17 research outputs found
On the size of identifying codes in triangle-free graphs
In an undirected graph , a subset such that is a
dominating set of , and each vertex in is dominated by a distinct
subset of vertices from , is called an identifying code of . The concept
of identifying codes was introduced by Karpovsky, Chakrabarty and Levitin in
1998. For a given identifiable graph , let \M(G) be the minimum
cardinality of an identifying code in . In this paper, we show that for any
connected identifiable triangle-free graph on vertices having maximum
degree , \M(G)\le n-\tfrac{n}{\Delta+o(\Delta)}. This bound is
asymptotically tight up to constants due to various classes of graphs including
-ary trees, which are known to have their minimum identifying code
of size . We also provide improved bounds for
restricted subfamilies of triangle-free graphs, and conjecture that there
exists some constant such that the bound \M(G)\le n-\tfrac{n}{\Delta}+c
holds for any nontrivial connected identifiable graph
On the size of identifying codes in binary hypercubes
We consider identifying codes in binary Hamming spaces F^n, i.e., in binary
hypercubes. The concept of identifying codes was introduced by Karpovsky,
Chakrabarty and Levitin in 1998. Currently, the subject forms a topic of its
own with several possible applications, for example, to sensor networks.
Let C be a subset of F^n. For any subset X of F^n, denote by I_r(X)=I_r(C;X)
the set of elements of C within distance r from at least one x in X. Now C is
called an (r,<= l)-identifying code if the sets I_r(X) are distinct for all
subsets X of size at most l. We estimate the smallest size of such codes with
fixed l and r/n converging to some number rho in (0,1). We further show the
existence of such a code of size O(n^{3/2}) for every fixed l and r slightly
less than n/2, and give for l=2 an explicit construction of small such codes
for r the integer part of n/2-1 (the largest possible value).Comment: 13 page
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
Random subgraphs make identification affordable
An identifying code of a graph is a dominating set which uniquely determines
all the vertices by their neighborhood within the code. Whereas graphs with
large minimum degree have small domination number, this is not the case for the
identifying code number (the size of a smallest identifying code), which indeed
is not even a monotone parameter with respect to graph inclusion.
We show that every graph with vertices, maximum degree
and minimum degree , for some
constant , contains a large spanning subgraph which admits an identifying
code with size . In particular, if
, then has a dense spanning subgraph with identifying
code , namely, of asymptotically optimal size. The
subgraph we build is created using a probabilistic approach, and we use an
interplay of various random methods to analyze it. Moreover we show that the
result is essentially best possible, both in terms of the number of deleted
edges and the size of the identifying code
Bounds for identifying codes in terms of degree parameters
An identifying code is a subset of vertices of a graph such that each vertex
is uniquely determined by its neighbourhood within the identifying code. If
\M(G) denotes the minimum size of an identifying code of a graph , it was
conjectured by F. Foucaud, R. Klasing, A. Kosowski and A. Raspaud that there
exists a constant such that if a connected graph with vertices and
maximum degree admits an identifying code, then \M(G)\leq
n-\tfrac{n}{d}+c. We use probabilistic tools to show that for any ,
\M(G)\leq n-\tfrac{n}{\Theta(d)} holds for a large class of graphs
containing, among others, all regular graphs and all graphs of bounded clique
number. This settles the conjecture (up to constants) for these classes of
graphs. In the general case, we prove \M(G)\leq n-\tfrac{n}{\Theta(d^{3})}.
In a second part, we prove that in any graph of minimum degree and
girth at least 5, \M(G)\leq(1+o_\delta(1))\tfrac{3\log\delta}{2\delta}n.
Using the former result, we give sharp estimates for the size of the minimum
identifying code of random -regular graphs, which is about