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New Bounds for the Snake-in-the-Box Problem

Combinatorics 2016-06-17 v2 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

The Snake-in-the-Box problem is that of finding a longest induced path in an nn-dimensional hypercube. We prove new lower bounds for the values n{11,12,13}n\in \{11,12,13\}. The Coil-in-the-Box problem is that of finding a longest induced cycle in an nn-dimensional hypercube. We prove new lower bounds for the values n{12,13}n\in \{12,13\}.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1603.05119,
  title  = {New Bounds for the Snake-in-the-Box Problem},
  author = {David Allison and Daniel Paulusma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.05119},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

We improved six lower bounds from the previous version (two for snake-in-the-box and four for coil-in-the-box)

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