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The metric dimension of comb product graphs. (English) Zbl 1474.05118

Summary: A set of vertices \(W\) resolves a graph \(G\) if every vertex is uniquely determined by its coordinate of distance to the vertices in \(W\). The minimum cardinality of a resolving set of \(G\) is called the metric dimension of \(G\). In this paper, we consider a graph which is obtained by the comb product between two connected graphs. Let \(o\) be a vertex of \(H\). The comb product between \(G\) and \(H\), denoted by \(G\rhd_o H\), is a graph obtained by taking one copy of \(G\) and \(|V(G)|\) copies of \(H\) and identifying the \(i\)-th copy of \(H\) at the vertex \(o\) to the \(i\)-th vertex of \(G\). We give an exact value of the metric dimension of \(G\rhd_o H\) where \(H\) is not a path or \(H\) is a path where the vertex \(o\) is not a leaf. We also give the sharp general bounds of \(\beta(G\rhd_o P_n)\) for \(n\geq 2\) where the vertex \(o\) is a leaf of \(P_n\).

MSC:

05C12 Distance in graphs
05C76 Graph operations (line graphs, products, etc.)
05C10 Planar graphs; geometric and topological aspects of graph theory
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