Improved Bounds for $r$-Identifying Codes of the Hex Grid

  • Authors:
  • Brendon Stanton

  • Affiliations:
  • bstanton@iastate.edu

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

For any positive integer $r$, an $r$-identifying code on a graph $G$ is a set $C\subset V(G)$ such that for every vertex in $V(G)$, the intersection of the radius-$r$ closed neighborhood with $C$ is nonempty and pairwise distinct. For a finite graph, the density of a code is $|C|/|V(G)|$, which naturally extends to a definition of density in certain infinite graphs which are locally finite. We find a code of density less than $5/(6r)$, which is sparser than the prior best construction which has density approximately $8/(9r)$.