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A refinement of Kelly's lemma for graph reconstruction for counting rooted subgraphs

2023/12/28 by Deisiane Lopes Gonçalves, Gonçalves, Deisiane Lopes, Bhalchandra D. Thatte +1
Computer Science · Mathematics · #05C60 #Advanced Graph Theory Research #Combinatorics (math.CO) #Digital Image Processing Techniques #FOS: Mathematics #Limits and Structures in Graph Theory

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2312.17022

openalex publication_date 2023/12/28 · openalex created_date 2023/12/30 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Kelly's lemma is a basic result on graph reconstruction. It states that given the deck of a graph G on n vertices, and a graph F on fewer than n vertices, we can count the number of subgraphs of G that are isomorphic to F. Moreover, for a given card G-v in the deck, we can count the number of subgraphs of G that are isomorphic to F and that contain v. We consider the problem of refining the lemma to count rooted subgraphs such that the root vertex coincides the deleted vertex. We show that such counting is not possible in general, but a multiset of rooted subgraphs of a fixed height k can be counted if G has radius more than k. We also prove a similar result for the edge reconstruction problem.

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