Document Type
Article
Date
6-23-2011
Disciplines
Mathematics
Description/Abstract
The distinguishing number of a group G acting faithfully on a set V is the least number of colors needed to color the elements of V so that no non-identity element of the group preserves the coloring. The distinguishing number of a graph is the distinguishing number of its full automorphism group acting on its vertex set. A connected graph T is said to have connectivity 1 if there exists a vertex alpha in VT such that T \ {alpha} is not connected. For alpha in V , an orbit of the point stabilizer Galpha is called a suborbit of G. We prove that every connected primitive graph with infinite diameter and countably many vertices has distinguishing number 2. Consequently, any infinite, connected, primitive, locally finite graph is 2-distinguishable; so, too, is any infinite primitive group with finite suborbits. We also show that all denumerable vertex-transitive graphs of connectivity 1 and all Cartesian products of connected denumerable graphs of infinite diameter have distinguishing number 2. All of our results follow directly from a versatile lemma which we call The Distinct Spheres Lemma.
Recommended Citation
Smith, Simon M.; Tucker, Thomas W.; and Watkins, Mark E., "Distinguishability of Infinite Groups and Graphs" (2011). Mathematics - All Scholarship. 111.
https://surface.syr.edu/mat/111
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This manuscript is from arXiv.org, for more information see http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.4778