Efficient proper embedding of a daisy cube

Abstract

For a set $X$ of binary words of length $h$ the daisy cube $Q_h(X)$ is defined as the subgraph of the hypercube $Q_h$ induced by the set of all vertices on shortest paths that connect vertices of $X$ with the vertex $0 ^h$. A vertex in the intersection of all of these paths is a minimal vertex of a daisy cube. A graph $G$ isomorphic to a daisy cube admits several isometric embeddings into a hypercube. We show that an isometric embedding is proper if and only if the label $0 ^h$ is assigned to a minimal vertex of $G$. This result allows us to devise an algorithm which finds a proper embedding of a graph isomorphic to a daisy cube into a hypercube in linear time.