Local Total Distance Irregularity Labeling of Graph

Abstract

We introduce the notion of total distance irregular labeling, called the local total distance irregular labeling. All edges and vertices are labeled with positive integers 1 to k such that the weight calculated at the vertices induces a vertex coloring if two adjacent vertices has different weight. The weight of a vertex $u\in V(G)$ is defined as the sum of the labels of all vertices adjacent and edges incident to $u$ (distance $1$ from $u$). The minimum cardinality of the largest label over all such irregular assignment is called the local total distance irregularity strength, denoted by $tdis_l(G)$. In this paper, we established the lower bound of the local total distance irregularity strength of graphs $G$ and determined exact values of some classes of graphs namely path, cycle, star, bipartite complete, fan and sun graph.