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Remarks on the Vertex and the Edge Metric Dimension of 2-Connected Graphs

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  • Martin Knor

    (Faculty of Civil Engineering, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Radlinského 11, 813 68 Bratislava, Slovakia
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Jelena Sedlar

    (Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Geodesy, University of Split, 21000 Split, Croatia
    Faculty of Information Studies, 8000 Novo Mesto, Slovenia
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

  • Riste Škrekovski

    (Faculty of Information Studies, 8000 Novo Mesto, Slovenia
    Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
    These authors contributed equally to this work.)

Abstract

The vertex (respectively edge) metric dimension of a graph G is the size of a smallest vertex set in G , which distinguishes all pairs of vertices (respectively edges) in G , and it is denoted by dim ( G ) (respectively edim ( G ) ). The upper bounds dim ( G ) ≤ 2 c ( G ) − 1 and edim ( G ) ≤ 2 c ( G ) − 1 , where c ( G ) denotes the cyclomatic number of G , were established to hold for cacti without leaves distinct from cycles, and moreover, all leafless cacti that attain the bounds were characterized. It was further conjectured that the same bounds hold for general connected graphs without leaves, and this conjecture was supported by showing that the problem reduces to 2-connected graphs. In this paper, we focus on Θ -graphs, as the most simple 2-connected graphs distinct from the cycle, and show that the the upper bound 2 c ( G ) − 1 holds for both metric dimensions of Θ -graphs; we characterize all Θ -graphs for which the bound is attained. We conclude by conjecturing that there are no other extremal graphs for the bound 2 c ( G ) − 1 in the class of leafless graphs besides already known extremal cacti and extremal Θ -graphs mentioned here.

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  • 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.
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    1. Sedlar, Jelena & Škrekovski, Riste, 2021. "Extremal mixed metric dimension with respect to the cyclomatic number," Applied Mathematics and Computation, Elsevier, vol. 404(C).
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    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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