Closed formulae for the local metric dimension of corona product graphs

Abstract A vertex v is said to distinguish two vertices x, y of a non-trivial connected graph G if the distance from v to x is different from the distance from v to y. A set S ⊂ V ( G ) is a local metric generator for G if every two adjacent vertices of G are distinguished by some vertex of S. A local metric generator with the minimum cardinality is called a local metric basis for G and its cardinality, the local metric dimension of G. In this paper we study the problem of finding exact values for the local metric dimension of corona product of graphs.