 ) < (F5 ) = 1;
2 = (F6 ) < (F6 ) = 3; (Fn ) = (Fn ) = 0, n = 3, 4;
(Fn ) = (Fn ) = 2n 8, n 7.
Wang, Yang and Li [1834] proved:
(Kn \E(Cn1 ) = 0 for n = 4, 5, 6, 7;
(Kn \E(Cn1 ) = 2n 7 for n 8;
(K4 \E(Cn1 ) = 1;
(K5 \E(Cn1 ) = 2;
(K6 \E(Cn1 ) = 5;
(K7 \E(Cn1 ) = 7;
(Kn \E(Cn1 ) = 2n 7 for n 8.
Wang and Li [1833] proved: a graph with n 6 vertices and degree greater than
(n + 1)/2 is not an integral sum graph; for n 8, (Kn \ E(2P3 )) = (Kn \ E(2P3 )) =
(Kn \ E(2P3 )) = (Kn \ E(2P3 )) = 2n 7; for n 7, (Kn \ E(K2 )) = (Kn \ E(K2 )) =
2n 4; and for n 7 and 1 r d n2 e, (Kn \ E(rK2 )) = (Kn \ E(rK2 )) = 2n 5.
Chen [423] has given some properties of integral sum labelings of graphs G with
(G) < |V (G)| 1 whereas Nicholas, Somasundaram, and Vilfred [1248] provided some
general properties of connected integral sum graphs G with (G) = |V (G)| 1. They
have shown that connected integral sum graphs G other than K3 with the property that
G has exactly two vertices of maximum degree are unique and that a connected integral
sum graph G other than K3 can have at most two vertices with degree |V (G)| 1 (see
also [1817]).
Vilfred and Florida [1814] have examined one-point unions of pairs of small complete
graphs. They show that the one-point union of K3 and K2 and the one-point union of
K3 and K3 are integral sum graphs whereas the one-point union of K4 and K2 and the
one-point union of K4 and K3 are not integral sum graphs. In [1815] Vilfred and Florida
defined and investigated properties of maximal integral sum graphs.
Vilfred and Nicholas [1818] have shown that the following graphs are integral sum
graphs: banana trees, the union of any number of stars, fans Pn + K1 (n 2), Dutch
(m)
windmills K3 , and the graph obtained by starting with any finite number of integral
sum graphs G1 , G2 , . . . , Gn and any collections of n vertices with vi Gi and creating a
graph by identifying v1 , v2 , . . . , vn . The same authors [1819] also proved that G + v where
G is a union of stars is an integral sum graph.
Melnikov and Pyatkin [1185] have shown that every 2-regular graph except C4 is an
integral sum graph and that for every positive integer r there exists an r-regular integral
sum graph. They also show that the cube is not an integral sum graph. For any integral
sum graph G, Melnikov and Pyatkin define the integral radius of G as the smallest natural
number r(G) that has all its vertex labels in the interval [r(G), r(G)]. For the family
of all integral sum graphs of order n they use r(n) to denote maximum integral radius
among all members of the family. Two questions they raise are: Is there a constant C
such that r(n) Cn and for n > 2, is r(n) equal to the (n 2)th prime?
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graphs. Sonntag and Teichert [1608] prove that every hypertree (i.e., every connected,
non-trivial, cycle-free hypergraph) has sum number 1 provided that a certain cardinality
condition for the number of edges is fulfilled. In [1609] the same authors prove that for
d 3 every d-uniform hypertree is an integral sum graph and that for n d + 2 the
sum number of the complete d-uniform hypergraph on n vertices is d(n d) + 1. They
also prove that the integral sum number for the complete d-uniform hypergraph on n
vertices is 0 when d = n or n 1 and is between (d 1)(n d 1) and d(n d) + 1
for d n 2. They conjecture that for d n 2 the sum number and the integral
sum number of the complete d-uniform hypergraph are equal. Teichert [1677] proves
that hypercycles have sum number 1 when each edge has cardinality at least 3 and that
hyperwheels have sum number 1 under certain restrictions for the edge cardinalities.
(A hypercycle Cn = (Vn , En ) has Vn = ni=1 {v1i , v2i , . . . , vdi i 1 }, En = {e1 , e2 , . . . , en } with
ei = {v1i , . . . , vdi i = v1i+1 } where i + 1 is taken modulo n. A hyperwheel Wn = (Vn0 , En0 ) has
Vn0 = Vn {c} ni=1 {v2 n+i , . . . , vdn+i 1 n+i }, En0 = En {en+1 , . . . , e2n } with en+i = {v1 n+i =
c, v2 n+i , . . . , vdn+i 1 n+i , vdn+i n+i = v1 i }.)
Teichert [1676] determined an upper bound for the sum number of the d-partite complete hypergraph Knd1 ,...,nd . In [1678] Teichert defines the strong hypercycle Cnd to be the
d-uniform hypergraph with the same vertices as Cn where any d consecutive vertices
of Cn form an edge of Cnd . He proves that for n 2d + 1 5, (Cnd ) = d and for
d
d 2, (Cd+1
) = d. He also shows that (C53 ) = 3; (C63 ) = 2, and he conjectures that
(Cnd ) < d for d 4 and d + 2 n 2d.
In [1249] Nicholas and Vilfred define the edge reduced sum number of a graph as
the minimum number of edges whose removal from the graph results in a sum graph.
They show that for Kn , n 3, this number is (n(n 1)/2 + bn/2c)/2. They ask for
a characterization of graphs for which the edge reduced sum number is the same as its
sum number. They conjecture that an integral sum graph of order p and size q exists if
and only if q 3(p2 1)/8 b(p 1)/4c when p is odd and q 3(3p 2)/8 when p is
even. They also define the edge reduced integral sum number in an analogous way and
conjecture that for Kn this number is (n 1)(n 3)/8 + b(n 1)/4c when n is odd and
n(n 2)/8 when n is even.
For certain graphs G Vilfred and Florida [1813] investigated the relationships among
(G), (G), (G), and 0 (G) where (G) is the chromatic number of G and 0 (G) is the
edge chromatic number of G. They prove: (C4 ) = (C4 ) > (C4 ) = 0 (C4 ); for n
3, (C2n ) < (C2n ) = (C2n ) = 0 (C2n ); (C2n+1 ) < (C2n+1 ) < (C2n+1 ) = 0 (C2n+1 );
for n 4, 0 (Kn ) (Kn ) < (Kn ) = (Kn ); and for n 2, (Pn P2 ) < 0 (Pn P2 ) =
(Pn P2 ) = (Pn P2 ).
Alon and Scheinermann [96] generalized sum graphs by replacing the condition
f (x) + f (y) S with g(f (x), f (y)) S where g is an arbitrary symmetric polynomial.
They called a graph with this property a g-graph and proved that for a given symmetric
polynomial g not all graphs are g-graphs. On the other hand, for every symmetric polynomial g and every graph G there is some vertex labeling such that G together with at
most |E(G)| isolated vertices is a g-graph.
Boland, Laskar, Turner, and Domke [347] investigated a modular version of sum
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graphs. They call a graph G(V, E) a mod sum graph (MSG) if there exists a positive
integer n and an injective labeling from V to {1, 2, . . . , n 1} such that xy E if and
only if (f (x) + f (y)) (mod n) = f (z) for some vertex z. Obviously, all sum graphs are
mod sum graphs. However, not all mod sum graphs are sum graphs. Boland et al. [347]
have shown the following graphs are MSG: all trees on 3 or more vertices; all cycles on
4 or more vertices; and K2,n . They further proved that Kp (p 2) is not MSG (see also
[645]) and that W4 is MSG. They conjecture that Wp is MSG for p 4. This conjecture
was refuted by Sutton, Miller, Ryan, and Slamin [1665] who proved that for n 6= 4, Wn is
not MSG (the case where n is prime had been proved in 1994 by Ghoshal, Laskar, Pillone,
and Fricke [645]. In the same paper Sutton et al. also showed that for n 3, Kn,n is not
MSG. Ghoshal, Laskar, Pillone, and Fricke [645] proved that every connected graph is an
induced subgraph of a connected MSG graph and any graph with n vertices and at least
two vertices of degree n 1 is not MSG.
Sutton, Miller, Ryan, and Slamin [1665] define the mod sum number, (G), of a connected graph G to be the least integer r such that G Kr is MSG. Recall the cocktail
party graph Hm,n , m, n 2, as the graph with a vertex set V = {v1 , v2 , . . . , vmn } partitioned into n independent sets V = {I1 , I2 , . . . , In } each of size m such that vi vj E
for all i, j {1, 2, . . . , mn} where i Ip , j Iq , p 6= q. The graphs Hm,n can be used
to model relational database management systems (see [1661]). Sutton and Miller [1663]
prove that Hm,n is not MSG for n > m 3 and (Kn ) = n for n 4. In [1662] Sutton,
Draganova, and Miller prove that for n odd and n 5, (Wn ) = n and when n is even,
(Wn ) = 2. Wang, Zhang, Yu, and Shi [1852] proved that fan Fn (n 2) are not mod
sum graphs and (Fn ) = 2 for even n at least 6. They also prove that (Kn,n ) = n for
n 3.
Dou and Gao [509] obtained exact values for (Km,n ) and (Km E(Kn )) for some
cases of m and n and bounds in the remaining cases. They call a graph G(V, E) a mod
integral sum graph if there exists a positive integer n and an injective labeling from V to
{0, 1, 2, . . . , n 1} (note that 0 is included) such that xy E if and only if (f (x) + f (y))
(mod n) = f (z) for some vertex z. They define the mod integral sum number, (G), of
a connected graph G to be the least integer r such that G Kr is a mod integral sum
graph. They prove that for m + n 3, (Km,n ) = (Km,n ) and obtained exact values for
(Km E(Kn )) for some cases of m and n and bounds in the remaining cases.
Wallace [1822] has proved that Km,n is MSG when n is even and n 2m or when n is
odd and n 3m 3 and that (Km,n ) = m when 3 m n < 2m. He also proves that
the complete m-partite Kn1 ,n2 ,...,nm is not MSG when there exist ni and nj such that ni <
nj < 2ni . He poses the following conjectures: (Km,n ) = n when 3m 3 > n m 3; if
Kn1 ,n2 ,...,nm where n1 > n2 > > nm , is not MSG, then (m 1)nm (Kn1 ,n2 ,...,nm )
(m 1)n1 ; if G has n vertices, then (G) n; and determining the mod sum number
of a graph is N P -complete (Sutton has observed that Wallace probably meant to say
N P -hard). Miller [1190] has asked if it is possible for the mod sum number of a graph
G be of the order |V (G)|2 .
In a sum graph G, a vertex w is called a working vertex if there is an edge uv in G
such that w = u + v. If G = H Hr has a sum labeling such that H has no working vertex
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the labeling is called an exclusive sum labeling of H with respect G. The exclusive sum
number, (H), of a graph H is the smallest integer r such that G Kr has an exclusive
sum labeling. The exclusive sum number is known in the following cases (see [1194] and
[1201]): for n 3, (Pn ) = 2; for n 3, (Cn ) = 3; for n 3, (Kn ) = 2n 3; for
(n)
n 4, (Fn ) = n (fan of order n + 1); for n 4, (Wn ) = n; (C3 ) = 2n (friendship
graphsee 2.2); m 2, n 2, (Km,n ) = m + n 1; for n 2, Sn = n (star of order
n + 1); (Sm,n ) = max{m, n} (double star); H2,n = 4n 5 (cocktail party graph); and
(caterpillar G) = (G). Dou [507] showed that Hm,n is not a mod sum graph for m 3
and n 3; (Hm,3 ) = m for m 3; Hm,n (Hm,n )K1 is exclusive for m 3 and 4;
and m(n 1) (Hm,n ) mn(n 1)/2 for m 3 and n 4. Vilfred and Florida [1816]
proved that (P3 P3 ) = 4 and (Pn P2 ) = 3. In [728] Hegde and Vasudeva provide an
O(n2 ) algorithm that produces an exclusive sum labeling of a graph with n vertices given
its adjacency matrix.
In 2001 Kratochvil, Miller, and Nguyen proved that (G H) (G) + (H) 1.
In 2003 Miller, Ryan, Slamin, Sugeng, and Tuga [1197] posed the problem of finding the
exclusive sum number of the disjoint union of graphs. In 2010 Wang and Li [1832] proved
the following. Let G1 and G2 be graphs without isolated vertices, Li be an exclusive
sum labeling of Gi (Gi )K1 , and Ci be the isolated set of Li for i = 1 and 2. If
maxC1 and minC2 are relatively prime, then (G1 G2 ) (G1 ) + (G2 ) 1. Wang
and Li also proved the following: (Kr,s ) = s + r 1; (Kr,s E(K2 )) = s 1; for
s r 2, (Kr,s E(rK2 )) = s + r 3. For n 5 they prove: (Kn E(Kn )) =
0; (Kn E(Kn1 )) = n 1; for 2 r < n/2, (Kn E(Kr )) = 2n 4; for n/2
r n 2, (Kn E(Kr )) = 3n 2r 4, and (Cn  K1 ) is 3 or 4. They show that
(C3  K1 ) = 3 and guess that for n 4, (Cn  K1 ) = 4. A survey of exclusive sum
labelings of graphs is given by Ryan in [1380].
If (G) = (G), then G is said to be an -optimum summable graph. An exclusive sum
labeling of a graph G using (G) isolates is called a -optimum exclusive sum labeling
of G. Tuga, Miller, Ryan, and Ryjacek [1696] show that some families of trees that are
-optimum summable and some that are not. They prove that if G is a tree that has at
least one vertex that has two or more neighbors that are not leaves then (G) = (G).
Grimaldi [675] has investigated labeling the vertices of a graph G(V, E) with n vertices
with distinct elements of the ring Zn so that xy E whenever (x + y)1 exists in Zn .
In his 2001 Ph. D. thesis Sutton [1661] introduced two methods of graph labelings
with applications to storage and manipulation of relational database links specifically in
mind. He calls a graph G = (Vp Vi , E) a sum* graph of Gp = (Vp , Ep ) if there is an
injective labeling of the vertices of G with non-negative integers with the property that
uv Ep if and only if (u) + (v) = (z) for some vertex z G. The sum number,
(Gp ), is the minimum cardinality of a set of new vertices Vi such that there exists a
sum* graph of Gp on the set of vertices Vp Vi . A mod sum* graph of Gp is defined in the
identical fashion except the sum (u) + (v) is taken modulo n where the vertex labels of
G are restricted to {0, 1, 2, . . . , n 1}. The mod sum* number, (Gp ), of a graph Gp is
defined in the analogous way. Sum* graphs are a generalization of sum graphs and mod
sum* graphs are a generalization of mod sum graphs. Sutton shows that every graph
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is an induced subgraph of a connected sum* graph. Sutton [1661] poses the following
conjectures: (Hm,n ) mn for m, n 2; (Gp ) |Vp |; and (Gp ) |Vp |.
The following table summarizes what is known about sum graphs, mod sum graphs,
sum* graphs, and mod sum* graphs is reproduced from Suttons Ph. D. thesis [1661]. It
was updated by J. Gallian in 2006. A question mark indicates the value is unknown. The
results on sum* and mod sum* graphs are found in [1661].

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Table 20: Summary of Sum Graph Labelings

(G) (G)

Graph

(G)

(G)

K2 = S1

stars, Sn , n 2

trees Tn , necordial 3 when Tn 6= Sn

C3

C4

Cn , n > 4

W4

Wn , n 5, n odd

+2

fan, F4 ,

fans, Fn , n 5, n odd

fans, Fn , n 6, n even

Kn , n 4

2n 3

n2

cocktail party graphs, H2,n

4n 5

 4n3 
2

n(n 3)

Km,n , 2nm n 3

Km,n m 3n 3, n 3, m odd

Km,n , m 2n, n 3, m even

n2

n
2

Wn , n 6, n even

(t)

Cn (n, t) 6= (4, 1) (see 2.2)

Kn,n

Km,n , m < n
p
k = d 1 + (8m + n 1)(n 1)/2 e

 knk

Kn,n E(nK2 ), n 6

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7.2

Prime and Vertex Prime Labelings

The notion of a prime labeling originated with Entringer and was introduced in a paper
by Tout, Dabboucy, and Howalla [1687]. A graph with vertex set V is said to have a prime
labeling if its vertices are labeled with distinct integers 1, 2, . . . , |V | such that for each edge
xy the labels assigned to x and y are relatively prime. Around 1980, Entringer conjectured
that all trees have a prime labeling. Little progress was made on this conjecture until
2011 when Haxell, Pikhurko, Taraz [694] proved that all large trees are prime. Also, their
method allowed them to determine the smallest size of a non-prime connected ordern graph for all large n, proving a conjecture of Rao [1355] in this range. Among the
classes of trees known to have prime labelings are: paths, stars, caterpillars, complete
binary trees, spiders (i.e., trees with one vertex of degree at least 3 and with all other
vertices with degree at most 2), olive trees (i.e., a rooted tree consisting of k branches
such that the ith branch is a path of length i), all trees of order up to 50, palm trees (i.e.,
trees obtained by appending identical stars to each vertex of a path), banana trees, and
binomial trees (the binomial tree B0 of order 0 consists of a single vertex; the binomial
tree Bn of order n has a root vertex whose children are the roots of the binomial trees of
order 0, 1, 2, . . . , n 1 (see [1280], [1282], [1687], [588] and [1367]). Seoud, Sonbaty, and
Mahran [1457] provide necessary and sufficient conditions for a graph to be prime. They
also give a procedure to determine whether or not a graph is prime.
Other graphs with prime labelings include all cycles and the disjoint union of C2k and
Cn [488]. The complete graph Kn does not have a prime labeling for n 4 and Wn is
prime if and only if n is even (see [1072]).
Seoud, Diab, and Elsakhawi [1436] have shown the following graphs are prime: fans;
helms; flowers (see 2.2); stars; K2,n ; and K3,n unless n = 3 or 7. They also shown
that Pn + Km (m 3) is not prime. Tout, Dabboucy, and Howalla [1687] proved that
Cm  Kn is prime for all m and n. Vaidya and Prajapati [1747] proved that the graphs
obtained by duplication of a vertex by a vertex in Pn and K1,n are prime graphs and the
graphs obtained by duplication of a vertex by an edge, duplication of an edge by a vertex,
duplication of an edge by an edge in Pn , K1,n , and Cn are prime graphs. They also proved
that graph obtained by duplication of every vertex by an edge in Pn , K1,n , and Cn are
not prime graphs.
(m)
For m and n at least 3, Seoud and Youssef [1460] define Sn , the (m, n)-gon star, as
the graph obtained from the cycle Cn by joining the two end vertices of the path Pm2
to every pair of consecutive vertices of the cycle such that each of the end vertices of
the path is connected to exactly one vertex of the cycle. Seoud and Youssef [1460] have
(m)
proved the following graphs have prime labelings: books; Sn ; Cn  Pm ; Pn + K2 if and
only if n = 2 or n is odd; and Cn  K1 with a complete binary tree of order 2k 1 (k 2)
attached at each pendent vertex. They also prove that every spanning subgraph of a prime
graph is prime and every graph is a subgraph of a prime graph. They conjecture that
all unicycle graphs have prime labelings. Seoud and Youssef [1460] proved the following
graphs are not prime: Cm + Cn ; Cn2 for n 4; Pn2 for n = 6 and for n 8; and Mobius
ladders Mn for n even (see 2.3 for the definition). They also give an exact formula for

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the maximum number of edges in a prime graph of order n and an upper bound for the
chromatic number of a prime graph.
Youssef and Elsakhawi [1933] have shown: the union of stars Sm Sn , are prime; the
union of cycles and stars Cm Sn are prime; Km Pn is prime if and only if m is at most
3 or if m = 4 and n is odd; Kn  K1 is prime if and only if n 7; Kn  K2 is prime if and
only if n 16; 6Km Sn is prime if and only if the number of primes less than or equal
to m + n + 1 is at least m; and that the complement of every prime graph with order
at least 20 is not prime. Michael and Youssef [1189] determined all self-complementary
graphs that have prime labelings.
Salmasian [1398] has shown that every tree with n vertices (n 50) can be labeled
with n integers between 1 and 4n such that every two adjacent vertices have relatively
prime labels. Pikhurko [1282] has improved this by showing that for any c > 0 there is
an N such that any tree of order n > N can be labeled with n integers between 1 and
(1 + c)n such that labels of adjacent vertices are relatively prime.
Varkey and Singh (see [1789]) have shown the following graphs have prime labelings:
ladders, crowns, cycles with a chord, books, one point unions of Cn , and Ln + K1 . Varkey
[1789] has shown that graph obtained by connecting two points with internally disjoint
paths of equal length are prime. Varkey defines a twig as a graph obtained from a path
by attaching exactly two pendent edges to each internal vertex of the path. He proves
that twigs obtained from a path of odd length (at least 3) and lotus inside a circle (see
5.1) for the definition) graphs are prime.
Babujee and Vishnupriya [157] proved the following graphs have prime labelings:
nP2 , Pn Pn Pn , bistars (that is, the graphs obtained by joining the centers of
two identical stars with an edge), and the graph obtained by subdividing the edge joining
edge of a bistar. Babujee [140] obtained prime labelings for the graphs: (Pm nK1 ) +
K2 , (Cm nK1 ) + K2 , (Pm Cn K r ) + K2 , Cn Cn+1 , (2n 2)C2n (n > 1), Cn mPk
and the graph obtained by subdividing each edge of a star once. In [148] Babujee and
Jagadesh prove the following graphs have prime labelings: bistars Bm , n; P3  K1,n ; the
union of K1,n and the graph obtained from K1,n by appending a pendent edge to every
pendent edge of K1,n ; and the graph obtained by identifying the center of K1,n with the
two endpoints and the middle vertex of P5 .
In [1743] Vaidya and Prajapati prove the following graphs have prime labelings: a
t-ply graph of prime order; graphs obtained by joining center vertices of wheels Wm and
Wn to a new vertex w where m and n are even positive integers such that m + n + 3 = p
and p and p 2 are twin primes; the disjoint union of the wheel W2n and a path; the
graph obtained by identifying any vertex of a wheel W2n with an end vertex of a path;
the graph obtained from a prime graph of order n by identifying an end vertex of a path
with the vertex labeled with 1 or n; the graph obtained by identifying the center vertices
of any number of fans (that is, a multiple shell); the graph obtained by identifying the
center vertices of m wheels Wn1 , Wn2 , . . . , Wnm where each ni 4 is an even integer and
i1
X
each ni is relatively prime to 2 +
nk for each i {2, 3, . . . , m}.
k=1

The Knodel graphs W,n with n even and degree , where 1 b log2 nc have
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vertices pairs (i, j) with i = 1, 2 and 0 j n/2 1 where for every 0 j n/2 1
and there is an edge between vertex (1, j) and every vertex (2, (j + 2k 1) mod n/2), for
k = 0, 1, . . . , 1. Haque, Lin, Yang, and Zhao [685] have shown that W3,n is prime
when n 130.
Sundaram, Ponraj, and Somasundaram [1654] investigated the prime labeling behavior
of all graphs of order at most 6 and established that only one graph of order 4, one graph
of order 5, and 42 graphs of order 6 are not prime.
Given a collection of graphs G1 , . . . , Gn and some fixed vertex vi from each Gi , Lee,
Wui, and Yeh [1072] define Amal{(Gi , vi )}, the amagamation of {(Gi , vi )| i = 1, . . . , n},
as the graph obtained by taking the union of the Gi and identifying v1 , v2 , . . . , vn . Lee,
Wui, and Yeh [1072] have shown Amal{(Gi , vi )} has a prime labeling when Gi are paths
and when Gi are cycles. They also showed that the amagamation of any number of copies
of Wn , n odd, with a common vertex is not prime. They conjecture that for any tree T
and any vertex v from T , the amagamation of two or more copies of T with v in common
is prime. They further conjecture that the amagamation of two or more copies of Wn
that share a common point is prime when n is even (n 6= 4). Vilfred, Somasundaram,
and Nicholas [1810] have proved this conjecture for the case that n 2 (mod 4) where
the central vertices are identified.
Vilfred, Somasundaram, and Nicholas [1810] have also proved the following: helms
are prime; the grid Pm Pn is prime when m 3 and n is a prime greater than m; the
double cone Cn + K2 is prime only for n = 3; the double fan Pn K2 (n 6= 2) is prime if
and only if n is odd or n = 2; and every cycle with a Pk -chord is prime. They conjecture
that the grid Pm Pn is prime when n is prime and n > m. This conjecture was proved
by Sundaram, Ponraj, and Somasundaram [1652]. In the same article they also showed
that Pn Pn is prime when n is prime. Kanetkar [884] proved: P6 P6 is prime; that
Pn+1 Pn+1 is prime when n is a prime with n 3 or 9 (mod 10) and (n + 1)2 + 1 is also
prime; and Pn Pn+2 is prime when n is an odd prime with n 6 2 (mod 7).
Seoud, El Sonbaty, and Abd El Rehim [1437] proved that for m = pn+t1 (t + n)
where pi is the ith prime number in the natural order Kn Kt,m is prime and graphs
obtained from K2,n , (n 2) by adding p and q edges out from the two vertices of degree
n of K2,n are prime. They also proved that if G is not prime, then G K1,n is prime if
(n + m + 1) m where m is the order of G and (x) is the number of primes less than
or equal to x.
For any finite collection {Gi , ui vi } of graphs Gi , each with a fixed edge ui vi , Carlson
[396] defines the edge amalgamation Edgeamal{(Gi , ui vi )} as the graph obtained by taking
the union of all the Gi and identifying their fixed edges. The case where all the graphs are
cycles she calls generalized books. She proves that all generalized books are prime graphs.
Moreover, she shows that graphs obtained by taking the union of cycles and identifying
in each cycle the path Pn are also prime. Carlson also proves that Cm -snakes are prime
(see 2.2) for the definition).
In [139] Babujee proves that the maximum
number of edges in a simple graph with
Pn
n vertices that has a prime labeling is k=2 (k). He also shows that the planar graphs
having n vertices and 3(n 2) edges (i.e., the maximum number of edges for a planar
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graph with n vertices) obtained from Kn (n 5) with vertices v1 , v2 , . . . , vn by deleting

the edges joining vs and vt for all s and t satisfying 3 s n 2 and s + 2 t n has
a prime labeling if and only if n is odd.
In [1182] Meena and Vaithilingam investigated prime labelings for graphs related
friendship graphs and in [1183] they provided some results for graphs related to helms,
gears, crowns and stars.
Yao, Cheng, Zhongfu, and Yao [1910] have shown: a tree of order p with maximum
degree at least p/2 is prime; a tree of order p with maximum degree at least p/2 has a
vertex subdivision that is prime; if a tree T has an edge u1 u2 such that the two components
T1 and T2 of T u1 u2 have the properties that dT1 (u1 ) |T1 |/2 and dT2 (u2 ) |T2 |/2,
then T is prime when |T1 | + |T2 | is prime; if a tree T has two edges u1 u2 and u2 u3
such that the three components T1 , T2 , and T3 of T {u1 u2 , u2 u3 } have the properties
that dT1 (u1 ) |T1 |/2, dT2 (u2 ) |T2 |/2, and dT3 (u3 ) |T3 |/2, then T is prime when
|T1 | + |T2 | + |T3 | is prime.
Vaidya and Prajapati [1744] define a vertex switching Gv of a graph G as the graph
obtained by taking a vertex v of G, removing all the edges incident to v and adding edges
joining v to every other vertex that is not adjacent to v in G. They say a prime graph G
is switching invariant if for every vertex v of G, the graph Gv obtained by switching the
vertex v in G is also a prime graph. They prove: Pn and K1,n are switching invariant;
the graph obtained by switching the center of a wheel is a prime graph; and the graph
obtained by switching a rim vertex of Wn is a prime graph if n + 1 is a prime. They also
prove that the graph obtained by switching a rim vertex in Wn is not a prime graph if
n + 1 is an even integer greater than 9.
In [1442] Seoud, El-Sonbaty, and Mahran discuss the primality of some corona graphs
G  H and conjecture that Kn  Km is prime if and only if n (nm + n) + 1, where
(x) is the number of primes less than or equal to x. For m 20 they give the exact
values of n for which Kn  Km is prime. They also show that Km,n is prime if and only
if min{m, n} (m + n) ((m + n)/2) + 1.
Vaidya and Prajapati [1743] have introduced the notion of k-prime labeling. A k-prime
labeling of a graph G is an injective function f : V (G) {k + 1, k + 2, k + 3, . . . , k +
|V (G)| 1} for some positive integer k that induces a function f + on the edges of G
defined by f + (uv) = gcd(f (u), f (v)) such that gcd(f (u), f (v)) = 1 for all edges uv. A
graph that admits a k-prime labeling is called a k-prime graph. They prove the following
are prime graphs: a tadpole (that is, a graph obtained by identifying a vertex of a cycle
to an end vertex of a path); the union of a prime graph of order n and a (n + 1)-prime
graph; the graph obtained by identifying the vertex labeled with n in an n-prime graph
with either of the vertices labeled with 1 or n in a prime graph of order n.
A dual of prime labelings has been introduced by Deretsky, Lee, and Mitchem [488].
They say a graph with edge set E has a vertex prime labeling if its edges can be labeled
with distinct integers 1, . . . , |E| such that for each vertex of degree at least 2 the greatest
common divisor of the labels on its incident edges is 1. Deretsky, Lee, and Mitchem
show the following graphs have vertex prime labelings: forests; all connected graphs;
C2k Cn ; C2m C2n C2k+1 ; C2m C2n C2t Ck ; and 5C2m . They further prove that a
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graph with exactly two components, one of which is not an odd cycle, has a vertex prime
labeling and a 2-regular graph with at least two odd cycles does not have a vertex prime
labeling. They conjecture that a 2-regular graph
has a vertex prime
S
P labeling if and only
if it does not have two odd cycles. Let G = ti=1 C2ni and N = ti=1 ni . In [349] Borosh,
Hensley and Hobbs proved that there is a positive constant n0 such that the conjecture
of Deretsky et al. is true for the following cases: G is the disjoint union of at most seven
cycles; G is a union of cycles all of the same even length 2n where n 150 000 or where
n n0 ; ni (log N )4 log log log n for all i = 1, . . . , t; and when each C2ni is repeated at most
ni times. They end their paper with a discussion of graphs whose components are all even
cycles, and of graphs with some components that are not cycles and some components
that are odd cycles.
Jothi [859] calls a graph G highly vertex prime if its edges can be labeled with distinct integers {1, 2, . . . , |E|} such that the labels assigned to any two adjacent edges are
relatively prime. Such labeling is called a highly vertex prime labeling. He proves: if G
is highly vertex prime then the line graph of G is prime; cycles are highly vertex prime;
paths are highly vertex prime; Kn is highly vertex prime if and only if n 3; K1,n is
highly vertex prime if and only if n 2; even cycles with a chord are highly vertex prime;
Cp Cq is not highly vertex prime when both p and q are odd; and crowns Cn  K1 are
highly vertex prime.
The tables following summarize the state of knowledge about prime labelings and
vertex prime labelings. In the table, P means prime labeling exists, and VP means
vertex prime labeling exists. A question mark following an abbreviation indicates that
the graph is conjectured to have the corresponding property.
Table 21: Summary of Prime Labelings
Graph
Pn

Types
P

Notes
[588]

stars

[588]

caterpillars

[588]

complete binary trees

[588]

spiders

[588]

trees

P?

