Consecutive Radio Labeling of Hamming Graphs

Abstract

For a graph $G$, a $k$-radio labeling of $G$ is the assignment of positive integers to the vertices of $G$ such that the closer two vertices are on the graph, the greater the difference in labels is required to be. Specifically, $\vert f(u)-f(v)\vert\geq k + 1 - d(u,v)$ where $f(u)$ is the label on a vertex $u$ in $G$. Here, we consider the case when $G$ is the Cartesian products of complete graphs. Specifically we wish to find optimal labelings that use consecutive integers and determine when this is possible. We build off of a paper by Amanda Niedzialomski and construct a framework for discovering consecutive radio labelings for Hamming Graphs, starting with the smallest unknown graph, $K_3^4$, for which we provide an optimal labeling using our construction.