English

Locating-dominating sets and identifying codes in graphs of girth at least 5

Combinatorics 2015-11-25 v2 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

Locating-dominating sets and identifying codes are two closely related notions in the area of separating systems. Roughly speaking, they consist in a dominating set of a graph such that every vertex is uniquely identified by its neighbourhood within the dominating set. In this paper, we study the size of a smallest locating-dominating set or identifying code for graphs of girth at least 5 and of given minimum degree. We use the technique of vertex-disjoint paths to provide upper bounds on the minimum size of such sets, and construct graphs who come close to meet these bounds.

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@article{arxiv.1407.7263,
  title  = {Locating-dominating sets and identifying codes in graphs of girth at least 5},
  author = {Camino Balbuena and Florent Foucaud and Adriana Hansberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.7263},
  year   = {2015}
}

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20 pages, 9 figures