[1072]

Cn

[488]

Cn C2m

P
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Graph
Types

Notes

Kn

iff n 3 [1072]

Wn

iff n is even [1072]

helms

[1436], [1810]

fans

[1436]

flowers

[1436]

K2,n

[1436]

K3,n

n 6= 3, 7 [1436]

P n + Km

not P

n 3 [1436]

P n + K2

iff n = 2 or n is odd [1436]

books

[1460]

Cn  P m

[1460]

unicyclic graphs

P?

[1460]

Cm + Cn

not P

[1460]

Cn2

not P

n 4 [1460]

Pn2

not P

n 6, n 6= 7 [1460]

Mn (Mobius ladders)

not P

n even [1460]

Sm Sn

[1933]

Cm S n

[1933]

Km Sn

iff number of primes m + n + 1

is at least m [1933]

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Table 21 Continued from previous page

Graph
Types
Kn K1
P

Notes
iff n 7 [1933]

Pn P2 (ladders)

[1789]

Pm Pn (grids)

m 3, m > n, n prime [1810]

Cn  K1 (crowns)

[1789]

cycles with a chord

[1789]

Cn  K 2

iff n = 3 [1810]

P n  K2

iff n 6= 2 [1810]

Cm -snakes (see 2.2)

[396]

unicyclic

P?

[1436]

C m  Pn

[1460]

K1,n + K2

[1560]

K1,n + K2

n prime, n 4 [1560]

Pn  K1 (combs)

n 2 [1560]

Table 22: Summary of Vertex Prime Labelings

Graph
P1 P 2 P n

Types
P

Notes
[1560]

Pn P2 (ladders)

P
P?

n 3, 2n + 1 prime [1560]
n 3 [1560]

Cm (see 2.2

n(m 1) + 1 prime [1560]

triangular snakes

[1560]

(n)

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7.3

Table 22 Continued from previous page

Graph
Types
quadrilateral snakes
P

Notes
[1560]

Cm + Cn

not P

[1460]

Cn2

not P

n 4 [1460]

Pn

not P

n = 6, n 8 [1460]

M2n (Mobius ladders) not P

[1460]

connected graphs

VP

[488]

forests

VP

[488]

C2m Cn

VP

[488]

C2m C2n C2k+1

VP

[488]

C2m C2n C2t Ck

VP

[488]

5C2m

VP

[488]

GH

VP

if G, H are connected and

one is not an odd cycle [488]

2-regular graph G

not VP
VP?

G has at least 2 odd cycles [488]

iff G has at most 1 odd cycle [488]

Edge-graceful Labelings

In 1985, Lo [1116] introduced the notion of edge-graceful graphs. A graph G(V, E) is said
to be edge-graceful if there exists a bijection f from E to {1, 2, . . . P
, |E|} such that the
+
+
induced mapping f from V to {0, 1, . . . , |V | 1} given by f (x) = ( f (xy)) (mod |V |)
taken over all edges xy is a bijection. Note that an edge-graceful graph is antimagic (see
6.1). A necessary condition for a graph with p vertices and q edges to be edge-graceful
is that q(q + 1) p(p + 1)/2 (mod p). Lee [993] notes that this necessary condition
extends to any multigraph with p vertices and q edges. It was conjectured by Lee [993]
that any connected simple (p, q)-graph with q(q + 1) p(p 1)/2 (mod p) vertices is
edge-graceful. Lee, Kitagaki, Young, and Kocay [998] prove that the conjecture is true
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for maximal outerplanar graphs. Lee and Murthy [985] proved that Kn is edge-graceful
if and only if n 6 2 (mod 4). (An edge-graceful labeling given in [1116] for Kn for n 6 2
(mod 4) is incorrect.) Lee [993] notes that a multigraph with p 2 (mod 4) vertices is not
edge-graceful and conjectures that this condition is sufficient for the edge-gracefulness of
connected graphs. Lee [992] has conjectured that all trees of odd order are edge-graceful.
Small [1584] has proved that spiders for which every vertex has odd degree with the
property that the distance from the vertex of degree greater than 2 to each end vertex is
the same are edge-graceful. Keene and Simoson [907] proved that all spiders of odd order
with exactly three end vertices are edge-graceful. Cabaniss, Low, and Mitchem [377] have
shown that regular spiders of odd order are edge-graceful.
Lee and Seah [1035] have shown that Kn,n,...,n is edge-graceful if and only if n is odd
and the number of partite sets is either odd or a multiple of 4. Lee and Seah [1034] have
also proved that Cnk (the kth power of Cn ) is edge-graceful for k < bn/2c if and only if n
is odd and Cnk is edge-graceful for k bn/2c if and only if n 6 2 (mod 4) (see also [377]).
Lee, Seah, and Wang [1040] gave a complete characterization of edge-graceful Pnk graphs.
Shiu, Lam, and Cheng [1517] proved that the composition of the path P3 and any null
graph of odd order is edge-graceful.
Lo [1116] proved that all odd cycles are edge-graceful and Wilson and Riskin [1869]
proved the Cartesian product of any number of odd cycles is edge-graceful. Lee, Ma,
Valdes, and Tong [1011] investigated the edge-gracefulness of grids Pm Pn . The necessity
condition of Lo [1116] that a (p, q) graph must satisfy q(q + 1) 0 or p/2 (mod p) severely
limits the possibilities. Lee et al. prove the following: P2 Pn is not edge-graceful for all
n > 1; P3 Pn is edge-graceful if and only if n = 1 or n = 4; P4 Pn is edge-graceful if
and only if n = 3 or n = 4; P5 Pn is edge-graceful if and only if n = 1; P2m P2n is
edge-graceful if and only if m = n = 2. They conjecture that for all m, n 10 of the form
m = (2k + 1)(4k + 1), n = (2k + 1)(4k + 3), the grids Pm Pn are edge-graceful. Riskin
and Weidman [1366] proved: if G is an edge-graceful 2r-regular graph with p vertices and
q edges and (r, kp) = 1, then kG is edge-graceful when k is odd; when n and k are odd,
kCnr is edge-graceful; and if G is the cartesian product of an odd number of odd cycles
and k is odd, then kG is edge-graceful. They conjecture that the disjoint union of an odd
number of copies of a 2r-regular edge-graceful graph is edge-graceful.
Shiu, Lee, and Schaffer [1524] investigated the edge-gracefulness of multigraphs derived
from paths, combs, and spiders obtained by replacing each edge by k parallel edges. Lee,
Ng, Ho, and Saba [1021] construct edge-graceful multigraphs starting with paths and
spiders by adding certain edges to the original graphs. Lee and Seah [1036] have also
investigated edge-gracefulness of various multigraphs.
Lee and Seah (see [993]) define a sunflower graph SF (n) as the graph obtained by
starting with an n-cycle with consecutive vertices v1 , v2 , . . . , vn and creating new vertices
w1 , w2 , . . . , wn with wi connected to vi and vi+1 (vn+1 is v1 ). In [1037] they prove that
SF (n) is edge-graceful if and only if n is even. In the same paper they prove that C3
is the only triangular snake that is edge-graceful. Lee and Seah [1034] prove that for
k n/2, Cnk is edge-graceful if and only if n is odd, and for k n/2, Cnk is edge-graceful
if and only if n 6 2 (mod 4). Lee, Seah, and Lo (see [993]) have proved that for n odd,
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C2n C2n+1 , Cn C2n+2 , and Cn C4n are edge-graceful. They also show that for odd
k and odd n, kCn is edge-graceful. Lee and Seah (see [993]) prove that the generalized
Petersen graph P (n, k) (see Section 2.7 for the definition) is edge-graceful if and only if
n is even and k < n/2. In particular, P (n, 1) = Cn P2 is edge-graceful if and only if n
is even.
Schaffer and Lee [1412] proved that Cm Cn (m > 2, n > 2) is edge-graceful if and
only if m and n are odd. They also showed that if G and H are edge-graceful regular
graphs of odd order then G H is edge-graceful and that if G and H are edge-graceful
graphs where G is c-regular of odd order m and H is d-regular of odd order n, then G H
is edge-magic if gcd(c, n) = gcd(d, m) = 1. They further show that if H has odd order,
is 2d-regular and edge-graceful with gcd(d, m) = 1, then C2m H is edge-magic, and if
G is odd-regular, edge-graceful of even order m that is not divisible by 3, and G can be
partitioned into 1-factors, then G Cm is edge-graceful.
In 1987 Lee (see [1038]) conjectured that C2m C2n+1 is edge-graceful for all m and
n except for C4 C3 . Lee, Seah, and Lo [1038] have proved this for the case that m = n
and m is odd. They also prove: the disjoint union of an odd number copies of Cm is edgegraceful when m is odd; Cn C2n+2 is edge-graceful; and Cn C4n is edge-graceful for n
odd. Bu [361] gave necessary and sufficient conditions for graphs of the form mCn Pn1
to be edge-graceful.
Kendrick and Lee (see [993]) proved that there are only finitely many n for which
Km,n is edge-graceful and they completely solve the problem for m = 2 and m = 3. Ho,
Lee, and Seah [733] use S(n; a1 , a2 , . . . , ak ) where n is odd and 1 a1 a2
ak < n/2 to denote the (n, nk)-multigraph with vertices v0 , v1 , . . . , vn1 and edge set
{vi vj | i 6= j, i j at ( mod n) for t = 1, 2, . . . , k}. They prove that all such multigraphs
are edge-graceful. Lee and Pritikin (see [993]) prove that the Mobius ladders (see 2.2
for definition) of order 4n are edge-graceful. Lee, Tong, and Seah [1054] have conjectured
that the total graph of a (p, p)-graph is edge-graceful if and only if p is even. They have
proved this conjecture for cycles. In [911] Khodkar and Vinhage proved that there exists
a super edge-graceful labeling of the total graph of K1,n and the total graph of Cn .
Kuang, Lee, Mitchem, and Wang [966] have conjectured that unicyclic graphs of odd
order are edge-graceful. They have verified this conjecture in the following cases: graphs
obtained by identifying an endpoint of a path Pm with a vertex of Cn when m + n is
even; crowns with one pendent edge deleted; graphs obtained from crowns by identifying
an endpoint of Pm , m odd, with a vertex of degree 1; amalgamations of a cycle and a
star obtained by identifying the center of the star with a cycle vertex where the resulting
graph has odd order; graphs obtained from Cn by joining a pendent edge to n 1 of the
cycle vertices and two pendent edges to the remaining cycle vertex.
Gayathri and Subbiah [630] say a graph G(V, E) has a strong edge-graceful labeling
if there is an injection f from the E to {1, 2, 3, . . . , h3|E|/2i} such that the induced
mapping f + from V defined by f + (u) = (f (uv)) (mod 2|V |) taken all edges uv is an
injection. They proved the following graphs have strong edge graceful labelings: Pn (n
3), Cn , K1,n (n 2), crowns Cn  K1 , and fans Pn + K1 (n 2). In his Ph.D. thesis [1620]
Subbiah provided edge-graceful and strong edge-graceful labelings for a large variety of
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graphs. Among them are bistars, twigs, y-trees, spiders, flags, kites, friendship graphs,
mirror of paths, flowers, sunflowers, graphs obtained by identifying a vertex of a cycle
with an endpoint of a star, and K2  Cn , and various disjoint unions of path, cycles, and
stars.
Hefetz [700] has shown that a graph G(V, E) of the form G = H f1 f2 fr
where H = (V, E 0 ) is edge-graceful and the fi s are 2-factors is also edge-graceful and that
a regular graph of even degree that has a 2-factor consisting of k cycles each of length t
where k and t are odd is edge-graceful.
Baca and Hollander [202] investigated a generalization of edge-graceful labeling called
(a, b)-consecutive labelings. A connected graph G(V, E) is said to have an (a, b)consecutive labeling where a is a nonnegative integer and b is a positive proper divisor
of |V |, if there is a bijection from E to {1, 2, . . . , |E|} such that if each vertex v is assigned the sum of all edges incident to v the vertex labels are distinct and they can be
partitioned into |V |/b intervals
Wj = [wmin = (j 1)b + (j 1)a, wmin + jb + (j 1)a 1], where 1 j p/b and
wmin is the minimum value of the vertices. They present necessary conditions for (a, b)consecutive labelings and describe (a, b)-consecutive labelings of the generalized Petersen
graphs for some values of a and b.
A graph with p vertices and q edges is said to be k-edge-graceful if its edges can be
labeled with k, k + 1, . . . , k + q 1 such that the sums of the edges incident to each
vertex are distinct modulo p. In [1057] Lee and Wang show that for each k 6= 1 there
are only finitely many trees that are k-edge graceful (there are infinitely many 1-edge
graceful trees). They describe completely the k-edge-graceful trees for k = 0, 2, 3, 4, and 5.
Gayathri and Sarada Devi [617] obtained some necessary conditions and characterizations
for k-edge-gracefulness of trees. They also proved that specific families of trees are edgegraceful and k-edge-graceful and conjecture that all odd trees are k-edge-graceful.
Gayathri and Sarada Devi [493] defined a k-even edge-graceful labeling of a (p, q) graph
G(V, E) as an injection f from E to {2k 1,P
2k, 2k + 1, . . . , 2k + 2q 2} such that the
+
+
induced mapping f of V defined by f (x) = f (xy) ( mod 2s) taken over all edges xy,
are distinct and even, where s = max{p, q} and k is a positive integer. A graph G that
admits a k-even-edge-graceful labeling is called a k-even-edge-graceful graph. In [493],
[618], [619], and [620] Gayathri and Sarada Devi investigate the k-even edge-gracefulness
of a wide variety of graphs. Among them are: paths; stars; bistars; cycles with a pendent
edge; cycles with a cord; crowns Cn  K1 ; graphs obtained from Pn by replacing each
edge by a fixed number of parallel edges; and sparklers (paths with a star appended at
an endpoint of the path).
In 1991 Lee [993] defined the edge-graceful spectrum of a graph G as the set of all
nonnegative integers k such that G has a k-edge graceful labeling. In [1061] Lee, Wang,
Ng, and Wang determine the edge-graceful spectrum of the following graphs: G  K1
where G is an even cycle with one chord; two even cycles of the same order joined by an
edge; and two even cycles of the same order sharing a common vertex with an arbitrary
number of pendent edges attached at the common vertex (butterfly graph). Lee, Chen,
and Wang [996] have determined the edge-graceful spectra for various cases of cycles with
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a chord and for certain cases of graphs obtained by joining two disjoint cycles with an
edge (i.e., dumbbell graphs). More generally, Shiu, Ling, and Low [1526] call a connected
with p vertices and p + 1 edges bicyclic. In particular, the family of bicyclic graphs
includes the one-point union of two cycles, two cycles joined by a path and cycles with
one cord. In [1527] they determine the edge-graceful spectra of bicyclic graphs that do
not have pendent edges. Kang, Lee, and Wang [887] determined the edge-graceful spectra
of wheels and Wang, Hsiao, and Lee [1839] determined the edge-graceful spectra of the
square of Pn for odd n (see also Lee, Wang, and Hsiao [1059]). Results about the edgegraceful spectra of three types of (p, p + 1)-graphs are given by Chen, Lee, and Wang
[420]. In [1840] Wang and Lee determine the edge-graceful spectra of the one-point union
of two cycles, the corona product of the one-point union of two cycles with K1 , and the
cycles with one chord.
Lee, Levesque, Lo, and Schaffer [1006] investigate the edge-graceful spectra of cylinders. They prove: for odd n 3 and m 2 (mod) 4, the spectra of Cn Pm is ; for
m = 3 and m 0, 1 or 3 (mod 4), the spectra of C4 Pm is ; for even n 4, the spectra
of Cn P2 is all natural numbers; the spectra of Cn P4 is all odd positive integers if
and only if n 3 (mod) 4; and Cn P4 is all even positive integers if and only if n 1
(mod) 4. They conjecture that C4 Pm is k-edge-graceful for some k if and only if m 2
(mod) 4. Shiu, Ling, and Low [1527] determine the edge-graceful spectra of all connected
bicyclic graphs without pendent edges.
A graph G(V, E) is called super edge-graceful if there is a bijection f from E to
{0, 1, 2, . . . , (|E| 1)/2} when |E| is odd and from E to {1, 2, . . . , |E|/2} when
|E| is even such that the induced vertex labeling f defined by f (u) = f (uv) over all
edges uv is a bijection from V to {0, 1, 2, . . . , (p 1)/2} when p is odd and from V
to {1, 2, . . . , p/2} when p is even. Lee, Wang, Nowak, and Wei [1062] proved the
following: K1,n is super-edge-magic if and only if n is even; the double star DS(m, n)
(that is, the graph obtained by joining the centers of K1,m and K1,n by an edge) is super
edge-graceful if and only if m and n are both odd. They conjecture that all trees of odd
order are super edge-graceful. In [452] Chung, Lee, Gao and Schaffer pose the problems
of characterizing the paths and tress of diameter 4 that are super edge-graceful.
In [451] Chung, Lee, Gao, prove various classes of caterpillars, combs, and amagamations of combs and stars of even order are super edge-graceful. Lee, Sun, Wei, Wen,
and Yiu [1050] proved that trees obtained by starting with the paths the P2n+2 or P2n+3
and identifying each internal vertex with an endpoint of a path of length 2 are super
edge-graceful.
Shiu [1507] has shown that Cn P2 is super-edge-graceful for all n 2. More generally,
he defines a family of graphs that includes Cn P2 and generalized Petersen graphs
are follows. For any permutation on n symbols without a fixed point the -Petersen
graph P (n; ) is the graph with vertex set {u1 , u2 , . . . , un } {v1 , v2 , . . . , vn } and edge set
{ui ui+1 , ui wi , wi w(i) | 1 i n} where addition of subscripts is done modulo n. (The
graph P (n; ) need not be simple.) Shiu proves that P (n; ) is super-edge-graceful for
all n 2. He also shows that certain other families of connected cubic multigraphs are
super-edge-graceful and conjectures that every connected cubic of multigraph except K4
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In [1515] Shiu and Lam investigated the super-edge-gracefulness of fans and wheel-like
graphs. They showed that fans F2n and wheels W2n are super-edge-graceful. Although F3
and W3 are not super-edge-graceful the general cases F2n+1 and W2n+1 are open. For a
positive integer n1 and even positive integers n2 , n3 , . . . , nm they define an m-level wheel
as follows. A wheel is a 1-level wheel and the cycle of the wheel is the 1-level cycle. An
i-level wheel is obtained from an (i 1)-level wheel by appending ni /2 pairs of edges from
any number of vertices of the i 1-level cycle to ni new vertices that form the vertices in
the i-level cycle. They prove that all m-level wheels are super-edge-graceful. They also
prove that for n odd Cm  Kn is super-edge-graceful, for odd m 3 and even n 2
Cm  Kn is edge-graceful, and for m 2 and n 1 Cm  Kn is super-edge-graceful. For a
cycle Cm with consecutive vertices v1 , v2 , . . . , vm and nonnegative integers n1 , n2 , . . . , nm
they define the graph A(m; n1 , n2 , . . . , nm ) as the graph obtained from Cm by attaching
ni edges to the vertex vi for 1 i m. They prove A(m; n1 , n2 , . . . , nm ) is super-edgegraceful if m is odd and A(m; n1 , n2 , . . . , nm ) is super-edge-graceful if m is even and all
the ni are positive and have the same parity. Chung, Lee, Gao, and Schaffer [452] provide
super edge-graceful labelings for various even order paths, spiders and disjoint unions
of two stars. In [449] Chung and Lee characterize spiders of even orders that are not
super-edge-graceful and exhibit some spiders of even order of diameter at most four that
are super-edge-graceful. They raised the question of which paths are super edge-graceful.
This was answered by Cichacz, Froncek and Xu [462] who showed that the only paths
that are not super edge-graceful are P2 and P4 . Cichacz et al. also proved that the only
cycles that are not super edge-graceful are C4 and C6 . Gao and Zhang [613] proved that
some cases of caterpillars are super edge-graceful.
In [452] Chung, Lee, Gao, and Schaffer asked for a characterize trees of diameter 4 that
are super edge-graceful. Krop, Mutiso, and Raridan [963] provide a super edge-graceful
labelings for all caterpillars and even size lobsters of diameter 4 that permit such labelings.
They also provide super edge-graceful labelings for several families of odd size lobsters of
diameter 4. They were unable to find general methods that describe super edge-graceful
labelings for a few families of odd size lobsters of diameter 4, although they are able to
show that certain lobsters in these families are super-edge graceful. They conclude with
three conjectures about rooted trees of height 2 and diameter 4.
Although it is not the case that a super edge-graceful graph is edge-graceful, Lee,
Chen, Yera, and Wang [995] proved that if G is a super edge-graceful with p vertices and
q edges and q 1 (mod p) when q is even, or q 0 (mod p) when q is odd, then
G is also edge-graceful. They also prove: the graph obtained from a connected super
edge-graceful unicyclic graph of even order by joining any two nonadjacent vertices by an
edge is super edge-graceful; the graph obtained from a super edge-graceful graph with p
vertices and p + 1 edges by appending two edges to any vertex is super edge-graceful; and
the one-point union of two identical cycles is super edge-graceful.
Gayathri, Duraisamy, and Tamilselvi [622] calls a (p, q)-graph with q p even edgegraceful if there is an injection f from the set of edges to {1, 2, 3, . . . , 2q} such that the
values of the induced mapping f + from the vertex set to {0, 1, 2, . . . , 2q 1} given by
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f + (x) = (f (xy))(mod 2q) over all edges xy are distinct and even. In [622] and [621]
Gayathri et al. prove the following: cycles are even edge-graceful if and only if the cycles
are odd; even cycles with one pendent edge are even edge-graceful; wheels are even edgegraceful; gears (see 2.2 for the definition) are not even edge-graceful; fans Pn + K1 are
even edge-graceful; C4 Pm for all m are even edge-graceful; C2n+1 P2n+1 are even edge(m)
graceful; crowns Cn K1 are even edge-graceful; Cn (see 2.2 for the definition) are even
edge-graceful; sunflowers (see 3.7 for the definition) are even edge-graceful; triangular
snakes (see 2.2 for the definition) are even edge-graceful; closed helms (see 2.2 for the
definition) with the center vertex removed are even edge-graceful; graphs decomposable
into two odd Hamiltonian cycles are even edge-graceful; and odd order graphs that are
decomposable into three Hamiltonian cycles are even edge-graceful.
In [621] Gayathri and Duraisamy generalized the definition of even edge-graceful to
include (p, q)-graphs with q < p by changing the modulus from 2q the maximum of 2q and
2p. With this version of the definition, they have shown that trees of even order are not
even edge-graceful whereas, for odd order graphs, the following are even edge-graceful:
banana trees (see 2.1 for the definition); graphs obtained joining the centers of two stars
by a path; Pn K1,m ; graphs obtained by identifying an endpoint from each of any number
of copies of P3 and P2 ; bistars (that is, graphs obtained by joining the centers of two stars
with an edge); and graphs obtained by appending the endpoint of a path to the center
of a star. They define odd edge-graceful graphs in the analogous way and provide a few
results about such graphs.
Lee, Pan, and Tsai [1026] call a graph G with p vertices and q edges vertex-graceful
if there exists a labeling f V (G) {1, 2, . . . , p} such that the induced labeling f + from
E(G) to Zq defined by f + (uv) = f (u)+f (v) (mod q) is a bijection. Vertex-graceful graphs
can be viewed the dual of edge-graceful graphs. They call a vertex-graceful graph strong
vertex-graceful if the values of f + (E(G) are consecutive. They observe that the class of
vertex-graceful graphs properly contains the super edge-magic graphs and strong vertexgraceful graphs are super edge-magic. They provide vertex-graceful and strong vertexgraceful labelings for various (p, p + 1)-graphs of small order and their amalgamations.
Shiu and Wong [1535] proved the one-point union of an m-cycle and an n-cycle is
vertex-graceful only if m+n 0 (mod 4); for k 2, C(3, 4k 3) is strong vertex-graceful;
C(2n + 3, 2n + 1) is strong vertex-graceful for n 1; and if the one-point union of two
cycles is vertex-graceful, then it is also strong vertex-graceful. In [1597] Somashekara and
Veena find the number of (n, 2n 3) strong vertex graceful graphs.
As a dual to super edge-graceful graphs Lee and Wei [1065] define a graph G(V, E) to
be super vertex-graceful if there is a bijection f from V to {1, 2, . . . , (|V |1)/2} when
|V | is odd and from V to {1, 2, . . . , |V |/2} when |V | is even such that the induced
edge labeling f defined by f + (uv) = f (u)+f (v) over all edges uv is a bijection from E to
{0, 1, 2, . . . , (|E| 1)/2} when |E| is odd and from E to {1, 2, . . . , |E|/2} when
|E| is even. They show: for m and n1 , n2 , . . . , nm each at least 3, Pn1 Pn2 Pnm
is not super vertex-graceful; for n odd, books K1,n P2 are not super vertex-graceful; for
n 3, Pn2 P2 is super vertex-graceful if and only if n = 3, 4, or 5; and Cm Cn is not
super vertex-graceful. They conjecture that Pn Pn is super vertex-graceful for n 3.
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In [1069] Lee and Wong generalize super edge-vertex graphs by defining a graph
G(V, E) to be P (a)Q(1)-super vertex-graceful if there is a bijection f from V to
{0, a, (a + 1), . . . , (a 1 + (|V | 1)/2)} when |V | is odd and from V to {a, (a +
1), . . . , (a1+|V |/2)} when |V | is even such that the induced edge labeling f defined by
f + (uv) = f (u) + f (v) over all edges uv is a bijection from E to {0, 1, 2, . . . , (|E|
1)/2} when |E| is odd and from E to {1, 2, . . . , |E|/2} when |E| is even. They
show various classes of unicyclic graphs are P (a)Q(1)-super vertex-graceful. In [1005]
Lee, Leung, and Ng more simply refer to P (1)Q(1)-super vertex-graceful graphs as super
vertex-graceful and show how to construct a variety of unicyclic graphs that are super
vertex-graceful. They conjecture that every unicyclic graph is an induced subgraph of
a super vertex-graceful unicyclic graph. Lee and Leung [1004] determine which trees of
diameter at most 6 are super vertex-graceful graphs and propose two conjectures. Lee,
Ng, and Sun [1022] found many classes of caterpillars that are super vertex-graceful.
In [438] Chopra and Lee define a graph G(V, E) to be Q(a)P (b)-super edge-graceful if
there is a bijection f from E to {a, (a+1), . . . , (a+(|E|2)/2)} when |E| is even and
from E to {0, a, (a + 1), . . . , (a + (|E| 3)/2)} when |E| is odd and f + (u) is equal to
the sum of f (uv) over all edges uv is a bijection from V to {b, (b + 1), . . . , (|V | 2)/2}
when |V | is even and from V to {0, b, (b + 1), . . . , (|V | 3)/2} when |V | is odd.
They say a graph is strongly super edge-graceful if it is Q(a)P (b)-super edge-graceful for
all a 1. Among their results are: a star with n pendent edges is strongly super edgegraceful if and only if n is even; wheels with n spokes are strongly super edge-graceful
if and only if n is even; coronas Cn  K1 are strongly super edge-graceful for all n 3;
and double stars DS(m, n) are strongly super edge-graceful in the case that m is odd and
at least 3 and n is even and at least 2 and in the case that both m and n are odd and
one of them is at least 3. Lee, Song, and Valdes [1043] investigate the Q(a)P (b)-super
edge-gracefulness of wheels Wn for n = 3, 4, 5, and 6.
In [1066] Lee, Wang, and Yera proved that some Eulerian graphs are super edgegraceful, but not edge-graceful, and that some are edge-graceful, but not super edgegraceful. They also showed that a Rosa-type condition for Eulerian super edge-graceful
graphs does not exist and pose some conjectures, one of which was: For which n, is Kn
is super edge-graceful? It was known that the complete graphs Kn for n = 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 are
super edge-graceful and K4 is not super edge-graceful. Khodkar, Rasi, and Sheikholeslami,
[910] answered this question by proving that all complete graphs of order n 3, except
4, are super edge-graceful.
In 1997 Yilmaz and Cahit [1916] introduced a weaker version of edge-graceful called
E-cordial. Let G be a graph with vertex P
set V and edge set E and let f a function from
E to {0, 1}. Define f on V by f (v) = {f (uv)|uv E} (mod 2). The function f is
called an E-cordial labeling of G if the number of vertices labeled 0 and the number of
vertices labeled 1 differ by at most 1 and the number of edges labeled 0 and the number
of edges labeled 1 differ by at most 1. A graph that admits an E-cordial labeling is
called E-cordial. Yilmaz and Cahit prove the following graphs are E-cordial: trees with
n vertices if and only if n 6 2 (mod 4); Kn if and only if n 6 2 (mod 4); Km,n if and
only if m + n 6 2 (mod 4); Cn if and only if n 6 2 (mod 4); regular graphs of degree 1
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on 2n vertices if and only if n is even; friendship graphs C3 for all n (see 2.2 for the
definition); fans Fn if and only if n 6 1 (mod 4); and wheels Wn if and only if n 6 1
(mod 4). They observe that graphs with n 2 (mod 4) vertices can not be E-cordial.
They generalized E-cordial labelings to Ek -cordial (k > 1) labelings by replacing {0, 1}
by {0, 1, 2, . . . , k 1}. Of course, E2 -cordial is the same as E-cordial (see 3.7).
In [1774] Vaidya and Vyas prove that the following graphs are E-cordial: the mirror
graphs (see 2.3 for the definition) even paths, even cycles, and the hypercube are Ecordial. In [1740] they show that the middle graph, the total graph, and the splitting
graph of a path are E-cordial and the composition of P2 n with P2 . (See 2.7 for the
definitions of middle, total and splitting graphs.) In [1741] Vaidya and Lekha [1741]
prove the following graphs are E-cordial: the graph obtained by duplication of a vertex
(see 2.7 for the definition) of a cycle; the graph obtained by duplication of an edge (see
2.7 for the definition) of a cycle; the graph obtained by joining of two copies of even
cycle by an edge; the splitting graph of an even cycle; and the shadow graph (see 3.8 for
the definition) of a path of even order.
Vaidya and Vyas [1775] proved the following graphs have E-cordial labelings: K2n P2 ;
P2n P2 ; Wn P2 for odd n; and K1,n P2 for odd n. Vaidya and Vyas [1776] proved
that the Mobius ladders, the middle graph of Cn , and crowns Cn  K1 are E-cordial
2
graphs for even n while bistars Bn,n and its square graph Bn,n
are E-cordial graphs for
odd n. In [1778] and [1779] Vaidya and Vyas proved the following graphs are E-cordial:
flowers, closed helms, double triangular snakes, gears, graphs obtained by switching of an
arbitrary vertex in Cn except n 2 (mod 4), switching of rim vertex in wheel Wn except
n 1 (mod 4), switching of an apex vertex in helms, and switching of an apex vertex in
closed helms.
In her PhD thesis [1786] Vanitha defines a (p, q) graph G to be directed edge-graceful if
there exists an orientation of G and a labeling of the arcs of G with {1, 2, . . . , q} such that
the induced mapping g on V defined by g(v) = |f + (v) f (v)| (mod p) is a bijection
where, f + (v) is the sum of the labels of all arcs with head v and f (v) is the sum of
the labels of all arcs with tail v. She proves that a necessary condition for a graph with
p vertices to be directed edge-gradceful is that p is odd. Among the numerous graphs
that she proved to be directed edge-graceful are: odd paths, odd cycles, fans F2n (n 2),
wheels W2n , nC3 -snakes, butterfly graphs Bn (two even cycles of the same order sharing
a common vertex with an arbitrary number of pendent edges attached at the common
vertex), K1,2n (n 2), odd order y-trees with at least 5 vertices, flags F l2n (the cycle
C2n with one pendent edge), festoon graphs Pn  mK1 , the graphs Tm,n,t obtained from
a path Pt (t 2) by appending m edges at one endpoint of Pt and n edges at the other
endpoint of Pt , C3n , P3 K1,2n+1 , P5 K1,2n+1 , and K1,2n K1,2m+1 .
Devaraj [491] has shown that M (m, n), the mirror graph of K(m, n), is E-cordial when
m + n is even and the generalized Petersen graph P (n, k) is E-cordial when n is even.
(Recall that P (n, 1) is Cn P2 .)
The table following summarizes the state of knowledge about edge-graceful labelings.
In the table EG means edge-graceful labeling exists. A question mark following an abbreviation indicates that the graph is conjectured to have the corresponding property.
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Table 23: Summary of Edge-graceful Labelings

Graph
Kn

Types
EG

Notes
iff n 6 2 (mod 4) [985]

odd order trees

EG?

