Strong geodetic problem in grid like architectures

TL;DR

This paper investigates the strong geodetic problem on Cartesian product graphs, providing a general upper bound and demonstrating its tightness on grid-like structures such as flat grids and cylinders.

Contribution

The paper establishes a new upper bound for the strong geodetic number on Cartesian product graphs and proves its tightness on specific grid-like architectures.

Findings

Derived a general upper bound for Cartesian product graphs.

Proved the bound is tight on flat grids and cylinders.

Enhanced understanding of the strong geodetic problem in grid architectures.

Abstract

A recent variation of the classical geodetic problem, the strong geodetic problem, is defined as follows. If $G$ is a graph, then ${\rm sg}(G)$ is the cardinality of a smallest vertex subset $S$, such that one can assign a fixed geodesic to each pair $\{x,y\}\subseteq S$ so that these $\binom{|S|}{2}$ geodesics cover all the vertices of $G$. In this paper, the strong geodesic problem is studied on Cartesian product graphs. A general upper bound is proved on the Cartesian product of a path with an arbitrary graph and showed that the bound is tight on flat grids and flat cylinders.