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A note on the metric and edge metric dimensions of 2-connected graphs
For a given graph , the metric and edge metric dimensions of ,
and , are the cardinalities of the smallest possible
subsets of vertices in such that they uniquely identify the vertices and
the edges of , respectively, by means of distances. It is already known that
metric and edge metric dimensions are not in general comparable. Infinite
families of graphs with pendant vertices in which the edge metric dimension is
smaller than the metric dimension are already known. In this article, we
construct a 2-connected graph such that and
for every pair of integers , where . For this we use
subdivisions of complete graphs, whose metric dimension is in some cases
smaller than the edge metric dimension. Along the way, we present an upper
bound for the metric and edge metric dimensions of subdivision graphs under
some special conditions.Comment: 12 page
Metric Dimension of Amalgamation of Graphs
A set of vertices resolves a graph if every vertex is uniquely
determined by its vector of distances to the vertices in . The metric
dimension of is the minimum cardinality of a resolving set of .
Let be a finite collection of graphs and each
has a fixed vertex or a fixed edge called a terminal
vertex or edge, respectively. The \emph{vertex-amalgamation} of , denoted by , is formed by taking all
the 's and identifying their terminal vertices. Similarly, the
\emph{edge-amalgamation} of , denoted by
, is formed by taking all the 's and identifying
their terminal edges.
Here we study the metric dimensions of vertex-amalgamation and
edge-amalgamation for finite collection of arbitrary graphs. We give lower and
upper bounds for the dimensions, show that the bounds are tight, and construct
infinitely many graphs for each possible value between the bounds.Comment: 9 pages, 2 figures, Seventh Czech-Slovak International Symposium on
Graph Theory, Combinatorics, Algorithms and Applications (CSGT2013), revised
version 21 December 201
Monotone Maps, Sphericity and Bounded Second Eigenvalue
We consider {\em monotone} embeddings of a finite metric space into low
dimensional normed space. That is, embeddings that respect the order among the
distances in the original space. Our main interest is in embeddings into
Euclidean spaces. We observe that any metric on points can be embedded into
, while, (in a sense to be made precise later), for almost every
-point metric space, every monotone map must be into a space of dimension
.
It becomes natural, then, to seek explicit constructions of metric spaces
that cannot be monotonically embedded into spaces of sublinear dimension. To
this end, we employ known results on {\em sphericity} of graphs, which suggest
one example of such a metric space - that defined by a complete bipartitegraph.
We prove that an -regular graph of order , with bounded diameter
has sphericity , where is the second
largest eigenvalue of the adjacency matrix of the graph, and 0 < \delta \leq
\half is constant. We also show that while random graphs have linear
sphericity, there are {\em quasi-random} graphs of logarithmic sphericity.
For the above bound to be linear, must be constant. We show that
if the second eigenvalue of an -regular graph is bounded by a constant,
then the graph is close to being complete bipartite. Namely, its adjacency
matrix differs from that of a complete bipartite graph in only
entries. Furthermore, for any 0 < \delta < \half, and , there are
only finitely many -regular graphs with second eigenvalue at most
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