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Call a graph $G$ zero-forcing for a finite abelian group $\mathcal{G}$ if for every $\ell : V(G) \to \mathcal{G}$ there is a connected $A \subseteq V(G)$ with $\sum_{a \in A} \ell(a) = 0$. The problem we pose here is to characterise the…
Let $G$ be a simple graph whose vertices are partitioned into two subsets, called filled vertices and empty vertices. A vertex $v$ is said to be forced by a filled vertex $u$ if $v$ is a unique empty neighbor of $u$. If we can fill all the…
Prompt learning has attracted increasing attention in the graph domain as a means to bridge the gap between pretext and downstream tasks. Existing studies on heterogeneous graph prompting typically use feature prompts to modify node…
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The zero forcing number of a graph $G$, denoted by $Z(G)$, is the minimum cardinality of a set $S$ of black vertices (where vertices in $V(G)\setminus S$ are colored white) such that $V(G)$ is turned black after finitely many applications…
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An independent set may not contain both a vertex and one of its neighbours. This basic fact makes the uniform distribution over independent sets rather special. We consider the hard-core model, an essential generalization of the uniform…
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In a graph G, a dominating set Df subset of V (G) is called a dom-forcing set if the sub-graph induced by Df must form a zero forcing set. The minimum cardinality of such a set is known as the dom-forcing number of the graph G, denoted by…
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Chung, Graham and Wilson defined a set of graphs $\mathcal{H}$ to be forcing, if any sequence of graphs $\{G_n\}_{n \geq 0}$ with $|G_n| = n$ must be quasirandom, whenever $hom(H, G_n)= (p^{|E(H)|}+o(1))n^{|V(H)|}$ for every $H \in…
We prove that the \emph{standard zero forcing number} $Z(G)$ and the \emph{positive semidefinite zero forcing number} $Z_+(G)$ are equal for all claw-free graphs $G$. This result resolves a conjecture proposed by the computer program…