On Reconstruction of Graphs from the Multiset of Subgraphs Obtained by Deleting ℓ Vertices

Alexandr V. Kostochka, Douglas B. West

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Abstract

The Reconstruction Conjecture of Ulam asserts that, for n ≥ 3 , every n -vertex graph is determined by the multiset of its induced subgraphs with n-1 vertices. The conjecture is known to hold for various special classes of graphs but remains wide open. We survey results on the more general conjecture by Kelly from 1957 that for every positive integer ℓ there exists M ℓ (with M1=3 ) such that when n ≥ M ℓ every n -vertex graph is determined by the multiset of its induced subgraphs with n-ℓ vertices.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number9049107
Pages (from-to)3278-3286
Number of pages9
JournalIEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Volume67
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2021
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Graph reconstruction
  • connected
  • deck
  • random graph
  • reconstructibility

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Information Systems
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Library and Information Sciences

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