Labeled packing of a non-star tree into its sixth power
In 2013, Duchêne et al. [3] introduced a new variant of the graph packing problem, called labeled packing of a graph. In this paper, we introduce some results on the labeled packing of a non-star tree into its sixth power. First, we show that there exists a labeled packing of a path P n , n ≥ 4 , into P n 4 with ⌈ n 4 ⌉ labels. We also prove that we can find a labeled packing of a non-star tree T into T 6 with m T + ⌈ n − m T 5 ⌉ labels, where n is the number of vertices of T and m T denotes the maximum number of leaves that can be removed from T in such a way that the obtained tree is a non-star one.
Authors
- Maidoun Mortada
- Sara Nasser (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4372-671X)
- Hamamache Kheddouci
Institutions
- Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (FR)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Lebanese University (LB)
- Laboratoire d'Informatique en Images et Systèmes d'Information (FR)
- Lebanese International University (LB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Discrete Mathematics
- Published
- 2026-09-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.disc.2026.115429
- Primary Topic
- Optimization and Packing Problems
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00