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Minimal resolving sets for the hypercube

Discrete Mathematics 2015-12-11 v3 Combinatorics

Abstract

For a given undirected graph GG, an \emph{ordered} subset S=s1,s2,...,skVS = {s_1,s_2,...,s_k} \subseteq V of vertices is a resolving set for the graph if the vertices of the graph are distinguishable by their vector of distances to the vertices in SS. While a superset of any resolving set is always a resolving set, a proper subset of a resolving set is not necessarily a resolving set, and we are interested in determining resolving sets that are minimal or that are minimum (of minimal cardinality). Let QnQ^n denote the nn-dimensional hypercube with vertex set 0,1n{0,1}^n. In Erd\"os and Renyi (Erdos & Renyi, 1963) it was shown that a particular set of nn vertices forms a resolving set for the hypercube. The main purpose of this note is to prove that a proper subset of that set of size n1n-1 is also a resolving set for the hypercube for all n5n \ge 5 and that this proper subset is a minimal resolving set.

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@article{arxiv.1106.3632,
  title  = {Minimal resolving sets for the hypercube},
  author = {Ashwin Ganesan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.3632},
  year   = {2015}
}
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