<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.3 20210610//EN" "https://jats.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/1.3/JATS-journalpublishing1-3.dtd"><article xml:lang="en" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" dtd-version="1.3" article-type="research-article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="issn">2460-0245</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Journal of the Indonesian Mathematical Society</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title>JIMS</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2460-0245</issn><issn pub-type="ppub">2086-8952</issn><publisher><publisher-name>IndoMS</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22342/jims.v32i1.1842</article-id><article-categories></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Nonlocal-Adjacency Metric Dimension of Graphs</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Rinurwati</surname><given-names>Rinurwati</given-names></name><address><country country="ID">Indonesia</country><email>rinur@matematika.its.ac.id</email></address><xref ref-type="aff" rid="AFF-1"></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor-0"></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Andini</surname><given-names>Falda Isna</given-names></name><address><country country="ID">Indonesia</country><email>andinifalda@gmail.com</email></address><xref ref-type="aff" rid="AFF-1"></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Zahra</surname><given-names>Syaima Shafa Az</given-names></name><address><country country="ID">Indonesia</country><email>syaimashafa.ss@gmail.com</email></address><xref ref-type="aff" rid="AFF-1"></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Soleha</surname><given-names>Soleha</given-names></name><address><country country="ID">Indonesia</country><email>seha_07@matematika.its.ac.id</email></address><xref ref-type="aff" rid="AFF-1"></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Setyawati</surname><given-names>Dian Winda</given-names></name><address><country country="ID">Indonesia</country><email>dian_ws_math@matematika.its.ac.id</email></address><xref ref-type="aff" rid="AFF-1"></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Baihaqi</surname><given-names>Komar</given-names></name><address><country country="ID">Indonesia</country><email>komar@matematika.its.ac.id</email></address><xref ref-type="aff" rid="AFF-1"></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Herisman</surname><given-names>Iis</given-names></name><address><country country="ID">Indonesia</country><email>iis@matematika.its.ac.id</email></address><xref ref-type="aff" rid="AFF-1"></xref></contrib></contrib-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="editor"><name><surname>Astuti</surname><given-names>Mulia</given-names></name><address><country country="ID">Indonesia</country><email>mulia_astuti@unib.ac.id</email></address><xref ref-type="aff" rid="EDITOR-AFF-1"></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="AFF-1"><institution content-type="dept">Department of Mathematics</institution><institution-wrap><institution>Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology</institution><institution-id institution-id-type="ror">https://ror.org/05kbmmt89</institution-id></institution-wrap><country country="ID">Indonesia</country></aff><aff id="EDITOR-AFF-1"><institution-wrap><institution>University of Bengkulu</institution><institution-id institution-id-type="ror">https://ror.org/04w077t62</institution-id></institution-wrap><country country="ID">Indonesia</country></aff><author-notes><corresp id="cor-0">Corresponding author: Rinurwati Rinurwati. Email: <email>rinur@matematika.its.ac.id</email></corresp></author-notes><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2026-02-02" publication-format="electronic"><day>02</day><month>02</month><year>2026</year></pub-date><pub-date date-type="collection" iso-8601-date="2026-01-05" publication-format="electronic"><day>05</day><month>01</month><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>32</volume><issue>1</issue><issue-title>MARCH</issue-title><fpage>1</fpage><lpage>20</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2024-10-23"><day>23</day><month>10</month><year>2024</year></date><date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="2025-10-12"><day>12</day><month>10</month><year>2025</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright (c) 2026 Journal of the Indonesian Mathematical Society</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2026</copyright-year><copyright-holder>Journal of the Indonesian Mathematical Society</copyright-holder><license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/"><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/</ali:license_ref><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://jims-a.org/index.php/jimsa/article/view/1842" xlink:title="1842"></self-uri><abstract><p>Let <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-1"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T = \{ t _ { 1 } , t _ { 2 } , \dots , t _ { k } \} \subseteq V ( G ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> be an ordered subset of the vertex set of a graph G, and let <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-2"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle u \in V ( G ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> be a vertex in G. The adjacency metric representation of vertex u with respect to the set T is the k-vector <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-3"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle r _ { A } ( u \mid T ) = \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-4"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle ( d _ { A } ( u , t _ { 1 } ) , d _ { A } ( u , t _ { 2 } ) , \dots , d _ { A } ( u , t _ { k } ) ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . The set T is called a nonlocal-adjacency metric resolving set of the graph G if <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-5"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \cdot r _ { A } ( u \mid T ) \neq r _ { A } ( w \mid T ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> for every pair of vertices <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-6"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle u , v \in \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> G with u not adjacent to v. The minimum cardinality of a nonlocal-adjacency metric resolving set of G is called the nonlocal-adjacency metric dimension of G, denoted by <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-7"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle d i m _ { A n l } ( G ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . In this paper, we present graphs obtained from the degree corona product of two graphs. The degree corona product of graphs G and H, denoted by <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-8"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G \odot _ { \mathrm { d e g } } H , \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is the graph constructed by taking a graph G and <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-9"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \textstyle \sum _ { i = 1 } ^ { | V ( G ) | } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> deg(vi) copies <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-10"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle H _ { i j } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> of graph H, and then connecting every vertex <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-11"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v _ { i } \in V ( G ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> to all vertices in <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-12"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle H _ { i j } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> for every <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-13"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle j \in \{ 1 , 2 , \dots , \deg ( v _ { i } ) \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-14"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle i \in \{ 1 , 2 , . . . , | V ( G ) | \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula>. Furthermore, we determine and analyze the nonlocal-adjacency metric dimension of basic graphs <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-15"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G _ { b } \in \{ P _ { n } , C _ { n } \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula>, centered graphs <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-16"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G _ { c } \ \in \ \{ K _ { n } , S _ { n } , K _ { 1 } + P _ { n } , K _ { 1 } + C _ { n } , K _ { m } + \overline { { K _ { n } } } \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> and the degree corona product graphs <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-17"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G _ { c } \odot _ { \mathrm { d e g } } K _ { 1 } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . In addition, we provide upper bounds, characterizations of the nonlocal-adjacency metric dimension of graphs, and examples of applications of this concept.</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>adjacency metric representation</kwd><kwd>nonlocal-adjacency metric resolving set</kwd><kwd>nonlocal-adjacency metric dimension</kwd><kwd>degree corona product</kwd></kwd-group><custom-meta-group><custom-meta><meta-name>File created by JATS Editor</meta-name><meta-value>https://jatseditor.com</meta-value></custom-meta><custom-meta><meta-name>issue-created-year</meta-name><meta-value>2026</meta-value></custom-meta></custom-meta-group></article-meta></front><body><sec id="sec-1"><title>1. INTRODUCTION</title><p>The metric dimension concept of graphs was first introduced by Harary and Malter in 1976 in their book titled <italic>Distance in Graphs</italic><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="BIBR-1">[1]</xref>. In this book, Harary and Melter explained that “The metric dimension of graphs is the cardinality of the metric basis of graphs” <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="BIBR-1">[1]</xref>. Shortly afterward, Slater, Harary, and Melter developed an algorithm to determine the metric dimension of tree graphs, demonstrating that every tree graph has a fixed metric basis, which consists of terminal vertices <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="BIBR-1">[1]</xref>.</p><p>Over time, numerous researchers have applied and further developed the theory of the metric dimensions of graphs. In 1996, this concept was used in robotic navigation modeling by Khuller et al. <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="BIBR-2">[2]</xref>. In 2004, Sebo and Tannier applied this concept to solve combinatorial optimization problems <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="BIBR-3">[3]</xref>. Besides conceptual advancements, the metric dimension has also undergone development in various graph operations. In 1970, Roberto Frucht and Frank Harary <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="BIBR-4">[4]</xref> introduced the corona operation of graphs. In 2010, Hou and Shiu applied and developed the corona operation to obtain the spectrum of the edge corona graphs <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="BIBR-5">[5]</xref>.</p><p>In 2011, Iswadi et al. applied the concept of the metric dimension to determine this parameter for corona graphs <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="BIBR-6">[6]</xref>. In the same year, Yero et al. successfully determined the metric dimension of the recursive corona graphs <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="BIBR-7">[7]</xref>. Gopalapillai also advanced the corona operation, naming it the neighborhood corona operation, and applied it to obtain the spectrum of the circular corona graphs <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="BIBR-8">[8]</xref>. In 2017, Rinurwati et al. successfully extended the corona operation into the edge corona operation, enabling the determination of the metric dimension of the edge corona graphs <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="BIBR-9">[9]</xref>. Additionally, Rinurwati et al. also identified the local metric dimension of m-pendant vertex graphs <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="BIBR-10">[10]</xref>. In 2021, R.E. Nabila and Rinurwati further developed the corona operation by introducing bobble-neighborhood-corona graph, and studied its metric and edge-metric dimensions <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="BIBR-11">[11]</xref>.</p><p>The concept of the nonlocal metric dimension was first introduced in 2022 by Sandi Klavˇzar and Dorota Kuziak. The nonlocal metric dimension of graphs is the cardinality of the smallest nonlocal resolving set, which represents every pairs of non-adjacent vertices in graphs <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="BIBR-12">[12]</xref>. Sandi KlavZar and Dorota Kuziak successfully determined the nonlocal metric dimension of block graphs, wheel graphs, and corona vertex graphs <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="BIBR-12">[12]</xref>. Rinurwati et al. determined the nonlocal edge metric dimension of graphs in 2024 <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="BIBR-13">[13]</xref>.</p><p>The notion of adjacency in metric dimensions was initially introduced by Jannesari and Omoomi <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="BIBR-14">[14]</xref>, and has since gained significant attention from various researchers. One notable application of this concept is the study of the local adjacency metric dimension in generalized wheel graphs featuring m-pendant vertices, as previously investigated by Rinurwati et al. <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="BIBR-15">[15]</xref>. In an efort to deepen the exploration of adjacency-based metric dimensions, including their nonlocal variants, this paper focuses on local adjacency metric dimension in generalized wheel structures and the enhancement of corona operations, particularly in the context of degree corona graphs.</p></sec><sec id="sec-2"><title>2. PRELIMINARIES</title><p>All graphs <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-18"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G = ( V ( G ) , E ( G ) ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> (basic and operating) used in this study are connected and simple. The operation graphs explained here are corona and joint.</p><p>The concepts that will be developed are adjacency metric resolving set and nonlocal property.</p><sec id="sec-3"><title>2.1. Basic Graphs G _ { b } .</title><p>Various types of basic graphs <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-19"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G _ { b } \in \{ P _ { n } , C _ { n } , S _ { n } , K _ { n } \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , which are commonly utilized in the construction of new graphs through graph operations, are described in this part. The definitions in this subsection are referenced from <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="BIBR-16">[16]</xref>.</p><p><bold>Definition 2.1.