Enumeration of dissociation sets in grid graphs

Abstract

A dissociation set of a graph $ G $ refers to a set of vertices inducing a subgraph with maximum degree at most 1 and serves as a generalization of two fundamental concepts in graph theory: Independent sets and induced matchings. The enumeration of specific substructures in grid graphs has been a captivating area of research in graph theory. Over the past few decades, the enumeration problems related to various structures in grid graphs such as Hamiltonian cycles, Hamiltonian paths, independent sets, maximal independent sets, and dominating sets have been deeply studied. In this paper, we enumerated dissociation sets in grid graphs using the state matrix recursion algorithm.

Keywords

• dissociation sets
• enumeration
• grid graphs
• state matrix recursion algorithm