Distant sum distinguishing index of graphs with bounded minimum degree (1703.04815v1)

Abstract: For any graph $G=(V,E)$ with maximum degree $\Delta$ and without isolated edges, and a positive integer $r$, by $\chi'{\Sigma,r}(G)$ we denote the $r$-distant sum distinguishing index of $G$. This is the least integer $k$ for which a proper edge colouring $c:E\to{1,2,\ldots,k}$ exists such that $\sum{e\ni u}c(e)\neq \sum_{e\ni v}c(e)$ for every pair of distinct vertices $u,v$ at distance at most $r$ in $G$. It was conjectured that $\chi'{\Sigma,r}(G)\leq (1+o(1))\Delta^{r-1}$ for every $r\geq 3$. Thus far it has been in particular proved that $\chi'{\Sigma,r}(G)\leq 6\Delta^{r-1}$ if $r\geq 4$. Combining probabilistic and constructive approach, we show that this can be improved to $\chi'_{\Sigma,r}(G)\leq (4+o(1))\Delta^{r-1}$ if the minimum degree of $G$ equals at least $\ln^8\Delta$.