The Shannon capacity of a graph and the independence numbers of its powers

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2172-2176

  Alon, Noga ^a   Lubetzky, Eyal ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Graph powers; Shannon capacity

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CAPACITY; GRAPH THEORY; NUMBER THEORY; POLYNOMIALS;

COMPLEX STRUCTURE; GRAPH POWERS; GRAPH PRODUCT; SHANNON CAPACITY;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY);

EID: 33646061628     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2006.872856     Document Type: Article

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