# A note on star coloring of central graph of bipartite graph and corona graph of complete graph with path and cycle

Document Type: Research Paper

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1 Anna University of Technology Tirunelveli

2 R.V.S Faculty of Engineering

Abstract

In this paper, we find the star chromatic number of central graph of complete bipartite graph and corona graph of complete graph with path and cycle.

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