{"paper":{"title":"On the forcing spectrum of generalized Petersen graphs P(n,2)","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"math.CO","authors_text":"Heping Zhang, Jinjiang Zhu, Shuang Zhao","submitted_at":"2017-07-12T13:22:20Z","abstract_excerpt":"The forcing number of a perfect matching $M$ of a graph $G$ is the smallest cardinality of subsets of $M$ that are contained in no other perfect matchings of $G$. The forcing spectrum of $G$ is the collection of forcing numbers of all perfect matchings of $G$. In this paper, we classify the perfect matchings of a generalized Petersen graph $P(n,2)$ in two types, and show that the forcing spectrum is the union of two integer intervals. For $n\\ge 34$, it is $\\left[\\lceil \\frac { n }{ 12 } \\rceil+1,\\lceil \\frac { n+3 }{ 7 } \\rceil +\\delta (n)\\right]\\cup \\left[\\lceil \\frac { n+2 }{ 6 } \\rceil,\\lce"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1707.03701","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}