The Jumping Knight and Other (Super) Edge-Magic Constructions

Let G be a graph of order p and size q with loops allowed. A bijective function f:V(G)∪E(G)→{i}i=1p+q\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$${f:V(G)\cup E(G)\rightarrow \{i\}_{i=1}^{p+q}}$$\end{document} is an edge-magic labeling of G if the sum f(u)+f(uv)+f(v)=k\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$${f(u)+f(uv)+f(v)=k}$$\end{document} is independent of the choice of the edge uv. The constant k is called either the valence, the magic weight or the magic sum of the labeling f. If a graph admits an edge-magic labeling, then it is called an edge-magic graph. Furthermore, if the function f meets the extra condition that f(V(G))={i}i=1p\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$${f(V(G))=\{i\}_{i=1}^{p}}$$\end{document} then f is called a super edge-magic labeling and G is called a super edge-magic graph. A digraph D admits a labeling, namely l, if its underlying graph, und(D) admits l. In this paper, we introduce a new construction of super edge-magic labelings which are related to the classical jump of the knight on the chess game. We also use super edge-magic labelings of digraphs together with a generalization of the Kronecker product to get edge-magic labelings of some families of graphs.