</bold><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="BIBR-16">[16]</xref><italic>A path graph </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-20"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle P _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> , is a graph with order n and size </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-21"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle n - 1 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> . The set of vertices in </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-22"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle P _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> is </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-23"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle V ( P _ { n } ) = \{ v _ { 1 } , v _ { 2 } , \ldots , v _ { n } \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> where </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-24"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle n \geq 1 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> and the set of edges </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-25"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle E ( P _ { n } ) = \left\{ v _ { i } v _ { i + 1 } \mid i \in \left\{ 1 , 2 , \ldots , n - 1 \right\} \right\} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p><fig id="figure-1"><label>Figure 1.</label><caption><p>Path Graph Pn</p></caption><long-desc><xref ref-type="fig" rid="figure-1">Figure 1</xref> shows the path graph with n vertices, commonly denoted as Pn</long-desc><graphic xlink:href="https://jims-a.org/index.php/jimsa/article/download/1842/560/13961" mime-subtype="jpeg" mimetype="image"><alt-text>Figure 1 shows the path graph with n vertices, commonly denoted as Pn</alt-text></graphic></fig><p><bold>Definition 2.2.</bold><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="BIBR-16">[16]</xref><italic>A cycle graph </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-26"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle C _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> is a graph with order n and size </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-27"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle n , \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> where </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-28"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle n \geq 3 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> , with the vertex set </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-29"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle V ( C _ { n } ) = \{ v _ { 1 } , v _ { 2 } , \ldots , v _ { n } \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> and the edge set </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-30"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle E ( C _ { n } ) = \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic></italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-31"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \{ v _ { i } v _ { i + 1 } \mid i \in \{ 1 , 2 , \ldots , n - 1 \} \} \cup \{ v _ { n } v _ { 1 } \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p><fig id="figure-2"><label>Figure 2.</label><caption><p>Cycle Graph Cn</p></caption><long-desc><xref ref-type="fig" rid="figure-2">Figure 2</xref> presents a cycle graph with order n, Cn.</long-desc><graphic xlink:href="https://jims-a.org/index.php/jimsa/article/download/1842/560/13962" mime-subtype="jpeg" mimetype="image"><alt-text>Figure 2 presents a cycle graph with order n, Cn.</alt-text></graphic></fig><p><bold>Definition 2.3.</bold><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="BIBR-17">[17]</xref><italic>A star graph is a tree consisting of n vertices, in which a single vertex has degree </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-32"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle n - 1 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> , while each of the remaining </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-33"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle n - 1 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> vertices has degree one.</italic></p><fig id="figure-3"><label>Figure 3.</label><caption><p>Star Graph S _ { n }</p></caption><long-desc><xref ref-type="fig" rid="figure-3">Figure 3</xref>. presents a star graph with order n, Sn.</long-desc><graphic xlink:href="https://jims-a.org/index.php/jimsa/article/download/1842/560/13963" mime-subtype="jpeg" mimetype="image"><alt-text>Figure 3. presents a star graph with order n, Sn.</alt-text></graphic></fig><p><target id="anchor-cedea9f5-5eed-4e1d-adca-38f51e10e06c" target-type="reference-target"/></p><p><bold>Definition 2.4.</bold><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="BIBR-16">[16]</xref><italic>A complete graph </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-34"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> is a graph that has n vertices, where every vertex forms an edge with each other vertex. A Complete graph </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-35"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> has </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-36"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \textstyle { \binom { n } { 2 } } = { \frac { n ( n - 1 ) } { 2 } } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> edges.</italic></p><p>When <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-37"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle n = 1 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , the complete graph <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-38"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { n } = K _ { 1 } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is referred to a trivial graph, and <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-39"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \overline { { K _ { n } } } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is also known as a null graph or an empty graph.</p><fig id="figure-4"><label>Figure 4.</label><caption><p>Complete Graph K n</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="https://jims-a.org/index.php/jimsa/article/download/1842/560/13964" mime-subtype="jpeg" mimetype="image"><alt-text>Figure 4.</alt-text></graphic></fig></sec><sec id="sec-4"><title>2.2. Some Graphs Operation.</title><p>In this part, the corona and joint product between graphs G and H are discussed. The corona operation was originally introduced in <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="BIBR-4">[4]</xref>, and its construction can be found in Definition <xref ref-type="custom" custom-type="reference-target" rid="anchor-dc550fa5-acaf-46de-8751-1de38521f05c">2.5</xref>. The joint operation was introduced in [17] and described in Definition <xref ref-type="custom" custom-type="reference-target" rid="anchor-015556fb-ca26-4a39-91b0-93cc3453ba6a">2.6</xref>.<target id="anchor-dc550fa5-acaf-46de-8751-1de38521f05c" target-type="reference-target"/></p><p><bold>Definition 2.5.</bold><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="BIBR-4">[4]</xref><italic>Let G and H be two graphs. The corona product of G and H, denoted </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-40"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle b y \ G \odot H \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> , is a graph obtained by taking one copy of G and creating </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-41"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle | V ( G ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> copies of H, denoted as </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-42"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle H _ { i } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> for each </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-43"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle i \in \{ 1 , 2 , \dots , | V ( G ) | \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> , and then joininh every vertex in </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-44"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle H _ { i } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> to the </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-45"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle i ^ { t h } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> vertex of G. The resulting graph is referred to the corona graph. </italic></p><p><xref ref-type="fig" rid="figure-5">Figure 5</xref> illustrates the graph obtained from the corona operation between <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-46"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle P _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , whose vertices are colored red, and <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-47"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { 2 } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , whose vertices are colored blue.