Acyclic and Star Coloring of Powers of Paths and Cycles

09.Jan.2022

graph whose vertex set is   and in which two vertices are adjacent if and only if their distance in   is at most  �. A vertex coloring of   is acyclic if each bichromatic subgraph is a forest. A star coloring of   is an acyclic coloring in which each bichromatic subgraph is a star forest.