[992]

Kn,n,...,n (k terms)

EG

iff n is odd or k 6 2 (mod 4) [1035]

Cnk , k < bn/2c

EG

iff n is odd [1034]

Cnk , k bn/2c

EG

iff n 6 2 (mod 4) [1034]

P3 [Kn ]

EG

n is odd [1034]

M4n (Mobius ladders)

EG

[993]

odd order dragons

EG

[966]

odd order unicycilc graphs

EG?

[966]

P2m P2n

EG

iff m = n = 2 [1011]

C n P2

EG

n even [1038]

C2n C2n+1

EG

n odd [1038]

Cn C2n+2

EG

[1038]

Cn C4n

EG

n odd [1038]

C2m C2n+1

EG?

(m, n) 6= (4, 3) odd [1039]

P (n, k) generalized Petersen graph EG

n even, k < n/2 [993]

Cm Cn

(m, n) 6= (4, 3) [1039]

EG?

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7.4

Radio Labelings

In 2001 Chartrand, Erwin, Zhang, and Harary [409] were motivated by regulations for
channel assignments of FM radio stations to introduce radio labelings of graphs. A radio
labeling of a connected graph G is an injection c from the vertices of G to the natural
numbers such that
d(u, v) + |c(u) c(v)| 1 + diam(G) for every two distinct vertices u and v of G. The
radio number of c, rn(c), is the maximum number assigned to any vertex of G. The radio
number of G, rn(G), is the minimum value of rn(c) taken over all radio labelings c of
G. Chartrand et al. and Zhang [1944] gave bounds for the radio numbers of cycles. The
exact values for the radio numbers for paths and cycles were reported by Liu and Zhu
[1105] as follows: for odd n 3, rn(Pn ) = (n 1)2 /2 + 2; for even n 4, rn(Pn ) =
n2 /2 n + 1; rn(C4k ) = (k + 2)(k 2)/2 + 1; rn(C4k+1 ) = (k + 1)(k 1)/2; rn(C4k+2 ) =
(k + 2)(k 2)/2 + 1; and rn(C4k+3 ) = (k + 2)(k 1)/2. However, Chartrand, Erwin,
and Zhang [408] obtained different values than Liu and Zhu for P4 and P5 . Chartrand,
Erwin, and Zhang [408] proved: rn(Pn ) (n 1)(n 2)/2 + n/2 + 1 when n is even;
rn(Pn ) n(n 1)/2 + 1 when n is odd; rn(Pn ) < rn(Pn+1 ) (n > 1); for a connected
graph G of diameter d, rn(G) (d + 1)2 /4 + 1 when d is odd; and rn(G) d(d + 2)/4 + 1
when d is even. Benson, Porter, and Tomova [302] have determined the radio numbers
of all graphs of order n and diameter n 2. In [1101] Liu obtained lower bounds for the
radio number of trees and the radio number of spiders (trees with at most one vertex of
degree greater than 2) and characterized the graphs that achieve these bounds.
Chartrand, Erwin, Zhang, and Harary [409] proved: rn(Kn1 ,n2 ,...,nk ) = n1 + n2 + +
nk + k 1; if G is a connected graph of order n and diameter 2, then n rn(G) 2n 2;
and for every pair of integers k and n with n k 2n 2, there exists a connected graph
of order n and diameter 2 with rn(G) = k. They further provide a characterization of
connected graphs of order n and diameter 2 with prescribed radio number.
Fernandez, Flores, Tomova, and Wyels [556] proved rn(Kn ) = n; rn(Wn ) = n +2; and
the radio number of the gear graph obtained from Wn by inserting a vertex between each
vertex of the rim is 4n + 2. Morris-Rivera, Tomova, Wyels, and Yeager [1213] determine
the radio number of Cn Cn . Martinez, Ortiz, Tomova, and Wyels [1167] define generalized
prisms, denoted Zn,s , s 1, n s, as the graphs with vertex set {(i,
 j)| i = 1, 2 and sj=
. . . , 0, . . . , 2 }.
1, ..., n} and edge set {((i, j), (i, j 1))} {((1, i), (2, i + )) | = s1
2
They determine the radio number of Zn,s for s = 1, 2 and 3.
The generalized gear graph Jt,n is obtained from a wheel Wn by introducing t-vertices
between every pair (vi , vi+1 ) of adjacent vertices on the n-cycle of wheel. Ali, Rahim, Ali,
and Farooq [90] gave an upper bound for the radio number of generalized gear graph,
which coincided with the lower bound found in [89] and [1325]. They proved for t < n 1
and n 7, rn(Jt,n ) = (nt2 + 4nt + 3n + 4)/2. They pose the determination of the radio
number of Jt,n when n 7 and t > n 1 as an open problem.
Saha and Panigrahi [1386] determined the radio number of the toroidal grid Cm Cn
when at least one of m and n is an even integer and gave a lower bound for the radio
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numbers of squares of cycles for most values of n. In [1104] Liu and Xie proved that
rn(Pn2 ) is bn/2c + 2 if n 1 (mod 4) and n 9 and rn(Pn2 ) is bn/2 + 1c otherwise. In
[1102] Liu found a lower bound for the radio number of trees and characterizes the trees
that achieve the bound. She also provides a lower bound for the radio number of spiders
in terms of the lengths of their legs and characterizes the spiders that achieve this bound.
Sweetly and Joseph [1673] prove that the radio number of the graph obtained from the
wheel Wn by subdividing each edge of the rim exactly twice is 5n 3. Marinescu-Ghemeci
[1163] determined the radio number of the caterpillar obtained from a path by attaching
a new terminal vertex to each non-terminal vertex of the path and the graph obtained
from a star by attaching k new terminal vertices to each terminal vertex of the star.
Sooryanarayana and Raghunath. P [1610] determined the radio number of Cn3 , for
n 20 and for n 0 or 2 or 4 (mod 6). Sooryanarayana, Vishu Kumar, Manjula [1611]
determine the radio number of Pn3 , for n 4. Wang, Xu, Yang, Zhang, Luo, and Wang
[1835] determine the radio number of ladder graphs. Jiang [848] completely determined
the radio number of the grid graph Pm Pn (m, n > 2). In [1772] Vaidya and Vihol
determined upper bounds on radio numbers of cycles with chords and determined the
exact radio numbers for the splitting graph and the middle graph of Cn .
In [395] Canales, Tomova, and Wyels investigated the question of which radio numbers
of graphs of order n are achievable. They proved that the achievable radio numbers of
graphs of order n must lie in the interval [n, rn(Pn )], and that these bounds are the
2
+ 2 is an
best possible. They also show that for odd n, the integer rn(Pn ) 1 = (n1)
2
unachievable radio number for any graph of order n. In [1590] Sokolowsky settled the
question of exactly which radio numbers are achievable for a graph of order n.
For any connected graph G and positive integer k Chartrand, Erwin, and Zhang, [407]
define a radio k-coloring as an injection f from the vertices of G to the natural numbers
such that
d(u, v) + |f (u) f (v)| 1 + k for every two distinct vertices u and v of G. Using rck (f )
to denote the maximum number assigned to any vertex of G by f , the radio k-chromatic
number of G, rck (G), is the minimum value of rck (f ) taken over all radio k-colorings of G.
Note that rc1 (G) is (G), the chromatic number of G, and when k = diam(G), rck (G) is
rn(G), the radio number of G. Chartrand, Nebesky, and Zang [415] gave upper and lower
bounds for rck (Pn ) for 1 k n 1. Kchikech, Khennoufa, and Togni [903] improved
Chartrand et al.s lower bound for rck (Pn ) and Kola and Panigrahi [931] improved the
upper bound for certain special cases of n. The exact value of rcn2 (Pn ) for n 5 was
given by Khennoufa and Togni in [909] and the exact value of rcn3 (Pn ) for n 8 was
given by Kola and Panigrahi in [931]. Kola and Panigrahi [931] gave the exact value of
rcn4 (Pn ) when n is odd and n 11 and an upper bound for rcn4 (Pn ) when n is even and
n 12. In [1385] Saha and Panigrahi provided an upper and a lower bound for rck (Cnr )
for all possible values of n, k and r and showed that these bounds are sharp for antipodal
number of Cnr for several values of n and r. Kchikech, Khennoufa, and Togni [904] gave
upper and lower bounds for rck (G H) and rck (Qn ). In [903] the same authors proved
that rck (K1,n ) = n(k 1) + 2 and for any tree T and k 2, rck (T ) (n 1)(k 1).
A radio k-coloring of G when k = diam(G) 1 is called a radio antipodal labeling. The
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minimum span of a radio antipodal labeling of G is called the radio antipodal number of G
and is denoted by an(G). Khennoufa and Togni [906] determined the radio number and
the radio antipodal number of the hypercube by using a generalization of binary Gray
e+1 and an(Qn ) = (2n1 1)d n2 e+(n),
codes. They proved that rn(Qn ) = (2n1 1)d n+3
2
with (n) = 1 if n 0 mod 4, and (n) = 0 otherwise.
Sooryanarayana and Raghunath [1610] say a graph with n vertices is radio graceful if
rn(G) = n. They determine the values of n for which Cn3 is radio graceful.
The survey article by Panigrahi [1259] includes background information and further
results about radio k-colorings.

7.5

Line-graceful Labelings

Gnanajothi [646] has defined a concept similar to edge-graceful. She calls a graph with n
vertices line-graceful if it is possible to label its edges with 0, 1, 2, . . . , n such that when each
vertex is assigned the sum modulo n of all the edge labels incident with that vertex the
resulting vertex labels are 0, 1, . . . , n 1. A necessary condition for the line-gracefulness
of a graph is that its order is not congruent to 2 (mod 4). Among line-graceful graphs are
(see [646, pp. 132181]) Pn if and only if n 6 2 (mod 4); Cn if and only if n 6 2 (mod 4);
K1,n if and only if n 6 1 (mod 4); Pn  K1 (combs) if and only if n is even; (Pn  K1 )  K1
if and only if n 6 2 (mod 4); (in general, if G has order n, G  H is the graph obtained
by taking one copy of G and n copies of H and joining the ith vertex of G with an edge
to every vertex in the ith copy of H); mCn when mn is odd; Cn  K1 (crowns) if and
only if n is even; mC4 for all m; complete n-ary trees when n is even; K1,n K1,n if and
only if n is odd; odd cycles with a chord; even cycles with a tail; even cycles with a tail
of length 1 and a chord; graphs consisting of two triangles having a common vertex and
tails of equal length attached to a vertex other than the common one; the complete n-ary
tree when n is even; trees for which exactly one vertex has even degree. She conjectures
that all trees with p 6 2 (mod 4) vertices are line-graceful and proved this conjecture for
p 9.
Gnanajothi [646] has investigated the line-gracefulness of several graphs obtained from
stars. In particular, the graph obtained from K1,4 by subdividing one spoke to form a
path of even order (counting the center of the star) is line-graceful; the graph obtained
from a star by inserting one vertex in a single spoke is line-graceful if and only if the star
has p 6 2 (mod 4) vertices; the graph obtained from K1,n by replacing each spoke with
a path of length m (counting the center vertex) is line-graceful in the following cases:
n = 2; n = 3 and m 6 3 (mod 4); and m is even and mn + 1 0 (mod 4).
Gnanajothi studied graphs obtained by joining disjoint graphs G and H with an
edge. She proved such graphs are line-graceful in the following circumstances: G = H;
G = Pn , H = Pm and m + n 6 0 (mod 4); and G = Pn  K1 , H = Pm  K1 and m + n 6 0
(mod 4).
In [1734] and [1735] Vaidya and Kothari proved following graphs are line graceful: fans
Fn for n 6 1 (mod 4); Wn for n 6 1 (mod 4); bistars Bn,n if and only if for n 1, 3 (mod
4); helms Hn for all n; S 0 (Pn ) for n 0, 2 (mod 4); D2 (Pn ) for n 0, 2 (mod 4); T (Pn ),
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M (Pn ), alternate triangular snakes, and graphs obtained by duplication of each edge of
Pn by a vertex are line graceful graphs.

7.6

Representations of Graphs modulo n

In 1989 Erdos and Evans [536] defined a representation modulo n of a graph G with
vertices v1 , v2 , . . . , vr as a set {a1 , . . . , ar } of distinct, nonnegative integers each less than
n satisfying gcd(ai aj , n) = 1 if and only if vi is adjacent to vj . They proved that
every finite graph can be represented modulo some positive integer. The representation
number, Rep(G), is smallest such integer. Obviously the representation number of a graph
is prime if and only if a graph is complete. Evans, Fricke, Maneri, McKee, and Perkel
[545] have shown that a graph is representable modulo a product of a pair of distinct
primes if and only if the graph does not contain an induced subgraph isomorphic to
K2 2K1 , K3 K1 , or the complement of a chordless cycle of length at least five. Nesetril
and Pultr [1233] showed that every graph can be represented modulo a product of some
set of distinct primes. Evans et al. [545] proved that if G is representable modulo n and
p is a prime divisor of n, then p (G). Evans, Isaak, and Narayan [546] determined
representation numbers for specific families as follows (here we use qi to denote the ith
prime and for any prime pi we use pi+1 , pi+2 , . . . , pi+k to denote the next k primes larger
than pi ): Rep(Pn ) = 2 3 qdlog (n1)e ; Rep(C4 ) = 4 and for n 3, Rep(C2n ) =
2
2 3 qdlog (n1)e+1 ; Rep(C5 ) = 3 5 7 = 105 and for n 4 and not a power of 2,
2
Rep(C2n+1 ) = 3 5 qdlog ne+1 ; if m n 3, then Rep(Km Pn ) = pi pi+1 where pi
2
is the smallest prime greater than or equal to m n + dn/2e; if m n 4, and pi is the
smallest prime greater than or equal to m n + dn/2e, then Rep(Km Cn ) = qi qi+1 if n
is even and Rep(Km Cn ) = qi qi+1 qi+2 if n is odd; if n m 1, then Rep(Km K1,n ) =
ps ps+1 ps+n1 where ps is the smallest prime greater than or equal to m 1; Rep(Km )
is the smallest prime greater than or equal to m; Rep(nK2 ) = 2 3 qdlog ne+1 ; if
2
n, m 2, then Rep(nKm ) = pi pi+1 pi+m1 , where pi is the smallest prime satisfying
pi m, if and only if there exists a set of n 1 mutually orthogonal Latin squares of
order m; Rep(mK1 ) = 2m; and if t (m 1)!, then Rep(Km + tK1 ) = ps ps+1 ps+m1
where ps is the smallest prime greater than or equal to m. Narayan [1232] proved that
for r 3 the maximum value for Rep(G) over all graphs of order r is ps ps+1 ps+r2 ,
where ps is the smallest prime that is greater than or equal to r 1. Agarwal and Lopez
[40] determined the representation numbers for complete graphs minus a set of stars.
Evans [544] used matrices over the additive group of a finite field to obtain various
bounds for the representation number of graphs of the form nKm . Among them are
Rep(4K3 ) = 3 5 7 11; Rep(7K5 ) = 5 7 11 13 17 19 23; and Rep((3q 1)/2)Kq )
pq pq+1 p(3q1)/2) where q is a prime power with q 3 (mod 4), pq is the smallest prime
greater than or equal to q, and the remaining terms are the next consecutive (3q 3)/2
primes; Rep(2q 2)Kq ) pq pq+1 p(3q3)/2) where q is a prime power with q 3 mod 4,
and pq is the smallest prime greater than or equal to q; Rep((2q 2)Kq ) pq pq+1 p2q3 .
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G is a complete multipartite graph or a disjoint union of complete graphs. He also asked

about the behavior of the representation number for random graphs.
Akhtar, Evans, and Pritikin [73] characterized the representation number of K1,n using
Eulers phi function, and conjectured that this representation number is always of the form
2a or 2a p, where a 1 and p is a prime. They proved this conjecture for small n and
proved that for sufficiently large n, the representation number of K1,n is of the form 2a , 2a p,
or 2a pq, where a 1 and p and q are primes. In [74] they showed that for sufficiently
large n m, rep(Km,n ) = 2a , 3a , 2a pb , or 2a pq, where a, b 1 and p and q are primes; and
for sufficiently large order, rep(Kn1 ,n2 ,...,nt = pa , pa q b , or pa q b u, where p, q, u are primes
with p, q < u. Akhtar [75] determined the representation number of graphs of the form
K2 nK1 (he uses the notation K2 + nK1 ) and studies their prime decompositions. Using
relations between representation modulo r and product representations, he determined
representation number of binary trees and gave an improved lower bound for hypercubes.

7.7

k-sequential Labelings

In 1981 Bange, Barkauskas, and Slater [258] defined a k-sequential labeling f of a graph
G(V, E) as one for which f is a bijection from V E to {k, k + 1, . . . , |V E| + k 1} such
that for each edge xy in E, f (xy) = |f (x) f (y)|. This generalized the notion of simply
sequential where k = 1 introduced by Slater. Bange, Barkauskas, and Slater showed that
cycles are 1-sequential and if G is 1-sequential, then G + K1 is graceful. Hegde and Shetty
[715] have shown that every Tp -tree (see 4.4 for the definition) is 1-sequential. In [1578],
Slater proved: Kn is 1-sequential if and only if n 3; for n 2, Kn is not k-sequential
for any k 2; and K1,n is k-sequential if and only if k divides n. Acharya and Hegde [26]
proved: if G is k-sequential, then k is at most the independence number of G; P2n is nsequential for all n and P2n+1 is both n-sequential and (n + 1)-sequential for all n; Km,n is
k-sequential for k = 1, m, and n; Km,n,1 is 1-sequential; and the join of any caterpillar and
Kt is 1-sequential. Acharya [14] showed that if G(E, V ) is an odd graph with |E|+|V | 1
or 2 (mod 4) when k is odd or |E| + |V | 2 or 3 (mod 4) when k is even, then G is not
k-sequential. Acharya also observed that as a consequence of results of Bermond, Kotzig,
and Turgeon [311] we have: mK4 is not k-sequential for any k when m is odd and mK2
is not k-sequential for any odd k when m 2 or 3 (mod 4) or for any even k when m 1
or 2 (mod 4). He further noted that Km,n is not k-sequential when k is even and m and
n are odd, whereas Km,k is k-sequential for all k. Acharya points out that the following
result of Slaters [1579] for k = 1 linking k-graceful graphs and k-sequential graphs holds
in general: A graph is k-sequential if and only if G + v has a k-graceful labeling f with
f (v) = 0. Slater [1578] also proved that a k-sequential graph with p vertices and q > 0
edges must satisfy k p 1. Hegde [705] proved that every graph can be embedded as an
induced subgraph of a simply sequential graph. In [14] Acharya conjectured that if G is
a connected k-sequential graph of order p with k > bp/2c, then k = p 1 and G = K1,p1
and that, except for K1,p1 , every tree in which all vertices are odd is k-sequential for
all odd positive integers k p/2. In [705] Hegde gave counterexamples for both of these
conjectures.

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In [714] Hegde and Miller prove the following: for n > 1, Kn is k-sequentially additive
if and only if (n, k) = (2, 1), (3, 1) or (3,2); K1,n is k-sequentially additive if and only if
k divides n; caterpillars with bipartition sets of sizes m and n are k-sequentially additive
for k = m and k = n; and if an odd-degree (p, q)-graph is k-sequentially additive, then
(p + q)(2k + p + q 1) 0 mod 4. As corollaries of the last result they observe that when
m and n are odd and k is even Km,n is not k-sequentially additive and if an odd-degree
tree is k-sequentially additive then k is odd.
In [1446] Seoud and Jaber proved the following graphs are 1-sequentially additive:
graphs obtained by joining the centers of two identical stars with an edge; Sn Sm if and
only if nm is even; Cn  Km ; Pn  Km ; kP3 ; graphs obtained by joining the centers of k
copies of P3 to each vertex in Km ; and trees obtained from K1,n by replacing each edge
by a path of length 2 when n 0, 1 (mod 4). They also determined all 1-sequentially
additive graphs of order 6.

7.8

IC-colorings

For a subgraph H of a graph G with vertex set V and a coloring f from V to the natural
numbers define fs (H) = f (v) over all v H. The coloring f is called an IC-coloring if
for any integer k between 1 and fs (G) there is a connected subgraph H of G such that
fs (H) = k. The IC-index of a graph G, M (G), is max{fs | fs is an IC-coloring of G}.
Salehi, Lee, and Khatirinejad [1394] obtained the following: M (Kn ) = 2n 1; for n
2, M (K1,n ) = 2n + 2; if is the maximum degree of a connected graph G, then M (G)
2 + 2; if ST (n; 3n ) is the graph obtained by identifying the end points of n paths of
length 3, then ST (n; 3n ) is at least 3n + 3 (they conjecture that equality holds for n 4);
for n 2, M (K2,n ) = 3 2n + 1; M (Pn ) (2 + bn/2c)(n bn/2c) + bn/2c 1; for
m, n 2, the IC-index of the double star DS(m, n) is at least (2m1 + 1)(2n1 + 1) (they
conjecture that equality holds); for n 3, n(n + 1)/2 M (Cn ) n(n 1) + 1; and for
n 3, 2n + 2 M (Wn ) 2n + n(n 1) + 1. They pose the following open problems:
find the IC-index of the graph obtained by identifying the endpoints of n paths of length
b; find the IC-index of the graph obtained by identifying the endpoints of n paths; and
find the IC-index of Km,n . Shiue and Fu [1538] completed the partial results by Penrice
[1271] Salehi, Lee, and Khatirinejad [1394] by proving M (Km,n ) = 3 2m+n2 2m2 + 2
for any 2 m n.

7.9

Product and Divisor Cordial Labelings

Sundaram. Ponraj, and Somasundaram [1649] introduced the notion of product cordial
labelings. A product cordial labeling of a graph G with vertex set V is a function f from V
to {0, 1} such that if each edge uv is assigned the label f (u)f (v), the number of vertices
labeled with 0 and the number of vertices labeled with 1 differ by at most 1, and the
number of edges labeled with 0 and the number of edges labeled with 1 differ by at most
1. A graph with a product cordial labeling is called a product cordial graph.
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are product cordial: trees; unicyclic graphs of odd order; triangular snakes; dragons;
helms; Pm Pn ; Cm Pn ; Pm K1,n ; Wm Fn (Fn is the fan Pn + K1 ); K1,m K1,n ; Wm
K1,n ; Wm Pn ; Wm Cn ; the total graph of Pn (the total graph of Pn has vertex set
V (Pn ) E(Pn ) with two vertices adjacent whenever they are neighbors in Pn ); Cn if and
(t)
only if n is odd; Cn , the one-point union of t copies of Cn , provided t is even or both t and
n are even; K2 +mK1 if and only if m is odd; Cm Pn if and only if m+n is odd; Km,n Ps
if s > mn; Cn+2 K1,n ; Kn Kn,(n1)/2 when n is odd; Kn Kn1,n/2 when n is even; and
Pn2 if and only if n is odd. They also prove that Km,n (m, n > 2), Pm Pn (m, n > 2)
and wheels are not product cordial and if a (p, q)-graph is product cordial graph, then
q (p 1)(p + 1)/4 + 1.
In [1443] Seoud and Helmi obtained the following results: Kn is not product cordial
for all n 4; Cm is product cordial if and only if m is odd; the gear graph Gm is
product cordial if and only if m is odd; all web graphs are product cordial; the corona of
a triangular snake with at least two triangles is product cordial; the C4 -snake is product
cordial if and only if the number of 4-cycles is odd; Cm  Kn is product cordial; and
they determine all graphs of order less than 7 that are not product cordial. Seoud and
Helmi define the conjunction G1 G2 of graphs G1 and G2 as the graph with vertex set
V (G1 ) V (G2 ) and edge set {(u1 , v1 )(u2 , v2 )| u1 u2 E(G1 ), v1 v2 E(G2 )}. They prove:
Pm Pn (m, n 2) and Pm Sn (m, n 2) are product cordial.
Vaidya and Kanani [1726] prove the following graphs are product cordial: the path
union of k copies of Cn except when k is odd and n is even; the graph obtained by joining
two copies of a cycle by path; the path union of an odd number copies of the shadow
of a cycle (see 3.8 for the definition); and the graph obtained by joining two copies of
the shadow of a cycle by a path of arbitrary length. In [1729] Vaidya and Kanani prove
the following graphs are product cordial: the path union of an even number of copies of
Cn (Cn ); the graph obtained by joining two copies of Cn (Cn ) by a path of arbitrary length;
the path union of any number of copies of the Petersen graph; and the graph obtained by
joining two copies of the Petersen graph by a path of arbitrary length.
Vaidya and Barasara [1697] prove that the following graphs are product cordial: friendship graphs; the middle graph of a path; odd cycles with one chord except when the chord
joins the vertices at a diameter distance apart; and odd cycles with two chords that share
a common vertex and form a triangle with an edge of the cycle and neither chord joins
vertices at a diameter apart.
(1)
In [1715] Vaidya and Dani prove the following graphs are product cordial: < Sn :
(2)
(k)
(1)
(2)
(k)
Sn : . . . : Sn > except when k odd and n even; < K1,n : K1,n : . . . : K1,n >; and
(1)
(2)
(k)
< Wn : Wn : . . . : Wn > if and only if k is even or k is odd and n is even with k > n.
(See 3.7 for the definitions.)
Vaidya and Barasara [1698] proved the following graphs are product cordial: closed
helms, web graphs, flower graphs, double triangular snakes obtained from the path Pn if
and only if n is odd, and gear graphs obtained from the wheel Wn if and only if n is odd.
Vaidya and Barasara [1699] proved that the graphs obtained by the duplication of an
edge of a cycle, the mutual duplication of pair of edges of a cycle, and mutual duplication
of pair of vertices between two copies of Cn admit product cordial labelings. Moreover,
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if G and G0 are the graphs such that their orders or sizes differ at most by 1 then the
new graph obtained by joining G and G0 by a path Pk of arbitrary length admits product
cordial labeling.
Vaidya and Barasara [1700] define the duplication of a vertex v of a graph G by a new
edge u0 v 0 as the graph G0 obtained from G by adding the edges u0 v 0 , vu0 and vv 0 to G.
They define the duplication of an edge uv of a graph G by a new vertex v 0 as the graph G0
obtained from G by adding the edges uv 0 and vv 0 to G. They proved the following graphs
have product cordial labelings: the graph obtained by duplication of an arbitrary vertex
by a new edge in Cn or Pn (n > 2); the graph obtained by duplication of an arbitrary edge
by a new vertex in Cn (n > 3) or Pn (n > 3); and the graph obtained by duplicating all
the vertices by edges in path Pn . They also proved that the graph obtained by duplicating
all the vertices by edges in Cn (n > 3) and the graph obtained by duplicating all the edges
by vertices in Cn are not product cordial.
The following definitions appear in [1299], [1295] [1296] and [1297]. A double triangular snake DTn consists of two triangular snakes that have a common path; a double
quadrilateral snake DQn consists of two quadrilateral snakes that have a common path;
an alternate triangular snake A (Tn ) is the graph obtained from a path u1 , u2 , . . . , un by
joining ui and ui+1 (alternatively) to new vertex vi (that is, every alternate edge of a
path is replaced by C3 ); a double alternate triangular snake DA (Tn ) is obtained from a
path u1 , u2 , . . . , un by joining ui and ui+1 (alternatively) to two new vertices vi and wi ;
an alternate quadrilateral snake A (Qn ) is obtained from a path u1 , u2 , . . . , un by joining
ui and ui+1 (alternatively) to new vertices vi and wi respectively and then joining vi and
wi (that is, every alternate edge of a path is replaced by a cycle C4 ); a double alternate
quadrilateral snake DA (Qn ) is obtained from a path u1 , u2 , . . . , un by joining ui and ui+1
(alternatively) to new vertices vi , xi and wi and yi respectively and then joining vi and
wi and xi and yi .
Vaidya and Barasara [1702] prove that the shell graph Sn is product cordial for odd
n and not product cordial for even n. They also show that D2 (Cn ); D2 (Pn ); Cn2 ; M (Cn );
S 0 (Cn ); circular ladder CLn ; Mobius ladder Mn ; step ladder S(Tn ) and Hn,n does not
admit product cordial labeling.
Vaidya and Vyas [1782] prove the following graphs are product cordial: alternate
triangular snakes A(Tn ) except n 3 (mod 4); alternate quadrilateral snakes A(QSn )
except except n 2 (mod 4); double alternate triangular snakes DA(Tn ) and double
alternate quadrilateral snakes DA(QSn ).
Vaidya and Vyas [1783] prove the following graphs are product cordial: the splitting
graph of bistar S 0 (Bn,n ); duplicating each edge by a vertex in bistar Bn,n and duplicating
each vertex by an edge in bistar Bn,n . Also they proved that D2 (Bn,n ) is not product
cordial.
In [1388] Salehi called the set {|ef (0) ef (1)| : f is a friendly labeling of G} the
product-cordial set of G. He determines the product-cordial sets for paths, cycles, wheels,
complete graphs, bipartite complete graphs, double stars, and complete graphs with an
edge deleted. Salehi and Mukhin [1395] say a graph G of size q is fully product-cordial
if its product cordial set is {q 2k : 0 k bq/2c}. They proved: Pn (n 2) is fully
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product-cordial; trees with a perfect matching are fully product-cordial; P2 Pn is not

fully product-cordial; and Pm Pn has the maximum product cordial -index 2mn m n.
They determine the product-cordial sets of P2 Pn , Pn P2m and Pn P2m+1 , where
m n. Because the product-cordial set is the multiplicative version of the friendly index
set, Kwong, Lee, and Ng [975] called it the product-cordial index set of G and determined
the exact values of the product-cordial index set of Cm and Cm Pn . In [976] Kwong,
Lee, and Ng determined the friendly index sets and product-cordial index sets of 2-regular
graphs and the graphs obtained by identifying the centers of any number of wheels.
In [1514] Shiu and Kwong define the full product-cordial index of G under f as FPCI(G)
= {if (G) | f is a friendly labeling of G}. They provide a relation between the friendly
index and the product-cordial index of a regular graph. As applications, they determine
the full product-cordial index sets of Cm and Cm Cn , which was asked by Kwong,
Lee, and Ng in [975]. Shiu [1510] determined the product-cordial index sets of grids
Pm Pn . Recall the twisted cylinder graph is the permutation graph on 4n (n 2)
vertices, P (2n; ), where = (1, 2)(3, 4) (2n 1, 2n) (the product of n transpositions).
Shiu and Lee [1523] determined the full friendly index sets and the full product-cordial
index sets of twisted cylinders.
Jeyanthi and Maheswari define a mapping f : V (G) {0, 1, 2} to be a 3-product
cordial labeling if |vf (i) vf (j)| 1 and |ef (i) ef (j)| 1 for any i, j {0, 1, 2}, where
vf (i) denotes the number of vertices labeled with i, ef (i) denotes the number of edges
xy with f (x)f (y) i (mod 3). A graph with a 3-product cordial labeling is called a
3-product cordial graph. In [807] they prove that for a (p, q) 3-product cordial graph:
2
2
; p 1 (mod 3) implies q p 2p+7
; and p 2 (mod
p 0 (mod 3) implies q p 3p+6
3
3
p2 p+4
3) implies q
. They prove the following graphs are 3-product cordial: paths;
3
stars; Cn if and only if n 1, 2 (mod 3); Cn Pn , Cm  Kn ; Pm  Kn for m 3 and
n 1; Wn when n 1 (mod 3); and the graph obtained by joining the centers of two
identical stars to a new vertex. They also prove that Kn is not 3-product cordial for
n 3 and if G1 is a 3-product cordial graph with 3m vertices and 3n edges and G2 is
any 3-product cordial graph, then G1 G2 is a 3-product cordial graph. In [808] they
(1)
(2)
(k)
prove that ladders, < Wn : Wn : . . . : Wn > (see 3.7 for the definition), graphs
obtained by duplicating an arbitrary edge of a wheel, graphs obtained by duplicating an
arbitrary vertex of a cycle or a wheel are 3-product cordial. They also prove that the
graphs obtained by from the ladders Ln = Pn P2 (n 2) by adding the edges ui vi+1
for 1 i n 1, where the consecutive vertices of two copies of Pn are u1 , u2 , . . . , un
and v1 , v2 , . . . , vn and the edges are ui vi . They call these graphs triangular ladders . The

graph Bn,n
is obtained from the bistar Bn,n with V (Bn,n ) = {u, v, ui , vi | 1 i n}
and E(Bn,n ) = {uv, uui , vvi , vui , uvi | 1 i n} by joining u with vi and v with ui
for 1 i 4. Jeyanthi and Maheswari [817] proved: the splitting graphs S 0 (K1,n ) and

