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We study the problem of planning paths for $p$ distinguishable pebbles (robots) residing on the vertices of an $n$-vertex connected graph with $p \le n$. A pebble may move from a vertex to an adjacent one in a time step provided that it…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Jingjin Yu , Daniela Rus

Pebble games are single-player games on DAGs involving placing and moving pebbles on nodes of the graph according to a certain set of rules. The goal is to pebble a set of target nodes using a minimum number of pebbles. In this paper, we…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Erik D. Demaine , Quanquan C. Liu

A pebbling move on a graph removes two pebbles at a vertex and adds one pebble at an adjacent vertex. Rubbling is a version of pebbling where an additional move is allowed. In this new move, one pebble each is removed at vertices $v$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-29 Gyula Y. Katona , László F. Papp

Given a connected graph $G$ and a configuration of $t$ pebbles on the vertices of G, a $q$-pebbling step consists of removing $q$ pebbles from a vertex, and adding a single pebble to one of its neighbors. Given a vector…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Neal Bushaw , Nathan Kettle

It is shown that $S(G) = O\left(m/\log_2 m + d\right)$ pebbles are sufficient to pebble any DAG $G=(V,E)$, with $m$ edges and maximum in-degree $d$. It was previously known that $S(G) = O\left(d n/\log n\right)$. The result builds on two…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Gianfranco Bilardi , Lorenzo De Stefani

The restricted edge pebbling distribution is a distribution of pebbles on the edges of $G$ is the placement of pebbles on the edges with the restriction that only an even number of pebbles should be placed on the edges with labels $0$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-05 A. Lourdusamy , F. Joy Beaula , F. Patrick , I. Dhivviyanandam

Given a connected, undirected, simple graph $G = (V, E)$ and $p \le |V|$ pebbles labeled $1,..., p$, a configuration of these $p$ pebbles is an injective map assigning the pebbles to vertices of $G$. Let $S$ and $D$ be two such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-22 Jingjin Yu

Graph pebbling is a game played on graphs with pebbles on their vertices. A pebbling move removes two pebbles from one vertex and places one pebble on an adjacent vertex. The pebbling number is the smallest $t$ so that from any initial…

In the game of pegging, each vertex of a graph is considered a hole into which a peg can be placed. A pegging move is performed by jumping one peg over another peg, and then removing the peg that has been jumped over from the graph. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-03-03 Ariel Levavi

In a graph $G$, we define a set of vertices to be a \emph{strong hub set} if for any two vertices in $G$, we can find a path between them whose internal vertices are all in this set. We define the \emph{strong hub cover pebbling number} of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Runze Wang

The last decade has seen a revival of interest in pebble games in the context of proof complexity. Pebbling has proven a useful tool for studying resolution-based proof systems when comparing the strength of different subsystems, showing…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Jakob Nordström

We define three new pebbling parameters of a connected graph $G$, the $r$-, $g$-, and $u$-critical pebbling numbers. Together with the pebbling number, the optimal pebbling number, the number of vertices $n$ and the diameter $d$ of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-25 Courtney R. Gibbons , Joshua D. Laison , Erick J. Paul

Given a graph G and a configuration C of pebbles on the vertices of G, a pebbling step removes two pebbles from one vertex and places one pebble on an adjacent vertex. The cover pebbling number g=g(G) is the minimum number so that every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Glenn H. Hurlbert , Benjamin Munyan

In this note we answer a question of Hurlbert about pebbling in graphs of high girth. Specifically we show that for every g there is a Class 0 graph of girth at least g. The proof uses the so-called Erdos construction and employs a recent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Andrzej Czygrinow , Glenn Hurlbert

The cumulative pebbling complexity of a directed acyclic graph $G$ is defined as $\mathsf{cc}(G) = \min_P \sum_i |P_i|$, where the minimum is taken over all legal (parallel) black pebblings of $G$ and $|P_i|$ denotes the number of pebbles…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Jeremiah Blocki , Seunghoon Lee , Samson Zhou

The topic of this treatise is a combinatorial technique called Graph Pebbling. We investigate pebbling numbers, weight functions, flow networks, hypercubes, and the zero-sum conjecture of Erd\H{o}s and Lemke. This investigation is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-01 Herman Bergwerf

This paper continues the results of "Domination Cover Pebbling: Graph Families." An almost sharp bound for the domination cover pebbling (DCP) number for graphs G with specified diameter has been computed. For graphs of diameter two, a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Nathaniel G. Watson , Carl R. Yerger

A strong orientation of a graph $G$ is an assignment of a direction to each edge such that $G$ is strongly connected. The oriented diameter of $G$ is the smallest diameter among all strong orientations of $G$. A block of $G$ is a maximal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-28 P. Dankelmann , M. J. Morgan , E. J. Rivett-Carnac

We consider the following matching-based routing problem. Initially, each vertex $v$ of a connected graph $G$ is occupied by a pebble which has a unique destination $\pi(v)$. In each round the pebbles across the edges of a selected matching…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-09 Rajko Nenadov

We survey results on the pebbling numbers of graphs as well as their historical connection with a number-theoretic question of Erd\H os and Lemke. We also present new results on two probabilistic pebbling considerations, first the random…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Glenn Hurlbert