On pebbling threshold functions for graph sequences
Document Type
Article
Date of Original Version
3-28-2002
Abstract
Given a connected graph G, and a distribution of / pebbles to the vertices of G, a pebbling step consists of removing two pebbles from a vertex v and placing one pebble on a neighbor of v. For a particular vertex r, the distribution is r-solvable if it is possible to place a pebble on r after a finite number of pebbling steps. The distribution is solvable if it is r-solvable for every r. The pebbling number of G is the least number /, so that every distribution of t pebbles is solvable. In this paper we are not concerned with such an absolute guarantee but rather an almost sure guarantee. A threshold function for a sequence of graphs 'S = (Gi,G2,...,G,...), where G has n vertices, is any function ta(n) such that almost all distributions of / pebbles are solvable when t>t0, and such that almost none are solvable when t<$to. We give bounds on pebbling threshold functions for the sequences of cliques, stars, wheels, cubes, cycles and paths. © 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
Publication Title, e.g., Journal
Discrete Mathematics
Volume
247
Issue
1-3
Citation/Publisher Attribution
Czygrinow, Andrzej, Nancy Eaton, Glenn Huribert, and P. M. Kayll. "On pebbling threshold functions for graph sequences." Discrete Mathematics 247, 1-3 (2002): 93-105. doi: 10.1016/S0012-365X(01)00163-7.