Symmetry breaking in tournaments

We provide upper bounds for the determining number and the metric dimension of tournaments. A set of vertices S in V(T) is a determining set for a tournament T if every nontrivial automorphism of T moves at least one vertex of S, while S is a resolving set for T if every two distinct vertices in T h...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Lozano Boixadors, Antoni|||0000-0002-3633-063X
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/100103
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/100103
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Graph theory
Tournament graphs
Determining number
Metric dimension
Grafs, Teoria de
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Informàtica teòrica
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Sumario:We provide upper bounds for the determining number and the metric dimension of tournaments. A set of vertices S in V(T) is a determining set for a tournament T if every nontrivial automorphism of T moves at least one vertex of S, while S is a resolving set for T if every two distinct vertices in T have different distances to some vertex in S. We show that the minimum size of a determining set for an order n tournament (its determining number) is bounded by n/3, while the minimum size of a resolving set for an order n strong tournament (its metric dimension) is bounded by n/2. Both bounds are optimal.