On lower bounds for cardinalities of several separating-dominating codes in graphs

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Main Authors: Chakraborty, Dipayan, Wagler, Annegret K.
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author Chakraborty, Dipayan
Wagler, Annegret K.
author_facet Chakraborty, Dipayan
Wagler, Annegret K.
contents In the literature, several different identification problems in graphs have been studied, the most widely studied such problems are the ones based on dominating sets as a tool of identification. Hereby, the objective is to separate any two vertices of a graph by their unique neighborhoods in a suitably chosen dominating or total-dominating set. Such a (total-)dominating set endowed with a separation property is often referred to as a "code" of the graph. The problems of determining such codes of minimum cardinality are all shown to be NP-hard. A typical line to attack such problems is, therefore, to provide bounds on the cardinalities of the studied codes. In this paper, we are interested in extremal graphs for lower bounds in terms of the order of the graph. For some codes, logarithmic lower bounds are known from the literature. We provide for eight different identification problems a general construction of extremal graphs minimizing the cardinality of a minimum code compared to the order of the graph. This enables us to reprove the existing logarithmic lower bounds, to establish such bounds for further codes, and to characterize all graphs attaining these bounds.
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spellingShingle On lower bounds for cardinalities of several separating-dominating codes in graphs
Chakraborty, Dipayan
Wagler, Annegret K.
Combinatorics
In the literature, several different identification problems in graphs have been studied, the most widely studied such problems are the ones based on dominating sets as a tool of identification. Hereby, the objective is to separate any two vertices of a graph by their unique neighborhoods in a suitably chosen dominating or total-dominating set. Such a (total-)dominating set endowed with a separation property is often referred to as a "code" of the graph. The problems of determining such codes of minimum cardinality are all shown to be NP-hard. A typical line to attack such problems is, therefore, to provide bounds on the cardinalities of the studied codes. In this paper, we are interested in extremal graphs for lower bounds in terms of the order of the graph. For some codes, logarithmic lower bounds are known from the literature. We provide for eight different identification problems a general construction of extremal graphs minimizing the cardinality of a minimum code compared to the order of the graph. This enables us to reprove the existing logarithmic lower bounds, to establish such bounds for further codes, and to characterize all graphs attaining these bounds.
title On lower bounds for cardinalities of several separating-dominating codes in graphs
topic Combinatorics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.17469