On Graceful Generalized Spiders and Caterpillars

Hui Cheng1, Bing Yao2, Xiang-en Chen, Zhong-fu Zhang
1 College of Mathematics and Information Science, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, 730070, China
2Institute of Applied Mathematic, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou 730070, P.R.China

Abstract

In this paper, we, by means of Rosa’s \(\alpha\)-labelling and \(k\)-graceful labelling, prove that generalized spiders, generalized caterpillars, and generalized path-block chains are graceful under some conditions. Some of the results are stronger than that obtained in \([4]\).