English

Non-reconstructible locally finite graphs

Combinatorics 2018-01-23 v3

Abstract

Two graphs GG and HH are \emph{hypomorphic} if there exists a bijection φ ⁣:V(G)V(H)\varphi \colon V(G) \rightarrow V(H) such that GvHφ(v)G - v \cong H - \varphi(v) for each vV(G)v \in V(G). A graph GG is \emph{reconstructible} if HGH \cong G for all HH hypomorphic to GG. Nash-Williams proved that all locally finite graphs with a finite number 2\geq 2 of ends are reconstructible, and asked whether locally finite graphs with one end or countably many ends are also reconstructible. In this paper we construct non-reconstructible graphs of bounded maximum degree with one and countably many ends respectively, answering the two questions of Nash-Williams about the reconstruction of locally finite graphs in the negative.

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@article{arxiv.1611.04370,
  title  = {Non-reconstructible locally finite graphs},
  author = {Nathan Bowler and Joshua Erde and Peter Heinig and Florian Lehner and Max Pitz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.04370},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

Figure 1 updated and minor typographical errors corrected

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