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%I A350361 #20 Nov 30 2023 07:19:25 %S A350361 4,5,5,6,6,6,7,7,7,7,8,8,8,8,8,9,9,9,9,9,9,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,11,11, %T A350361 11,11,11,11,11,11,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13, %U A350361 13,13,14,14,14,14,14,14,14,14,14,14,14,15,15,15,15,15 %N A350361 2-tone chromatic number of a tree with maximum degree n. %C A350361 The 2-tone chromatic number of a graph G is the smallest number of colors for which G has a coloring where every vertex has two distinct colors, no adjacent vertices have a common color, and no pair of vertices at distance 2 have two common colors. %C A350361 a(n) is also the 2-tone chromatic number of a star with n leaves. %H A350361 A. Bickle and B. Phillips, <a href="https://allanbickle.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/ttonepaperb.pdf">t-Tone Colorings of Graphs</a>, Utilitas Math, 106 (2018) 85-102. %H A350361 Allan Bickle, <a href="https://allanbickle.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/2tonejcpaper.pdf">2-Tone coloring of joins and products of graphs</a>, Congr. Numer. 217 (2013), 171-190. %H A350361 N. Fonger, J. Goss, B. Phillips, and C. Segroves, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220121030248/https://homepages.wmich.edu/~zhang/finalReport2.pdf">Math 6450: Final Report</a>, (2009). %F A350361 a(n) = A003057(n-1) + 2. %F A350361 a(n) = ceiling((5 + sqrt(1 + 8*n))/2). %e A350361 For a star with three leaves, label the leaves 12, 13, and 23. Label the other vertex 45. A total of 5 colors are used, so a(3)=5. %t A350361 Table[Ceiling[(5 + Sqrt[1 + 8*n])/2],{n,71}] (* _Stefano Spezia_, Dec 27 2021 *) %Y A350361 Cf. A003057, A350362. %K A350361 nonn,easy %O A350361 1,1 %A A350361 _Allan Bickle_, Dec 26 2021