The Sparing Number of the Cartesian Products of Certain Graphs

Abstract

Let $\mathbb{N}_0$ be the set of all non-negative integers. An integer additive set-indexer (IASI) is defined as an injective function $f:V(G)\rightarrow \mathcal{P}(\mathbb{N}_0)$ such that the induced function $f^+:E(G) \rightarrow \mathcal{P}(\mathbb{N}_0)$ defined by $f^+ (uv) = f(u)+ f(v)$ is also injective, where $f(u)+f(v)$ is the sumset of $f(u)$ and $f(v)$ and $\mathcal{P}(\mathbb{N}_0)$ is the power set of $\mathbb{N}_0$. If $f^+(uv)=k \forall ~ uv\in E(G)$, then $f$ is said to be a $k$-uniform integer additive set-indexer. An integer additive set-indexer $f$ is said to be a weak integer additive set-indexer if $|f^+(uv)|=max(|f(u)|,|f(v)|) \forall ~ uv\in E(G)$. In this paper, we study about the sparing number of the cartesian product of two graphs.