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Critical ideals, minimum rank and zero forcing number

Combinatorics 2017-10-11 v1

Abstract

There are profound relations between the zero forcing number and minimum rank of a graph. We study the relation of both parameters with a third one, the algebraic co-rank; that is defined as the largest ii such that the ii-th critical ideal is trivial. This gives a new perspective for bounding and computing these three graph parameters.

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@article{arxiv.1710.03386,
  title  = {Critical ideals, minimum rank and zero forcing number},
  author = {Carlos A. Alfaro and Jephian C. -H. Lin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.03386},
  year   = {2017}
}
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