</p><fig id="figure-5"><label>Figure 5</label><caption><p>Pn   K2</p></caption><long-desc><xref ref-type="fig" rid="figure-5">Figure 5</xref> illustrates the graph obtained from the corona operation betweenPn, whose vertices are colored red, and K2, whose vertices are colored blue.</long-desc><graphic xlink:href="https://jims-a.org/index.php/jimsa/article/download/1842/560/13965" mime-subtype="jpeg" mimetype="image"><alt-text>Figure 5 illustrates the graph obtained from the corona operation betweenPn, whose vertices are colored red, and K2, whose vertices are colored blue.</alt-text></graphic></fig><p><target id="anchor-015556fb-ca26-4a39-91b0-93cc3453ba6a" target-type="reference-target"/></p><p><bold>Definition 2.6.</bold><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="BIBR-18">[18]</xref><italic>The joint operation of G and </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-48"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle H , \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> written as </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-49"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G + H \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> , is the graph formed by taking G and H, and adding an edge between every vertex in </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-50"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> and every vertex in H. This resulting graph is referred to the joint graph.</italic></p><p><xref ref-type="fig" rid="figure-6">Figure 6</xref> illustrates the graph obtained from the joint operation between <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-51"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle P _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> whose vertices are colored red, and <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-52"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { 1 } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , with its single vertex colored blue.</p><fig id="figure-6"><label>Figure 6.</label><caption><p>K 1  + Pn</p></caption><long-desc><xref ref-type="fig" rid="figure-6">Figure 6</xref> illustrates the graph obtained from the joint operation between Pn,whose vertices are colored red, and K1, with its single vertex colored blue.</long-desc><graphic xlink:href="https://jims-a.org/index.php/jimsa/article/download/1842/560/13966" mime-subtype="jpeg" mimetype="image"><alt-text>Figure 6 illustrates the graph obtained from the joint operation between Pn,whose vertices are colored red, and K1, with its single vertex colored blue.</alt-text></graphic></fig></sec><sec id="sec-5"><title>2.3. Centered Graphs G _ { c } .</title><p>A vertex v in graph <italic>G</italic> is referred to a center vertex of <italic>G</italic> if it is adjacent to each other vertex in the graph. In other words, a center vertex in <italic>G</italic> is one that is connected by an edge to all other vertices. The degree of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-53"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v , d e g ( v ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , represents total number of edges that incident to <italic>v</italic>. If <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-54"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle n = | V ( G ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> | is the total number of vertices in <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-55"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G , \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> and <italic>w</italic> is a center vertex, then <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-56"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle { d e g ( w ) = n - 1 } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . A graph G that contains all of its center vertices is called a centered graph, denoted <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-57"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G _ { c } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . A centered graph can be a basic graph or a graph produced from an operation. Some centered graphs for which we will determine their nonlocal-adjacency metric dimensions are: graphs <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-58"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-59"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle S _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> (including basic graphs), and graphs <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-60"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { 1 } + P _ { n } , K _ { 1 } + C _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , and <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-61"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { m } + \overline { { K _ { n } } } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> (including the graphs resulting from operations). From  <xref ref-type="fig" rid="figure-3">Figure 3</xref>, we can see that the only center vertex of graph <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-62"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle S _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is vertex <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-63"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v _ { n } . \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . All vertices of graph <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-64"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> are center vertices, and a center vertex of graphs <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-65"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { 1 } + P _ { n } , K _ { 1 } + C _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , and <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-66"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { m } + \overline { { K _ { n } } } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is the vertex of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-67"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { 1 } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , respectively.</p></sec><sec id="sec-6"><title>2.4. Adjacency Metric Dimension.</title><p>The concept of adjacency distance is introduced by Jannesari and Omoomi as described in Definition <xref ref-type="custom" custom-type="reference-target" rid="anchor-e6395032-996a-466e-a955-e00e2e46c81f">2.7</xref>.<target id="anchor-e6395032-996a-466e-a955-e00e2e46c81f" target-type="reference-target"/></p><p><bold>Definition 2.7.