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Graceful Vertex Colorings

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In Chap. 2 and 3, we described two edge colorings that give rise to two vertex colorings, one in terms of sets of colors and the other in terms of multisets. Now, in this chapter and the next, the situation is reversed, as we describe vertex colorings that give rise to edge colorings.

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Zhang, P. (2016). Graceful Vertex Colorings. In: A Kaleidoscopic View of Graph Colorings. SpringerBriefs in Mathematics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30518-9_4

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