1-perfect codes in Sierpiński graphs

Sandi Klavžar, Uroš Milutinović, Ciril Petr · Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society · 2002

Sierpiński graphs S (n, κ) generalise the Tower of Hanoi graphs—the graph S (n, 3) is isomorphic to the graph Hn of the Tower of Hanoi with n disks. A 1-perfect code (or an efficient dominating set) in a graph G is a vertex subset of G with the property that the closed neighbourhoods of its elements form a partition of V (G). It is proved that the graphs S (n, κ) possess unique 1-perfect codes, thus extending a previously known result for Hn. An efficient decoding algorithm is also presented. The present approach, in particular the proposed (de)coding, is intrinsically different from the approach to Hn.

Read the paper · More papers on PaperTik