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Distinguishing partitions of complete multipartite graphs

Combinatorics 2013-01-22 v1

Abstract

A \textit{distinguishing partition} of a group XX with automorphism group aut(X){aut}(X) is a partition of XX that is fixed by no nontrivial element of aut(X){aut}(X). In the event that XX is a complete multipartite graph with its automorphism group, the existence of a distinguishing partition is equivalent to the existence of an asymmetric hypergraph with prescribed edge sizes. An asymptotic result is proven on the existence of a distinguishing partition when XX is a complete multipartite graph with m1m_1 parts of size n1n_1 and m2m_2 parts of size n2n_2 for small n1n_1, m2m_2 and large m1m_1, n2n_2. A key tool in making the estimate is counting the number of trees of particular classes.

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@article{arxiv.1301.4583,
  title  = {Distinguishing partitions of complete multipartite graphs},
  author = {Michael Goff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.4583},
  year   = {2013}
}