Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
9514622 Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics 2005 7 Pages PDF
Abstract
A graph is called asymmetric if it has the identity mapping as its only automorphism. In [P. Erdõs, A. Rényi, Asymmetric Graphs, Acta Math. Acad. Sci. Hungar. 14 (1963) 295-315], P. Erdõs and A. Rényi have proven that almost all graphs are asymmetric. A graph is called rigid if it has the identity mapping as its only endomorphism, which is a stronger property than asymmetry. By adopting the approach of Erdõs and Rényi, it is shown that almost all graphs are rigid. A different proof of that result has already been published in [V. Koubek, V. Rödl, On the Minimum Order of Graphs with Given Semigroup, J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 36 (1984) 135-155] (as well as in [P. Hell, J. NeÅ¡etřil, Graphs and Homomorphisms, Oxford U. Press, Oxford, 2004]).
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Physical Sciences and Engineering Mathematics Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics
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