S 0 (Bn,n ) are 3-product cordial graphs; Bn,n

is a 3-product cordial graph if and only if
n 0, 1 (mod 3); and the shadow graph D2 (Bn,n ) is a 3-product cordial graph if and
only if n 0, 1 mod 3.
Sundaram and Somasundaram [1653] also have introduced the notion of total product
cordial labelings. A total product cordial labeling of a graph G with vertex set V is a
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function f from V to {0, 1} such that if each edge uv is assigned the label f (u)f (v) the
number of vertices and edges labeled with 0 and the number of vertices and edges labeled
with 1 differ by at most 1. A graph with a total product cordial labeling is called a
total product cordial graph. In [1653] and [1651] Sundaram, Ponraj, and Somasundaram
prove the following graphs are total product cordial: every product cordial graph of even
order or odd order and even size; trees; all cycles except C4 ; Kn,2n1 ; Cn with m edges
appended at each vertex; fans; double fans; wheels; helms; Cn P2 ; K2,n if and only if
n 2 (mod 4); Pm Pn if and only if (m, n) 6= (2, 2); Cn + 2K1 if and only if n is even
or n 1 (mod 3); Kn 2K2 if n is odd, or n 0 or 2 (mod 6), or n 2 (mod 8). Y.-L.
Lai, the reviewer for MathSciNet [978], called attention to some errors in [1651].
Vaidya and Vihol [1765] prove the following graphs have total product labelings: a
split graph; the total graph of Cn ; the star of Cn (recall that the star of a graph G is the
graph obtained from G by replacing each vertex of star K1,n by a graph G); the friendship
graph Fn ; the one point union of k copies of a cycle; and the graph obtained by the
switching of an arbitrary vertex in Cn .
Ramanjaneyulu, Venkaiah, and Kothapalli [1341] give total product cordial labeling
for a family of planar graphs for which each face is a 4-cycle.
Sundaram, Ponraj, and Somasundaram [1656] introduced the notion of EP-cordial
labeling (extended product cordial) labeling of a graph G as a function f from the
verticies of a graph to {1, 0, 1} such that if each edge uv is assigned the label f (u)f (v),
then |vf (i) vf (j)| 1 and |ef (i) ef (j)| 1 where i, j {1, 0, 1} and vf (k) and
ef (k) denote the number of vertices and edges respectively labeled with k. An EPcordial graph is one that admits an EP-cordial labeling. In [1656] Sundaram, Ponraj, and
Somasundaram prove the following: every graph is an induced subgraph of an EP-cordial
graph, Kn is EP-cordial if and only if n 3; Cn is EP-cordial if and only if n 1, 2 (mod
3), Wn is EP-cordial if and only if n 1 (mod 3); and caterpillars are EP-cordial. They
prove that all K2,n , paths, stars and the graphs obtained by subdividing each edge of of
a star exactly once are EP-cordial. They also prove that if a (p, q) graph is EP-cordial,
then q 1 + p/3 + p2 /3. They conjecture that every tree is EP-cordial.
Ponraj, Sivakumar, and Sundaram [1304] introduced the notion of k-product cordial
labeling of graphs. Let f be a map from V (G) to {0, 1, 2, . . . , k 1}, where 2 k |V |.
For each edge uv assign the label f (u)f (v) (mod k). f is called a k-product cordial
labeling if |vf (i) vf (j)| 1 and |ef (i) ef (j)| 1, i, j {0, 1, 2, . . . , k 1}, where
vf (x) and ef (x) denote the number of vertices and edges labeled with x. A graph with
a k-product cordial labeling is called a k-product cordial graph. Observe that 2-product
cordial labeling is simply a product cordial labeling and 3-product cordial labeling is an
EP-cordial labeling. In [1304] and [1305] Ponraj et al. prove the following are 4-product
cordial: Pn iff n 11, Cn iff n = 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, or 10, Kn iff n 2, Pn  K1 , Pn  2K1 , K2,n
iff n 0, 3 (mod 4), Wn iff n = 5 or 9, Kn + 2K2 iff n 2, and the subdivision graph of
K1,n .
Let f be a map from V (G) to {0, 1, 2, . . . , k 1} where 2 k |V |. For each edge uv
assign the label f (u)f (v) (mod k). Ponraj, Sivakumar, and Sundaram [1306] define f to
be a k-total product cordial labeling if |f (i)f (j)| 1, i, j {0, 1, 2, . . . , k1}, where f (x)
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denote the number of vertices and edges labeled with x. A graph with a k-total product
cordial labeling is called a k-total product cordial graph . A 2-total product cordial labeling
is simply a total product cordial labeling. In [1306], [1307], [1308], [1309] and [1310],
Ponraj et al. proved the following graphs are 3-total product cordial: Pn , Cn if and only
if n 6= 3 or 6, K1,n if and only if n 0, 2 ( mod 3), Pn K1 , Pn 2K1 , K2 +mK1 if and only
if m 2 (mod 3), helms, wheels, Cn  2K1 , Cn  K2 , dragons Cm @Pn , Cn  K1 , bistars
Bm,n , and the subdivision graphs of K1,n , Cn  K1 , K2,n , Pn  K1 , Pn  2K1 , Cn  K2 ,
wheels and helms. Also they proved that every graph is a subgraph of a connected k-total
product cordial graph, Bm,n is (n + 2)-total product cordial, and Km,n is (n + 2)-total
product cordial,
For a graph G Sundaram, Ponraj, and Somasundaram [1657] defined the index of
product cordiality, ip (G), of G as the minimum of {|ef (0) ef (1)|} taken over all the
0-1 binary labelings f of G with |vf (i) vf (j)| 1 and f (uv) = f (u)f (v), where ef (k)
and vf (k) denote the number of edges and the number of vertices labeled with k. They
established that ip (Kn ) = bn/2c2 ; ip (Cn ) = 2 if n is even; ip (Wn ) = 2 or 4 according as n
is even or odd; ip (K2,n ) = 4 or 2 according as n is even or odd; ip (K2 + nK1 ) = 3 if n is
even; ip (G P2 ) 2ip (G); ip (G1 G2 ) ip (G1 ) + ip (G2 ) + 2 min{(G1 ), (G2 )} where
G1 and G2 are graphs of odd order; and ip (G1  G2 ) ip (G1 ) + ip (G2 ) + 2(G2 ) + 3 where
G1 and G2 have odd order.
Vaidya and Vyas [1773] define the tensor product G1 (Tp )G2 of graphs G1 and G2 as
the graph with vertex set V (G1 ) V (G2 ) and edge set
{(u1 , v1 )(u2 , v2 )| u1 u2 E(G1 ), v1 v2 V (G2 )}. They proved the following graphs are
product cordial: Pm (Tp )Pn ; C2m (Tp )P2n ; C2m (Tp )C2n ; the graph obtained by joining two
components of Pm (Tp )Pn an by arbitrary path; the graph obtained by joining two components of C2m (Tp )P2n by an arbitrary path; and and the graph obtained by joining two
components of C2m (Tp )C2n by an arbitrary path.
In [1285] Ponraj introduced the notion of an (1 , 2 , . . . , k )-cordial labeling of a graph.
Let S = {1 , 2 , . . . , k } be a finite set of distinct integers and f be a function from a
vertex set V (G) to S. For each edge uv of G assign the label f (u)f (v). He calls f an
(1 , 2 , . . . , k )-cordial labeling of G if |vf (i ) vf (j )| 1 for all i, j {1, 2, . . . , k} and
|ef (i j ) ef (r s )| 1 for all i, j, r, s {1, 2, . . . , k}, where vf (t) and ef (t) denote the
number of vertices labeled with t and the number of edges labeled with t, respectively. A
graph that admits an (1 , 2 , . . . , k )-cordial labeling is called an (1 , 2 , . . . , k )-cordial
graph Note that an (, )-cordial graph is simply a cordial graph and a (0, )-cordial
graph is a product cordial graph. Ponraj proved that K1,n is (1 , 2 , . . . , k )-cordial if
and only if n k and for 1 6= 0, 2 6= 0, 1 + 2 6= 0 proved the following: Kn is
(1 , 2 )-cordial if and only if n 2; Pn is (1 , 2 )-cordial; Cn is (1 , 2 )-cordial if and
only if n > 3; Km,n (m, n > 2) is not (1 , 2 )-cordial; the bistar Bn,n+1 is (1 , 2 )-cordial;
Bn+2,n is (1 , 2 )-cordial if and only if n 1, 2 (mod 3); Bn+3,n is (1 , 2 )-cordial if and
only if n 0, 2 (mod 3); and Bn+r,n , r > 3 is not (1 , 2 )-cordial. He also proved that if
G is an (1 , 2 )-cordial graph with p vertices and q edges, then q 3p2 /8 p/2 + 9/8. In
[1285] Ponraj proved that combs Pn K1 are (1 , 2 )-cordial; coronas Cn K1 are (1 , 2 )(t)
cordial for n 0, 2, 4, 5 (mod 6); C3 is not (1 , 2 )-cordial; Wn is not (1 , 2 )-cordial;
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and Kn + 2K2 is (1 , 2 )-cordial if and only if n = 2.

In [1787] Varatharajan, Navanaeethakrishnan Nagarajan define a divisor cordial labeling of a graph G with vertex set V as a bijection f from V to {1, 2, . . . , |V |} such that
an edge uv is assigned the label 1 if one f (u) or f (v) divides the other and 0 otherwise,
then the number of edges labeled with 0 and the number of edges labeled with 1 differ by
at most 1. If graph that has a divisor cordial labeling, it is called a divisor cordial graph.
They proved the standard graphs such as paths, cycles, wheels, stars and some complete
bipartite graphs are divisor cordial. They also proved that complete graphs are not divisor
cordial. In [1788] they proved dragons, coronas, wheels, and complete binary trees are
divisor cordial. For t copies S1 , S2 , . . . , St of an n-star K1,n they define hS1 , S2 , . . . , St i as
the graph obtained by starting with S1 , S2 , . . . , St and joining the central vertices of Sk1
and Sk to a new vertex xk1 . They prove that hS1 , S2 i and hS1 , S2 , S3 i are divisor cordial.
Vaidya and Shah [1755] proved that the splitting graphs of stars and bistars are divisor
cordial and the shadow graphs and the squares of bistars are divisor cordial. In [1757]
they proved that helms, flower graphs, and gears are divisor cordial graphs. They also
proved that graphs obtained by switching of a vertex in a cycle, switching of a rim vertex
in a wheel, and switching of an apex vertex in a helm admit divisor cordial labelings.
Motivated by the concept of a divisor cordial labeling, Murugesan [1227] introduced
a square divisor cordial labeling. Let G be a simple graph and f : {1, 2, . . . , |V (G)|}
a bijection. For each edge uv, assign the label 1 if either [f (u)]2 divides f (v) or [f (v)]2
divides f (u) and the label 0 otherwise. Call f a square divisor cordial labeling if |ef (0)
ef (1)| 1. A graph with a square divisor cordial labeling is called a square divisor
cordial graph. Murugesan proved that the following are square divisor cordial graphs:
Pn (n 12), Cn (3 n 11), wheels, some stars, some complete bipartite graphs,
and some complete graphs. Vaidya and Shah [1761] proved that the following are square
divisor cordial graphs: flowers, bistars, shadow graphs of stars, splitting graphs of stars
and bistars, degree splitting graphs of paths and bistars.

7.10

Edge Product Cordial Labelings

Vaidya and Barasara [1703] introduced the concept of edge product cordial labeling as
edge analogue of product cordial labeling. An edge product cordial labeling of graph G
is an edge labeling function f : E(G)
Q {0, 1} that induces a vertex labeling function
f : V (G) {0, 1} defined as f (u) = {f (uv) | uv E(G)} such that the number of
edges labeled with 0 and the number of edges labeled with 1 differ by at most 1 and the
number of vertices labeled with 0 and the number of vertices labeled with 1 differ by at
most 1. A graph with an edge product cordial labeling is called an edge product cordial
graph.
In [1703], [1705], [1706], [1707] and [1710] Vaidya and Barasara proved the following
graphs are edge product cordial: Cn for n odd; trees with order greater than 2; unicyclic
(t)
graphs of odd order; Cn , the one point union of t copies of Cn for t even or t and n both
odd; Cn  K1 ; armed crowns; helms; closed helms; webs; flowers; gears; shells Sn for odd
n; tadpoles Cn @Pm for m + n even or m + n odd and m > n while not edge product
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cordial for m + n odd and m < n; triangular snakes; for odd n, double triangular snakes
DTn , quadrilateral snakes Qn and double quadrilateral snakes DQn ; Pn2 for odd n; M (Pn ),
T (Pn ); S 0 (Pn ) for even n; the tensor product of Pm and Pn ; and the tensor product of Cn
and Cm if m and n are even.
Vaidya and Barasara proved the following graphs are not edge product cordial: Cn for
n even; Kn for n 4; Km,n for m, n 2; wheels; the one point union of t copies of Cn
for t odd and n even; shells Sn for even n; tadpoles Cn @Pm for m + n odd and m < n;
for n even double triangular snake DTn , quadrilateral snake Qn and double quadrilateral
snake DQn ; double fans; Cn2 for n > 3; Pn2 for even n; D2 (Cn ), D2 (Pn ); M (Cn ), T (Cn );
S 0 (Cn ); S 0 (Pn ) for odd n; Pm Pn and Cm Cn ; the tensor product of Cn and Cm if m
or n odd; and Pn [P2 ] and Cn [P2 ].
Vaidya and Barasara [1708] introduced the concept of a total edge product cordial
labeling as edge analogue of total product cordial labeling. An total edge product cordial
labeling of graph G is an edge labeling function f : E(G)
Q {0, 1} that induces a vertex

labeling function f : V (G) {0, 1} defined as f (u) = {f (uv) | uv E(G)} such that
the number of edges and vertices labeled with 0 and the number of edges and vertices
labeled with 1 differ by at most 1. A graph with total edge product cordial labeling is
called a total edge product cordial graph.
In [1708] and [1709] Vaidya and Barasara proved the following graphs are total edge
product cordial: Cn for n 6= 4; Kn for n > 2; Wn ; Km,n except K1,1 and K2,2 ; gears;
(t)
Cn , the one point union of t copies of Cn ; fans; double fans; Cn2 ; M (Cn ); D2 (Cn ); T (Cn );
S 0 (Cn ); Pn2 for n > 2; M (Cn ); D2 (Cn ) for n > 2; T (Cn ); S 0 (Cn ). Moreover, they prove
that every edge product cordial graph of either even order or even size admits total edge
product cordial labeling.

7.11

Difference Cordial Labelings

Ponraj, Sathish Narayanan, and Kala [1298] introduced the notion of difference cordial
labelings. A difference cordial labeling of a graph G is an injective function f from V (G)
to {1, . . . , |V (G)|} such that if each edge uv is assigned the label |f (u)f (v)|, the number
of edges labeled with 1 and the number of edges not labeled with 1 differ by at most 1.
A graph with a difference cordial labeling is called a difference cordial graph.
The following definitions appear in [1299], [1295] [1296] and [1297]. A double triangular snake DTn consists of two triangular snakes that have a common path; a double
quadrilateral snake DQn consists of two quadrilateral snakes that have a common path;
an alternate triangular snake A (Tn ) is the graph obtained from a path u1 , u2 , . . . , un by
joining ui and ui+1 (alternatively) to new vertex vi (that is, every alternate edge of a
path is replaced by C3 ); a double alternate triangular snake DA (Tn ) is obtained from a
path u1 , u2 , . . . , un by joining ui and ui+1 (alternatively) to two new vertices vi and wi ;
an alternate quadrilateral snake A (Qn ) is obtained from a path u1 , u2 , . . . , un by joining
ui and ui+1 (alternatively) to new vertices vi and wi respectively and then joining vi and
wi (that is, every alternate edge of a path is replaced by a cycle C4 ); a double alternate
quadrilateral snake DA (Qn ) is obtained from a path u1 , u2 , . . . , un by joining ui and ui+1
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(alternatively) to new vertices vi , xi and wi and yi respectively and then joining vi and
wi and xi and yi .
In [1296] and [1297] Ponraj and Sathish Narayanan define the irregular triangular snake
ITn as the graph obtained from the path Pn : u1 , u2 , . . . , un with vertex set V (ITn ) =
V (Pn ) {vi : 1 i n 2} and the edge set E(ITn ) = E(Pn ) {ui vi , vi ui+2 :
1 i n 2}. The irregular qualrilateral snake IQn is obtained from the path Pn :
u1 , u2 , . . . , un with vertex set V (IQn ) = V (Pn ) {vi , wi : 1 i n 2} and edge set
E (IQn ) = E (Pn ) {ui vi , wi ui+2 , vi wi : 1 i n 2}. They proved the following graphs
are difference cordial: triangular snakes Tn , quadrilateral snakes, alternate triangular
snakes, alternate quadrilateral snakes, irregular triangular snakes, irregular quadrilateral
snakes, double triangular snakes DTn if and only if n 6, double quadrilateral snakes,
double alternate triangular snakes DA (Tn ), and double alternate quadrilateral snakes.
In [1298], [1294], [1299] and [1295] Ponraj, Sathish Narayanan, and Kala proved the
following graphs have difference cordial labelings: paths; cycles; wheels; fans; gears; helms;
K1,n if and only if n 5; Kn if and only if n 4; K2,n if and only if n 4; K3,n if and
only if n 4; bistar B1,n if and only if n 5; B2,n if and only if n 6; B3,n if and only if
n 5; DTn K1 ; DTn 2K1 ; DTn K2 ; DQn K1 ; DQn 2K1 ; DQn K2 ; DA (Tn )K1 ;
DA (Tn )  2K1 ; DA (Tn )  K2 ; DA (Qn )  K1 ; DA (Qn )  2K1 ; and DA (Qn )  K2 . They
also proved: if G is a (p, q) difference cordial graph, then q 2p 1; if G is a r-regular
graph with r 4, then G is not difference cordial; if m 4 and n 4, then Km,n is not
difference cordial; if m + n > 8 then the bistar Bm,n is not difference cordial; and every
graph is a subgraph of a connected difference cordial graph. If G is a book, sunflower,
lotus inside a circle, or square of a path, they prove that G  mK1 (m = 1, 2) and G  K2
is difference cordial.
In [1300], [1302], and [1301] Ponraj, Sathish Narayanan, and Kala proved that the
following graphs are difference cordial: the crown Cn  K1 ; the comb Pn  K1 ; Pn  Cm ;
Cn  Cm ; Wn  K2 ; Wn  2K1 ; Gn  K1 where Gn is the gear graph; Gn  2K1 ; Gn  K2 ;
(Cn P2 )K1 ; (Cn P2 )2K1 ; (Cn P2 )K2 ; Ln K1 ; Ln 2K1 ; and Ln K2 . Ponraj,
Sathish Narayanan and Kala proved that the following subdivision graphs are difference
cordial: S (Tn ); S (Qn ); S (DTn ); S (DQn ); S (A (Tn )); S (DA (Tn )); S (AQn ); S (DAQn );
S (K1,n ); S (K2,n ); S (Wn ); S (Pn  K1 ); S (Pn  2K1 ); S (LCn ); S (Pn2 ); S (K2 + mK1 );
subdivision of a sunflower graph S (SFn ); subdivision of a flower graph S (F ln ); S (Bm )
(Bm is a book with m pages); S (Cn P2 ); S (Bm,n ); subdivision of a n-cube; S (J (m, n));
S (W (t, n)); the subdivision of Young tableau S (Yn,n ); and if S (G) is difference cordial,
then S (G  mK1 ) is difference cordial. For graphs G that are a tree, a unicycle, or when
|E(G)| = |V (G)| + 1, they proved that G  Pn and G  mK1 (m = 1, 2, 3) are difference
cordial.
0
Recall the splitting graph of G, S (G), is obtained from G by adding for each vertex
0
0
v of G a new vertex v so that v is adjacent to every vertex that is adjacent to v and the
shadow graph D2 (G) of a connected graph G is constructed by taking two copies of G,
0
00
0
0
G and G , and joining each vertex u in G to the neighbors of the corresponding vertex
00
00
u in G .
Ponraj and Sathish Narayanan [1296], [1297] proved the following graphs are difference
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cordial: S (Pn ); S (Cn ); S (Pn  K1 ); and S (K1,n ) if and only if n 3. They proved
0
0
0
following are not difference cordial: S (Wn ); S (Kn ); S (Cn P2 ); the splitting graph of
a flower graph; DS (SFn ); DS (LCn ); DS (F ln ); D2 (G) where G is a (p, q) graph with
q p; and DS (Bm,n ) (m 6= n) with m + n > 8.
Let G (V, E) be a graph with V = S1 S2 St T where each Si is a set of
vertices having at least two vertices and having the same degree. Panraj and Sathish
Narayanan [1296], [1297] define the degree splitting graph of G denoted by DS (G) as the
graph obtained from G by adding vertices w1 , w2 , . . . , wt and joining wi to each vertex of
Si (1 i t). They proved the following graphs are difference cordial: DS (Pn ); Wn ;
DS (Cn ); DS (Kn ) if and only if n 3; DS (K1,n ) if and only if n 4; DS (Wn ) if and
only if n = 3; DS (Knc + 2K2 ) if and only if n = 1; DS (K2 + mK1 ) if and only if n 3;
DS (Kn,n ) if and only if n 2; DS (Tn ) if and only if n 5; DS (Qn ) if and only if n 5;
DS (Ln ) if and only if n 5; DS (Bn,n ) if and only if n 2; DS (B1,n ) if and only n 4;
DS (B2,n ) if and only n 4; D2 (Pn ); D2 (Kn ) if and only if n 2; and D2 (K1,m ) if and
only if m 2.

7.12

Prime Cordial Labelings

Sundaram, Ponraj, and Somasundaram [1650] have introduced the notion of prime cordial
labelings. A prime cordial labeling of a graph G with vertex set V is a bijection f from
V to {1, 2, . . . , |V |} such that if each edge uv is assigned the label 1 if gcd(f (u), f (v)) = 1
and 0 if gcd(f (u), f (v)) > 1, then the number of edges labeled with 0 and the number of
edges labeled with 1 differ by at most 1. In [1650] Sundaram, Ponraj, and Somasundram
prove the following graphs are prime cordial: Cn if and only if n 6; Pn if and only if
n 6= 3 or 5; K1,n (n odd); the graph obtained by subdividing each edge of K1,n if and
only if n 3; bistars; dragons; crowns; triangular snakes if and only if the snake has
at least three triangles; ladders; K1,n if n is even and there exists a prime p such that
2p < n + 1 < 3p; K2,n if n is even and if there exists a prime p such that 3p < n + 2 < 4p;
and K3,n if n is odd and if there exists a prime p such that 5p < n + 3 < 6p. They
also prove that if G is a prime cordial graph of even size, then the graph obtained by
identifying the central vertex of K1,n with the vertex of G labeled with 2 is prime cordial,
and if G is a prime cordial graph of odd size, then the graph obtained by identifying the
central vertex of K1,2n with the vertex of G labeled with 2 is prime cordial. They further
prove that Km,n is not prime cordial for a number of special cases of m and n. Sundaram
and Somasundaram [1653] and Youssef [1928] observed that for n 3, Kn is not prime
cordial provided that the inequality (2) + (3) + + (n) n(n 1)/4 + 1 is valid for
n 3. This inequality was proved by Yufei Zhao [1949].
Seoud and Salim [1451] give an upper bound for the number of edges of a graph with
a prime cordial labeling as a function of the number of vertices. For bipartite graphs they
give a stronger bound. They prove that Kn does not have a prime cordial labeling for
2 < n < 500 and conjecture that Kn is not prime cordial for all n > 2. They determine
all prime cordial graphs of order at most 6. For a graph with n vertices to admit a prime
cordial labeling, Seoud and Salim [1453] proved that the number of edges must be less

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than n(n 1) 6n2 / 2 + 3. As a corollary they get that Kn (n > 2) is not prime cordial
thereby proving their eariler conjecture.
In [154] Babujee and Shobana proved sun graphs Cn  K1 ; Cn with a path of length
n3 attached to a vertex; and Pn (n 6) with n3 pendent edges attached to a pendent
vertex of Pn have prime cordial labelings. Additional results on prime cordial labelings
are given in [155].
In [1768] and [1769] Vaidya and Vihol prove following graphs are prime cordial: the
total graph of Pn and the total graph of Cn for n 5 (see 2.7 for the definition); P2 [Pm ]
for all m 5; the graph obtained by joining two copies of a fixed cycle by a path; and the
graph obtained by switching of a vertex of Cn except for n = 5 (see 3.6 for the definition);
the graph obtained by duplicating each edge by a vertex in Cn except for n = 4 (see 2.7
for the definition); the graph obtained by duplicating a vertex by an edge in cycle Cn (see
2.7 for the definition); the path union of any number of copies of a fixed cycle (see 3.7
for the definition); and the friendship graph Fn for n 3. Vaidya and Shah [1749] prove
following results: Pn2 is prime cordial for n = 6 and n 8; Cn2 is prime cordial for n 10;
the shadow graphs of K1,n (see 3.8 for the definition) for n 4 and the bistar Bn,n are
prime cordial graphs.
Let Gn be a simple nontrival connected cubic graph with vertex set V (Gn ) =
{ai , bi , ci , di : 0 i n 1}, and edge set E(Gn ) = {ai ai+1 , bi bi+1 , ci ci+1 , di ai , di bi , di ci :
0 i n 1}, where the edge labels are taken modulo n. Let Hn be a graph obtained
from Gn by replacing the edges bn1 b0 and cn1 c0 with bn1 c0 and cn1 b0 respectively. For
odd n 5, Hn is called a flower snark whereas Gn , H3 and all Hn with even n 4, are
called the related graphs of a flower snark. Mominul Haque, Lin, Yang, and Zhang [1209]
proved that flower snarks and related graphs are prime cordial for all n 3.
In [1752] Vaidya and Shah prove that the following graphs are prime cordial: split
graphs of K1,n and Bn,n ; the square graph of Bn,n ; the middle graph of Pn for n 4;
and Wn if and only if n 8. Vaidya and Shah [1752] prove following graphs are prime
cordial: the splitting graphs of K1,n and Bn,n ; the square of Bn,n ; the middle graph of Pn
for n 4; and wheels Wn for n 8.
In [1756] [1758] Vaidya and Shah proved following graphs are prime cordial: gear
graphs Gn for n 4; helms; closed helms CHn for n 5; flower graphs F ln for n 4;
degree splitting graphs of Pn and the bistar Bn,n ; double fans Dfn for n = 8 and n 10;
the graphs obtained by duplication of an arbitrary rim edge by an edge in Wn where
n 6; and the graphs obtained by duplication of an arbitrary spoke edge by an edge in
wheel Wn where n = 7 and n 9.
Let G(p, q) with p 4 be a prime cordial graph and K2,n be a bipartite graph with
bipartition V = V1 V2 with V1 = {v1 , v2 } and V2 = {u1 , u2 , . . . , un }. If G1 is the graph
obtained by identifying the vertices v1 and v2 of K2,n with the vertices of G having labels
2 and 4 respectively, Vaidya and Prajapati [1747] proved jthat
G1 admits a prime cordial
qk
; and if n is odd, p is even
labeling if n is even; if n, p, q are odd and with ef (0) =
2
lq m
and q is odd with ef (0) =
.
2
Vaidya and Prajapati [1745] call a graph strongly prime cordial if for any vertex v
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there is a prime labeling f of G such that f (v) = 1. They prove the following: the graphs
obtained by identifying any two vertices of K1,n are prime cordial; the graphs obtained by
identifying any two vertices of Pn are prime cordial; Cn , Pn , and K1,n are strongly prime
cordial; and Wn is a strongly prime cordial for every even integer n 4.

