Abstract
The independence numbers of powers of graphs have been long studied, under several definitions of graph products, and in particular, under the strong graph product. We show that the series of independence numbers in strong powers of a fixed graph can exhibit a complex structure, implying that the Shannon capacity of a graph cannot be approximated (up to a subpolynomial factor of the number of vertices) by any arbitrarily large, yet fixed, prefix of the series. This is true even if this prefix shows a significant increase of the independence number at a given power, after which it stabilizes for a while.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 2172-2176 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Information Theory |
Volume | 52 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 2006 |
Keywords
- Graph powers
- Shannon capacity
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Information Systems
- Computer Science Applications
- Library and Information Sciences