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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. For any $n \in \mathbb{N}$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-04-14 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. A graphoidal cover of $G$ is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-22 Saeid Alikhani , Samaneh Soltani

A vertex coloring is called distinguishing if the identity is the only automorphism that can preserve it. The distinguishing threshold $\theta(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of colors $k$ required that any arbitrary $k$-coloring…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-09 Saeid Alikhani , Mohammad Hadi Shekarriz

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

The distinguishing index of a simple graph $G$, denoted by $D'(G)$, is the least number of labels in an edge labeling of $G$ not preserved by any non-trivial automorphism. It was conjectured by Pil\'sniak (2015) that for any 2-connected…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-14 Saeid Alikhani , Samaneh Soltani

A coloring of the vertices of a graph G is said to be distinguishing} provided no nontrivial automorphism of G preserves all of the vertex colors. The distinguishing number of G, D(G), is the minimum number of colors in a distinguishing…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-11-22 Michael Ferrara , Ellen Gethner , Stephen G. Hartke , Derrick Stolee , Paul S. Wenger

The determining number of a graph $G = (V,E)$ is the minimum cardinality of a set $S\subseteq V$ such that pointwise stabilizer of $S$ under the action of $Aut(G)$ is trivial. In this paper, we provide some improved upper and lower bounds…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Angsuman Das , Hiranya Kishore Dey

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

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-11 Saeid Alikhani , Sandi Klavžar , Florian Lehner , Samaneh Soltani

The distinguishing number $\operatorname D(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the least cardinal $d$ such that $G$ has a labeling with $d$ labels which is only preserved by the trivial automorphism. We show that the distinguishing number of infinite,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-11-19 Johannes Cuno , Wilfried Imrich , Florian Lehner

The distinguishing index of a graph $G$, denoted by $D'(G)$, is the least number of labels in an edge labeling of $G$ not preserved by any non-trivial automorphism. The distinguishing chromatic index $\chi'_D (G)$ of a graph $G$ is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-12 Saeid Alikhani , Samaneh Soltani

The distinguishing number $D(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the least integer $d$ such that $G$ has a vertex labeling with $d$ labels that is preserved only by a trivial automorphism. The distinguishing chromatic number $\chi_{D}(G)$ of $G$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-29 Saeid Alikhani , Samaneh Soltani

Given a group $\Gamma$ acting on a set $X$, a $k$-coloring $\phi:X\to\{1,\dots,k\}$ of $X$ is distinguishing with respect to $\Gamma$ if the only $\gamma\in \Gamma$ that fixes $\phi$ is the identity action. The distinguishing number of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-23 Michael Ferrara , Ellen Gethner , Stephen G. Hartke , Derrick Stolee , Paul S. Wenger

Let $G=(V,E)$ be an undirected graph without loops and multiple edges. A subset $C\subseteq V$ is called \emph{identifying} if for every vertex $x\in V$ the intersection of $C$ and the closed neighbourhood of $x$ is nonempty, and these…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-02-04 Sylvain Gravier , Svante Janson , Tero Laihonen , Sanna Ranto

The distinguishing number $D(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the least integer $d$ such that $G$ has a vertex labeling with $d$ labels that is preserved only by a trivial automorphism. In this paper we characterize all trees with radius at most three…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Saeid Alikhani , Samaneh Soltani

A distinguishing index of a (di)graph is the minimum number of colours in an edge (or arc) colouring such that the identity is the only automorphism that preserves that colouring. We investigate the minimum and maximum value of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Aleksandra Gorzkowska , Jakub Kwaśny

An assignment of numbers to the vertices of graph G is closed distinguishing if for any two adjacent vertices v and u the sum of labels of the vertices in the closed neighborhood of the vertex v differs from the sum of labels of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-11 Ali Dehghan , Mohsen Mollahajiaghaei

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 Kronecker product $G\times…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-25 Saeid Alikhani , Samaneh Soltani

A distinguishing r-vertex-labelling (resp. r-edge-labelling) of an undirected graph G is a mapping $\lambda$ from the set of vertices (resp. the set of edges) of G to the set of labels {1,. .. , r} such that no non-trivial automorphism of G…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Kahina Meslem , Eric Sopena

An automorphism group of a graph $G$ is the set of all permutations of the vertex set of $G$ that preserve adjacency and non adjacency of vertices in a graph. A fixing set of a graph $G$ is a subset of vertices of $G$ such that only the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-04 Hira Benish , Iqra Irshad , Min Feng , Imran Javaid

Let $k \ge 1$ be an integer and let $G$ be a nonempty simple graph. An \emph{edge-$k$-coloring} $\varphi$ of $G$ is an assignment of colors from $\{1,\ldots,k\}$ to the edges of $G$ such that no two adjacent edges receive the same color.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Yuping Gao , Songling Shan , Guanghui Wang , Yiming Zhou