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The maximum forcing numbers of quadriculated tori

Combinatorics 2024-12-10 v1

Abstract

Klein and Randic (1985) proposed the concept of forcing number, which has an application in chemical resonance theory. Let GG be a graph with a perfect matching MM. The forcing number of MM is the smallest cardinality of a subset of MM that is contained only in one perfect matching MM. The maximum forcing number of GG is the maximum value of forcing numbers over all perfect matchings of GG. Kleinerman (2006) obtained that the maximum forcing number of 2n×2m2n\times 2m quadriculated torus is nmnm. By improving Kleinerman's approach, we obtain the maximum forcing numbers of all 4-regular quadriculated graphs on torus except one class.

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@article{arxiv.2412.06331,
  title  = {The maximum forcing numbers of quadriculated tori},
  author = {Qianqian Liu and Yaxian Zhang and Heping Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.06331},
  year   = {2024}
}