7.13

Geometric Labelings

If a and r are positive integers at least 2, we say a (p, q)-graph G is (a, r)-geometric if its
vertices can be assigned distinct positive integers such that the value of the edges obtained
as the product of the endpoints of each edge is {a, ar, ar2 , . . . , arq1 }. Hegde [708] has
shown the following: no connected bipartite graph, except the star, is (a, a)-geometric
where a is a prime number or square of a prime number; any connected (a, a)-geometric
graph where a is a prime number or square of a prime number, is either a star or has a
triangle; Ka,b , 2 a b is (k, k)-geometric if and only if k is neither a prime number nor
the square of a prime number; a caterpillar is (k, k)-geometric if and only if k is neither a
prime number nor the square of a prime number; Ka,b,1 is (k, k)-geometric for all integers
k 2; C4t is (a, a)-geometric if and only if a is neither a prime number nor the square of
a prime number; for any positive integers t and r 2, C4t+1 is (r2t , r)-geometric; for any
positive integer t, C4t+2 is not geometric for any values of a and r; and for any positive
integers t and r 2, C4t+3 is (r2t+1 , r)-geometric. Hegde [710] has also shown that every
Tp -tree and the subdivision graph of every Tp -tree are (a, r)-geometric for some values of
a and r (see Section 3.2 for the definition of a Tp -tree). He conjectures that all trees are
(a, r)-geometric for some values of a and r.
Hegde and Shankaran [716] prove: a graph with an -labeling (see 3.1 for the definition) where m is the fixed integer that is between the endpoints of each edge has an
(am+1 , a)-geometric for any a > 1; for any integers m and n both greater than 1 and m
odd, mPn is (ar , a)-geometric where r = (mn + 3)/2 if n is odd and (ar , a)-geometric
where r = (m(n + 1) + 3)/2 if n is even; for positive integers k > 1, d 1, and odd n, the
generalized closed helm (see 5.3 for the definition) CH(t, n) is (k r , k d )-geometric where
r = (n 1)d/2; for positive integers k > 1, d 1, and odd n, the generalized web graph
(see 5.3 for the definition) W (t, n) is (k r , a)-geometric where a = k d and r = (n 1)d/2;
for positive integers k > 1, d 1, the generalized n-crown (Pm K3 )  K1,n is (a, a)geometric where a = k d ; and n = 2r + 1, Cn  P3 is (k r , k)-geometric.
If a and r are positive integers and r is at least 2 Arumugan, Germina, and Anadavally
[129] say a (p, q)-graph G is additively (a, r)-geometric if its vertices can be assigned
distinct integers such that the value of the edges obtained as the sum of the endpoints
of each edge is {a, ar, ar2 , . . . , arq1 }. In the case that the vertex labels are nonnegative
integers the labeling is called additively (a, r)-geometric. They prove: for all a and r
every tree is additively (a, r)-geometric; a connected additively (a, r)-geometric graph is
either a tree or unicyclic graph with the cycle having odd size; if G is a connected unicyclic
graph and not a cycle, then G is additively (a, r)-geometric if and only if either a is even
or a is odd and r is even; connected unicyclic graphs are not additively (a, r)-geometric;
if a disconnected graph is additively (a, r)-geometric, then each component is a tree or a

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unicyclic graph with an odd cycle; and for all even a at least 4, every disconnected graph
for which every component is a tree or unicyclic with an odd cycle has an additively
(a, r)-geometric labeling.
Vijayakumar [1802] calls a graph G (not necessarily finite) arithmetic if its vertices
can be assigned distinct natural numbers such that the value of the edges obtained as
the sum of the endpoints of each edge is an arithmetic progression. He proves [1801] and
[1802] that a graph is arithmetic if and only if it is (a, r)-geometric for some a and r.

7.14

Strongly Multiplicative Graphs

Beineke and Hegde [299] call a graph with p vertices strongly multiplicative if the vertices
of G can be labeled with distinct integers 1, 2, . . . , p such that the labels induced on the
edges by the product of the end vertices are distinct. They prove the following graphs
are strongly multiplicative: trees; cycles; wheels; Kn if and only if n 5; Kr,r if and only
if r 4; and Pm Pn . They then consider the maximum number of edges a strongly
multiplicative graph on n vertices can have. Denoting this number by (n), they show:
(4r) 6r2 ; (4r + 1) 6r2 + 4r; (4r + 2) 6r2 + 6r + 1; and (4r + 3) 6r2 + 10r + 3.
Adiga, Ramaswamy,
and Somashekara [38] give the bound (n) n(n + 1)/2 + n 2
P
b(n + 2)/4c ni=2 i/p(i) where p(i) is the smallest prime dividing i. For large values
of n this is a better upper bound for (n) than the one given by Beineke and Hegde. It
remains an open problem to find a nontrivial lower bound for (n).
Seoud and Zid [1467] prove the following graphs are strongly multiplicative: wheels;
rKn for all r and n at most 5; rKn for r 2 and n = 6 or 7; rKn for r 3 and n = 8 or 9;
K4,r for all r; and the corona of Pn and Km for all n and 2 m 8. In [1448] Seoud and
Mahran [1448] give some necessary conditions for a graph to be strongly multiplicative.
Germina and Ajitha [637] (see also [21]) prove that K2 + Kt , quadrilateral snakes,
Petersen graphs, ladders, and unicyclic graphs are strongly multiplicative. Acharya, Ger(n)
mina, and Ajitha [21] have shown that Ck (see 2.2 for the definition) is strongly multiplicative and that every graph can be embedded as an induced subgraph of a strongly
multiplicative graph. Germina and Ajitha [637] define a graph with q edges and a strongly
multiplicative labeling to be hyper strongly multiplicative if the induced edge labels are
{2, 3, . . . , q + 1}. They show that every hyper strongly multiplicative graph has exactly
one nontrivial component that is either a star or has a triangle and every graph can be
embedded as an induced subgraph of a hyper strongly multiplicative graph.
Vaidya, Dani, Vihol, and Kanani [1721] prove that the arbitrary supersubdivisions of
tree, Kmn , Pn Pm , Cn  Pm , and Cnm are strongly multiplicative. Vaidya and Kanani
[1727] prove that the following graphs are strongly multiplicative: a cycle with one chord;
a cycle with twin chords (that is, two chords that share an endpoint and with opposite
endpoints that join two consecutive vertices of the cycle; the cycle Cn with three chords
that form a triangle and whose edges are the edges of two 3-cycles and a n 3-cycle.
duplication of an vertex in cycle (see 2.7 for the definition); and the graphs obtained
from Cn by identifying of two vertices vi and vj where d(vi , vj ) 3. In [1730] the same
authors prove that the graph obtained by an arbitrary supersubdivision of path, a star,

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a cycle, and a tadpole (that is, a cycle with a path appended to a vertex of the cycle.
Krawec [936] calls a graph G on n edges modular multiplicative if the vertices of G
can be labeled with distinct integers 0, 1, . . . , n 1 (with one exception if G is a tree)
such that the labels induced on the edges by the product of the end vertices modulo n
are distinct. He proves that every graph can be embedded as an induced subgraph of a
modular multiplicative graph on prime number of edges. He also shows that if G is a
modular multiplicative graph on prime number of edges p then for every integer k 2
there exist modular multiplicative graphs on pk and kp edges that contain G as a subgraph.
In the same paper, Krawec also calls a graph G on n edges k-modular multiplicative if
the vertices of G can be labeled with distinct integers 0, 1, . . . , n + k 1 such that the
labels induced on the edges by the product of the end vertices modulo n + k are distinct.
He proves that every graph is k-modular multiplicative for some k and also shows that
if p = 2n + 1 is prime then the path on n edges is (n + 1)-modular multiplicative. He
also shows that if p = 2n + 1 is prime then the cycle on n edges is (n + 1)-modular
multiplicative if there does not exist {2, 3, . . . , n} such that 2 + 1 0 mod p.
He concludes with four open problems.

7.15

Mean Labelings

Somasundaram and Ponraj [1600] have introduced the notion of mean labelings of graphs.
A graph G with p vertices and q edges is called a mean graph if there is an injective function
f from the vertices of G to {0, 1, 2, . . . , q} such that when each edge uv is labeled with
(f (u)+f (v))/2 if f (u)+f (v) is even, and (f (u)+f (v)+1)/2 if f (u)+f (v) is odd, then the
resulting edge labels are distinct. In [1600], [1601], [1602], [1603], [1312], and [1313] they
prove the following graphs are mean graphs: Pn , Cn , K2,n , K2 + mK1 , Kn + 2K2 , Cm
Pn , Pm Pn , Pm Cn , Cm  K1 , Pm  K1 , triangular snakes, quadrilateral snakes, Kn if
and only if n < 3, K1,n if and only if n < 3, bistars Bm,n (m > n) if and only if m < n + 2,
(t)
the subdivision graph of the star K1,n if and only if n < 4, the friendship graph C3 if
and only if t < 2, the one point union of two copies a fixed cycle, dragons (the one point
union of Cm and Pn , where the chosen vertex of the path is an end vertex), the one point
union of a cycle and K1,n for small values of n, and the arbitrary super subdivision of a
path, which is obtained by replacing each edge of a path by K2,m . They also prove that
Wn is not a mean graph for n > 3 and enumerate all mean graphs of order less than 5.
Lourdusamy and Seenivasan [1131] prove that kCn -snakes are means graphs and every
cycle has a super subdivision that is a mean graph. They define a generalized kCn -snake
in the same way as a Cn -snake except that the sizes of the cycle blocks can vary (see
Section 2.2). They prove that generalized kCn -snakes are mean graphs. Vasuki and
Nagarajan [1790] proved that the following graphs admit mean labelings: Pr,2m+1 for all
r and m; Pr,2m for all m and 2 r 6; Pr2m+1 for all r and m; and Pr2m for all m and
2 r 6. Jeyanthi and Gomathi [804] constructed new families of odd mean graphs
from linking existing odd mean graphs. One of their results is that the edge linked cyclic
snake EL(kCn )(n 6) is an odd mean graph.
Lourdusamy and Seenivasan [1132] define an edge linked cyclic snake, EL(kCn ), as
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the connected graph obtained from k copies of Cn (n 4) by identifying an edge of the

(i + 1)th copy to an edge of the ith copy for i = 1, 2, . . . , k 1 in such a way that the
consecutive edges so chosen are not adjacent. They proved that all EL(kC2n ) are mean
graphs and some cases of EL(C2n1 ) are mean graphs. They also define a generalized
edge linked cyclic snake in the same way but allow the cycle lengths (at least 4) to vary.
They prove that certain cases of generalized edge linked cyclic snakes are mean graphs.
Barrientos and Krop [280] proved that there exist n! graphs of size n that admit mean
labelings. They give two necessary conditions for the existence of a mean labeling of a
graph G with m vertices and n edges: if G is a mean graph, then n + 1 m; if G is
when n is
a mean graph with n edges and maximum degree (G), then (G) n+3
2
n+2
odd and (G) 2 when n is even. They proved that the disjoint union of n copies of
C3 is a mean graph and if a mean r-regular graph has n vertices, then r < n 2. They
established a connection between -labelings and mean labelings by proving that every
tree that admits an -labeling is a mean graph when the size of its stable sets differ by at
most one. When the tree is a caterpillar, this difference can be up to two. Barrientos and
Krop call a mean labeling of a bipartite graph an -mean labeling if the labels assigned
to vertices of the same color have the same parity. They show that the complementary
labeling of a -mean labeling is also an -mean labeling. They use graphs with mean labelings to construct new mean graphs. One construction consists of connecting a
pair of corresponding vertices of two copies of an -mean graph by an edge. The other
construction identifies a pair of suitable vertices from two -mean graphs. Barrientos
and Krop also proved that every quadrilateral snake admits an -mean labeling. They
conjecture that all trees of size n and maximum degree at most d(n + 1)/2e are mean
graphs and state some open problems. In [275] Barrientos proves that all trees with up
to four end-vertices except K1,4 are mean graphs. Bailey and Barrientos [244] prove the
following are mean graphs: Cn Cm , Cn Pm , K2 + nK1 , 2K2 + nK1 , Cn K2 .
In [244], Bailey and Barrientos study several operations with mean graphs. They prove
that the coronas G  K1 and G  K2 are mean graphs when G is an -mean graph. Also,
if G and H are mean graphs with n vertices and n 1 edges and H is an -mean graph,
then G H is a mean graph. They prove that given two mean graphs G and H, there
exists a mean graph obtained by identifying an edge from G with an edge from H and
uses this result to prove that the graphs Rn (n 2) of order 2n and size 4n3 with vertex
set V (Rn ) = {v1 , v2 , . . . , v2n } and edge set E(Rn ) = {vi vi+1 | 1 i n 1 and n + 1
i 2n 1} {vi vn+i | 1 i n} {vi vn+i1 | 2 i n} (rigid ladders) are mean
graphs.
Barrientos, Abdel-Aal, Minion, and Williams [276] use An to denote the set of all mean labeled graphs of size n such that the difference of the cardinalities of the bipartite
sets of the verticies of the graphs is at most one. They prove that the class An is equivalent
to the class of -labeled graphs of size n with bipartite sets that differ by at most one.
They also prove that when G An , the coronas G mK1 , G P2 , and G P3 admit mean
labelings.
In [1712] Vaidya and Bijukumar define two methods of creating new graphs from cycles
as follows. For two copies of a cycle Cn the mutual duplication of a pair of vertices vk
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and vk0 respectively from each copy of Cn is the new graph G such that N (vk ) = N (vk0 ).
For two copies of a cycle Cn and an edge ek = vk vk+1 from one copy of Cn with incident
edges ek1 = vk1 vk and ek+1 = vk+1 vk+2 and an edge e0m = um um+1 in the second copy
of Cn with incident edges e0m1 = um1 um and e0m+1 = um+1 um+2 , the mutual duplication
of a pair of edges ek and e0m respectively from two copies of Cn is the new graph G such
that N (vk ) vk+1 = N (um ) um+1 = {vk1 , um1 } and N (vk+1 ) vk = N (um+1 ) um =
{vk+2 , um+2 }. They proved that the graph obtained by mutual duplication of a pair of
vertices each from each copy of a cycle and the mutual duplication of a pair of edges from
each copy of a cycle are mean graphs. Moreover they proved that the shadow graphs of
the stars K1,n and bistars Bn,n are mean graphs.
Vasuki and Nagarajan [1791] proved the following graphs are admit mean labelings:
the splitting graphs of paths and even cycles; Cm  Pn ; Cm  2Pn ; Cn Cn ; disjoint
unions of any nimber of copies of the hypercube Q3 ; and the graphs obtained from by
starting with m copies of Cn and identifying one vertex of one copy of Cn with the
corresponding vertex in the next copy of Cn .) Jeyanthi and Ramya [828] define the
jewel graph Jn as the graph with vertex set {u, x, v, y, ui : 1 i n} and edge set
{ux, vx, uy, vy, xy, uui , vui : 1 i n}. They proved that the jewel graphs, jelly fish
graphs (see 7.25 for the definition), and the graph obtained by joining any number of
isolated vertices to the two endpoints of P3 are mean graphs. Ramya and Jeyanthi [1345]
proved several families of graphs constructed from Tp -tree are mean graphs. Ahmad,
Imran, and Semanicova-Fe
novcikova [59] studied the relation between mean labelings
and (a, d)-edge-antimagic vertex labelings. They show that two classes of caterpillars
admit mean labelings.
Ramya, Ponraj, and Jeyanthi [1348] called a mean graph super mean if vertex labels
and the edge labels are {1, 2, . . . , p + q}. They prove following graphs are super mean:
paths, combs, odd cycles, Pn2 , Ln K1 , Cm Pn (n 2), the bistars Bn,n and Bn+1,n . They
also prove that unions of super mean graphs are super mean and Kn and K1,n are not
super mean when n > 3. In [829] Jeyanthi, Ramya, and Thangavelu prove the following
are super mean: nK1,4 ; the graphs obtained by identifying an endpoint of Pm (m 2)
with each vertex of Cn ; the graphs obtained by identifying an endpoint of two copies of
Pm (m 2) with each vertex of Cn ; the graphs obtained by identifying an endpoint of
three copies of Pm (m 2); and the graphs obtained by identifying an endpoint of four
copies of Pm (m 2). In [825] Jeyanthi and Ramya prove the following graphs have super
mean labelings: the graph obtained by identifying the endpoints of two or more copies of
P5 ; the graph obtained from Cn (n 4) by joining two vertices of Cn distance 2 apart
with a path of length 2 or 3; Jeyanthi and Rama [827] use S(G) to denote the graph
obtained from a graph G by subdividing each edge of G by inserting a vertex. They prove
the following graphs have super mean labelings: S(Pn  K1 ), S(Bn,n ), Cn  K2 ; the graphs
obtained by joining the central vertices of two copies of K1,m by a path Pn (denoted by
hBm,m : Pn i); generalized antiprisms (see 6.2 for the definition), and the graphs obtained
from the paths v1 , v2 , v3 , . . . , vn by joining each vi and vi+1 to two new vertices ui and wi
(double triangular snakes. Jeyanthi, Ramya, Thangavelu [830] give super mean labelings
for Cm Cn and k-super mean labelings for a variety of graphs.
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In [247] and [248] Balaji, Ramesh and Subramanian use the term Skolem mean
labeling for super mean labeling. They prove: Pn is Skolem mean; K1,m is not Skolem
mean if m 4; K1,m K1,n is Skolem mean if and only if |m n| 4; K1,l K1,m K1,n
is Skolem mean if |m n| = 4 + l for l = 1, 2, 3, . . . , m = 1, 2, 3, . . . , and l m < n; K1,l
K1,m K1,n is not Skolem mean if |m n| > 4 + l for l = 1, 2, 3, . . . , m = 1, 2, 3, . . . , n
l + m + 5 and l m < n; K1,l K1,l K1,m K1,n is Skolem mean if |m n| = 4 + 2l
for l = 2, . . . , m = 2, 3, 4 . . . , n = 2l + m + 4 and l m < n; K1,l K1,l K1,m K1,n
is not Skolem mean if |m n| > 4 + l for l = 1, 2, 3, . . . , m = 1, 2, 3, . . . , n l + m + 5
and l m < n; K1,l K1,l K1,m K1,n is not Skolem mean if |m n| > 4 + 2l for
l = 2, . . . , m = 2, 3, 4 . . . , n 2l + m + 5 and l m < n; K1,l K1,l K1,m K1,n
is Skolem mean if |m n| = 7 for m = 1, 2, 3, . . . , n = m + 7 and 1 m < n; and
K1,l K1,l K1,m K1,n is not Skolem mean if |m n| > 7 for m = 1, 2, 3, . . . , n m + 8
and 1 m < n. Balaji [246] proved that K1,l K1,m K1,n is Skolem mean if |mn| < 4+l
for integers 1, m 1 and l m < n.
In [831] Jeyanthi, Ramya, and Thangavelu proved the following graphs have super
mean labelings: the one point union of any two cycles, graphs obtained by joining any
two cycles by an edge (dumbbell graphs), C2n+1  C2m+1 , graphs obtained by identifying
a copy of an odd cycle Cm with each vertex of Cn , the quadrilateral snake Qn , where n
is odd, and the graphs obtained from an odd cycle u1 , u2 , . . . , un by joining the vertices
ui and ui+1 by the path Pm (m is odd) for 1 i n 1 and joining vertices un and
u1 by the path Pm . Jeyanthi, Ramya, Thangavelu, and Aditanar [829] give super mean
labelings of Cm Cn and Tp -trees.
Jeyanthi, Ramya, Maheswari [826] prove that Tp -trees (see 3.2 for the definition),
graphs of the form T  Kn where T is a Tp -tree, and the graph obtained from Pm and
m copies of K1,n by identifying a noncentral vertex of ith copy of K1,n with ith vertex of
Pm are mean graphs. Seoud and Salin [1456] determine the mean and non-mean graphs
of order at most six, give an upper bound for the number of edges of a mean graph as a
function of the number of vertices, and show that the maximum vertex degree in mean
graphs depends on the number of edges. They also construct families of mean graphs
from mean and non mean graphs.
In [823] Jeyanthi and Ramya define Sm,n as the graph obtained by identifying one
endpoint of each of n copies of Pm and < Sm,n : Pm > as a graph obtained by identifying
one end point of a path Pm with the vertex of degree n of a copy of Sm,n and the other
endpoint of the same path to the vertex of degree n of another copy of Sm,n . They prove
the following graphs have super mean labelings: caterpillars, < Sm,n : Pm+1 >, and the
graphs obtained from P2m and 2m copies of K1,n by identifying a leaf of ith copy of K1,n
with ith vertex of P2m . They further establish that if T is a Tp -tree, then T  K1 , T  K2 ,
and, when T has an even number of vertices, T  Kn (n 3) are super mean graphs.
Let G be a graph and let f : V (G) {1, 2, . . . , n} be a function such that the label
of the edge uv is (f (u) + f (v))/2 or (f (u) + f (v) + 1)/2 according as f (u) + f (v) is even
or odd and f (V (G)) {f (e) : e E(G)} {1, 2, . . . , n}. If n is the smallest positive
integer satisfying these conditions together with the condition that all the vertex and edge
labels are distinct and there is no common vertex and edge labels, then n is called the
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super mean number of a graph G and it is denoted by Sm (G). Nagarajan, Vasuki, and
Arockiaraj [1230] proved that for any graph of order p, Sm (G) 2p 2 and provided an
upper bound of the super mean number of the graphs: K1,n n 7; tK1,n , n 5, t > 1;
the bistar B(p, n), p > n; the graphs obtained by identifying a vertex of Cm and the center
of K1,n , n 5; and the graphs obtained by identifying a vertex of Cm and the vertex of
degree 1 of K1,n . They also gave the super mean number for the graphs Cn , tK1,4 , and
B(p, n) for p = n and n + 1.
Manickam and Marudai [1157] defined a graph G with q edges to be an odd mean
graph if there is an injective function f from the vertices of G to {1, 3, 5, . . . , 2q 1}
such that when each edge uv is labeled with (f (u) + f (v))/2 if f (u) + f (v) is even, and
(f (u) + f (v) + 1)/2 if f (u) + f (v) is odd, then the resulting edge labels are distinct.
Such a function is called a odd mean labeling. For integers a and b at least 2, Vasuki
and Nagarajan [1792] use Pab to denote the graph obtained by starting with verticies
y1 , y2 , . . . , ya and connecting yi to yi+1 with b internally disjoint paths of length i + 1 for
b
i = 1, 2, . . . , a 1 and j = 1, 2, . . . , b. For integers a 1 and b 2 they use Ph2ai
to
denote the graph obtained by starting with verticies y1 , y2 , . . . , ya+1 and connecting yi to
yi+1 with b internally disjoint paths of length 2i for i = 1, 2, . . . , a and j = 1, 2, . . . , b. They
m
are odd mean graphs for all values of
proved that the graphs P2r,m , P2r+1,2m+1 , and Ph2ri
r and m.
For a Tp - tree T with m vertices T @Pn is the graph obtained from T and m copies of
Pn by identifying one pendant vertex of ith copy of Pn with ith vertex of T . For a Tp tree T with m vertices T @2Pn is the graph obtained from T by identifying the pendant
vertices of two vertex disjoint paths of equal lengths n1 at each vertex of T . Ramya, Selvi
and Jeyanthi [1349] prove that Pm  Kn (m 2, n 1) is an odd mean graph, Tp trees
are odd mean graphs, and, for any Tp tree T , the graphs T @Pn , T @2Pn , hT oK1,n i are
odd mean graphs.
For a Tp -tree T with m vertices let T oCn denote the graph obtained from T and m
copies of Cn by identifying a vertex of ith copy of Cn with ith vertex of T and T oCn denote
the graph obtained from T and m copies of Cn by joining a vertex of ith copy of Cn with
ith vertex of T by an edge. In [1422] Selvi, Ramya, and Jeyanthi prove that for a Tp tree
T the graphs T oCn (n > 3, n 6= 6) and T oCn , (n > 3, n 6= 6) are odd mean graphs.
Ramya, Selvi, and Jeyanthi [1350] prove that for a Tp -tree T the following graphs are
odd mean graphs: T @Pn , T @2Pn , Pm Kn , and the graph obtained from T and m copies
of K1,n by joining the central vertex of ith copy of K1,n with ith vertex of T by an edge.
Gayathri and Amuthavalli [615] (see also [102]) say a (p, q)-graph G has a (k, d)-odd
mean labeling if there exists an injection f from the vertices of G to {0, 1, 2, . . . , 2k
1 + 2(q 1)d} such that the induced map f defined on the edges of G by f (uv) =
d(f (u)+f (v))/2e is a bijection from edges of G to {2k 1, 2k 1+2d, 2k 1+4d, . . . , 2k
1 + 2(q 1)d}. When d = 1 a (k, d)-odd mean labeling is called k-odd mean. For
n 2 they prove the following graphs are k-odd mean for all k: Pn ; combs Pn  K1 ;
crowns Cn  K1 (n 4); bistars Bn,n ; Pm  Kn (m 2); Cm  Kn ; K2,n ; Cn except
for n = 3 or 6; the one-point union of Cn (n 4) and an endpoint of any path; grids
Pm Pn (m 2); (Pn P2 )  K1 ; arbitrary unions of paths; arbitrary unions of stars;
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arbitrary unions of cycles; the graphs obtained by joining two copies of Cn (n 4) by any
path; and the graph obtained from Pm Pn by replacing each edge by a path of length
2. They prove the following graphs are not k-odd mean for any k: Kn ; Kn with an edge
deleted; K3,n (n 3); wheels; fans; friendship graphs; triangular snakes; Mobius ladders;
books K1,m P2 (m 4); and webs. For n 3 they prove K1,n is k-odd mean if and only
if k n 1. Gayathri and Amuthavalli [616] prove that the graph obtained by joining
the centers of stars K1,m and K1,n are k-odd mean for m = n, n + 1, n + 2 and not k-odd
mean for m > n + 2. For n 2 the following graphs have a (k, d)-mean labeling [631]:
Cm Pn (m 4) for all k; arbitrary unions of cycles for all k; P2m ; P2m+1 for k d (P2m+1
is not (k, d)-mean when k < d); combs Pn  K1 for all k; K1,n for k d; K2,n for k d;
bistars for all k; nC4 for all k; and quadrilateral snakes for k d.
In [1453] Seoud and Salim [1454] proved that a graph has a k-odd mean labeling if
and only if it has a mean labeling. In [1453] Seoud and Salim give upper bounds of the
number of edges of graphs with a (k, d)-odd mean labeling
Pricilla [1316] defines an even mean labeling of a graph G as an injective function f from
the verticies of G to {2, 4, . . . , 2|E(G)|} such that the edge labels given by (f (u) + f (v))/2
are distinct. Vaidya and Vyas [1780] proved that D2 (Pn ), M (Pn ), T (Pn ), S 0 (Pn ), Pn2 , Pn3 ,
switching of pendant vertex in Pn , S 0 (Bn,n ), double fans, and duplicating each vertex by
an edge in paths are even mean graphs.
Gayathri and Gopi [623] defined a graph G with q edges to be an k-even mean graph
if there is an injective function f from the vertices of G to {0, 1, 2, . . . , 2k + 2(q 1)}
such that when each edge uv is labeled with (f (u) + f (v))/2 if f (u) + f (v) is even, and
(f (u) + f (v) + 1)/2 if f (u) + f (v) is odd, then the resulting edge labels are {2k, 2k +
2, 2k + 4, . . . , 2k + 2(q 1)}. Such a function is called a k-even mean labeling. In [623]
they proved that the graphs obtained by joining two copies of Cn with a path Pm are
k-even mean for all k and all m, n 3 when n 0, 1 mod 4 and for all k 1, m 7, and
n 3. In [624] Gayathri and Gopi proved that various graphs obtained by joining two
copies of stars K1,m and K1,n with a path by identifying the one endpoint of the path with
the center of one star and the other endpoint of the path with the center of the other star
are k-even mean. In [625] they proved that various graphs obtained by appending a path
to a vertex of a cycle are k-even mean. In [626] they proved that Cn Pm , n 4, m 2,
is k-even mean for for all k.
Gayathri and Gopi [627] say graph G with q edges has a (k, d)-even mean labeling if
there exists an injection f from the vertices of G to {0, 1, 2, . . . , 2k + 2(q 1)d} such that
the induced map f defined on the edges of G by f (uv) = (f (u) + f (v))/2 if f (u) + f (v)
is even and f (uv) = (f (u) + f (v) + 1)2 if f (u) + f (v) is odd is a bijection from edges
of G to {2k, 2k + 2d, 2k + 4d, . . . , 2k + 2(q 1)d}. A graph that has a (k, d)-even mean
labeling is called a (k, d)-even mean graph. They proved that Pm nK1 (m 3, n 2)
has a (k, d)-even mean labeling in the following cases: all (k, d) when m is even; all (k, d)
when m is odd and n is odd; and m is odd, n is even and k d.
Kalaimathy [864] investigated conditions under which a mean labeling for a graph G
will yield a (k, d)-even mean labeling for G and vice versa. He also gave conditions under
which two graphs that have (1, 1)-mean labelings can be joined by an single edge to obtain
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a new graph that has a (1, 1)-even mean labeling.

Murugan and Subramanian [1222] say a (p, q)-graph G has a Skolem difference mean
labeling if there exists an injection f from the vertices of G to {1, 2, . . . , p + q} such that
the induced map f defined on the edges of G by f (uv) = (|f (u)f (v)|)/2 if |f (u)f (v)|
is even and f (uv) = (|f (u) f (v)| + 1)/2 if |f (u) + f (v)| is odd is a bijection from edges
of G to {1, 2, . . . , q}. A graph that has a Skolem difference mean labeling is called a
Skolem difference mean graph. They show that the graphs obtained by starting with two
copies of Pn with vertices v1 , v2 , . . . , vn and u1 , u2 , . . . , un and joining the vertices v(n+1)/2
and u(n+1)/2 if n is odd and the vertices vn/2+1 and un/2 if n is even are Skolem difference
mean.
Selvi, Ramya and Jeyanthi [1421] prove that Cn @Pn (n 3, m 1), Kn (n 3),
the shrub St(n1 , n2 , , nm ), and the banana tree Bt(n, n, . . . , n) are Skolem difference
mean graphs. They show that if G is a (p, q) graph with q > p then G is not a Skolem
difference mean graph and prove that Kn (n 4) is not a Skolem difference mean graph.
A skolem difference mean labeling for which all the labels are odd is called an extra Skolem
difference mean labeling. They also prove that the graph T hK1,n1 : K1,n2 : : K1,nm i,
obtained from the stars K1,n1 , K1,n2 , , K1,nm by joining the central vertex of K1,nj and
K1,nj+1 to a new vertex wj for 1 j m 1 and the graph T hK1,n1 K1,n2 K1,nm i,
obtained from K1,n1 , K1,n2 , , K1,nm by joining a leaf of K1,nj+1 to a new vertex wj for
1 j m 1 by an edge are extra Skolem difference mean graphs.
Let G(V, E) be a graph with p vertices and q edges. Ramya, Kalaiyarasi, and Jeyanthi
[1347] say G is a Skolem odd difference mean if there exists an injective function f :

V (G) {0, 1, 2, 3, . . . , p+3q3}

such
m that the induced map f : E(G) {1, 3, 5, . . . , 2q
l
(v)|
is a bijection. A graph that admits a Skolem odd
1} denoted by f (uv) = |f (u)f
2
difference mean labeling is called a odd difference mean graph. They prove that Pn ,
Cn (n 4), K1,n , Pn  K1,n , coconut trees T (n, m) obtained by identifying the central
vertex of the star K1,m with a pendent vertex of Pn , Bm,n , caterpillars S(n1 , n2 , . . . , nm ),
Pm @Pn and Pm @2Pn are Skolem odd difference mean graphs. They establish that Kn , n >
3 and K2,n (n 3) are not Skolem odd difference mean graphs. They also prove that
K2,n is a Skolem odd difference mean graph if n 2. They call a Skolem odd difference
mean labeling a Skolem even vertex odd difference mean labeling if all the vertex labels
are even. They prove that Pn , K1,n , Pn  K1 , the coconut tree T (n, m) obtained by
identifying the central vertex of K1,m with a pendent vertex of a path Pn , B(m, n),
caterpillars S(n1 , n2 , . . . , nm ), Pm @Pn are Pm @2Pn are even vertex odd difference mean
and Cn is not a Skolem even vertex odd difference mean graph.
Kalaiyarasi, Ramya, and Jeyanthi [865] say a graph G(V, E) with p vertices and q
edges has a centered triangular mean labeling if it is possible to label the vertices with
distinct elements f (x) from S, where S
l is a setmof non-negative integers in such a way
(v)

and the resulting edge labels are the

that for each edge e = uv, f (e) = f (u)+f
2
first q centered triangular numbers. A graph that admits a centered triangular mean
labeling is called a centered triangular mean graph. They prove that Pn , K1,n , bistars
Bm,n , coconut trees, caterpillars S(n1 , n2 , n3 , . . . , nm ), St(n1 , n2 , n3 , . . . , nm ), banana

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trees Bt(n, n, . . . , n) and Pm @Pn are centered triangular mean graphs.

