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A Note on Radio Antipodal Colouring of Paths

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International audience; The radio antipodal number of a graph G is the smallest integer c such that there exists an assignment f : V (G) -> {1, 2, . . . , c} satisfying |f(u) − f(v)| >= D − d(u, v) for every two distinct vertices u and v of G, where D is the diameter of G. In this note we determine the exact value of the antipodal number of the path, thus answering the conjecture given in [G. Chartrand, D. Erwin, and P. Zhang. Radio antipodal colorings of graphs, Math. Bohem. 127(1):57-69, 2002]. We also show the connections between this colouring and radio labelings.