Identifying codes of cycles

  • Authors:
  • Sylvain Gravier;Julien Moncel;Ahmed Semri

  • Affiliations:
  • CNRS - UJF, ERTé "Maths à Modeler", Groupe de Recherche GéoD - Laboratoire Leibniz, Grenoble Cedex, France;CNRS - UJF, ERTé "Maths à Modeler", Groupe de Recherche GéoD - Laboratoire Leibniz, Grenoble Cedex, France;USTHB, laboratory LAID3, OR dept, Maths Faculty, El Alia, Algiers, Algeria

  • Venue:
  • European Journal of Combinatorics
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this paper we deal with identifying codes in cycles. We show that for all r ≥ 1, any r-identifying code of the cycle Cn has cardinality at least gcd(2r + 1, n) ⌈n/2gcd(2r+ 1,n)⌉. This lower bound is enough to solve the case n even (which was already solved in [N. Bertrand, I. Charon, O. Hudry, A. Lobstein, Identifying and locating-dominating codes on chains and cycles, European Journal of Combinatorics 25 (7) (2004) 969-987]), but the case n odd seems to be more complicated. An upper bound is given for the case n odd, and some special cases are solved. Furthermore, we give some conditions on n and r to attain the lower bound.