University of Isfahan Transactions on Combinatorics 2251-8657 11 4 2022 12 01 Bounds for the pebbling number of product graphs 317 326 25997 10.22108/toc.2021.128705.1855 EN Nopparat Pleanmani Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen 40002, Thailand Nuttawoot Nupo Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen 40002, Thailand Somnuek Worawiset Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen 40002, Thailand Journal Article 2021 05 15 Let $G$ be a connected graph. Given a configuration of a fixed number of pebbles on the vertex set of $G$, a pebbling move on $G$ is the process of removing two pebbles from a vertex and adding one pebble on an adjacent vertex. The pebbling number of $G$, denoted by $\pi(G)$, is defined to be the least number of pebbles to guarantee that there is a sequence of pebbling movement that places at least one pebble on each vertex $v$, for any configuration of pebbles on $G$. In this paper, we improve the upper bound of $\pi(G\square H)$ from $2\pi(G)\pi(H)$ to $\left(2-\frac{1}{\min\{\pi(G),\pi(H)\}}\right)\pi(G)\pi(H)$ where $\pi(G)$, $\pi(H)$ and $\pi(G\square H)$ are the pebbling number of graphs $G$, $H$ and the Cartesian product graph $G\square H$, respectively. Moreover, we also discuss such bound for strong product graphs, cross product graphs and coronas. https://toc.ui.ac.ir/article_25997_501663d1ee8baceb41a23ea159ff00d0.pdf