Department of Mathematics, Chongqing Technology and Business University, Chongqing 400067, China
Department of Mathematics, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400041, China
Abstract:
The total chromatic number χT(G) of a graph G is the minimum number of colours needed to colour the edges and the vertices of G so that incident or adjacent elements have distinct colours. We show that if G is a regular graph of even order and , thenχT(G)Δ(G)+2.