Additively graceful signed graphs on complete graphs and some open problems resolved

Brian D’Souza1, Jessica Pereira1
1School of Physical and Applied Sciences, Goa University, Taleigao Plateau, Goa 403206, India

Abstract

We prove the following necessary conditions for signed graphs on complete graphs to admit additive graceful labelings, thus considerably narrowing down the search for such labelings. If a signed graph on a complete graph \(K_p, ~p\not = 4\), with \(n\) negative and \(m\) positive edges, admits an additively graceful labeling, then (1) \(p\), \(p-2\) or \(p-4\) must be a perfect square, (2) If \(p\) is a perfect square then, both \(m\) and \(n\) are even, (3) If \(p-4\) is a perfect square then, both \(m\) and \(n\) are odd, (4) If \(p-2\) is a perfect square then, \(m\) and \(n\) have opposite parity and (5) The number of odd and even labeled vertices in \(S\) are \(\frac{p+\sqrt{p-i}}{2}\) and \(\frac{p-\sqrt{p-i}}{2}\) according as \(p-i\) is a perfect square, \(i=0,2\) or \(4\). We also provide an example to show that, if a signed graph \(S\) with no negative edges is additively graceful then, \(S\) as a graph need not be graceful. Interestingly, this example also settles 3 more open problems concerning gracefulness and edge consecutive gracefulness (ecg), thereby demonstrating that ecg or \(m\)-gracefulness is not a reliable measure of gracefulness.

Keywords: additively graceful signed graph, complete graph, gracefulness, m-gracefulness, edge consecutive gracefulness