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The List Distinguishing Number of Kneser Graphs

Combinatorics 2016-02-12 v1

Abstract

A graph GG is said to be kk-distinguishable if the vertex set can be colored using kk colors such that no non-trivial automorphism fixes every color class, and the distinguishing number D(G)D(G) is the least integer kk for which GG is kk-distinguishable. If for each vV(G)v\in V(G) we have a list L(v)L(v) of colors, and we stipulate that the color assigned to vertex vv comes from its list L(v)L(v) then GG is said to be L\mathcal{L}-distinguishable where L={L(v)}vV(G)\mathcal{L} =\{L(v)\}_{v\in V(G)}. The list distinguishing number of a graph, denoted Dl(G)D_l(G), is the minimum integer kk such that every collection of lists L\mathcal{L} with L(v)=k|L(v)|=k admits an L\mathcal{L}-distinguishing coloring. In this paper, we prove that Dl(G)=D(G)D_l(G)=D(G) when GG is a Kneser graph.

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@article{arxiv.1602.03741,
  title  = {The List Distinguishing Number of Kneser Graphs},
  author = {Niranjan Balachandran and Sajith Padinhatteeri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.03741},
  year   = {2016}
}

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