Texas A&M University, Department of Mathematics, 216 Milner Hall, 31st of August 2005, 3:00-3:50

Groups and Dynamics Seminar


Bandwidth for grid based graphs: techniques and results

Vladimir Lipets of Ben Gurion University, Israel

We present several techniques for a proof of the formula for the bandwidth value for regular grids. This formula has been obtained by various authors earlier, but the proof here is shorter.

Also we find a ``distance-lexicographical'' enumeration which achieves the minimal bandwidth value for cartesian products of an arbitrary number of path graphs (sometimes called an $n$-dimensional grid). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first result in this direction for products of more than two graphs.