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On two variations of identifying codes
Identifying codes have been introduced in 1998 to model fault-detection in
multiprocessor systems. In this paper, we introduce two variations of
identifying codes: weak codes and light codes. They correspond to
fault-detection by successive rounds. We give exact bounds for those two
definitions for the family of cycles
Identifying codes of corona product graphs
For a vertex of a graph , let be the set of with all of
its neighbors in . A set of vertices is an {\em identifying code} of
if the sets are nonempty and distinct for all vertices . If
admits an identifying code, we say that is identifiable and denote by
the minimum cardinality of an identifying code of . In this
paper, we study the identifying code of the corona product of graphs
and . We first give a necessary and sufficient condition for the
identifiable corona product , and then express in terms of and the (total) domination number of .
Finally, we compute for some special graphs
Linear Codes are Optimal for Index-Coding Instances with Five or Fewer Receivers
We study zero-error unicast index-coding instances, where each receiver must
perfectly decode its requested message set, and the message sets requested by
any two receivers do not overlap. We show that for all these instances with up
to five receivers, linear index codes are optimal. Although this class contains
9847 non-isomorphic instances, by using our recent results and by properly
categorizing the instances based on their graphical representations, we need to
consider only 13 non-trivial instances to solve the entire class. This work
complements the result by Arbabjolfaei et al. (ISIT 2013), who derived the
capacity region of all unicast index-coding problems with up to five receivers
in the diminishing-error setup. They employed random-coding arguments, which
require infinitely-long messages. We consider the zero-error setup; our
approach uses graph theory and combinatorics, and does not require long
messages.Comment: submitted to the 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Information
Theory (ISIT
Vanishing ideals over graphs and even cycles
Let X be an algebraic toric set in a projective space over a finite field. We
study the vanishing ideal, I(X), of X and show some useful degree bounds for a
minimal set of generators of I(X). We give an explicit description of a set of
generators of I(X), when X is the algebraic toric set associated to an even
cycle or to a connected bipartite graph with pairwise disjoint even cycles. In
this case, a fomula for the regularity of I(X) is given. We show an upper bound
for this invariant, when X is associated to a (not necessarily connected)
bipartite graph. The upper bound is sharp if the graph is connected. We are
able to show a formula for the length of the parameterized linear code
associated with any graph, in terms of the number of bipartite and
non-bipartite components
Locating-dominating sets and identifying codes in graphs of girth at least 5
Locating-dominating sets and identifying codes are two closely related
notions in the area of separating systems. Roughly speaking, they consist in a
dominating set of a graph such that every vertex is uniquely identified by its
neighbourhood within the dominating set. In this paper, we study the size of a
smallest locating-dominating set or identifying code for graphs of girth at
least 5 and of given minimum degree. We use the technique of vertex-disjoint
paths to provide upper bounds on the minimum size of such sets, and construct
graphs who come close to meet these bounds.Comment: 20 pages, 9 figure
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