% ============================================================================ % UQO Working Paper 32 — Zero-Forcing Bounds for Generalized Petersen Graphs % Retypeset from AutoScholar Working Paper AS-WP-2026-0001 (v1, 2026-10-30) % ============================================================================ \documentclass[12pt,letterpaper]{article} % --- Encoding & Language --- \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[english]{babel} % --- Page Layout --- \usepackage[letterpaper,top=1in,bottom=1in,left=1in,right=1in]{geometry} % --- Typography --- \usepackage{mathptmx} \usepackage{microtype} \usepackage{setspace} \onehalfspacing % --- Math --- \usepackage{amsmath,amssymb,amsthm} % --- Tables --- \usepackage{booktabs} \usepackage{tabularx} \usepackage{multirow} \usepackage{threeparttable} \usepackage{array,longtable} \usepackage{siunitx} \sisetup{input-symbols = {()}, table-format = -1.3, parse-numbers = false} \newcolumntype{L}[1]{>{\raggedright\arraybackslash}p{#1}} \newcolumntype{R}[1]{>{\raggedleft\arraybackslash}p{#1}} % --- Figures --- \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{subcaption} \usepackage{float} \graphicspath{{figures/}} % --- Colors & Links --- \usepackage[dvipsnames]{xcolor} \usepackage[colorlinks=true,linkcolor=NavyBlue,citecolor=NavyBlue,urlcolor=NavyBlue,breaklinks=true]{hyperref} \hypersetup{pdftitle={Zero-Forcing Bounds for Generalized Petersen Graphs: Computational Discovery and Certified Proofs for P(n,5)},pdfauthor={Simon-Pierre Boucher}} \makeatletter\g@addto@macro{\UrlBreaks}{\UrlOrds}\makeatother % line breaks inside file paths % --- Bibliography --- \usepackage[authoryear,round,semicolon]{natbib} \bibliographystyle{aer} % --- Captions --- \usepackage[font=small,labelfont=bf,labelsep=period,justification=justified,singlelinecheck=false]{caption} % --- Headers & Footers --- \usepackage{fancyhdr} \pagestyle{fancy} \fancyhf{} \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} \fancyfoot[C]{\thepage} % --- Section Formatting --- \usepackage{titlesec} \titleformat{\section}{\large\bfseries}{\thesection.}{0.5em}{} \titleformat{\subsection}{\normalsize\bfseries}{\thesubsection.}{0.5em}{} \titleformat{\subsubsection}{\normalsize\itshape}{\thesubsubsection.}{0.5em}{} % --- Appendix Support --- \usepackage[toc,page]{appendix} % --- Misc --- \usepackage{enumitem} \setlist{nosep,leftmargin=*} % --- Theorem environments (shared counter, numbered within section, as in the original) --- \theoremstyle{plain} \newtheorem{theorem}{Theorem}[section] \newtheorem{proposition}[theorem]{Proposition} \newtheorem{lemma}[theorem]{Lemma} \newtheorem{corollary}[theorem]{Corollary} \newtheorem{conjecture}[theorem]{Conjecture} \theoremstyle{definition} \newtheorem{definition}[theorem]{Definition} \newtheorem{assumption}[theorem]{Assumption} \newtheorem{example}[theorem]{Example} \newtheorem{observation}[theorem]{Observation} \newtheorem{compresult}[theorem]{Computational Result} \newtheorem{question}[theorem]{Question} \theoremstyle{remark} \newtheorem{remark}[theorem]{Remark} % --- Paper macros --- \newcommand{\Z}{\operatorname{Z}} \newcommand{\cl}{\operatorname{cl}} \newcommand{\Aut}{\operatorname{Aut}} \newcommand{\PP}[2]{P(#1,#2)} \newcommand{\bd}{\partial} \newcommand{\Fcnf}{\mathcal F} \newcommand{\Gcnf}{\mathcal G} \newcommand{\Nmax}{N_{\max}} \newcommand{\cmax}{c_{\max}} \newcommand{\code}[1]{\texttt{#1}} % ============================================================================ % METADATA % ============================================================================ \newcommand{\WPnumber}{32} \newcommand{\WPtitle}{Zero-Forcing Bounds for Generalized Petersen Graphs} \newcommand{\WPsubtitle}{Computational Discovery and Certified Proofs for $P(n,5)$} \newcommand{\WPdate}{October 2026} \newcommand{\WPversion}{1.0} \newcommand{\WPabstract}{\input{sections/abstract}} \newcommand{\WPkeywords}{zero forcing, generalized Petersen graphs, minimum rank, forts, SAT certificates, DRAT, computer-assisted proof} \newcommand{\WPjel}{C61, C63 (MSC 2020: 05C50, 05C69, 05C85, 68V15)} % --- Author --- \newcommand{\WPauthor}{Simon-Pierre Boucher} \newcommand{\WPaffiliation}{% Département des sciences administratives\\ Université du Québec en Outaouais% } \newcommand{\WPemail}{simon-pierre.boucher@uqo.ca} \newcommand{\WPaddress}{% Gatineau -- Pavillon Alexandre-Taché\\ 283, boulevard Alexandre-Taché\\ Gatineau, Québec, Canada J9A 1L8% } % ============================================================================ % DOCUMENT % ============================================================================ \begin{document} \input{sections/titlepage} \input{sections/introduction} \input{sections/related} \input{sections/preliminaries} \input{sections/upper} \input{sections/lower} \input{sections/framework} \input{sections/results} \input{sections/robustness} \input{sections/discussion} \input{sections/limitations} \input{sections/conclusion} \newpage \bibliography{references} \input{appendix/appendix} \end{document}