Partition Dimension of Generalized Petersen Graph

Abstract

Let G = V G , E G be the connected graph. For any vertex i ∈ V G and a subset B ⊆ V G , the distance between i and B is d i ; B = min d i , j | j ∈ B . The ordered k -partition of V G is Π = B 1 , B 2 , … , B k . The representation of vertex i with respect to Π is the k -vector, that is, r i | Π = d i , B 1 , d i , B 2 , … , d i , B k . The partition Π is called the resolving (distinguishing) partition if r i | Π ≠ r j | Π , for all distinct i , j ∈ V G . The minimum cardinality of the resolving partition is called the partition dimension, denoted as pd G . In this paper, we consider the upper bound for the partition dimension of the generalized Petersen graph in terms of the cardinalities of its partite sets.