Applying Skolem Sequences to Gracefully Label New Families of Triangular Windmills

Abstract

A function $f$ is a \textit{graceful labelling} of a graph $G=(V,E)$ with $m$ edges if $f$ is an injection $f:V\mapsto \{0,1,2,\dots ,m\}$ such that each edge $uv\in E$ is assigned the label $|f(u)-f(v)|$, and no two edge labels are the same. If a graph G has a graceful labelling, we say that $G$ itself is graceful. In this paper, we prove any Dutch windmill with three pendant triangles is (near) graceful, which settles Rosa's conjecture for a new family of triangular cacti.

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