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Metric dimensions vs. cyclomatic number of graphs with minimum degree at least two

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  • Sedlar, Jelena
  • Škrekovski, Riste

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The vertex (resp. edge) metric dimension of a connected graph G, denoted by dim(G) (resp. edim(G)), is defined as the size of a smallest set S⊆V(G) which distinguishes all pairs of vertices (resp. edges) in G. Bounds dim(G)≤L(G)+2c(G) and edim(G)≤L(G)+2c(G), where c(G) is the cyclomatic number in G and L(G) depends on the number of leaves in G, are known to hold for cacti and it is conjectured that they hold for general graphs. In leafless graphs it holds that L(G)=0, so for such graphs the conjectured upper bound becomes 2c(G). In this paper, we show that the bound 2c(G) cannot be attained by leafless cacti, so the upper bound for such cacti decreases to 2c(G)−1, and we characterize all extremal leafless cacti for the decreased bound. We conjecture that the decreased bound holds for all leafless graphs, i.e. graphs with minimum degree at least two. We support this conjecture by showing that it holds for all graphs with minimum degree at least three and that it is sufficient to show that it holds for all 2-connected graphs, and we also verify the conjecture for graphs of small order.

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  • Sedlar, Jelena & Škrekovski, Riste, 2022. "Metric dimensions vs. cyclomatic number of graphs with minimum degree at least two," Applied Mathematics and Computation, Elsevier, vol. 427(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:apmaco:v:427:y:2022:i:c:s0096300322002272
    DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2022.127147
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    1. Knor, Martin & Majstorović, Snježana & Masa Toshi, Aoden Teo & Škrekovski, Riste & Yero, Ismael G., 2021. "Graphs with the edge metric dimension smaller than the metric dimension," Applied Mathematics and Computation, Elsevier, vol. 401(C).
    2. Sedlar, Jelena & Škrekovski, Riste, 2021. "Extremal mixed metric dimension with respect to the cyclomatic number," Applied Mathematics and Computation, Elsevier, vol. 404(C).
    3. Kelenc, Aleksander & Kuziak, Dorota & Taranenko, Andrej & G. Yero, Ismael, 2017. "Mixed metric dimension of graphs," Applied Mathematics and Computation, Elsevier, vol. 314(C), pages 429-438.
    4. Martin Knor & Jelena Sedlar & Riste Škrekovski, 2022. "Remarks on the Vertex and the Edge Metric Dimension of 2-Connected Graphs," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 10(14), pages 1-16, July.
    5. Sedlar, Jelena & Škrekovski, Riste, 2021. "Bounds on metric dimensions of graphs with edge disjoint cycles," Applied Mathematics and Computation, Elsevier, vol. 396(C).
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