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We consider the chessboard pebbling problem analyzed by Chung, Graham, Morrison and Odlyzko [3]. We study the number of reachable configurations $G(k)$ and a related double sequence $G(k,m)$. Exact expressions for these are derived, and we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-09-30 Qiang Zhen , Charles Knessl

A pebbling move on a graph $G$ consists of taking two pebbles off one vertex and placing one on an adjacent vertex. The pebbling number of a graph $G$, denoted by $f(G)$, is the least integer $n$ such that, however $n$ pebbles are located…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-02 Zheng-Jiang Xia , Yong-Liang Pan , Jun-Ming Xu , Xi-Ming Cheng

The pebbling number of a graph $G$, $f(G)$, is the least $p$ such that, however $p$ pebbles are placed on the vertices of $G$, we can move a pebble to any vertex by a sequence of moves, each move taking two pebbles off one vertex and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-02-07 Zheng-Jiang Xia , Yong-Liang Pan , Jun-Ming Xu

A pebbling move on a graph consists of taking two pebbles off of one vertex and placing one pebble on an adjacent vertex. In the traditional pebbling problem we try to reach a specified vertex of the graph by a sequence of pebbling moves.…

The pebbling number of a graph $G$, $f(G)$, is the least $p$ such that, however $p$ pebbles are placed on the vertices of $G$, we can move a pebble to any vertex by a sequence of moves, each move taking two pebbles off one vertex and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-02 Zheng-Jiang Xia , Zhen-Mu Hong , Fu-Yuan Chen

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 $\pi(G)$ is the smallest $t$ so that from any…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Matheus Adauto , Celina de Figueiredo , Glenn Hurlbert , Diana Sasaki

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

Graph pebbling is a combinatorial game played on an undirected graph with an initial configuration of pebbles. A pebbling move consists of removing two pebbles from one vertex and placing one pebble on an adjacent vertex. The pebbling…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-21 Dominic Flocco , Jonad Pulaj , Carl Yerger

In this paper, we define a new parameter of a graph as a spin-off of the pebbling number (which is the smallest $t$ such that every supply of $t$ pebbles can satisfy every demand of one pebble). This new parameter is the singular pebbling…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Harmony Morris

Graph pebbling is a network optimization model for satisfying vertex demands with vertex supplies (called pebbles), with partial loss of pebbles in transit. The pebbling number of a demand in a graph is the smallest number for which every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-22 Glenn Hurlbert , Essak Seddiq

Given a distribution of pebbles to the vertices of a graph, a pebbling move removes two pebbles from a single vertex and places a single pebble on an adjacent vertex. The pebbling number $\pi(G)$ is the smallest number such that, for any…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-22 Franklin Kenter , Daphne Skipper , Dan Wilson

Graph pebbling models the transportation of consumable resources. As two pebbles move across an edge, one reaches its destination while the other is consumed. The $t$-pebbling number is the smallest integer $m$ so that any initially…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-05 Liliana Alcón , Marisa Gutierrez , Glenn Hurlbert

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

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

For any configuration of pebbles on the nodes of a graph, a pebbling move replaces two pebbles on one node by one pebble on an adjacent node. A cover pebbling is a move sequence ending with no empty nodes. The number of pebbles needed for a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jonas Sjostrand

A new graph invariant called the secure vertex cover pebbling number, which is a combination of two graph invariants, namely secure vertex cover and cover pebbling number, is introduced in this paper. The secure vertex cover pebbling number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-22 Glenn H Hurlbert , Lian Mathew , Jasintha Quadras , S Sarah Surya

A pebbling move on a graph consists of taking two pebbles off from one vertex and add one pebble on an adjacent vertex, the $t$-pebbling number of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of pebbles so that we can move $t$ pebbles on any vertex on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-02 Zheng-Jiang Xia , Zhen-Mu Hong

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

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

We explore the complexity of computing the optimal pebbling number and pebbling number of a graph. We show that deciding whether the optimal pebbling number of G is at most k is NP-complete and deciding whether the pebbling number of G is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 K. Milans , B. Clark