Selvi, Ramya, and Jeyanthi [1420] define a triangular difference mean labeling of a
+
graph G(p, q) as an
m f : V Z , such that when the edge labels are del injection
(v)|
the values of the edges are the first q triangular numbers.
fined as f (uv) = |f (u)f
2
A graph that admits a triangular difference mean labeling is called a triangular difference mean graph. They prove that the following are triangular difference mean graphs:
Pn , K1,n , Pn  K1 , bistars Bm,n , graphs obtained by joining the roots of different stars
to the new vertex, trees T (n, m) obtained by identifying a central vertex of a star with a
pendent vertex of a path, the caterpillar S(n1 , n2 , . . . , nm ) and the graph Cn @Pm .
A graph G(V, E) with p vertices and q edges is said to have centered triangular difference mean labeling if there is an injective mapping f from V to Z + such that the
edge labels induced by f (uv) = d|f (u) f (v)|/2e are the first q centered triangular numbers. A graph that admits a centered triangular difference mean labeling is
called a centered triangular difference mean graph. Ramya, Selvi, and Jeyanthi [1351]
prove that Pn , K1,n , Cn  K1 , bistars Bm,n , Cn (n > 4), coconut trees, caterpillars
S(n1 , n2 , n3 , . . . , nm ), Cn @Pm (n > 4) and Sm,n are centered triangular difference mean
graphs.
Gayathri and Tamilselvi [631] say a (p, q)-graph G has a (k, d)-super mean labeling if
there exists an injection f from the vertices of G to {k, k+d, . . . , k+(p+q)d} such that the
induced map f defined on the edges of G by f (uv) = d(f (u) + f (v))/2e has the property
that the vertex labels and the edge labels together are the integers from k to k + (p + q)d.
When d = 1 a (k, d)-super mean labeling is called k-super mean. For n 2 they prove the
following graphs are k-super mean for all k: odd cycles; Pn ; Cm Pn ; the one-point union
of a cycle and the endpoint of Pn ; the union of any two cycles excluding C4 ; and triangular
snakes. For n 2 they prove the following graphs are (k, d)-super mean for all k and d:
Pn ; odd cycles; combs Pn  K1 ; and bistars. In [831] Jeyanthi, Ramya, and Thangavelu
proved the following graphs have k-super mean labelings: C2n , C2n+1 Pm , grids Pm Pn
with one arbitrary crossing edge in every square, and antiprisms on 2n vertices (n > 4).
(Recall an antiprism on 2n vertices has vertex set {x1,1 , . . . , x1,n , x2,1 , . . . , x2,n } and edge
set
{xj,i , xj,i+1 } {x1,i , x2,i } {x1,i , x2,i1 } where subscripts are taken modulo n). Jeyanthi,
Ramya, Thangavelu [830] give k-super mean labelings for a variety of graphs. Jeyanthi,
Ramya, Thangavelu, and Aditanar [829] show how to construct k-super mean graphs from
existing ones.
Gayathri and Tamilselvi [631] say a (p, q)-graph G has a k-super edge mean labeling
if there exists an injection f from the edges of G to {k, k + 1, . . . , k + 2(p + q)} such
that the induced map f from the vertices of G to {k, k + 1, . . . , k + 2(p + q)} defined by
f (v) = d(f (vu))/2e taken all edges vu incident to v is an injection. For n 3 they
prove the following graphs are k-super edge mean for all k: paths; cycles; combs Pn  K1 ;
triangular snakes; crowns Cn  K1 ; the one-point union of C3 and an endpoint of Pn ; and
Pn  K 2 .
In [1403] Sandhya, Somasundaram, and Ponraj call a graph with q edges a harmonic
mean graph if there is an injective function f from the vertices of the graph to the integers
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from 1 to q + 1 such that when each edge uv is labeled with d2f (u)f (v)/(f (u) + f (v))e or
b2f (u)f (v)/(f (u) + f (v))c the edge labels are distinct. They prove the following graphs
have such a labeling: paths, ladders, triangular snakes, quadrilateral snakes, Cm Pn (n >
1); Cm Cn ; nK3 ; mK3 Pn (n > 1); mC4 ; mC4 Pn ; mK3 nC4 ; and Cn  K1
(crowns). They also prove that wheels, prisms, and Kn (n > 4) with an edge deleted are
not harmonic mean graphs. In [1401] Sandhya, Somasundaram, and Ponraj investigated
the harmonic mean labeling for a polygonal chain, square of the path and dragon and
enumerate all harmonic mean graph of order at most 5.
Sandhya, Somasundaram, Ponraj [1402] proved that the following graphs have harmonic mean labelings: graphs obtained by duplicating an arbitrary vertex or an arbitrary
edge of a cycle; graphs obtained by joining two copies of a fixed cycle by an edge; the
one-point union of two copies of a fixed cycle; and the graphs obtained by starting with
a path and replacing every other edge by a triangle or replacing every other edge by a
quadrilateral.
Vaidya and Barasara [1701] proved that the following graphs have harmonic mean
labelings: graphs obtained by the duplication of an arbitrary vertex or arbitrary edge of
a path or a cycle; the graphs obtained by the duplication of an arbitrary vertex of a path
or cycle by a new edge; and the graphs obtained by the duplication of an arbitrary edge
of a path or cycle by a new vertex.
Durai Baskar, Arockiaraj, and Rajendran [515] proved that the following graphs are
F -geometric mean: graphs obtained by identifying a vertex of consecutive cycles (not
necessarily of the same length) in a particular way; graphs obtained by identifying an
edge of consecutive cycles (not necessarily of the same length) in a particular way; graphs
obtained by joining consecutive cycles (not necessarily of the same length) by paths (not
necessarily of the same length) in a particular way; Cn  K1 ; Pn  K1 ; Ln  K1 ; G  K1
where G is the graph obtained by joining two copies of Pn by an edge in a particular way;
graphs obtained by appending two edges at each vertex of graphs obtained by joining two
copies of Pn by an edge in a particular way; graphs obtained from Cn by appending two
edges at each vertex of Cn ; graphs obtained from ladders Ln by appending two edges at
each vertex of Ln ; graphs obtained from Pn by appending an end point of the star S2 to
each vertex of Pn ; and graphs obtained from Pn by appending an end point of the star S3
to each vertex of Pn ;
In [1655] Sundaram, Ponraj, and Somasundaram introduced a new labeling parameter
called the mean number of a graph. Let f be a function from the vertices of a graph to
the set {0, 1, 2, . . . , n} such that the label of any edge uv is (f (u) + f (v))/2 if f (u) + f (v)
is even and (f (u) + f (v) + 1)/2 if f (u) + f (v) is odd. The smallest integer n for which the
edge labels are distinct is called the mean number of a graph G and is denoted by m(G).
They proved that for a graph G with p vertices m(tK1,n ) t(n + 1) + n 4; m(G)
2p1 1; m(K1,n ) = 2n 3 if n > 3; m(B(p, n)) = 2p 1 if p > n + 2 where B(p, n) is a
(t)
bistar; m(kT ) = kp 1 for a mean tree T , m(Wn ) 3n 1, and m(C3 ) 4t 1.
Let f be a function from V (G) to {0, 1, 2}. For each edge uv of G, assign the label
f (u)+f (v)
e. Ponraj, Sivakumar, and Sundaram [1311] say that f is a mean cordial labeling
d
2
of G if |vf (i) vf (j) | 1 for i and j in {0, 1, 2} where vf (x) and ef (x) denote the number of
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vertices and edges labeled with x, respectively. A graph with a mean cordial labeling is
called a mean cordial graph. Observe that if the range set of f is restricted to {0, 1}, a mean
cordial labeling coincides with that of a product cordial labeling. Ponraj, Sivakumar, and
Sundaram [1311] prove the following: every graph is a subgraph of a connected mean
cordial graph; K1,n is mean cordial if and only n 2; Cn is mean cordial if and only
n 1, 2 (mod 3); Kn is mean cordial if and only n 2; Wn is not mean cordial for all
n 3; the subdivision graph of K1,n is mean cordial; the comb Pn  K1 is mean cordial;
Pn  2K1 is mean cordial; and K2,n is a mean cordial if and only n 2.
In [1303] Ponraj and Sivakumar proved the following graphs are mean cordial: mG
where m 0 (mod 3); Cm Pn ; Pm Pn ; K1,n Pm ; S(Pn  K1 ); S(Pn  2K1 ); Pn2 if
and only if n 1 (mod 3) and n 7; and the triangular snake Tn (n > 1) if and only if
n 0 (mod 3). They also proved that if G is mean cordial then mG, m 1 (mod 3) is
mean cordial.
In [811] Jeyanthi and Maheswari define a one modulo three mean labeling of a graph
G with q edges as an injective function from the vertices of G to {a | 0 a 3q 2
where a 0 (mod 3) or a 1 (mod 3)} and induces a bijection from the edges of G
to {a | 1 a 3q 2 where a 1 (mod 3)} given by (uv) = d((u) + (v))/2e. They
prove that some standard graphs are one modulo three mean graphs.
Somasundaram, Vidhyarani, and Ponraj [1604] introduced the concept of a geometric
mean labeling of a graph G with p vertices and q edges as an injective function f :

V (G) {1, 2, . . . , q l+ 1} such that

m the
jpinduced edge
k labeling f : E(G) {1, 2, . . . , q}
p
f (u)f (v) or
f (u)f (v) is bijective. Among their results are:
defined as f (uv) =
paths, cycles, combs, ladders are geometric mean graphs and Kn (n > 4) and K1,n (n > 5
are not geometric mean graphs. Somasundaram, Vidhyarani, and Sandhya [1605] proved
Cm Pn , Cm Cn , nK3 , nK3 Pn , nK3 Cm , Pn2 , and crowns are geometric mean
graphs. Vaidya and Barasara [1704] investigated geometric mean labelings in context of
duplication of graph elements in cycle Cn and path Pn .

7.16

Pair Sum and Pair Mean Graphs

For a (p, q) graph G Ponraj and Parthipan [1287] define an injective map f from V (G) to
{1, 2, . . . , p} to be a pair sum labeling if the induced edge function fem from E(G) to
the nonzero integers defined by fe (uv) = f (u) + f (v) is one-one and fe (E(G)) is either of
the form {k1 , k2 , . . . , k 2q } or {k1 , k2 , . . . , k q1 } {k q+1 }, according as q is even
2
2
or odd. A graph with a pair sum labeling is called pair sum graph. In [1287] and [1288]
they proved the following are pair sum graphs: Pn , Cn , Kn iff n 4, K1,n , K2,n , bistars
Bm,n , combs Pn  K1 , Pn  2K1 , and all trees of order up to 9. Also they proved that
Km,n is not pair sum graph if m, n 8 and enumerated all pair sum graphs of order at
most 5.
In [1290], [1291], [1292], and [1293] Ponraj, Parthipan, and Kala proved the following
are pair sum graphs: K1,n K1,m , Cn Cn , mKn if n 4, (Pn K1 )  K1 , Cn  K2 ,
dragons Dm,n for n even, Kn + 2K2 for n even, Pn Pn for n even, Cn P2 for n even,
(Pn P2 )K1 , Cn K2 and the subdivision graphs of Pn P2 , Cn K1 , Pn K1 , triangular
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snakes, and quadrilateral snakes.

Jeyanthi, Sarada Devi, and Lau [839] proved that the following graphs have edge pair
sum labeling: triangular snakes Tn , Cn Cn , K1,n K1,m , and bistars Bm,n . They also
proved that every graph is a subgraph of a connected edge pair sum graph. Jeyanthi and
Sarada Devi [833] showed that P2n P2 and the graphs Pn (+)Nm obtained from a path
Pn by joining its endpoints to m isolated vertices are edge pair sum graphs. Jeyanthi and
Sarada Devi [835] proved that the following graphs have edge pair sum labeling: shadow
graphs S2 (Pn ), S2 (K1,n ), total graphs T (C2n ) and T (Pn ), the one-point union of any
2
, and full binary trees
numder of copies of Cn , the one-point union of Cm and Cn , P2n1
in which all leaves are at the same level and every parent has two children. Jeyanthi and
Sarada Devi [834] proved the spiders SP (1m , 2t ), SP (1m , 2t , 3), SP (1m , 2t , 4), and for t
even SP (1m , 3t , 3) are edge pair sum graphs. Jeyanthi, Sarada Devi, and Lau [836] proved
that the graphs W T (n : k) have edge pair sum labelings. In [837] Jeyanthi and Sarada
Devi prove some cycle related graphs are edge pair sum graphs. In [838] they prove that
the one point union of cycles, perfect binary trees, shadow graphs, total graphs, and Pn2
admit edge pair sum graph.
Jeyanthi and Sarada Devi [832] define an injective map f from E(G) to
{1, 2, . . . , q} as an edge pair sum labeling of a graph
P G(p, q) if the induced function of f from V (G) to Z {0} defined by f (v) =
f (e) taken over all edges e

incident to v is one-one and f (V (G)) is either of the form {k1 , k2 , . . . , kp/2 } or

{k1 , k2 , . . . , k(p1)/2 } {kp/2 } according as p is even or odd. A graph with an edge
pair sum labeling is called an edge pair sum graph. They proved that Pn , Cn , triangular
snakes, Pm K1,n , and Cn  Km are edge pair sum graphs.
For a (p, q) graph G Ponraj and Parthipan [1289] define an injective map f from
V (G) to {1, 2, . . . , p} to be a pair mean labeling if the induced edge function fem
from E(G) to the nonzero integers defined by fem (uv) = (f (u) + f (v))/2 if f (u) +
f (v) is even and fem (uv) = (f (u) + f (v) + 1)/2 if f (u) + f (v) is odd is one-one and
fem (E(G)) = {k1 , k2 , . . . , kq/2 } or
fem (E(G)) = {k1 , k2 , . . . , k(q1)/2 } {k(q+1)/2 }, according as q is even or odd. A
graph with a pair mean labeling is called a pair mean graph. They proved the following
graphs have pair mean labelings: Pn , Cn if and only if n 3, Kn if and only if n 2,
K2,n , bistars Bm,n , Pn  K1 , Pn  2K1 , and the subdivision graph of K1,n . Also they found
the relation between pair sum labelings and pair mean labelings.
The graph G@Pn is obtained by identifying an end vertex of a path Pn with any
vertex of G. A graph G(V, E) with q edges is called a (k + 1)-equitable mean graph if
there is a function f from V to {0, 1, 2, . . . , k} (1 k q) such that the induced edge
that labeling f from E to {0, 1, 2, . . . , k} given by f (uv) d(f (u) + f (v))/2e has the
properties |vf (i) vf (j)| 1 and |ef (i) ef (j)| 1 for i, j = 0, 1, 2, . . . , k where vf (x)
and ef (x) are the number of vertices and edges of G respectively with the label x. In
[794] Jeyanthi proved the following: a connected graph with q edges is a (q + 1)-equitable
mean graph if and only if it is a mean graph; a graph is 2-equitable mean graph if and only
if it is a product cordial graph; for every graph G, the graph 3mG is a 3-equitable mean
graph; for every 3-equitable mean graph G, the graph (3m + 1)G is a 3-equitable mean
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graph; Cn is a 3-equitable mean graph if and only if n 6 0 (mod 3); Pn is a 3-equitable

mean graph for all n 2; if G is a 3-equitable mean graph then G@Pn is a 3-equitable
mean graph for n 1 (mod 3); the bistar B(m, n) with m n is a 3-equitable mean
graph if and only if n bq/3c; K1,n is a 3-equitable mean graph if and only if n 2; and
for any graph H and 3m copies H1 , H2 , . . . , H3m of H, the graph obtained by identifying
a vertex of Hi with a vertex of Hi+1 for 1 i 3m 1 is a 3-equitable mean graph.

7.17

Irregular Total Labelings

In 1988 Chartrand, Jacobson, Lehel, Oellermann, Ruiz, and Saba [411] defined an irregular
labeling of a graph G with no isolated vertices as an assignment of positive integer weights
to the edges of G in such a way that the sums of the weights of the edges at each vertex are
distinct. The minimum of the largest weight of an edge over all irregular labelings is called
the irregularity strength s(G) of G. If no such weight exists, s(G) = . Chartrand et al.
gave a lower bound for s(mKn ). Faudree, Jacobson, and Lehel [554] gave an upper bound
for s(mKn ) when n 5 and proved that for graphs G with (G) n
p2 1, s(G) 3.
They also proved that if G has order n and (G) = n t and 1 t n/18, s(G) 3.
Aigner and Triesch proved s(G) n+1 for any graph G with n 4 vertices for which s(G)
is finite. In [1322] Przybylo proved that s(G) < 112n/ + 28, where is the minimum
degree of G and G has n vertices. The best bound of this form is currently due to
Kalkowski, Karo
nki, and Pfender, who showed in [866] that s(G) 6dn/e < 6n/ + 6.
In [552] Faudree and Lehel conjectured that for each d 2, there exists an absolute
constant c such that s(G) n/d + c for each d-regular graph of order n. In Przybylo
[1321] showed that for d-regular graphs s(G) < 16n/d + 6. In 1991 Cammack, Schelp
and Schrag [394] proved that the irregularity strength of a full d-ary tree (d = 2, 3) is its
number of pendent vertices and conjctures that the irregularity strength of a tree with
no vertices of degree two is its number of pendent vertices. This conjecture was proved
by Amar and Togni [99] in 1998. In [852] Jinnah and Kumar determined the irregularity
strength of triangular snakes and double triangular snakes.
Motivated by the notion of the irregularity strength of a graph and various kinds of
other total labelings, Baca, Jendrol, Miller, and Ryan [205] introduced the total edge
irregularity strength of a graph as follows. For a graph G(V, E) a labeling : V
E {1, 2, . . . , k} is called an edge irregular total k-labeling if for every pair of distinct
edges uv and xy, (u) + (uv) + (v) 6= (x) + (xy) + (y). Similarly, is called
an
pair of distinct vertices u and v, (u) +
P vertex irregular total k-labeling if for everyP
(e) over all edges e incident to u 6= (v) + (e) over all edges e incident to v. The
minimum k for which G has an edge (vertex) irregular total k-labeling is called the total
edge (vertex) irregularity strength of G. The total edge (vertex) irregular strength of G
is denoted by tes(G) (tvs(G)). They prove: for G(V, E), E not empty, d(|E| + 2)/3e
tes(G) |E|; tes(G) d((G) + 1)/2e and tes(G) |E| (G), if (G) (|E| 1)/2;
tes(Pn ) = tes(Cn )= d(n + 2)/3e; tes(Wn )= d(2n + 2)/3e; tes(C3n ) (friendship graph)
= d(3n + 2)/3e; tvs(Cn ) = d(n + 2)/3e; for n 2, tvs(Kn )= 2; tvs(K1,n ) = d(n +
1)/2e; and tvs(Cn P2 )= d(2n + 3)/4e. Jendrol, Miskul, and Sotak [787] (see also [788])
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proved: tes(K5 ) = 5; for n 6, tes(Kn )= d(n2 n + 4)/6e; and that tes(Km,n )= d(mn +
2)/3e. They conjecture that for any graph G other than K5 , tes(G) = max{d((G) +
1)/2e, d(|E| + 2)/3e}. Ivanco and Jendrol [771] proved that this conjecture is true for
all trees. Jendrol, Miskuf, and Sotak [787] prove the conjecture for complete graphs and
complete bipartite graphs. The conjecture has been proven for the categorical product of
two paths [50], the categorical product of a cycle and a path [1541], the categorical product
of two cycles [55], the Cartesian product of a cycle and a path [236], the subdivision of a
star [1542], and the toroidal polyhexes [208]. In [63] Ahmad, Siddiqui, and Afzal proved
the conjecture is true for graphs obtained by starting with m vertex disjoint copies of
Pn (m, n 2) arranged in m horizontal rows with the jth vertex of row i + 1 directly
below the jth vertex row i for 1 = 1, 2, . . . , m 1 and joining the jth vertex of row i
to the j + 1th vertex of row i + 1 for 1 = 1, 2, . . . , m 1 and j = 1, 2, . . . , n 1 (the
zigzag graph). Siddiqui, Ahmad, Nadeem, and Bashir [1544] proved the conjecture for
the disjoint union of p isomorphic sun graphs (i. e., Cn  K1 ) and the disjoint union of p
sun graphs in which the orders of the n-cycles are consecutive integers. They pose as an
open problem the determination of the total edge irregularity strength of disjoint union of
any number of sun graphs. Brandt, Misskuf, and Rautenbach [353] proved the conjecture
for large graphs whose maximum degree is not too large relative to its order and size.
In particular, using the probabilistic method they prove that if G(V,
p E) is a multigraph
3
without loops and with nonzero maximum degree less than |E|/10 8|V |, then tes(G) =
(d|E| + 2)/3e. As corollaries they have: if G(V, E) satisfies |E| 3 103 |V |3/2 , then tes(G)
= d(|E|
p+ 2)/3e;3 ifG(V, E) has minimum degree > 0 and maximum degree such that
< |V |/10 4 2 then tes(G) = d(|E|+2)/3e; and for every positive integer there is
some n() such that every graph G(V, E) without isolated vertices with |V | n() and
maximum degree at most satisfies tes(G) = d(|E| + 2)/3e. Notice that this last result
includes d-regular graphs of large order. They also prove that if G(V, E) has maximum
degree 2|E|/3, then G has an edge irregular total k-labeling with k = d( + 1)/2e.
Pfender [1274] proved the conjecture for graphs with at least 7 1010 edges and proved
for graphs G(V, E) with (G) E(G)/4350 we have tes(G) = (d|E| + 2)/3e.
In [845] Jeyanthi and Sudha investigated the total edge irregularity strength of the
disjoint union of wheels. They proved the following: tes(2Wn ) = d(4n + 2)/3e , n 3;
for n 3 and p 3 the total edge irregularity strength of the disjoint union of p
isomorphic wheels is d(2(pn + 1)/3e; for n1 3 and n2 = n1 + 1, tes(Wn1 Wn2 ) =
d(2(n1 + n2 + 1)/3)e; for n1 , n2 , n3 where n1 3 and ni+1 = n1 + i for i = 1, 2, tes(Wn1
Wn2 Wn3 ) = d(2(n1 + n2 + n3 + 1)/3)e ; the total edge irregularity strength ofP
the disjoint
union of p 4 wheels Wn1 Wn2 Wnp with ni+1 = n1 + i and N = pj=1 nj + 1
is d2N/3)e ; and the total edge
P irregularity strength of p 3 disjoint union of wheels
Wn1 Wn2 Wnp and N = pj=1 nj +1 is d(2N/3e if max{ni | 1 i p} 21 d(2N/3e .
A generalized helm Hnm is a graph obtained by inserting m vertices in every pendent
edge of a helm Hn . Indriati, Widodo, and Sugeng [766] proved that for n 3,
tes(Hn1 ) = d(4n + 2)/3e, tes(Hn2 ) = d(5n + 2)/3e, and tes(Hnm ) = d((m + 3)n + 2))/3e for
m 0 mod 3. They conjecture that tes(Hnm ) = d((m + 3)n + 2))/3e, for all n 3 and
m 10.
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The strong product of graphs G1 and G2 has as vertices the pairs (x, y) where x V (G1 )
and y V (G2 ). The vertices (x1 , y1 ) and (x2 , y2 ) are adjacent if either x1 x2 is an edge
of G1 and y1 = y2 or if x1 = x2 and y1 y2 is an edge of G2 . For m, n 2 Ahmad, Baca,
Bashir, Siddiqui [52] proved that the total edge irregular strength of the strong product
of Pm and Pn is d4(mn + 1)/3e (m + n).
Nurdin, Baskoro, Salman, and Gaos [1252] determine the total vertex irregularity
strength of trees with no vertices of degree 2 or 3; improve some of the bounds given
in [205]; and show that tvs(Pn ) = d(n + 1)/3)e. In [1255] Nurdin, Salman, Gaos, and
Baskoro prove that for t 2, tvs(tP1 )= t; tvs(tP2 )= t + 1; tvs(tP3 )= t + 1; and for
n 4, tvs(tPn )= d(nt + 1)/3)e. Ahmad, Baca and Bashir [51] proved that for n 3 and
t 1, tvs((n, t) kite) = d(n + t)/3e, where the (n, t) kite is a cycle of length n with
a t-edge path (the tail) attached to one vertex.
Anholcer, Kalkowski, and Przybylo [118] prove that for every graph with (G) > 0,
tvs(G) d3n/e + 1. Majerski and Przybylo [1155] prove that the total vertex irregularity
strength of graphs with n vertices and minimum degree n0.5 ln n is bounded from
above by (2 + o(1))n/ + 4. Their proof employs a random ordering of the vertices
generated by order statistics. Anholcer, Karon
nski, and Pfender [117] prove that for
every forest F with no vertices of degree 2 and no isolated vertices tvs(F )= d(n1 + 1)/2e,
where n1 is the number of vertices in F ofdegree 1. They also prove that for every forest
with no isolated vertices and at most one vertex of degree 2, tvs(F ) = d(n1 + 1)/2e.
Anholcer and Palmer [119] determined the total vertex irregularity strength Cnk , which
is a generalization of the circulant graphs Cn (1, 2, . . . , k). They prove that for k 2
and n 2k + 1, tvs(Cnk = d(n + 2k)/(2k + 1)e. Przybylo [1322] obtained a variety of
upper bounds for the total irregularity strength of graphs as a function of the order and
minimum degree of the graph.
In [1686] Tong, Lin, Yang, and Wang give the exact values of the total edge irregularity strength and total vertex irregularity strength of the toroidal grid Cm Cn .
In [56] Ahmad, Baca and Siddiqui gave the exact value of the total edge and total
vertex irregularity strength for disjoint union of prisms S
and for disjoint P
union of cym
m
F
)
=
1
+
cles.SIn [54] Ahmad, Ba
c
a
and
Numan
showed
that
tes(
j=1 nj and
j=1 nj
Sm
Pm
m
tvs( j=1 Fnj ) = d(2 + 2 j=1 nj )/3e, where j=1 Fnj denotes the disjoint union of friendship graphs. Chunling, Xiaohui, Yuansheng, and Liping, [453] showed tvs(Kp ) = 2 (p 2)
and for the generalized Petersen graph P (n, k) they proved tvs(P (n, k)) = dn/2e + 1 if
k n/2 and tvs(P (n, n/2))= n/2 + 1. They also obtained the exact values for the total
vertex strengths for ladders, Mobius ladders, and Knodel graphs. For graphs with no
isolated vertices, Przybylo [1321] gave bounds for tvs(G) in terms of the order and minimum and maximum degrees of G. For d-regular (d > 0) graphs, Przybylo [1322] gave
bounds for tvs(G) in terms d and the order of G. Ahmad, Ahtsham, Imran, and Gaig
[44] determined the exact values of the total vertex irregularity strength for five families
of cubic plane graphs. In [48] Ahmad and Baca determine that the total edge-irregular
strength of the categorical product of Cn and Pm where m 2, n 4 and n and m are
even is d(2n(m1)+2)/3e. They leave the case where at least one of n and m is odd as an
open problem. In [55] and [56] Ahmad, Baca, and Siddiqui determine the exact values of
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the total edge irregularity strength of the categorical product of two cycles, the total edge
(vertex) irregularity strength for the disjoint union of prisms, and the total edge (vertex)
irregularity strength for the disjoint union of cycles. In [47] Ahmad, Awan, Javaid, and
Slamin study the total vertex irregularity strength of flowers, helms, generalized friendship graphs, and web graphs. Ahmad, Baca and Numan [54] determined the exact values
of the total vertex irregularity strength and the total edge irregularity strength of a disjoint union of friendship graphs. Bokhary, Ahmad, and Imran [346] determined the exact
value of the total vertex irregularity strength of cartesian and categorical product of two
paths. Al-Mushayt, Ahmad, and Siddiqui [92] determined the exact values of the total
edge-irregular strength of hexagonal grid graphs. Rajasingh, Rajan, and Annamma [1334]
obtain bounds for the total vertex irregularity strength of three families of triangle related
graphs.
In [1254] Nurdin, Salman, and Baskoro determine the total edge-irregular strength of
the following graphs: for any integers m 2, n 2, tes(Pm  Pn )= d(2mn + 1)/3e;
for any integers m 2, n 3, tes(Pm  Cn )= d((2n + 1)m + 1)/3e; for any integers
m 2, n 2, tes(Pm  K1,n )= d(2m(n + 1) + 1)/3e; for any integers m 2 and
n 3, tes(Pm  Gn )= d(m(5n + 2) + 1)/3e where Gn is the gear graph obtained from
the wheel Wn by subdividing every edge on the n-cycle of the wheel; for any integers
m 2, n 2, tes(Pm  Fn )= dm(5n + 2) + 1e, where Fn is the friendship graph obtained
from W2m by subdividing every other rim edge; for any integers m 2 and n 3: and
tes(Pm  Wn )= d((3n + 2)m + 1)/3e.
In [1253] Nurdin, Baskoro, Salman and Gaos proved: the total vertex-irregular
strength of the complete k-ary tree (k 2) with depth d 1 is d(k d + 1)/2e and the total
vertex-irregular strength of the subdivision of K1,n for n 3 is d(n + 1)/3e. They also
determined that if G is isomorphic to the caterpillar obtained by starting with Pm and
m copies of Pn denoted by Pn,1 , Pn,2 , . . . , Pn,m , where m 2, n 2, then joining the i-th
vertex of Pm to an end vertex of the path Pn,i , tvs(G)= d(mn + 3)/3e.
Ahmad and Baca [49] proved tvs(Jn,2 )= d(n + 1)/2)e (n 4) and conjectured that for
n 3 and m 3, tvs(Jn,m )= max{d(n(m 1) + 2)/3e, d(nm + 2)/4e}. They also proved
that for the circulant graph (see 5.1 for the definition) Cn (1, 2), n 5, tvs(Cn (1, 2))=
d(n + 4)/5e. They conjecture that for the circulant graph Cn (a1 , a2 , . . . , am ) with degree
r at least 5 and n 5, 1 ai bn/2c, tvs(Cn (a1 , a2 , . . . , am )= d(n + r)/(1 + r)e.
Slamin, Dafik, and Winnona [1575] consider the total vertex irregularity strengths of
the disjoint union of isomorphic sun graphs, the disjoint union of consecutive nonisomorphic sun graphs, tvs(ti=1 Si+2 ), and disjoint union of any two nonisomorphic sun graphs.
(Recall Sn = Cn  K1 .)
In [43] Ahmad shows that the total vertex irregularity strength of the antiprism graph
An (n 3) is d(2n + 4)/5e (see 5.6 for the definition and gives the vertex irregularity strength of three other families convex polytope graphs. Al-Mushayt, Arshad, and
Siddiqui [93] determined an exact value of the total vertex irregularity strength of some
convex polytope graphs. Ahmad, Baskoro, and Imran [58] determined the exact value of
the total vertex irregularity strength of disjoint union of Helm graphs.
The notion of an irregular labeling of an Abelian group was introduced Anholcer,
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Cichacz and Milanic in [113]. They defined a -irregular labeling of a graph G with no
isolated vertices as an assignment of elements of an Abelian group to the edges of G
in such a way that the sums of the weights of the edges at each vertex are distinct. The
group irregularity strength of G, denoted sg (G), is the smallest integer s such that for every
Abelian group of order s there exists -irregular labeling of G. They proved that if G
is connected, then sg (G) = n + 2 when
= K1,32q+1 2 for some integer q 1; sg (G) = n + 1

when n 2 (mod 4) and G 6= K1,32q+1 2 for any integer q 1; and sg (G) = n otherwise.
Moreover, Anholcer and Cichacz [112] showed that if G is a graph of order n with no
component of order less than 3 and with all the bipartite components having both color
classes of even order. Then sg (G) = n if n 1 (mod 2); sg (G) = n + 1 if n 2 (mod 4);
and sg (G) n + 1 if n 0 (mod 4).
Marzuki, Salman, and Miller [1173] introduced a new irregular total k-labeling of a
graph G called total irregular total k-labeling, denoted by ts(G), which is required to
be at the same time both vertex and edge irregular. They gave an upper bound and
a lower bound of ts(G); determined the total irregularity strength of cycles and paths;
and proved ts(G) max{tes(G), tvs(G)}. For n 3, Ramdani and Salman [1343]
proved ts(Sn P2 ) = n + 1; ts((Pn + P1 ) P2 ) = d(5n + 1)/3e, ts(Pn P2 ) = n; and
ts(Cn P2 ) = n.
An edge e G is called a total positive edge or total negative edge or total stable edge
of G if tvs(G + e) > tvs(G) or tvs(G + e) < tvs(G) or tvs(G + e) = tvs(G), respectively.
If all edges of G are total stable (total negative) edges of G, then G is called a total
stable (total negative) graph. Otherwise G is called a total mixed graph. Packiam and K.
Kathiresan [1257] showed that K1,n n 4, and the disjoint union of t copies of K3 , t 2,
are total negative graphs and that the disjoint union of t copies of P3 , t 2, is a total
mixed graph.
For a simple graph G with no isolated edges and at most one isolated vertex Anholcer
[110] callsQa labeling w : E(G) {1, 2, . . . , m} product-irregular, if all product degrees
pdG (v) = e3v w(e) are distinct. Analogous to the notion of irregularity strength the goal
is to find a product-irregular labeling that minimizes the maximum label. This minimum
value is called the product irregularity strength of G and is denoted by ps(G). He provides
bounds for the product irregularity strength of paths, cycles, cartesian products of paths,
and cartesian products of cycles. In [111] Anholcer gives the exact values of ps(G) for
Km,n where 2 m n (m + 2)(m + 1)/2, some families of forests including complete
d-ary trees, and other graphs with d(G) = 1. Skowronek-Kaziow [1572] proves that for
the complete graphs ps(Kn ) = 3.
In [1] Abdo and Dimitrov
P introduced the total irregularity of a graph. For a graph G,
they define irrt (G) = (1/2) u,vV |dG (u)dG (v)|, where dG (w) denotes the vertex degree
of the vertex w. For G with n vertices they proved irrt (G) (1/12)(2n3 3n2 2n + 3).
For a tree G with n vertices they prove irrt (G) (n 1)(n 2) and equality holds if and
only if G Sn . You, Yang and You [1917] determined the graph with the maximal total
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7.18

