Constructing regular graphs with smallest defining number
Combinatorics
2008-06-10 v1
Abstract
In a given graph , a set of vertices with an assignment of colors is a {\sf defining set of the vertex coloring of }, if there exists a unique extension of the colors of to a -coloring of the vertices of . A defining set with minimum cardinality is called a {\sf smallest defining set} (of vertex coloring) and its cardinality, the {\sf defining number}, is denoted by . Let be the smallest defining number of all -regular -chromatic graphs with vertices. Mahmoodian et. al \cite{rkgraph} proved that, for a given and for all , if then . In this paper we show that for a given and for all and , .
Cite
@article{arxiv.0806.1395,
title = {Constructing regular graphs with smallest defining number},
author = {Behnaz Omoomi and Nasrin Soltankhah},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.1395},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
13 pages. to appear in ARS Combinatoria