</bold><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="BIBR-14">[14]</xref><italic>Given graph G, and let </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-68"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T = \{ t _ { 1 } , t _ { 2 } , \dots , t _ { i } \} \subseteq V \left( G \right) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> be an ordered set. For every vertex </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-69"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v \in V ( G ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> , the adjacency metric representation of v with respect to </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-70"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> is </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-71"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle r _ { A } \left( v | T \right) = \left( d _ { A } \left( v , t _ { 1 } \right) , d _ { A } \left( v , t _ { 2 } \right) , \ldots , d _ { A } \left( v , t _ { i } \right) \right) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> with</italic></p><disp-formula id="equation-1"><tex-math id="math-72"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle d_{A}(v,t_{i}) = \left\{\begin{array}{l l}0 & , \text{for } v = t_{i} \\1 & , \text{for } v \sim t_{i} \\2 & , \text{for } v \nsim t_{i}\end{array}\right. \end{document} ]]></tex-math></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-73"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v \sim t _ { i } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> means v is adjacent to <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-74"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle t _ { i } , \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-75"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v \not \sim t _ { i } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> means v is not adjacent to <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-76"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle t _ { i } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-77"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle i \in \{ 1 , 2 , . . . , k \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p><p>The adjacency metric dimension of graph G is defined as follows.<target id="anchor-6bb615f1-8975-4115-b65f-e37806a41983" target-type="reference-target"/></p><p><bold>Definition 2.8</bold>. <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="BIBR-19">[19]</xref><italic>For an ordered subset </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-78"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T ~ = ~ \{ t _ { 1 } , t _ { 2 } , \ldots , t _ { k } \} ~ \subseteq ~ V ( G ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> and </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-79"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle p \in V ( G ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> , the adjacency metric representation of </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-80"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle p \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> with respect to </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-81"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> is k-vector </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-82"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \boldsymbol { r } _ { A } ( p | T ) = ( d _ { A } ( p , t _ { 1 } ) , d _ { A } ( p , t _ { 2 } ) , \dots , d _ { A } ( p , t _ { k } ) ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> .<italic> The set </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-83"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> is an adjacency metric resolving set </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-84"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \gamma G , \ i f \ \forall p , q \in V ( G ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> with </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-85"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle p \neq q \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> holds </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-86"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle r _ { A } ( p | T ) \neq r _ { A } ( q | T ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> . The adjacency resolving set with the minimum number of vertices is called the adjacency basis of G. The adjacency metric dimension of </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-87"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G , \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> written as dim </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-88"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle _ A ( G ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> , is defined as the number of elements in its adjacency basis.</italic></p><p>Several researchers, as referenced in <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="BIBR-19">[19]</xref>, have investigated and determined the adjacency metric dimensions for numerous types of connected graphs. For any graph <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-89"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G , \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , two distinct vertices <italic>p</italic> and <italic>q</italic> can either be adjacent or non-adjacent. Based on Definition <xref ref-type="custom" custom-type="reference-target" rid="anchor-6bb615f1-8975-4115-b65f-e37806a41983">2.8</xref>, a resolving set <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-90"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \bar { T } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> in the context of nonlocal-adjacency metric only resolves between vertex pairs that are not adjacent. The minimum number of elements in such a resolving set <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-91"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \bar { T } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is referred to the nonlocal-adjacency metric dimension, represented by <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-92"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle d i m _ { A n l } ( G ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . This study combines the adjacency metric resolving set concept and the nonlocal property in a graph. Thus, we can construct a concept that is produced from this development, as we can see in Definition <xref ref-type="custom" custom-type="reference-target" rid="anchor-686b27be-044e-41c4-a79d-b5a6f0648ffd">3.1</xref>.</p></sec></sec><sec id="sec-7"><title>3. MAIN RESULTS</title><p>A formal definition of nonlocal-adjacency metric dimension for graph <italic>G</italic> is provided below.<target id="anchor-686b27be-044e-41c4-a79d-b5a6f0648ffd" target-type="reference-target"/></p><p><bold>Definition 3.1.</bold><italic>Let G be a connected graph and suppose </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-93"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T = \{ t _ { 1 } , t _ { 2 } , \ldots , t _ { \kappa } \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> is an ordered subset of its vertex set. For any vertex </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-94"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle u \in G \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> , the adjacency metric representation of u with respect to T is given by the κ-vector </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-95"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle r _ { A } ( u \mid T ) = \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic></italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-96"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle ( d _ { A } ( u , t _ { 1 } ) , d _ { A } ( u , t _ { 2 } ) , \dots , d _ { A } ( u , t _ { \kappa } ) ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> , where </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-97"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle d _ { A } ( u , t _ { i } ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> denotes the adjacency distance from vertex u to vertex </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-98"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle t _ { i } , f o r i \in \{ 1 , 2 , \ldots , \kappa \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> . The set </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-99"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> is called a nonlocaladjacency metric resolving set for G if, for every pair of distinct non-adjacent vertices u and w in </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-100"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G _ { i } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> , their representations are distinct, or </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-101"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle r _ { A } ( u \mid T ) \neq r _ { A } ( w \mid T ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> .The minimum cardinality among all such resolving sets is referred as the nonlocaladjacency basis of G. The number of vertices in this basis is called the nonlocaladjacency metric dimension of </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-102"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G , \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> denoted by dim </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-103"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle _ { A n l } ( G ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p><sec id="sec-8"><title>3.1. Nonlocal-Adjacency Metric Dimension of Basic Graph.</title><p>In this section, we determine the nonlocal-adjacency metric dimension of basic graph <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-104"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G _ { b } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , specifically non center vertex, that is path graph <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-105"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle P _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> and cycle graph <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-106"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle C _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> Theorem <xref ref-type="custom" custom-type="reference-target" rid="anchor-272c62ee-05a5-4d1a-b713-ee42b16fdd9d">3.2</xref> describes nonlocal-adjacency metric dimension of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-107"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle P _ { n } , n \ge 5 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><target id="anchor-272c62ee-05a5-4d1a-b713-ee42b16fdd9d" target-type="reference-target"/></p><p><bold>Theorem 3.2.</bold><italic>Nonlocal-adjacency metric dimension of </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-108"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle P _ { n } , n \geq 5 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> is</italic></p><disp-formula id="equation-2"><tex-math id="math-109"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle d i m_{A n l}(P_{n}) = \left\{\begin{array}{l l}2 & , \text{for } n \in \{5, 6\} \\\left\lfloor \frac{n + 1}{2} \right\rfloor & , \text{for } n \geq 7.\end{array}\right. \end{document} ]]></tex-math></disp-formula><p><italic>Proof</italic>. Let <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-110"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle P _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> be labeled as shown in the <xref ref-type="fig" rid="figure-1">Figure 1</xref>. The vertices set of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-111"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle P _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-112"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle V ( P _ { n } ) = \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-113"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \{ v _ { 1 } , v _ { 2 } , \ldots , v _ { n } \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-114"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle d e g ( v _ { 1 } ) = 1 = d e g ( v _ { n } ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-115"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle d e g ( v _ { i } ) = 2 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> for <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-116"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle i \in \{ 2 , 3 , \ldots , n - 1 \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula>.The proof is analyzed under two separate conditio</p><p><bold>Case 1. </bold>For <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-117"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle n \in \{ 5 , 6 \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . We choose <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-118"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle W _ { 5 } = \{ v _ { 1 } , v _ { 3 } \} = W _ { 6 } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . The vertices in <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-119"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle V ( P _ { n } ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> have adjacency metric representations with respect to <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-120"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle W _ { 5 } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p><disp-formula id="equation-3"><tex-math id="math-121"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \begin{array}{l} r _ {A} (v _ {1} | W _ {5}) = (0, 2) = r _ {A} (v _ {1} | W _ {6}) \\ r _ {A} (v _ {2} | W _ {5}) = (1, 1) = r _ {A} (v _ {2} | W _ {6}) \\ r _ {A} (v _ {3} | W _ {5}) = (2, 0) = r _ {A} (v _ {3} | W _ {6}) \\ r _ {A} (v _ {4} | W _ {5}) = (2, 1) = r _ {A} (v _ {4} | W _ {6}) \\ r _ {A} (v _ {5} | W _ {5}) = (2, 2) = r _ {A} (v _ {5} | W _ {6}). \end{array} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></disp-formula><p><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-122"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle r _ { A } ( v _ { 5 } | W _ { 6 } ) = ( 2 , 2 ) = r _ { A } ( v _ { 6 } | W _ { 6 } ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , but <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-123"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v _ { 5 } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is adjacent to <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-124"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v _ { 6 } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> in <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-125"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle P _ { 6 } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . The cardinality of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-126"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle W _ { n } , | W _ { n } | = \left| { \frac { n - 1 } { 2 } } \right| = 2 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , for <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-127"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle n \in \{ 5 , 6 \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is minimum, because if we take a set <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-128"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle W _ { 5 } ^ { \prime } = W _ { 6 } ^ { \prime } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> with cardinality one, then <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-129"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle r _ { A } ( \dot { v } _ { 3 } | W _ { 5 } ^ { \prime } ) = r _ { A } ( v _ { 4 } | W _ { 5 } ^ { \prime } ) = r _ { A } ( v _ { 5 } | W _ { 5 } ^ { \prime } ) = ( 2 ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> but <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-130"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v _ { 3 } \nsim v _ { 5 } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . In <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-131"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle P _ { 6 } , r _ { A } ( v _ { i } | W _ { 6 } ^ { \prime } ) = ( 2 ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> for <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-132"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle 3 \leq i \leq 6 , \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , v3 <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-133"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \approx v _ { 5 } , v _ { 3 } \propto v _ { 6 } . \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , and <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-134"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v _ { 4 } \nsim { v _ { 6 } } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> So <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-135"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle W _ { 5 } ^ { \prime } = W _ { 6 } ^ { \prime } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is not a nonlocal-adjacency metric resolving set of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-136"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle P _ { 5 } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-137"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle P _ { 6 } . \mathrm { ~ \ S o ~ } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-138"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle | W _ { 5 } | = | W _ { 6 } | = 2 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is minimum, such that dim <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-139"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle _ { \mathit { A n l } } ( P _ { n } ) = 2 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> for <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-140"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle n \in \{ 5 , 6 \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> Case 2. For <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-141"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle n \geq 7 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . An ordered set <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-142"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T = \{ v _ { 4 } , v _ { 6 } , v _ { 8 } , \dotsc v _ { 2 ( \lfloor \frac { n + 1 } { 3 } \rfloor + 1 ) } \ \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is chosen with cardinality <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-143"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \begin{array} { r } { T , | T | = \left\lfloor { \frac { n + 1 } { 3 } } \right\rfloor } \end{array} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . The adjacency metric representation vertex <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-144"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v _ { i } \in V ( P _ { n } ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> with respect to <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-145"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is</p><disp-formula id="equation-4"><tex-math id="math-146"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle r _ {A} (v _ {i} \mid T) = \underbrace {\left(d _ {A} (v _ {i} , v _ {4}) , d _ {A} (v _ {i} , v _ {6}) , d _ {A} (v _ {i} , v _ {8}) , \ldots d _ {A} (v _ {i} , v _ {2 (\lfloor \frac {n + 1}{3} \rfloor + 1)})\right)} _ {\lfloor \frac {n + 1}{3} \rfloor}, \text {with} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></disp-formula><disp-formula id="equation-5"><tex-math id="math-147"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle d_{A}(v_{i},v_{j}) = \left\{\begin{array}{l l}0 & , \text{if } i = j \\1 & , \text{if } |i-j| = 1 \\2 & , \text{if } |i-j| \geq 2\end{array}\right. \end{document} ]]></tex-math></disp-formula><p>for <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-148"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle i \in \{ 1 , 2 , \ldots , n \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-149"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle j \ \in \ \{ 4 , 6 , 8 , . . . , 2 \left( \left\lfloor \frac { n + 1 } { 3 } \right\rfloor + 1 \right) \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . We have <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-150"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle r _ { A } ( v _ { 1 } | T ) \ = \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-151"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \underbrace{(2,2,\ldots,2)}_{\left\lfloor \frac{n^2+1}{2} \right\rfloor}= r_A(v_2 \mid T) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> but <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-152"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v _ { 1 } \sim v _ { 2 } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> and   <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-153"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T_A(v_3 \mid T) = \underbrace{(1,2,\ldots,2)}_{\left\lfloor \frac{n^2+1}{2} \right\rfloor} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula>.Hence, all non</p><p>adjacent vertices in <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-154"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle P _ { n } , n \ge 7 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , have diferent adjacency metric representations. Therefore, <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-155"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is a nonlocal-adjacency metric resolving set of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-156"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle P _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . The cardinality of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-157"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T , \ \vert { \cal T } \vert = \ \vert { \frac { n + 1 } { 3 } } \rfloor \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is minimum. If we take any ordered subset <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-158"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T ^ { \prime } \subseteq T \subseteq V ( P _ { n } ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> with <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-159"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \left| T ^ { \prime } \right| < \left| T \right| \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , and we choose <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-160"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T ^ { \prime } = T \setminus \{ v _ { i } \} , i \in \{ 4 , 6 , \dotsc , 2 ( \left| \frac { n + 1 } { 3 } \right| + 1 ) \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , then there exists a vertex <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-161"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v _ { j } \in V ( P _ { n } ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> such that <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-162"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle r _ { A } ( v _ { i } \mid T ^ { \prime } ) = r _ { A } ( v _ { j } \mid \mid { \bf \bar { T } ^ { \prime } } ) \stackrel { - } { = } ( 2 , 2 , \ldots , 2 ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> with</p><p><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-163"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle 1 \leq i , j \leq n , i \neq j \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , and <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-164"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v _ { i } \not \sim v _ { j } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . Therefore, <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-165"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is a minimum nonlocal-adjacency metric resolving set of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-166"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle P _ { n } . \mathrm { ~ { ~ S o ~ } ~ } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , the nonlocal-adjacency metric dimension of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-167"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle P _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is dim <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-168"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle _ { A _ { n l } } ( P _ { n } ) = | T | = \left\lfloor { \frac { n + 1 } { 3 } } \right\rfloor \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> .