Further Results on Acyclic Chromatic Number

Abstract

An acyclic coloring of a graph is a proper vertex coloring such that the union of any two color classes induces a disjoint collection of trees.The purpose of this paper is to derive exact values of acyclic chromatic number of some graphs.

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P. Babu and A. Chithra, "Further Results on Acyclic Chromatic Number," Open Journal of Discrete Mathematics, Vol. 3 No. 2, 2013, pp. 97-100. doi: 10.4236/ojdm.2013.32019.

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