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Optimal local identifying and local locating-dominating codes

Discrete Mathematics 2026-04-08 v3 Combinatorics

Abstract

We introduce two new classes of covering codes in graphs for every positive integer rr. These new codes are called local rr-identifying and local rr-locating-dominating codes and they are derived from rr-identifying and rr-locating-dominating codes, respectively. We study the sizes of optimal local 1-identifying codes in binary hypercubes. We obtain lower and upper bounds that are asymptotically tight. Together the bounds show that the cost of changing covering codes into local 1-identifying codes is negligible. For some small nn optimal constructions are obtained. Moreover, the upper bound is obtained by a linear code construction. Also, we study the densities of optimal local 1-identifying codes and local 1-locating-dominating codes in the infinite square grid, the hexagonal grid, the triangular grid, and the king grid. We prove that seven out of eight of our constructions have optimal densities.

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@article{arxiv.2302.13351,
  title  = {Optimal local identifying and local locating-dominating codes},
  author = {Pyry Herva and Tero Laihonen and Tuomo Lehtilä},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.13351},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

28 pages, 9 figures

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