Minimal k-rankings

A k-ranking of a graph is a labeling of the vertices with the integers 1 to k inclusively

such that any path between vertices of the same label contains a vertex of greater label.
The rank number of a graph G, r (G), is the smallest possible number of labels in a
ranking. A k-ranking is minimal if no label can be replaced by a smaller label and
still be a k-ranking. The concept of the rank number arose in the study of the design
of very large scale integration (VLSI) layouts and parallel processing (see [478], [1073]
and [1424]). Ghoshal, Laskar, and Pillone [644] were the first to investigate minimal
k-rankings from a mathematical perspective. Laskar and Pillone [980] proved that the
decision problem corresponding to minimal k-rankings is NP-complete. It is HP-hard
even for bipartite graphs [487]. Bodlaender, Deogun, Jansen, Kloks, Kratsch, M
uller,
Tuza [338] proved that the rank number of Pn is r (Pn ) = blog2 (n)c + 1 and satisfies
the recursion r (Pn ) = 1 + r (Pd(n1)/2e ) for n > 1. The following results are given in
[487]: r (Sn ) = 2; r (Cn ) = b log2 (n 1)c + 2; r (Wn ) = b log2 (n 3)c + 3(n > 3);
r (Kn ) = n; the complete t-partite graph with n vertices has ranking number n + 1 - the
cardinality of the largest partite set; and a split graph with n vertices has ranking number
n + 1 - the cardinality of the largest independent set (a split graph is a graph in which
the vertices can be partitioned into a clique and an independent set.) Wang proved that
for any graphs G and H r (G + H) = min{|V (G)| + r (H), |V (H) + r (G)}.
In 2009 Novotny, Ortiz, and Narayan [1250] determined the rank number of Pn2 from
the recursion r (Pn2 ) = 2 + r (P (d(n2)/2e ) for n > 2. They posed the problem of determining r (Pm Pn ) and (Pnk ). In 2009 [98] and [97] Alpert determined the rank numbers
of Pnk , Cnk , P2 Cn , Km Pn , P3 Pn , Mobius ladders and found bounds for rank numbers of general grid graphs Pm Pn . About the same time as Alpert and independently,
Chang, Kuo, and Lin [401] determined the rank numbers of Pnk , Cnk , P2 Pn , P2 Cn .
Chang et al. also determined the rank numbers of caterpillars and proved that for any
graphs G and H r (G[H]) = r (H) + |V (H)|(r (G) 1).
In 2010 Jacob, Narayan, Sergel, Richter, and Tran [778] investigated k-rankings of
paths and cycles with pendent paths of length 1 or 2. Among their results are: for any
caterpillar G r (Pn ) r (G) r (Pn ) + 1 and both cases occur; if 2m n 2m+1 then
for any graph G obtained by appending edges to an n-cycle we have m+2 r (G) m+3
and both cases occur; if G is a lobster with spine Pn then r (Pn ) r (G) r (Pn ) + 2
and all three cases occur; if G a graph obtained from the cycle Cn by appending paths of
length 1 or 2 to any number of the vertices of the cycle then r (Pn ) (G) (Pn ) + 2
and all three cases occur; and if G the graph obtained from the comb obtained from Pn by
appending one path of length m to each vertex of Pn then r (G) = r (Pn ) + r (Pm+1 ) 1.
Sergel, Richter, Tran, Curran, Jacob, and Narayan [1468] investigated the rank number
of a cycle Cn with pendent edges, which they denote by CCn , and call a caterpillar cycle.
They proved that (CCn ) = r (Cn )) or (CCn ) = r (Cn ))+1 and showed that both cases
occur. A comb tree, denoted by C(n, m), is a tree that has a path Pn such that every vertex
of Pn is adjacent to an end vertex of a path Pm . In the comb tree C(n, m) (n 3) there are
2 pendent paths Pm+2 and n 2 paths Pm+1 . They proved r (C(n, m)) = r (Pm+1 ) 1.

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They define a circular lobster as a graph where each vertex is either on a cycle Cn or
at most distance two from a vertex on Cn . They proved that if G is a lobster with
longest path Pn , then r (Pn ) r (G) r (Pn ) + 2 and determined the conditions under
which each true case occurs. If G is circular lobster with cycle Cn , they showed that
r (Cn ) r (G) r (Cn ) + 2 and determined the conditions under which each true case
occurs. An icicle graph In (n 3) has three pendent paths P2 and is comprised of a path
Pn with vertices v1 , v2 , . . . , vn where a path Pi1 is appended to vertex vi . They determine
the rank number for icicle graphs.
Richter, Leven, Tran, Ek, Jacob, and Narayan [1359] define a reduction of a graph
G as a graph GS such that V (GS ) = V (G) \ S and, for vertices u and v, uv is an edge
of GS if and only if there exists a uv path in G with all internal vertices belonging to
S. A vertex separating set of a connected graph G is a set of vertices whose removal
disconnects G. They define a bent ladder BLn (a, b) as the union of ladders La and Lb
(where Ln = Pn P2 ) that are joined at a right angle with a single L2 so that n = a+b+2.
A staircase ladder SLn is a graph with n 1 subgraphs G1 , G2 , . . . , Gn1 each of which
is isomorphic to C4 . (They are ladders with a maximum number of bends.) Richter et
al. [1359] prove: r (BLn (a, b)) = r (Ln ) 1 if n = 2k 1 and a 2 or 3 (mod 4) and is
equal to r (Ln ) otherwise; r (SLn ) = r (Ln+1 ) if n = 2k + 2k1 2 for some k 3 and is
equal to r (Ln ) otherwise; and for any ladder Ln with multiple bends, the rank number
is either r (Ln ) or r (Ln ) + 1).
The arank number of a graph G is the maximum value of k such that G has a minimal
k-ranking. Eyabi, Jacob, Laskar, Narayan, and Pillone [548] determine the arank number
of Kn Kn , and investigated the arank number of Km Kn .

7.19

Set Graceful and Set Sequential Graphs

The notions of set graceful and set sequential graphs were introduced by Acharaya in
1983 [15]. A graph is called set graceful if there is an assignment of nonempty subsets of
a finite set to the vertices and edges of the graph such that the value given to each edge is
the symmetric difference of the sets assigned to the endpoints of the edge, the assignment
of sets to the vertices is injective, and the assignment to the edges is bijective. A graph
is called set sequential if there is an assignment of nonempty subsets of a finite set to the
vertices and edges of the graph such that the value given to each edge is the symmetric
difference of the sets assigned to the endpoints of the edge and the the assignment of sets
to the vertices and the edges is bijective. The following has been shown: Pn (n > 3) is not
set graceful [709]; Cn is not set sequential [27]; Cn is set graceful if and only if n = 2m 1
[711] and [15]; Kn is set graceful if and only if n = 2, 3 or 6 [1208]; Kn (n 2) is set
sequential if and only if n = 2 or 5 [711]; Ka,b is set sequential if and only if (a + 1)(b + 1)
is a positive power of 2 [711]; a necessary condition for Ka,b,c to be set sequential is that
a, b, and c cannot have the same parity [709]; K1,b,c is not set sequential when b and c even
[711]; K2,b,c is not set sequential when b and c are odd [709]; no theta graph is set graceful
[709]; the complete nontrivial n-ary tree is set sequential if and only if n + 1 is a power of
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[709]; the nontrivial plane triangular grid graph Gn is set graceful if and only if n = 2
[711]; every graph can be embedded as an induced subgraph of a connected set sequential
graph [709]; every graph can be embedded as an induced subgraph of a connected set
graceful graph [709], every planar graph can be embedded as an induced subgraph of a
set sequential planar graph [711]; every tree can be embedded as an induced subgraph of
a set sequential tree [711]; and every tree can be embedded as an induced subgraph of
a set graceful tree [711]. Hegde conjectures [711] that no path is set sequential. Hegdes
conjecture [712] every complete bipartite graph that has a set graceful labeling is a star
was proved by Vijayakumar [1803]
Germina, Kumar, and Princy [636] prove: if a (p, q)-graph is set-sequential with respect
to a set with n elements, then the maximum degree of any vertex is 2n1 1; if G is setsequential with respect to a set with n elements other than K5 , then for every edge uv
with d(u) = d(v) one has d(u) + d(v) < 2n1 1; K1,p is set-sequential if and only if p
has the form 2n1 1 for some n 2; binary trees are not set-sequential; hypercubes Qn
are not set-sequential for n > 1; wheels are not set-sequential; and uniform binary trees
with an extra edge appended at the root are set-graceful and set graceful.
Acharya [15] has shown: a connected set graceful graph with q edges and q + 1 vertices
is a tree of order p = 2m and for every positive integer m such a tree exists; if G is a
connected set sequential graph, then G + K1 is set graceful; and if a graph with p vertices
and q edges is set sequential, then p + q = 2m 1. Acharya, Germina, Princy, and Rao
[23] proved: if G is set graceful, then G Kt is set sequential for some t; if G is a set
graceful graph with n edges and n + 1 vertices, then G + Kt is set graceful if and only if
m has the form 2t 1; Pn + Km is set graceful if n = 1 or 2 and m has the form 2t 1;
K1,m,n is set graceful if and only if m has the form 2t 1 and n has the form 2s 1;
P4 + Km is not set graceful when m has the form 2t 1 (t 1); K3,5 is not set graceful;
if G is set graceful, then graph obtained from G by adding for each vertex v in G a new
vertex v 0 that is adjacent to every vertex adjacent to v is not set graceful; and K3,5 is not
set graceful.

7.20

Vertex Equitable Graphs

Given a graph G with q edges and a labeling f from the vertices of G to the set
{0, 1, 2, . . . , dq/2e} define a labeling f on the edges by f (uv) = f (u) + f (v). If for
all i and j and each vertex the number of vertices labeled with i and the number of vertices labeled with j differ by at most one and the edge labels induced by f are 1, 2, . . . , q,
Lourdusamy and Seenivasan [1130] call a f a vertex equitable labeling of G. They proved
the following graphs are vertex equitable: paths, bistars, combs, n-cycles for n 0 or 3
(mod 4), K2,n , C3 t for t 2, quadrilateral snakes, K2 + mK1 , K1,n K1,n+k if and only
if 1 k 3, ladders, arbitrary super divisions of paths, and n-cycles with n 0 or 3
(mod 4). They further proved that K1,n for n 4, Eulerian graphs with n edges where
n 1 or 2 (mod 4), wheels, Kn for n > 3, triangular cacti with q 0 or 6 or 9 (mod 12),
and graphs with p vertices and q edges, where q is even and p < dq/2e + 2 are not vertex
equitable.

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Jeyanthi and Maheswari [820] and [819] proved that the following graphs have vertex
equitable labeling: the square of the bistar Bn,n ; the splitting graph of the bistar Bn,n ;
C4 -snakes; connected graphs for in which each block is a cycle of order divisible by 4
(they need not be the same order) and whose block-cut point graph is a path; Cm  Pn ;
tadpoles; the one-point union of two cycles; and the graph obtained by starting friendship
(2)
(2)
(2)
(2)
graphs, Cn1 , Cn2 , . . . , Cnk where each ni 0 (mod 4) and joining the center of Cni to the
(2)
center of Ci+1 with an edge for i = 1, 2, . . . , k 1. In [806] Jeyanthi and Maheswari prove
that Tp trees, bistars B(n, n + 1), Cn  Km , Pn 2 , tadpoles, certain classes of caterpillars,
and T  Kn where T is a Tp tree with an even number of vertices are vertex equitable.
Jeyanthi and Maheswari [809] gave vertex equitable labelings for graphs constructed from
Tp trees by appending paths or cycles. Jeyanthi and Maheswari [805] proved that graphs
obtained by duplicating an arbitrary vertex and an arbitrary edge of a cycle, total graphs
of a paths, splitting graphs of paths, and the graphs obtained identifying an edge of one
cycle with an edge of another cycle are vertex equitable (see 2.7 for the definitions of
duplicating vertices and edges, a total graph, and a splitting graph.)
In [816] Jeyanthi and Maheswari proved the double alternate triangular snake DA(Tn )
obtained from a path u1 , u2 , . . . , un by joining ui and ui+1 (alternatively) to two new
vertices vi and wi is vertex equitable; the double alternate quadrilateral snake DA(Qn )
obtained from a path u1 , u2 , . . . , un by joining ui and ui+1 (alternatively) to two new
vertices vi , xi and wi , yi respectively and then joining vi , wi and xi , yi is vertex equitable;
and N Q(m) the nth quadrilateral snake obtained from the path u1 , u2 , . . . , um by joining
ui , ui+1 with 2n new vertices vji and wji , 1 i m 1, 1 j n is vertex equitable.
Jeyanthi and Maheswari [815] prove DA(Tn )  K1 , DA(Tn )  2K1 , DA(Tn ), DA(Qn ) 
K1 , DA(Qn )  2K1 , and DA(Qn ) are vertex equitable. Jeyanthi and Maheswari [818]
prove that DA(Tn )  K1 , DA(Tn )  2K1 , DA(Qn )  K1 and DA(Qn )  2K1 are vertex
equitable graphs.
In [812], [813], and [814] Jeyanthi and Maheswari show a number of families of graphs
have vertex equitable lableings. Their results include: armed crowns Cm Pn , shadow
graphs D2 (K1,n ); the graph Cm Cn obtained by identifying a single vertex of a cycle
graph Cm with a single vertex of a cycle graph Cn if and only if m + n 0, 3 (mod 4);
(2)
the graphs [Pm , Cn ] when n 0 (mod 4); the graph obtained from m copies of Cn Cn
and Pm by joining each vertex of Pm with the cut vertex in one copy of Cn Cn ; and
graphs obtained by duplicating an arbitrary vertex and an arbitrary edge of a cycle; the
total graph of Pn ; the splitting graph of Pn ; and the fusion of two edges of Cn .

7.21

Sequentially Additive Graphs

Bange, Barkauskas, and Slater [259] defined a k-sequentially additive labeling f of a graph
G(V, E) to be a bijection from V E to {k, . . . , k + |V E| 1} such that for each
edge xy, f (xy) = f (x) + f (y). They proved: Kn is 1-sequentially additive if and only
if n 3; C3n+1 is not k-sequentially additive for k 0 or 2 (mod 3); C3n+2 is not ksequentially additive for k 1 or 2 (mod 3); Cn is 1-sequentially additive if and only
if n 0 or 1 (mod 3); and Pn is 1-sequentially additive. They conjecture that all trees
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are 1-sequentially additive. Hegde [707] proved that K1,n is k-sequentially additive if and
only if k divides n.
Hajnal and Nagy [680] investigated 1-sequentially additive labelings of 2-regular
graphs. They prove: kC3 is 1-sequentially additive for all k; kC4 is 1-sequentially additive if and only if k 0 or 1 (mod 3); C6n C6n and C6n C6n C3 are 1-sequentially
additive for all n; C12n and C12n C3 are 1-sequentially additive for all n. They conjecture
that every 2-regular simple graph on n vertices is 1-sequentially additive where n 0 or
1 (mod 3).
Acharya and Hegde [28] have generalized k-sequentially additive labelings by allowing
the image of the bijection to be {k, k + d, . . . , (k + |V E| 1)d}. They call such a labeling
additively (k, d)-sequential.

7.22

Difference Graphs

Analogous to a sum graph, Harary [686] calls a graph a difference graph if there is an
bijection f from V to a set of positive integers S such that xy E if and only if |f (x)
f (y)| S. Bloom, Hell, and Taylor [333] have shown that the following graphs are
difference graphs: trees, Cn , Kn , Kn,n , Kn,n1 , pyramids, and n-prisms. Gervacio [640]
proved that wheels Wn are difference graphs if and only if n = 3, 4, or 6. Sonntag [1607]
proved that cacti (that is, graphs in which every edge is contained in at most one cycle)
with girth at least 6 are difference graphs and he conjectures that all cacti are difference
graphs. Sugeng and Ryan [1641] provided difference labelings for cycles, fans, cycles with
chords, graphs obtained by the one-point union of Kn and Pm ; and graphs made from
any number of copies of a given graph G that has a difference labeling by identifying one
vertex the first with a vertex of the second, a different vertex of the second with the third
and so on.
Hegde and Vasudeva [727] call a simple digraph a mod difference digraph if there
is a positive integer m and a labeling L from the vertices to {1, 2, . . . , m} such that
for any vertices u and v, (u, v) is an edge if and only if there is a vertex w such that
L(v) L(u) L(w) (mod m). They prove that the complete symmetric digraph and
unidirectional cycles and paths are mod difference digraphs.
In [1445] Seoud and Helmi provided a survey of all graphs of order at most 5 and
showed the following graphs are difference graphs: Kn , (n 4) with two deleted edges
having no vertex in common; Kn , (n 6) with three deleted edges having no vertex in
common; gear graphs Gn for n 3; Pm Pn (m, n 2); triangular snakes; C4 -snakes;
dragons (that is, graphs formed by identifying the end vertex of a path and any vertex in
a cycle); graphs consisting of two cycles of the same order joined by an edge; and graphs
obtained by identifying the center of a star with a vertex of a cycle.

7.23

Square Sum Labelings and Square Difference Labelings

Ajitha, Arumugam, and Germina [91] call a labeling f from a graph G(p, q) to {1, 2, . . . , q}
a square sum labeling if the induced edge labeling f (uv) = (f (u))2 + (f (v))2 is injective.

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They say a square sum labeling is a strongly square sum labeling if the q edge labels are the
first q consecutive integers of the form a2 + b2 where a and b are less than p and distinct.
They prove the following graphs have square sum labelings: trees; cycles; K2 + mK1 ; Kn
(t)
if and only if n 5; Cn (the one-point union of t copies of Cn ); grids Pm Pn ; and Km,n
if m 4. They also prove that every strongly square sum graph except K1 , K2 , and K3
contains a triangle.
Germina and Sebastian [639] proved that the following graphs are square sum graphs:
trees; unicyclic graphs; mCn ; cycles with a chord; the graphs obtained by joining two
copies of cycle Cn by a path Pk ; and graphs that are a path union of k copies of Cn , and
the path is P2 .
In [1598] Somashekara and Veena used the term square sum labeling to mean
strongly square sum labeling. They proved that the following graphs have strongly
square sum labelings: paths, K1,n1 K1,n2 K1,nk , complete n-ary trees, and lobsters
obtained by joining centers of any number of copies of a star to a new vertex. They
observed that that if every edge of a graph is an edge of a triangle then the graph does
not have strongly square sum labeling. As a consequence the following graphs do not
have a strongly square sum labelings: Kn , n 3, wheels, fans Pn + K1 , n 2, double
(n)
(n)
fans Pn + K2 , n 2, friendship graphs C3 , windmills Km , m > 3, triangular ladders,
triangular snakes, double triangular snakes, and flowers. They also proved that helms are
not strongly square sum graphs and the graphs obtained by joining the centers of two
wheels to a new vertex are not strongly square sum graphs.
Ajitha, Princy, Lokesha, and Ranjini [68] defined a graph G(p, q) to be a square difference graph if there exist a bijection f from V (G) to {0, 1, 2, . . . , p1} such that the induced
function f from E(G) to the natural numbers given by f (uv) = |(f (u))2 (f (v))2 | for
every edge uv of G is a bijection. Such a the function is called a square difference labeling of the graph G. They proved that following graphs have square difference labelings:
(n)
paths, stars, cycles, Kn if and only if n 5, Km,n if m 4, friendship graphs C3 ,
triangular snakes, and K2 + mK1 . They also prove that every graph can be embedded
as a subgraph of a connected square difference graph and conjecture that trees, complete
(n)
bipartite graphs and Ck are square difference graphs.
Tharmaraj and Sarasija [1681] proved that following graphs have square difference
labelings: fans Fn (n 2); Pn + K2 ; the middle graphs of paths and cycles; the total
graph of a path; the graphs obtained from m copies of an odd cycle and the path Pm with
consecutive vertices v1 , v2 , . . . , vm by joining the vertex vi to a vertex of the ith copy of
the odd cycle; and the graphs obtained from m copies of the star Sn and the path Pm by
joining the vertex vi of Pm to the center of the ith copy of Sn .

7.24

Permutation and Combination Graphs

Hegde and Shetty [722] define a graph G with p vertices to be a permutation graph if there
exists a injection f from the vertices of G to {1, 2, 3, . . . , p} such that the induced edge
function gf defined by gf (uv) = f (u)!/|f (u) f (v)|! is injective. They say a graph G with
p vertices is a combination graph if there exists a injection f from the vertices of G to

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{1, 2, 3, . . . , p} such that the induced edge function gf defined as gf (uv) = f (u)!/|f (u)
f (v)|!f (v)! is injective. They prove: Kn is a permutation graph if and only if n 5; Kn
is a combination graph if and only if n 5; Cn is a combination graph for n > 3; Kn,n is
a combination graph if and only if n 2; Wn is a not a combination graph for n 6; and
a necessary condition for a (p, q)-graph to be a combination graph is that 4q p2 if p is
even and 4q p2 1 if p is odd. They strongly believe that Wn is a combination graph
for n 7 and all trees are combinations graphs. Babujee and Vishnupriya [158] prove the
following graphs are permutation graphs: Pn ; Cn ; stars; graphs obtained adding a pendent
edge to each edge of a star; graphs obtained by joining the centers of two identical stars
with an edge or a path of length 2); and complete binary trees with at least three vertices.
Seoud and Salim [1455] determine all permutation graphs of order at most 9 and prove
that every bipartite graph of order at most 50 is a permutation graph. Seoud and Mahran
[1447] give an upper bound on the number of edges of a permutation graph and introduce
some necessary conditions for a graph to be a permutation graph. They show that these
conditions are not sufficient for a graph to be a permutation graph.
Hegde and Shetty [722] say a graph G with p vertices and q edges is a strong kcombination graph if there exists a bijection f from the vertices of G to {1, 2, 3, . . . , p}
such that the induced edge function gf from the edges to {k, k + 1, . . . , k + q 1} defined
by gf (uv) = f (u)!/|f (u) f (v)|!f (v)! is a bijection. They say a graph G with p vertices
and q edges is a strong k-permutation graph if there exists a bijection f from the vertices
of G to {1, 2, 3, . . . , p} such that the induced edge function gf from the edges to {k, k +
1, . . . , k + q 1} defined by gf (uv) = f (u)!/|f (u) f (v)|! is a bijection. Seoud and Anwar
[1435] provided necessary conditions for combination graphs, permutation graphs, strong
k-combination graphs, and strong k-permutation graphs.
Seoud and Al-Harere [1434] showed that the following families are combination graphs:
graphs that are two copies of Cn sharing a common edge; graphs consisting of two cycles
of the same order joined by a path; graphs that are the union of three cycles of the same
order; wheels Wn (n 7); coronas Tn  K1 , where Tn is the triangular snake; and the
graphs obtained from the gear Gm by attaching n pendent vertices to each vertex which
is not joined to the center of the gear. They proved that a graph G(n, q) having at least 6
vertices such that 3 vertices are of degree 1, n 1, n 2 is not a combination graph, and
a graph G(n, q) having at least 6 vertices such that there exist 2 vertices of degree n 3,
two vertices of degree 1 and one vertex of degree n 1 is not a combination graph.
Seoud and Al-Harere [1433] proved that the following families are combination graphs:
unions of four cycles of the same order; double triangular snakes; fans Fn if and only if
n 6; caterpillars; complete binary trees; ternary trees with at least 4 vertices; and
graphs obtained by identifying the pendent vertices of stars Sm with the paths Pni , for
1 ni m. They include a survey of trees of order at most 10 that are combination
graphs and proved the following graphs are not combination graphs: bipartite graphs
with two partite sets with n 6 elements such that n/2 elements of each set have degree
n; the splitting graph of Kn,n (n 3); and certain chains of two and three complete
graphs. Seoud and Anwar [1435] proved the following graphs are combination graphs:
dragon graphs (the graphs obtained from by joining the endpoint of a path to a vertex
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of a cycle); triangular snakes Tn (n 3); wheels; and the graphs obtained by adding k
pendent edges to every vertex of Cn for certain values of k.
In [1432] and [1433] Seoud and Al-Harere proved the following graphs
are non-combination graphs:
G1 + G2 if |V (G1 )|, |V (G2 )| 2 and at
least one of |V (G1 )| and |V (G2 )| is greater than 2; the double fan K2 +
Pn ; Kl,m,n ; Kk,l,m,n ; P2 [G]; P3 [G]; C3 [G]; C4 [G]; Km [G]; Wm [G]; the splitting graph
of Kn (n 3); Kn (n 4) with an edge deleted; Kn (n 5) with three edges deleted;
and Kn,n (n 3) with an edge deleted. They also proved that a graph G(n, q) (n 3) is
not a combination graph if it has more than one vertex of degree n 1.
In [1683] and [1682] Tharmaraj and Sarasija defined a graph G(V, E) with p vertices
to be a beta combination graph if there exist a bijection f from V (G) to {1, 2, . . . , p}
such that the induced function Bf from E(G) to the natural numbers given by Bf (uv) =
(f (u) + f (v))!/f (u)!f (v)! for every edge uv of G is injective. Such a function is called a
beta combination labeling. They prove the following graphs have beta combination labelings: Kn if and only if n 8; ladders Ln (n 2); fans Fn (n 2); wheels; paths; cycles;
friendship graphs; Kn,n (n 2); trees; bistars; K1,n (n > 1); triangular snakes; quadrilateral snakes; double triangular snakes; alternate triangular snakes (graphs obtained from
a path v1 , v2 , . . . , vn , where for each odd i n 1, vi and vi+1 are joined to a new vertex
ui,i+1 ; alternate quadrilateral snakes (graphs obtained from a path v1 , v2 , . . . , vn , where
for each odd i n 1, vi and vi+1 are joined to two new vertices ui,i+1,1 and ui,i+1,2 );
helms; gears; combs Pn  K1 ; and coronas Cn  K1 .

7.25

Strongly *-graphs

A variation of strong multiplicity of graphs is a strongly *-graph. A graph of order n

is said to be a strongly *-graph if its vertices can be assigned the values 1, 2, . . . , n in
such a way that, when an edge whose vertices are labeled i and j is labeled with the
value i + j + ij, all edges have different labels. Adiga and Somashekara [39] have shown
that all trees, cycles, and grids are strongly *-graphs. They further consider the problem
of determining the maximum number of edges in any strongly *-graph of given order
and relate it to the corresponding problem for strongly multiplicative graphs. In [1449]
and [1450] Seoud and Mahan give some technical necessary conditions for a graph to be
strongly *-graph,
Babujee and Vishnupriya [158] have proved the following are strongly *-graphs: Cn
(n)
P2 , (P2 K m ) + K 2 , windmills K3 , and jelly fish graphs J(m, n) obtained from a 4-cycle
v1 , v2 , v3 , v4 by joining v1 and v3 with an edge and appending m pendent edges to v2 and
n pendent edges to v4 .
Babujee and Beaula [142] prove that cycles and complete bipartite graphs are vertex
strongly *-graphs. Babujee, Kannan, and Vishnupriya [152] prove that wheels, paths,
fans, crowns, (P2 mK1 ) + K2 , and umbrellas (graphs obtained by appending a path to
the central vertex of a fan) are vertex strongly *-graphs.

