Determining a graph from its reconfiguration graph
Abstract
Given a graph and a natural number , the -recolouring graph is the graph whose vertices are the -colourings of and whose edges link pairs of colourings which differ at exactly one vertex of . Recently, Hogan et al. proved that can be determined from provided is large enough (quadratic in the number of vertices of ). We improve this bound by showing that colours suffice, and provide examples of families of graphs for which colours do not suffice. We then extend this result to -Kempe-recolouring graphs, whose vertices are again the -colourings of a graph and whose edges link pairs of colourings which differ by swapping the two colours in a connected component induced by selecting those two colours. We show that colours suffice to determine in this case. Finally, we investigate the case of independent set reconfiguration, proving that in only a few trivial cases is one guaranteed to be able to determine a graph .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2504.19783,
title = {Determining a graph from its reconfiguration graph},
author = {Gaétan Berthe and Caroline Brosse and Brian Hearn and Jan van den Heuvel and Pierre Hoppenot and Théo Pierron},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.19783},
year = {2025}
}