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The pebbling number of Fibonacci cubes

Combinatorics 2026-05-22 v2

Abstract

The nn-th Fibonacci cube Γn\Gamma_n is the subgraph of the hypercube QnQ_n induced by binary strings with no two consecutive ones. We determine π(Γn)=2n\pi(\Gamma_n) = 2^n for n6n \le 6, so the pebbling number of Γn\Gamma_n equals that of the ambient hypercube QnQ_n despite Γn\Gamma_n having far fewer vertices. The lower bound is a standard potential argument. For the upper bound, the Weight Function Lemma yields 2n+12^n+1 -- one too many -- so we close the gap by exhaustive MILP verification. We conjecture π(Γn)=2n\pi(\Gamma_n) = 2^n for all nn.

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@article{arxiv.2605.04328,
  title  = {The pebbling number of Fibonacci cubes},
  author = {Tong Niu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.04328},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

v2: withdrawn. Mollard (Discrete Applied Mathematics 358, January 2025, Theorem 1) proves the pebbling number of the Fibonacci cube satisfies pi(Gamma_n) = 2^n for all n >= 1, strictly subsuming the n <= 6 result of this paper. Withdrawing to avoid duplication