The Rainbow Mean Index of Corona Product of Graphs

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.28924/2291-8639-23-2025-181
Published: Aug 1, 2025
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K. Maheswari, G. Rajasekaran, The Rainbow Mean Index of Corona Product of Graphs, Int. J. Anal. Appl., 23 (2025), 181.

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K. Maheswari, G. Rajasekaran

Abstract

In a connected graph G with at least three vertices, an edge coloring c assigns positive integers to the edges. The chromatic mean of a vertex v is determined by averaging the colors of all incident edges, provided that the result remains a positive integer. A coloring c is a rainbow mean coloring if every vertex in G has a unique chromatic mean. The rainbow mean index of c is the highest chromatic mean assigned to any vertex, while the rainbow mean index of G is the smallest possible maximum chromatic mean for all valid rainbow mean colorings. In this study, we calculate the rainbow mean index of corona product of Px◦H; G◦Py and Px◦Py, where G and H are regular graphs. In addition, we calculate the rainbow mean index of the join graph G∨K1, where G is a regular graph.

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