The 2-Pebbling Property and a Conjecture of Graham's

نویسندگان

  • Hunter S. Snevily
  • James A. Foster
چکیده

The pebbling number of a graph G, f(G), is the least m such that, however m pebbles are placed on the vertices of G, we can move a pebble to any vertex by a sequence of moves, each move taking two pebbles o one vertex and placing one on an adjacent vertex. It is conjectured that for all graphs G and H , f(G H) f(G)f(H). Let Cm and Cn be cycles. We prove that f(Cm Cn) f(Cm)f(Cn) for all but a nite number of possible cases. We also prove that f(G T ) f(G)f(T ) when G has the 2-pebbling property and T is any tree.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Graphs and Combinatorics

دوره 16  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2000