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The flipping puzzle on a graph

Combinatorics 2009-10-30 v2

Abstract

Let SS be a connected graph which contains an induced path of n1n-1 vertices, where nn is the order of S.S. We consider a puzzle on SS. A configuration of the puzzle is simply an nn-dimensional column vector over {0,1}\{0, 1\} with coordinates of the vector indexed by the vertex set SS. For each configuration uu with a coordinate us=1u_s=1, there exists a move that sends uu to the new configuration which flips the entries of the coordinates adjacent to ss in u.u. We completely determine if one configuration can move to another in a sequence of finite steps.

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@article{arxiv.0808.2104,
  title  = {The flipping puzzle on a graph},
  author = {Hau-wen Huang and Chih-wen Weng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.2104},
  year   = {2009}
}

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18 pages, 1 figure and 1 table

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