Removing Twins in Graphs to Break Symmetries

Determining vertex subsets are known tools to provide information about automorphism groups of graphs and, consequently about symmetries of graphs. In this paper, we provide both lower and upper bounds of the minimum size of such vertex subsets, called the determining number of the graph. These boun...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: González Herrera, Antonio, Puertas González, María Luz
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/97966
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/97966
https://doi.org/10.3390/math7111111
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Graph
Automorphism group
Determining number
Cograph
Unit interval graph
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Sumario:Determining vertex subsets are known tools to provide information about automorphism groups of graphs and, consequently about symmetries of graphs. In this paper, we provide both lower and upper bounds of the minimum size of such vertex subsets, called the determining number of the graph. These bounds, which are performed for arbitrary graphs, allow us to compute the determining number in two different graph families such are cographs and unit interval graphs.