Reconfiguration graphs of zero forcing sets

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2020-01-01
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Geneson, Jesse
Haas, Ruth
Hogben, Leslie
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This paper begins the study of reconfiguration of zero forcing sets, and more specifically, the zero forcing graph. Given a base graph G, its zero forcing graph, Z(G), is the graph whose vertices are the minimum zero forcing sets of G with an edge between vertices B and B′ of Z(G) if and only if B can be obtained from B′ by changing a single vertex of G. It is shown that the zero forcing graph of a forest is connected, but that many zero forcing graphs are disconnected. We characterize the base graphs whose zero forcing graphs are either a path or the complete graph, and show that the star cannot be a zero forcing graph. We show that computing Z(G) takes 2Θ(n) operations in the worst case for a graph G of order n.

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This is a pre-print of the article Geneson, Jesse, Ruth Haas, and Leslie Hogben. "Reconfiguration graphs of zero forcing sets." arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.00220 (2020). Posted with permission.

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