# Levenshtein Graphs: Resolvability, Automorphisms & Determining Sets

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.06951 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2107.06951/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 14 Jul 2021.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Metric Dimension and Resolvability of Jaccard Spaces](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.11424/) (2024)

## Abstract (arXiv)

We introduce the notion of Levenshtein graphs, an analog to Hamming graphs but using the edit distance instead of the Hamming distance; in particular, Levenshtein graphs allow for underlying strings (nodes) of different lengths. We characterize various properties of these graphs, including a necessary and sufficient condition for their geodesic distance to be identical to the edit distance, their automorphism group and determining number, and an upper bound on their metric dimension. Regarding the latter, we construct a resolving set composed of two-run strings and an algorithm that computes the edit distance between a string of length k and any single-run or two-run string in O(k) operations.