This article contains a construction for independent sets in the powers of the complements of odd cycles. In particular, we show that α(C~2n+3(2n))≥2(2n)+1. It follows that for n≥0 we have Θ(C~2n+3)>2, where Θ(G) denotes the Shannon (1956) capacity of graph G.
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Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
(Volume:49
,
Issue:
3
)
Date of Publication: Mar 2003