• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• v.39 no.5_6
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• pp.689-701
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• 2021

The purpose of this paper is to optimize the number of source places required for the unique representation of the destination using the tools of graph theory. A subset S of vertices of a graph G is called a rational resolving set of G if for each pair u, v ∈ V - S, there is a vertex s ∈ S such that d(u/s) ≠ d(v/s), where d(x/s) denotes the mean of the distances from the vertex s to all those y ∈ N[x]. A rational resolving set is called minimal rational resolving set if no proper subset of it is a rational resolving set. In this paper we study varieties of minimal rational resolving sets defined on the basis of its complements and compute the minimum and maximum cardinality of such sets, respectively called as lower and upper rational metric dimensions for power of a path P_n analysing various possibilities.