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Introduced by Albertson et al. \cite{albertson}, the distinguishing number $D(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the least integer $r$ such that there is a $r$-labeling of the vertices of $G$ that is not preserved by any nontrivial automorphism of $G$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-06-17 Sylvain Gravier , Kahina Meslem , Souad Slimani

The distinguishing number of a graph $G$ is the smallest positive integer $r$ such that $G$ has a labeling of its vertices with $r$ labels for which there is no non-trivial automorphism of $G$ preserving these labels. Albertson and Collins…

Logic · Mathematics 2008-04-28 C. Laflamme , L. Nguyen Van Thé , N. W. Sauer

A graph G is distinguished if its vertices are labelled by a map \phi: V(G) \longrightarrow {1,2,...,k} so that no graph automorphism preserves \phi. The distinguishing number of G is the minimum number k necessary for \phi to distinguish…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Julianna S. Tymoczko

The distinguishing number $D(\Gamma)$ of a graph $\Gamma$ is the least size of a partition of the vertices of $\Gamma$ such that no non-trivial automorphism of $\Gamma$ preserves this partition. We show that if the automorphism group of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Mariusz Grech , Andrzej Kisielewicz

In this paper, we introduce a connection between two classical concepts of graph theory: \; metric dimension and distinguishing number. For a given graph $G$, let ${\rm dim}(G)$ and $D(G)$ represent its metric dimension and distinguishing…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-15 Meysam Korivand , Nasrin Soltankhah

The distinguishing number (index) $D(G)$ ($D'(G)$) of a graph $G$ is the least integer $d$ such that $G$ has an vertex labeling (edge labeling) with $d$ labels that is preserved only by a trivial automorphism. In this paper we compute these…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-27 Saeid Alikhani , Samaneh Soltani

The distinguishing number $D(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the least integer $d$ such that $G$ has an vertex labeling with $d$ labels that is preserved only by a trivial automorphism. A list assignment to $G$ is an assignment $L = \{L(v)\}_{v\in V…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-27 Saeid Alikhani , Samaneh Soltani

The distinguishing number (index) $D(G)$ ($D'(G)$) of a graph $G$ is the least integer $d$ such that $G$ has an vertex labeling (edge labeling) with $d$ labels that is preserved only by a trivial automorphism. Let $G$ be a connected graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-26 Samaneh Soltani , Saeid Alikhani

The distinguishing number (index) $D(G)$ ($D'(G)$) of a graph $G$ is the least integer $d$ such that $G$ has an vertex labeling (edge labeling) with $d$ labels that is preserved only by a trivial automorphism. A set $S$ of vertices in $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-20 Saeid Alikhani , Samaneh Soltani

In this paper, we study definable variants of the notion of the distinguishing number of a graph in descriptive set theoretic setting. We introduce the notion of the Borel distinguishing number of a Borel graph and provide examples that…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Onur Bilge , Burak Kaya

A distinguishing coloring of a graph is a vertex coloring such that only the identity automorphism of the graph preserves the coloring. A 2-distinguishable graph is a graph which can be distinguished using 2 colors. The cost $\rho(G)$ of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Alexa Gopaulsingh , Zalán Molnár , Amitayu Banerjee

We study a graph parameter related to resolving sets and metric dimension, namely the resolving number, introduced by Chartrand, Poisson and Zhang. First, we establish an important difference between the two parameters: while computing the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-09-03 Delia Garijo , Antonio González , Alberto Márquez

The distinguishing number $D(G,X)$ of an action of a group $G$ on a set $X$ is the least size of a partition of $X$ such that no element of $G$ acting nontrivially on $X$ preserves this partition. In this paper we describe the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-22 Mariusz Grech , Andrzej Kisielewicz

The distinguishing number of a graph $G$, denoted $D(G)$, is the minimum number of colors needed to produce a coloring of the vertices of $G$ so that every nontrivial isomorphism interchanges vertices of different colors. A list assignment…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-07 Michael Ferrara , Zoltan Furedi , Sogol Jahanbekam , Paul Wenger

The distinguishing number of a permutation group $G\leqslant\Sym(\Omega)$ is the minimum number of colours needed to colour $\Omega$ in such a way that the only colour preserving element of $G$ is the identity. The distinguishing number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Lei Chen , Alice Devillers , Luke Morgan , Friedrich Rober

This paper deals with the maximum value of the difference between the determining number and the metric dimension of a graph as a function of its order. Our technique requires to use locating-dominating sets, and perform an independent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-01-16 Delia Garijo , Antonio González , Alberto Márquez

The distinguishing number (index) $D(G)$ ($D'(G)$) of a graph $G$ is the least integer $d$ such that $G$ has an vertex labeling (edge labeling) with $d$ labels that is preserved only by a trivial automorphism. The lexicographic product of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-28 Saeid Alikhani , Samaneh Soltani

The {\em distinguishing number} of a group $G$ acting faithfully on a set $V$ is the least number of colors needed to color the elements of $V$ so that no non-identity element of the group preserves the coloring. The {\em distinguishing…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-02-19 Simon M. Smith , Thomas W. Tucker , Mark E. Watkins

We introduce the {\it endomorphism distinguishing number} $D_e(G)$ of a graph $G$ as the least cardinal $d$ such that $G$ has a vertex coloring with $d$ colors that is only preserved by the trivial endomorphism. This generalizes the notion…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-11-28 Wilfried Imrich , Rafał Kalinowski , Florian Lehner , Monika Pilśniak

The fixing number of a graph $G$ is the smallest cardinality of a set of vertices $S$ such that only the trivial automorphism of $G$ fixes every vertex in $S$. The fixing set of a group $\Gamma$ is the set of all fixing numbers of finite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Courtney R. Gibbons , Joshua D. Laison
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