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TRAVERSING A GRAPH IN GENERAL POSITION

Part of: Graph theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 February 2023

SANDI KLAVŽAR Open the ORCID record for SANDI KLAVŽAR [Opens in a new window] ,
ADITI KRISHNAKUMAR Open the ORCID record for ADITI KRISHNAKUMAR [Opens in a new window] ,
JAMES TUITE Open the ORCID record for JAMES TUITE [Opens in a new window]  and
ISMAEL G. YERO Open the ORCID record for ISMAEL G. YERO [Opens in a new window]
SANDI KLAVŽAR*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics, Ljubljana, Slovenia and Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
ADITI KRISHNAKUMAR
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK e-mail: aditikrishnakumar@gmail.com
JAMES TUITE
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK e-mail: james.t.tuite@open.ac.uk
ISMAEL G. YERO
Affiliation:
Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad de Cádiz, Algeciras, Spain e-mail: ismael.gonzalez@uca.es
*
e-mail: sandi.klavzar@fmf.uni-lj.si
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Abstract

Let G be a graph. Assume that to each vertex of a set of vertices $S\subseteq V(G)$ a robot is assigned. At each stage one robot can move to a neighbouring vertex. Then S is a mobile general position set of G if there exists a sequence of moves of the robots such that all the vertices of G are visited while maintaining the general position property at all times. The mobile general position number of G is the cardinality of a largest mobile general position set of G. We give bounds on the mobile general position number and determine exact values for certain common classes of graphs, including block graphs, rooted products, unicyclic graphs, Kneser graphs $K(n,2)$ and line graphs of complete graphs.

Keywords

general position setmobile general position setmobile general position numberrobot navigationunicyclic graphKneser graph

MSC classification

Primary: 05C12: Distance in graphs
Secondary: 05C76: Graph operations (line graphs, products, etc.)

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Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 108 , Issue 3 , December 2023 , pp. 353 - 365
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Australian Mathematical Publishing Association Inc.

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Footnotes

Sandi Klavžar was partially supported by the Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS) under grants P1-0297, J1-2452 and N1-0285. Ismael G. Yero has been partially supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through grant PID2019-105824GB-I00. James Tuite also gratefully acknowledges funding support from EPSRC grant EP/W522338/1.

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