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A labeling of a digraph D with m arcs is a bijection from the set of arcs of D to \(\{1,2,\ldots ,m\}\). A labeling of D is antimagic if all vertex-sums of vertices in D are pairwise distinct, where the vertex-sum of a vertex \(u \in V(D)\) for a labeling is the sum of labels of all arcs entering u minus the sum of labels of all arcs leaving u. Hefetz et al. (J Graph Theory 64:219–232, 2010) conjectured that every connected graph admits an antimagic orientation. We support this conjecture for the complete k-ary trees and show that all the complete k-ary trees \(T_k^r\) with height r have antimagic orientations for any k and r.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 11731002), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Nos. 2016JBM071, 2016JBZ012).
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Song, C., Hao, RX. Antimagic orientations for the complete k-ary trees. J Comb Optim 38, 1077–1085 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10878-019-00437-7
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