Nondiscriminatory propagation on trees

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DOI10.1088/1751-8113/41/48/482002zbMATH Open1156.81357arXiv0805.0181OpenAlexW3123397167MaRDI QIDQ3548664FDOQ3548664

Simone Severini

Publication date: 16 December 2008

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider a discrete-time dynamical process on graphs, firstly introduced in connection with a protocol for controlling large networks of spin 1/2 quantum mechanical particles [Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 100501 (2007)]. A description is as follows: each vertex of an initially selected set has a packet of information (the same for every element of the set), which will be distributed among vertices of the graph; a vertex v can pass its packet to an adjacent vertex w only if w is its only neighbour without the information. By mean of examples, we describe some general properties, mainly concerning homeomorphism, and redundant edges. We prove that the cardinality of the smallest sets propagating the information in all vertices of a balanced m-ary tree of depth k is exactly (m^{k+1}+(-1)^{k})/(m+1). For binary trees, this number is related to alternating sign matrices.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.0181




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