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Two-lit trees for lit-only sigma-game

Combinatorics 2012-08-15 v3

Abstract

A configuration of the lit-only σ\sigma-game on a finite graph Γ\Gamma is an assignment of one of two states, on or off, to all vertices of Γ.\Gamma. Given a configuration, a move of the lit-only σ\sigma-game on Γ\Gamma allows the player to choose an on vertex ss of Γ\Gamma and change the states of all neighbors of s.s. Given any integer kk, we say that Γ\Gamma is kk-lit if, for any configuration, the number of on vertices can be reduced to at most kk by a finite sequence of moves. Assume that Γ\Gamma is a tree with a perfect matching. We show that Γ\Gamma is 1-lit and any tree obtained from Γ\Gamma by adding a new vertex on an edge of Γ\Gamma is 2-lit.

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@article{arxiv.1010.5846,
  title  = {Two-lit trees for lit-only sigma-game},
  author = {Hau-wen Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.5846},
  year   = {2012}
}

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