On Radio Number of Stacked-Book Graphs

Abstract

A Stacked-book graph $G_{m,n}$ results from the Cartesian product of a star graph $S_m$ and path $P_n$, where $m$ and $n$ are the orders of $S_m$ and $P_n$ respectively. A radio labeling problem of a simple and connected graph, $G$, involves a non-negative integer function $f:V(G)\rightarrow \mathbb Z^+$ on the vertex set $V(G)$ of G, such that for all $u,v \in V(G)$, $|f(u)-f(v)| \geq \textmd{diam}(G)+1-d(u,v)$, where $\textmd {diam}(G)$ is the diameter of $G$ and $d(u,v)$ is the shortest distance between $u$ and $v$. Suppose that $f_{min}$ and $f_{max}$ are the respective least and largest values of $f$ on $V(G)$, then, span$f$, the absolute difference of $f_{min}$ and $f_{max}$, is the span of $f$ while the radio number $rn(G)$ of $G$ is the least value of span$f$ over all the possible radio labels on $V(G)$. In this paper, we obtain the radio number for the stacked-book graph $G_{m,n}$ where $m \geq 4$ and $n$ is even, and obtain bounds for $m=3$ which improves existing upper and lower bounds for $G_{m,n}$ where $m=3$.