Neighborhood Homogeneous Labelings of Graphs

David J. Marchette1, Sul-Young Choi2, Andrey Rukhin1, Carey E. Priebe3
1Naval Surface Warfare Center, 18444 Frontage Rd., Suite 327, Dahigren, Virginia, 22448 USA
2Department of Mathematics, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, New York, USA
3Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Abstract

Given a labeling of the vertices and edges of a graph, we define a type of homogeneity that requires that the neighborhood of every vertex contains the same number of each of the labels. This homogeneity constraint is a generalization of regularity— all such graphs are regular. We consider a specific condition in which both the edge and vertex label sets have two elements and every neighborhood contains two of each label. We show that vertex homogeneity implies edge homogeneity (so long as the number of edges in any neighborhood is four), and give two theorems describing how to build new homogeneous graphs (or multigraphs) from others.