Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-10-2012

Publication Source

SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics

Volume Number

26

Issue Number

3

First Page

919

Last Page

928

Publisher

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

ISSN

1095-7146

Comments

∗Received by the editors August 11, 2011; accepted for publication (in revised form) April 6, 2012; published electronically July 10, 2012. This work was supported by the NSF under grant DUE0851293.

Abstract

Given a simple, connected graph, a pebbling configuration is a function from its vertex set to the nonnegative integers. A pebbling move between adjacent vertices removes two pebbles from one vertex and adds one pebble to the other. A vertex r is said to be reachable from a configuration if there exists a sequence of pebbling moves that places one pebble on r. A configuration is solvable if every vertex is reachable. We prove tight bounds on the number of vertices with two and three pebbles that an unsolvable configuration on a diameter two graph can have in terms of the size of the graph. We also prove that determining reachability of a vertex is NP-complete, even in graphs of diameter two.

Keywords

graph pebbling, diameter two, NP-complete, AMS subject classifications, 68Q17, 68R05, 68R10

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