Author : Mason Willman
Release : 2024
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Download or read book Full Information Model written by Mason Willman. This book was released on 2024. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zero forcing is a coloring game on a graph where gray vertices can force their white neighbors based on a color change rule. A set of initial vertices is colored gray and, by a color change rule, iteratively force neighboring white vertices until only gray vertices are left. A zero forcing set is the set of initially colored vertices that force the entire graph to become gray. The zero forcing number is the minimum cardinality of the zero forcing set. Related graph parameters, such as propagation time and throttling number, provide additional information on the zero forcing game. Despite this, an integer programming model that can calculate the zero forcing number and all related graph parameters has yet to be developed. Therefore, we present a full information model that stores all information regarding the game of zero forcing. Furthermore, we prove that our model can compute optimal solutions for the zero forcing number, minimum propagation time, maximum propagation time, and throttling number. We motivate its formulation through analysis of related integer programming models and numerical experiments showcasing its computational efficiency on all isomorphic graphs of orders 3-8.