Przybyło–Woźniak total 1-2 Conjecture

Let GG be a graph. A total coloring is a function g:VE{1,2,,k}g:V\cup E\to\{1,2,\dots,k\}, with total vertex weight σt(v)=g(v)+veg(e)\sigma^t(v)=g(v)+\sum_{v\in e}g(e). Adjacent vertices are distinguished when their total weights differ, and χΣt(G)\chi^t_{\Sigma}(G) is the least kk for which every adjacent pair is distinguished. Total 1-2 Conjecture. For every graph GG,

χΣt(G)2.\chi^t_{\Sigma}(G)\leq 2.

The supplied text gives no resolution of this total neighbor-sum-distinguishing conjecture, so it remains open.

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Primary source

Anna Flaszczyńska, Aleksandra Gorzkowska, Igor Grzelec, Alfréd Onderko and Mariusz Woźniak, “Locally Irregular Total Colorings of Graphs”, arXiv:2603.13178 (2026).

Additional references

5 papers in this index state this conjecture (2012–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2506.14253, arXiv:2204.13936, arXiv:1303.3198, arXiv:1211.0463.

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