Back to Search Start Over

The packing number of the double vertex graph of the path graph

Authors :
Luis Manuel Rivera
Jesús Leaños
J. M. Gómez Soto
Luis Manuel Ríos-Castro
Publication Year :
2017
Publisher :
arXiv, 2017.

Abstract

Neil Sloane showed that the problem of determine the maximum size of a binary code of constant weight 2 that can correct a single adjacent transposition is equivalent to finding the packing number of a certain graph. In this paper we solve this open problem by finding the packing number of the double vertex graph (2-token graph) of a path graph. This double vertex graph is isomorphic to the Sloane's graph. Our solution implies a conjecture of Rob Pratt about the ordinary generating function of sequence A085680.<br />Comment: 21 pages, 7 figures. V2: 22 pages, more figures added. V3. minor corrections based on referee's comments. One figure corrected. The title "On an error correcting code problem" has been changed

Details

Database :
OpenAIRE
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....9690e06570775e56ed3ee2040a647c50
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1711.03682