Local finiteness, distinguishing numbers, and Tucker's conjecture (Q888634)
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Local finiteness, distinguishing numbers, and Tucker's conjecture (English)
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2 November 2015
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Summary: A distinguishing colouring of a graph is a colouring of the vertex set such that no non-trivial automorphism preserves the colouring. Tucker conjectured that if every non-trivial automorphism of a locally finite graph moves infinitely many vertices, then there is a distinguishing 2-colouring. We show that the requirement of local finiteness is necessary by giving a non-locally finite graph for which no finite number of colours suffices.
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distinguishing number
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infinite graphs
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