On the existence of combinatorial configurations

Autor: Bras Amorós, Maria, Stokes, Klara
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2011
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Zdroj: UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Popis: A (v, b, r, k) combinatorial configuration can be defined as a connected, (r, k)-biregular bipartite graph with v vertices on one side and b vertices on the other and with no cycle of length 4. Combinatorial configurations have become very important for some cryptographic applications to sensor networks and to peer-to-peer communities. Configurable tuples are those tuples (v, b, r, k) for which a (v, b, r, k) combinatorial configuration exists. It is proved in this work that the set of configurable tuples with fixed r and k has the structure of a numerical semigroup. The semigroup is completely described whenever r = 2 or r = 3. For the remaining cases some bounds are given on the multiplicity and the conductor of the numerical semigroup. This leads to some concluding results on the existence of configurable tuples.
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