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Exploiting the Discriminating Power of the Eigenvector Centrality Measure to Detect Graph Isomorphism

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Author :  Natarajan Meghanathan

Affiliation :  Jackson State University, USA

Country :  USA

Category :  Computational Science

Volume, Issue, Month, Year :  5, 6, November, 2015

Abstract :


Graph Isomorphism is one of the classical problems of graph theory for which no deterministic polynomial-time algorithm is currently known, but has been neither proven to be NP-complete. Several heuristic algorithms have been proposed to determine whether or not two graphs are isomorphic (i.e., structurally the same). In this paper, we analyze the discriminating power of the well-known centrality measures on real-world network graphs and propose to use the sequence (either the non-decreasing or non-increasing order) of eigenvector centrality (EVC) values of the vertices of two graphs as a precursor step to decide whether or not to further conduct tests for graph isomorphism. The eigenvector centrality of a vertex in a graph is a measure of the degree of the vertex as well as the degrees of its neighbors. As the EVC values of the vertices are the most distinct, we hypothesize that if the non-increasing (or nondecreasing) order of listings of the EVC values of the vertices of two test graphs are not the same, then the two graphs are not isomorphic. If two test graphs have an identical non-increasing order of the EVC sequence, then they are declared to be potentially isomorphic and confirmed through additional heuristics. We test our hypothesis on random graphs (generated according to the Erdos-Renyi model) and we observe the hypothesis to be indeed true: graph pairs that have the same sequence of non-increasing order of EVC values have been confirmed to be isomorphic using the well-known Nauty software.

Keyword :  Graph Isomorphism, Degree, Eigenvector Centrality, Random Graphs, Precursor Step.

Journal/ Proceedings Name :  computer science and information technology

URL :  https://wireilla.com/papers/ijfcst/V5N6/5615ijfcst01.pdf

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