Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4647634 | Discrete Mathematics | 2013 | 14 Pages |
Abstract
Given a distribution of pebbles on the vertices of a connected graph G, a pebbling move on G consists of taking two pebbles off one vertex, throwing one away, and putting the other pebble on an adjacent vertex. The t-pebbling number Ït(G) of a connected graph G is the smallest positive integer such that from every distribution of Ït(G) pebbles on G, t pebbles can be moved to any specified target vertex of G. For t=1, Graham conjectured that Ï1(Gâ¡H)â¤Ï1(G)Ï1(H) for any connected graphs G and H, where Gâ¡H denotes the Cartesian product of G and H. Herscovici and Higgins [D.S. Herscovici, A.W. Higgins, The pebbling number of C5ÃC5, Discrete Math. 187 (1998) 123-135] proved that Ï1(C5â¡C5)=25. Herscovici [D.S. Herscovici, Graham's pebbling conjecture on products of many cycles, Discrete Math. 308 (2008) 6501-6512] conjectured that if tâ¥2, then Ït(C5â¡C5)=16t+7. In this paper, we confirm this conjecture.
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Authors
Ze-Tu Gao, Jian-Hua Yin,