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7.26

Triangular Sum Graphs

S. Hegde and P. Shankaran [717] call a labeling of graph with q edges a triangular sum
labeling if the vertices can be assigned distinct non-negative integers in such a way that,
when an edge whose vertices are labeled i and j is labeled with the value i + j, the edges
labels are {k(k + 1)/2| k = 1, 2, . . . , q}. They prove the following graphs have triangular
sum labelings: paths, stars, complete n-ary trees, and trees obtained from a star by
replacing each edge of the star by a path. They also prove that Kn has a triangular sum
(t)
labeling if and only if n is 1 or 2 and the friendship graphs C3 do not have a triangular
sum labeling. They conjecture that Kn (n 5) are forbidden subgraphs of graph with
triangular sum labelings. They conjectured that every tree admits a triangular sum
labeling. They show that some families of graphs can be embedded as induced subgraphs
of triangular sum graphs. They conclude saying as every graph cannot be embedded
as an induced subgraph of a triangular sum graph, it is interesting to embed families
of graphs as an induced subgraph of a triangular sum graph. In response, Seoud and
Salim [1452] showed the following graphs can be embedded as an induced subgraph of a
triangular sum graph: trees, cycles, nC4 , and the one-point union of any number of copies
of C4 (friendship graphs).
Vaidya, Prajapati, and Vihol [1748] showed that cycles, cycles with exactly one chord,
and cycles with exactly two chords that form a triangle with an edge of the cycle can be
embedded as an induced subgraph of a graph with a triangular sum labeling.
Vaidya, Prajapati, and Vihol [1748] proved that several classes of graphs do not have
triangular sum labelings. Among them are: helms, graphs obtained by joining the centers
of two wheels to a new vertex, and graphs in which every edge is an edge of a triangle. As a
corollary of the latter result they have that Pm + Kn , Wm + Kn , wheels, friendship graphs,
flowers, triangular ladders, triangular snakes, double triangular snakes, and flowers. do
not have triangular sum labelings.
Seoud and Salim [1452] proved the following are triangular sum graphs: Pm Pn , m
4; the union of any number of copies of Pn , n 5; Pn  Km ; symmetrical trees; the graph
obtained from a path by attaching an arbitrary number of edges to each vertex of the
path; the graph obtained by identifying the centers of any number of stars; and all trees
of order at most 9.
For a positive integer i the ith pentagonal number is i(3i 1)/2. Somashekara and
Veena [1599] define a pentagonal sum labeling of a graph G(V, E) as one for which there is a
one-to-one function f from V (G) to the set of nonnegative integers that induces a bijection
f + from E(G) to the set of the first |E| pentagonal numbers. A graph that admits such
a labeling is called a pentagonal sum graph. Somashekara and Veena [1599] proved that
the following graphs have pentagonal sum labelings: paths, K1,n1 K1,n2 K1,nk ,
complete n-ary trees, and lobsters obtained by joining centers of any number of copies of
a star to a new vertex. They conjecture that every tree has a pentagonal sum labeling and
as an open problem they ask for a proof or disprove that cycles have pentagonal labelings.
Somashekara and Veena [1599] observed that that if every edge of a graph is an edge
of a triangle then the graph does not have pentagonal sum labeling. As was the case

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for triangular sum labelings the following graphs do not have a pentagonal sum labeling:
Pm + Kn , and Wm + Kn wheels, friendship graphs, flowers, triangular ladders, triangular
snakes, double triangular snakes, and flowers. Somashekara and Veena [1599] also proved
that helms and the graphs obtained by joining the centers of two wheels to a new vertex
are not pentagonal sum graphs.

7.27

Divisor Graphs

G. Santhosh and G. Singh [1409] call a graph G(V, E) a divisor graph if V is a set of integers
and uv E if and only if u divides v or vice versa. They prove the following are divisor
graphs: trees; mKn ; induced subgraphs of divisor graphs; cocktail party graphs Hm,n (see
Section 7.1 for the definition); the one-point union of complete graphs of different orders;
complete bipartite graphs; Wn for n even and n > 2; and Pn + Kt . They also prove that
Cn (n 4) is a divisor graph if and only if n is even and if G is a divisor graph then for
all n so is G + Kn .
Chartrand, Muntean, Saenpholphat, and Zhang [414] proved complete graphs, bipartite graphs, complete multipartite graphs, and joins of divisor graphs are divisor graphs.
They also proved if G is a divisor graph, then G K2 is a divisor graph if and only if G
is a bipartite graph; a triangle-free graph is a divisor graph if and only if it is bipartite;
no divisor graph contains an induced odd cycle of length 5 or more; and that a graph G
is divisor graph if and only if there is an orientation D of G such that if (x, y) and (y, z)
are edges of D then so is (x, z).
In [76] and [78] Al-Addasi, AbuGhneim, and Al-Ezeh determined precisely the values
of n for which Pnk (k 2) are divisor graphs and proved that for any integer k 2, Cnk
is a divisor graph if and only if n 2k + 2. In [79] they gave a characterization of the
graphs G and H for which G H is a divisor graph and a characterization of which block
graphs are divisor graphs. (Recall a graph is a block graph if every one of its blocks is
complete.) They showed that divisor graphs form a proper subclass of perfect graphs and
showed that cycle permutation graphs of order at least 8 are divisor graphs if and only
if they are perfect. (Recall a graph is perfect if every subgraph has chromatic number
equal to the order of its maximal clique.) In [77] Al-Addasi, AbuGhneim, and Al-Ezeh
proved that the contraction of a divisor graph along a bridge is a divisor graph; if e is an
edge of a divisor graph that lies on an induced even cycle of length at least 6, then the
contraction along e is not a divisor graph; and they introduced a special type of vertex
splitting that yields a divisor graph when applied to a cut vertex of a given divisor graph.
Ganesan and Uthayakumar [604] proved that G  H is a divisor graph if and only if G
is a bipartite graph and H is a divisor graph. Frayer [571] proved Kn G is a divisor graph
for each n if and only if G contains no edges and Kn K2 (n 3) is a divisor graph. Vinh
[1820] proved that for any n > 1 and 0 m n(n 1)/2 there exists a divisor graph of
order n and size m. She also gave a simple proof of the characterization of divisor graphs
due to Chartrand, Muntean, Saenpholphat, and Zhang [414] Gera, Saenpholphat, and
Zhang [634] established forbidden subgraph characterizations for all divisor graphs that
contain at most three triangles. Tsao [1695] investigated the vertex-chromatic number,

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the clique number, the clique cover number, and the independence number of divisor
graphs and their complements. In [1441] Seoud, El Sonbaty, and Mahran discuss here
some necessary and sufficient conditions for a graph to be divisor graph.

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Index
(1 , 2 , . . . , k )-cordial, 216
(1 , 2 , . . . , k )-cordial graph, 216
(1 , 2 , . . . , k )-cordial labeling, 216
(a, d)-F -antimagic, 156
(a, d)-distance antimagic, 154
(a, r)-geometric, 222
(k, d)-graceful labeling, 57
(m, n)-gon star, 189
A-cordial graph, 71
A-magic, 143
B(n, r, m), 20

, 214
Bn,n
Bm , 18
Bn,n , 214
(t)
Cn , 13
Ek -cordial, 70
Fn , 37
G  H, 15
G-antimagic, 152
G1 [G2 ], 19
H-cordial, 70
H-covering, 160
H-supermagic strength, 136
H-union, 80
Hn -cordial, 70
Hn -graph, 86
KP (r, s, l), 50
(m)
Kn , 19
Mn , 18
P (n, k), 25
Pnk , 25
Pa,b , 27
R-ring-magic, 145
Sm , 18
Sn , 160
St(n), 23
Tp -tree, 58
W (t, n), 11
-distance magic, 141
-labeling

eventually, 42
free, 45
near, 46
strong, 45
weakly, 44, 52
-defect, 42
-labeling, 14, 38, 52, 60
-mean labeling, 225
-size, 43
-valuation, 38
-valuation, 5
-labeling, 51
-labelings, 48
-labeling, 49
-valuation, 49
+ -labeling, 50
-labeling, 50
-labelings, 52
a-vertex consecutive bimagic labeling, 149
a-vertex consecutive magic labeling, 148
b-edge consecutive magic labeling, 148
d-antimagic, 153
d-graceful, 40
f -permutation graph, 29
k-cordial labeling, 71
k-even mean labeling, 229
k-even mean graph, 229
k-even sequential harmonious, 87
k-fold, 120
k-graceful, 55
k-multilevel corona, 144
k-prime, 192
k-product cordial, 215
k-ranking, 240
minimal, 240
k-total product cordial, 215, 216
k-totally magic cordial, 146
kCn -snake, 15, 49
linear, 15
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n-cone, 10
n-cube, 18, 38
n-point suspension, 11
s(G), 235
sg (G), 239
t-ply graph, 68
ts(G), 239
w-graph, 108
w-tree, 108
y-tree, 9
3-product cordial, 214
even a-sequential, 97
abbreviated double tree of T , 102
additively (a, r)-geometric, 222
adjacency matrix, 50
almost graceful labeling, 49
almost-bipartite graph, 51
alternate quadrilateral snake, 213, 218
alternate shell, 67
alternate triangular snake, 213, 218
amalgamation, 136
antimagic orientation, 152
antiprism, 136, 157, 174, 238
apex, 12, 79
arank number, 241
arbitrarily graceful, 55
arbitrary supersubdivision, 26, 67
arithmetic, 89
balance index set, 76
bamboo tree, 7, 61
banana tree, 9, 53, 61
barycentric subdivision, 29
bent ladder, 241
beta combination graph, 247
beta-number, 52
bi-odd sequential, 86
bicomposition, 51
bigraceful graph, 30
bipartite labeling, 43
bisequential graph, 85
bistar, 111, 115

block, 14, 118

block graph, 249
block-cut-vertex graph, 118
block-cutpoint, 40
block-cutpoint graph, 14
book, 6, 13, 18, 107, 190
generalized, 191
stacked, 18
boundary value, 41
cactus
k-angular, 63
triangular, 14
Cartesian product, 16, 197
caterpillar, 7, 38, 46, 53, 83, 112
caterpillar cycle, 240
cells, 40
chain graph, 40, 118
chain of cycles, 13
chord, 11, 190
chordal ring, 129, 157
circulant graph, 100
circular lobster, 241
closed helm, 11
cocktail party graph, 130, 185
comb tree, 240
combination graph, 245
complete
n-partite graph, 64, 180
bipartite graph, 14, 19
graph, 19
tripartite graph, 19
component, 193
composition, 19, 63, 197
conjunction, 212
convex polytope, 137, 173
cordial graph, 64
cordial labeling, 63
corona, 15, 107
covering, 161
critical number, 41
crown, 15, 81, 83, 182, 190, 208
cube, 17, 30

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cubic graph, 119

cycle, 5, 185, 190
cycle of graphs, 28
cycle with a Pk -chord, 12
cycle with parallel Pk chords, 12
cyclic G-decomposition, 46
cyclic decomposition, 49
cylinders, 137
decomposition, 5, 38, 46, 48, 51
deficiency
edge-magic, 117
super edge-magic, 117
degree splitiing graph, 220
degree-magic, 99
difference cordial, 218
difference cordial labeling, 218
difference graph, 244
direct product, 140
directed edge-graceful, 204
directed graceful graph, 16
disjoint union, 21
distance magic labeling, 140
divisor cordial, 217
divisor graph, 249
dodecahedron, 30
double alternate quadrilateral snake, 213,
218
double alternate triangular snake, 213, 218
double quadrilateral snake, 213, 218
double star, 103
double tree, 102
double triangular snake, 213, 218, 226
dragon, 13
duplication of a vertex, 28, 213
duplication of an edge, 28, 67, 213
Dutch t-windmill, 13
Dutch windmill, 101
edge
edge
edge
edge
edge

amalgamation, 191
irregular total labeling, 235
linked cyclic snake, 224
magic graceful, 109
magic strength, 101

edge pair sum, 234

edge parity, 44
edge product cordial labeling, 217
edge reduced
integral sum number, 184
sum number, 184
edge-balance index, 77
edge-decomposition, 46
edge-friendly index, 76
edge-graceful spectrum, 199
edge-magic index, 120
edge-magic injection, 111
edge-odd graceful, 62
elegant, 91
elegant labeling, 91
elem. parallel transformation, 58
elementary transformation, 109
envelope graph, 77
EP-cordial graph, 215
EP-cordial labeling, 215
Eulerian graph, 78
even mean labeling, 229
exclusive sum labeling, 186
exclusive sum number, 186
extended w-tree, 108
face, 137, 173
fan, 37, 91, 98, 106, 107, 116, 129, 137, 189
Fibonacci graceful, 54
firecracker, 9
flag, 65, 87, 204
flower, 11, 127, 189
forest, 117
free -labeling, 45
friendly index set, 74
friendship graph, 13, 63, 116, 127, 129, 137,
186
full edge-friendly index, 76
full friendly index set, 77
full product-cordial index, 214
fully magic, 144
fully prduct-cordial, 213
functional extension, 103

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gear graph, 11
generalized
book, 191
bundle, 69
fan, 69
wheel, 69
generalized kCn -snake, 224
generalized antiprism, 167
generalized caterpillar, 27
generalized edge linked cyclic snake, 225
generalized helm, 127, 236
generalized Jahangir graph, 127
generalized prisms, 206
generalized spider, 27
generalized web, 11, 127
Golomb ruler, 21
graceful
almost super Fibonacci, 55
graceful graph, 5
gracesize, 44
gracious k-labeling, 46
gracious labeling, 45
graph, 219
(1 , 2 , . . . , k )-cordial, 216
(, k)-antimagic, 153
(a, d)-F -antimagic, 156
(a, d)-antimagic, 155
(a, d)-distance antimagic, 154
(a, r)-geometric, 222
(k + 1)-equitable mean, 234
(k, d)-balanced, 58
A-cordial, 71
E-cordial, 203
Ek -cordial, 70
G-distance magic, 141
G-snake, 14
H-cordial, 70
H-elegant, 92
H-harmonious, 92
Hn -cordial, 70
-optimum summable, 186
irregular, 239
-Petersen, 200
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d-graceful, 40
f -permutation, 29
g-graph, 184
k-antimagic, 153
k-balanced, 73, 81
k-edge-magic, 102
k-even edge-graceful, 199
k-magic, 102
k-modular multiplicative, 224
k-multilevel corona, 144
k-product cordial, 215
m-level wheel, 201
t-uniform homeomorph, 68
w-graph, 108
w-tree, 108
3-product cordial, 214
additively (a, r)-geometric, 222
additively (a, r)-geometric, 222
almost-bipartite, 51
alternate quadrilateral snake, 213, 218,
247
alternate shell, 67
alternate triangular snake, 213, 218, 247
antimagic, 150
arbitrarily graceful, 55
arithmetic, 89, 223
balloon, 86
bent ladder, 241
beta combination, 247
bi-odd sequential, 86
bicomposition, 51
bicyclic, 200
bigraceful, 30
bisequential, 85
block, 249
broken wheel, 75
butterfly, 87, 199, 204
caterpillar cycle, 240
centered triangular difference mean, 231
centered triangular mean, 230
chain, 136
chordal ring, 129, 157
circulant, 100
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circular lobster, 241

closed heml, 11
cocktail party, 130, 185
comb tree, 240
complete, 19
composition, 19
conservative, 99
cordial, 116
countable infinite, 106
cycle with parallel chords, 22
degree-magic, 99
diamond, 56
difference, 244
directed, 6
disconnected, 21
divisor, 249
double alternate quadrilateral snake,
213, 218
double alternate trirangular snake, 213,
218
double quadrilateral snake, 213, 218
double triangular, 14
double triangular snake, 213, 218
dumbbell, 87, 200
edge linked cyclic snake, 224
edge magic graceful, 109
edge pair sum, 234
edge product cordial, 217, 218
edge-friendly, 74
edge-magic, 119
EP-cordial, 215
even a-sequential, 97
even edge-graceful, 201
even-multiple subdivision, 66
extended w-tree, 108
extra Skolem difference mean, 230
fan, 37
festoon, 87, 204
Fibonacci graceful, 54
flower snark, 221
friendship, 13
generalized caterpillar, 27
generalized edge linked cyclic snake, 225
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generalized helm, 127, 236

generalized Jahangir, 117
generalized Jahangir graph, 127
generalized spider, 27
generalized web, 11, 127
graceful, 5
graph-block chain, 27
Halin, 101
Hamming-graceful, 82
Harary, 165
harmonic mean, 231
harmonious, 5
highly vertex prime, 193
hyper strongly multiplicative, 223
ideal magic, 112
indexable, 89
irregular qualrilateral snake, 219
irregular triangular snake, 219
jelly fish, 247
jewel, 226
join, 24
join sum, 28
kayak paddle, 13
kite, 13, 115
Knodel, 129, 190
ladder, 16
line-graceful, 208
lotus, 56
middle, 67
minimally k-equitable, 81
mirror graph, 29
modular multiplicative, 224
multiple shell, 80
node-graceful, 59
odd (a, d)-antimagic, 157
odd antimagic, 157
one modulo N graceful, 54
pair mean, 234
pair sum, 233
path-block chain, 27
pentagonal sum, 248
perfect, 249
prime, 189, 192
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pseudo-magic, 101
pyramid, 56
reduction, 241
replicated, 29
rigid ladders, 225
semi-magic, 98
set graceful, 241
set sequential, 241
shackle, 135
shadow, 79
shell-type, 12
simply sequential, 210
Skolem difference mean, 230
Skolem labeled, 59
Skolem-graceful, 59
smooth graceful, 29
sparkler, 199
sparklers, 87
splitting, 27
square difference, 245
star, 18
star extension, 92
strong edge-graceful, 198
strong magic, 112
strong super edge-magic, 110
strongly c-elegant, 94
strongly k-indexable, 116
strongly 1-harmonious, 116
strongly felicitous, 93
strongly indexable, 89
strongly multiplicative, 223
sun, 160
sunflower, 65
super (a, d)-F -antimagic, 157
super edge magic graceful, 109
super graceful, 53
supermagic, 98
supersubdivision, 26
tadpoles, 13
theta, 91
total, 29, 212
total mixed, 239
totally magic, 131

triangular difference mean, 231

triangular snake, 14
twisted cylinder, 77, 214
unicyclic, 11
uniformly balanced, 73
uniformly cordial, 72
vertex switching, 55, 67, 150
weak antimagic, 151
weak magic, 112
weighted-k-antimagic, 153
zero-sum A-magic, 143
zig-zag triangle, 106
graph labeling, 5
graph-block chain, 27
graphs
decomposable, 114
directed edge-graceful, 204
fully product-cordial, 213
odd sum, 86
perfect super edge-magic, 110
slanting ladder, 86
triangular ladders, 214
grid, 16, 57
group irregularity strength, 239
Halin graph, 101
Hamming-graceful graph, 82
harmonic mean, 231
harmonious graph, 5
harmonious order, 31
Heawood graph, 30, 45
helm, 11, 189
closed, 65
generalized, 65
Herschel graph, 30, 155
hexagonal lattice, 137
holey -labeling, 49
homeomorph, 77
honeycomb graph, 175
hooked Skolem sequence, 60
host graph, 42
hypercycle, 184
strong, 184

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hypergraph, 100, 120, 153, 184

hyperwheel, 184
IC-coloring, 211
IC-index, 211
icicle graph, 241
icosahedron, 30
index of cordiality, 68
index of product cordiality, 216
integer-magic spectrum, 102, 144
integral radius, 183
integral sum
graphs, 181
number, 182
tree, 181
irregular crown, 110
irregular labeling, 235
irregular quadrilateral snake, 219
irregular triangle snake, 219
irregularity strength, 235
jewel graph, 226
join sum, 28
kayak paddle, 13, 50
kite, 13, 115, 130
labeling
(1 , 2 , . . . , k )-cordial, 216
(, k)-antimagic, 153
(a, b)-consecutive, 199
(a, d)- vertex-antimagic edge, 155
(a, d)-H-antimagic total labeling, 160
(a, d)-distance antimagic, 154
(a, d)-edge-antimagic total, 161
(a, d)-edge-antimagic vertex, 161
(a, d)-face antimagic, 173
(a, d)-indexable, 161
(a, d)-vertex-antimagic total, 159
(a, r)-geometric, 222
(k, d)-arithmetic, 88
(k, d)-even mean, 229
(k, d)-graceful, 57
(k, d)-odd mean, 228
(k, d)-super mean, 231
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A-magic, 143
E-cordial, 203
G-distance magic, 141
H-magic, 134
P (a)Q(1)-super vertex-graceful, 203
Q(a)P (b)-super edge-graceful, 203
R-ring-magic, 145
-exclusive sum labeling, 186
irregular, 239
-graceful, 55
-, 38
-mean, 225
-, 50
a-vertex consec. edge bimagic, 148
a-vertex-consecutive magic, 131
d-antimagic, 153
d-antimagic of type (1, 1, 1), 173
d-graceful, 40
k-antimagic, 153
k-balanced, 73
k-cordial, 71
k-edge graceful, 199
k-edge-magic, 102
k-equitable, 78, 81
k-even edge-graceful, 199
k-even mean, 229
k-odd mean, 228
k-prime, 192
k-product cordial, 215
k-sequential, 210
k-sequentially additive, 243
k-super edge mean, 231
k-super mean, 231
k-total product cordial, 215, 216
k-totally magic cordial, 146
t-harmonious, 31
1-vertex magic, 140
1-vertex magic vertex, 146
3-product cordial, 214
(k, d)-indexable, 89
k-indexable, 89
additively (a, r)-geometric, 222
additively (a, r)-geometric, 222
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additively (k, d)-sequential, 244

additively graceful, 88
almost graceful, 49
almost magic, 142
antimagic, 150, 152
arbitrarily graceful, 55
balanced, 38, 73
beta combination, 247
bi-odd sequential, 86
bigraceful, 46
bimagic, 142
binary magic total, 146
bipartite, 43
centered triangular difference mean, 231
centered triangular mean, 230
complete k-equitable, 82
consecutive, 94
cordial, 63
cordial edge deficiency, 72
cordial vertex deficiency, 73
difference cordial labeling, 218
directed edge-graceful, 204
distance magic, 140, 146
divisor cordial, 217
edge bimagic total labeling, 149
edge irregular total, 235
edge pair sum, 234
edge product cordial, 217
edge-friendly, 74
edge-graceful, 196
edge-magic, 105, 119
edge-magic total, 105
edge-odd graceful, 62
elegant, 91
EP-cordial, 215
equitable, 142
even a-sequential, 97
even mean labeling, 229
even sequential harmonious, 87
felicitous, 93
Fibonacci graceful, 54
friendly, 72
geometric mean, 233
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gracefully consistent, 41
gracious, 45
highly vertex prime, 193
indexable, 89
interlaced, 38
irregular, 235
line-graceful, 208
magic, 98, 101
consecutive, 137
of type (0,1,1), 137
of type (1,0,0), 137
of type (1,1,0), 137
of type (1,1,1), 137
magic valuation, 105
mean, 224
mean cordial, 232
near-elegant, 91
nearly graceful, 48
nice (1, 1) edge-magic, 112
odd elegent, 92
odd harmonious, 95
odd mean, 228
odd sequential, 85
odd-graceful, 60
one modulo N graceful, 54
one modulo three graceful, 53
one modulo three mean, 233
optimal k-equitable, 82
optimal sum graph, 180
pair mean, 234
pair sum, 233
partial vertex, 74
partitional, 84
pentagonal sum, 248
perfect super edge-magic, 110
polychrome, 92
prime, 189
prime cordial, 220
prime-magic, 100
product antimagic, 178
product cordial labeling, 211
product edge-antimagic, 178
product edge-magic, 178
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product-irregular, 239
properly even harmonious, 96
pseudograceful, 52
radio antipodal, 207
radio graceful, 208
range-relaxed graceful, 53
real-graceful, 31
rosy, 49
semi-elegant, 91
sequential, 83
set-ordered odd-graceful, 61
sigma, 140
simply sequential, 210
Skolem difference mean, 230
Skolem even vertex odd difference
mean, 230
Skolem odd difference mean, 230
Skolem-graceful, 59
square difference, 245
square divisor cordial, 217
square sum, 244
strong edge-graceful, 198
strong super edge-magic, 110
strong super edge-magic labeling, 111
strongly (k, d)-indexable, 89
strongly c-harmonious, 83
strongly k-elegant, 91
strongly balanced, 73
strongly edge-magic, 112
strongly even harmonious, 96
strongly graceful, 38, 45
strongly harmonious, 86
strongly indexable, 89
strongly odd harmonious, 95
strongly square sum, 245
strongly super edge-graceful, 203
strongly vertex-magic total, 130
sum graph, 180
super (a, d)-F -antimagic, 157
super (a, d)-vertex-antimagic total, 159
super edge bimagic cordial, 143
super edge-antimagic total, 163

super edge-graceful, 200

super edge-magic, 112
super edge-magic total, 105
super Fibonacci graceful, 54
super graceful, 53
super mean, 226
super vertex-graceful, 202, 203
super vertex-magic total, 128
supermagic, 98, 117
total irregular total k, 239
total magic cordial, 145
total product cordial labeling, 214
totaledge product cordial, 218
totally magic, 131
totally magic cordial, 147
totally vertex-magic cordial, 147
triangular difference mean, 231
triangular graceful, 53
triangular sum, 248
vertex equitable, 242
vertex irregular total, 235
vertex prime, 192
vertex-magic total, 125
vertex-relaxed graceful, 53
weak antimagic, 151
zero-sum A-magic, 143
labeling number, 42
labelings
odd sum, 86
odd-even, 63
lableling
k-even sequential harmonious, 87
ladder, 16, 83, 137, 138, 190
level joined planar grid, 90
lobster, 8, 50
lotus inside a circle, 138
Mobius ladder, 189
Mobius grid, 168
Mobius ladder, 18, 84, 98, 101, 137, 198
magic b-edge consecutive, 131
magic constant, 105
magic square, 98

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magic strength, 101, 111

mean cordial, 232
mean graph, 224
mean number, 232
middle graph, 67
mirror graph, 29
mod difference digraph, 244
mod integral sum graph, 185
mod integral sum number, 185
mod sum graph, 185
mod sum number, 185
mod sum* graph, 186
mod sum* number, 186
Mongolian tent, 17, 57
Mongolian village, 17, 57
multigraph, 117, 120
multiple shell, 12
mutation, 130
mutual duplication, 225
near -labeling, 46
nearly graceful labeling, 48
odd elegent, 92
odd harmonious, 95
odd mean graph, 228
odd mean labeling, 228
odd-even, 63
odd-graceful labeling, 60
olive tree, 7
one modulo N graceful, 54
one modulo three graceful labeling, 53
one-point union, 13, 19, 39, 60, 63, 93, 190
optimal sum graph, 180
pair mean, 234
pair mean graph, 234
pair sum, 233
pair sum graph, 233
parachutes, 155
parallel chord, 75
path, 12, 91
path-block chain, 27
path-union, 28, 69

pendent edge, 43
pentagonal number, 248
pentagonal sum labeling, 248
perfect Golomb ruler, 21
perfect system of difference sets, 57
permutation graph, 245
Petersen graph, 30
generalized, 25, 63, 107, 116, 126, 155,
159, 161
planar bipyramid, 137
planar graph, 137, 173
Platonic family, 137
polyminoes, 57
polyominoes, 40
prime cordial
strongly, 221
prime cordial labeling, 220
prime graph, 189, 192
prime labeling, 189
prism, 17, 18, 137, 159, 173
product cordial, 211
product cordial labeling, 211
product graph, 180
product irregularity strength, 239
product-cordial index, 214
product-cordial set, 213
properly even harmonious, 96
pseudo-magic graph, 101
pseudograceful labeling, 52
quadrilteral snakes, 14
radio k-chromatic number, 207
radio k-coloring, 207
radio antipodal labeling, 207
radio antipodal number, 208
radio graceful, 208
radio labeling, 206
radio number, 206
range-relaxed graceful labeling, 53
rank number, 240
real sum graph, 180
regular graph, 98, 100, 107, 127, 146
replicated graph, 29

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representation, 209
representation number, 209
rigid ladders, 225
Ringel-Kotzig, 7
root, 65
root-union, 75
saturated vertex, 181
separating set, 241
sequential join, 43
sequential number, 119
set-ordered odd-graceful, 61
shadow graph, 79
shell, 12, 65, 66, 79
multiple, 12
shell graph, 72
Skolem labeled graph, 59
Skolem sequence, 8, 22
Skolem-graceful labelings, 59
smooth graceful, 29
snake, 14, 40
n-polygonal, 53
double triangular, 14
edge linked cyclic, 224
generalized edge linked cyclic, 225
quadrilateral, 39
triangular, 14, 49
snake polyomono, 40
sparse semi-magic square, 132
special super edge-magic, 113
spider, 7
split graph, 151
splitting graph, 27, 61, 219
spum, 180
square difference graph, 245
square divisor cordial, 217
square sum labeling, 244
stable set, 29
star, 23, 24, 127, 208
star of G, 28, 215
star of graphs, 29
strength
edge magic, 101

magic, 101, 111

maximum magic, 112
strong
sum graph, 181
strong k-combination graph, 246
strong k-permutation graph, 246
strong beta-number, 52
strong edge-graceful, 198
strong product, 237
strong supersubdivision, 26
arbitrary, 26
strong vertex-graceful, 202
strongly c-harmonius, 83
strongly *-graph, 247
strongly even harmonious, 96
strongly graceful labeling, 45
strongly odd harmonious, 95
strongly prime cordial, 221
strongly square sum labeling, 245
stunted tree, 50
subdivision, 8, 17, 60, 138
sum graph, 180
mod, 185
mod integral, 185
real, 180
sum number, 180
sum* graph, 186
sum* number, 186
sunflower, 65, 197
super (a, d)-F -antimagic, 157
super (a, d)-H-antimagic total labeling, 161
super d-antimagic, 153
super edge magic graceful, 109
super Fibonacci graceful, 54
super graceful, 53
super magic strength, 101, 115
super mean, 226
super mean number, 228
superdivision
arbitrary, 26
supersubdivision, 26, 69
arbitrary, 26
switching invariant, 192

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symmetric product, 19, 49

tadpoles, 13
tensor product, 27, 62, 73, 216
tes(G), 235
theta graph, 91
toroidal polyhex, 167
torus grid, 17
total edge (vertex) irregular strength, 235
total edge irregularity strength, 235
total edge product cordial labeling, 218
total graph, 29, 75, 212
total mixed, 239
total negative, 239
total negative edge, 239
total positive edge, 239
total product cordial, 215
total product cordial labeling, 214
total stable, 239
total stable edge, 239
totally magic cordial, 147
totally magic cordial deficiency, 146
totally vertex-magic cordial labeling, 147
tree, 5, 151, 185
binary, 107
path-like, 109
symmetrical, 7
triangular graceful labeling, 53
triangular snake, 14
tvs(G), 235
twig, 190

weakly -labeling, 44
web, 11
generalized, 112
weight, 173
weighted-k-antimagic, 153
wheel, 10, 83, 98, 106, 129, 137, 150, 161
windmill, 19, 65
working vertex, 185
wreath product, 93
Young tableau, 17, 57
zero-sum A-magic, 143

unicyclic graph, 13
union, 20, 105, 115, 117, 127, 181, 190, 193
unlabeled vertices, 74
vertex equitable, 242
vertex irregular total labeling, 235
vertex parity, 44
vertex prime labeling, 192
vertex switching, 55, 67, 150, 192
vertex-graceful, 202
vertex-relaxed graceful labeling, 53
weak tensor product, 42, 46
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