</p><p>Nonlocal-adjacency metric dimension of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-169"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle C _ { n } , n \geq 5 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , is given in Theorem <xref ref-type="custom" custom-type="reference-target" rid="anchor-435daa75-cf4e-4660-9db3-69b0defbb881">3.3</xref>.<target id="anchor-435daa75-cf4e-4660-9db3-69b0defbb881" target-type="reference-target"/></p><p><bold>Theorem 3.3.</bold><italic> Nonlocal-adjacency metric dimension of </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-170"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle C _ { n } , n \geq 5 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> is</italic></p><disp-formula id="equation-6"><tex-math id="math-171"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \dim_{Anl}(C_{n}) = \left\{\begin{array}{l l}\left\lfloor \frac{n + 1}{3} \right\rfloor & , \text{for odd } n \geq 5 \\\left\lfloor \frac{n - 1}{2} \right\rfloor & , \text{for even } n \geq 6.\end{array}\right. \end{document} ]]></tex-math></disp-formula><p><italic>Proof</italic>. Suppose the graph <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-172"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle C _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is labeled as shown in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="figure-2">Figure 2</xref>, so that the vertex set of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-173"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle C _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-174"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle V ( C _ { n } ) = \{ v _ { 1 } , v _ { 2 } , \ldots , v _ { n } \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . An ordered subset <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-175"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T \subseteq V ( C _ { n } ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is chosen, that is <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-176"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T = \{ v _ { 1 } , v _ { 3 } , v _ { 5 } , . . . \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . It will be shown that <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-177"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is a nonlocal-adjacency metric resolving set of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-178"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle C _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . The proof is divided into two cases, that is for odd <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-179"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle n \geq 5 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> and for even <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-180"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle n \geq 6 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p><p><bold>Case 1</bold> For odd <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-181"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle n \geq 5 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p><p>Choose the set <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-182"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T = \{ v _ { 1 } , v _ { 3 } , v _ { 5 } , \ldots \} = \{ v _ { 2 k - 1 } ~ | ~ k ~ \in ~ \{ 1 , 2 , 3 , \ldots , \left\lfloor \frac { n + 1 } { 3 } \right\rfloor \} \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . The <sup>{z</sup>⌊ n+1 ⌋</p><p>adjacency metric representation of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-183"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v _ { i } \in V ( C _ { n } ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> with respect to <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-184"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T , \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-185"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle r _ { A } ( v _ { i } \mid T ) = \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-186"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle ( d _ { A } ( v _ { i } , v _ { 1 } ) , d _ { A } ( v _ { i } , v _ { 3 } ) , d _ { A } ( v _ { i } , v _ { 5 } ) , \ldots , d _ { A } ( v _ { i } , v _ { 2 k - 1 } ) ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , with</p><disp-formula id="equation-7"><tex-math id="math-187"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle d_{A}(v_{i},v_{j}) = \left\{\begin{array}{l l}0 & , \text{if } i = j \\1 & , \text{if } |i-j| = 1 \\2 & , \text{if } |i-j| \geq 2\end{array}\right. \end{document} ]]></tex-math></disp-formula><p>for <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-188"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle i \in \{ 1 , 2 , \ldots , n \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-189"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle j = 2 k - 1 , k \in \{ 1 , 2 , \dots , \left\lfloor { \frac { n + 1 } { 3 } } \right\rfloor \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . All vertices have distinct adjacency metric representations, except for <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-190"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v _ { n - 1 } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-191"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v _ { n - 2 } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , which have the same representation <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-192"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \{ 2 , 2 , \underline { { { \dots } } } , 2 \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , but <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-193"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v _ { n - 1 } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is adjacent to <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-194"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v _ { n - 2 } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . Hence, the adjacency <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-195"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \textstyle \left\lfloor { \frac { n + 1 } { 3 } } \right\rfloor \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p><p>metric representations of non-adjacent vertices are all diferent. Therefore, <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-196"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is a nonlocal-adjacency metric resolving set for <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-197"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle C _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> when <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-198"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle n \geq 5 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> and n is odd. The cardinality of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-199"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \begin{array} { r } { T = | \check { T } | = \left\lfloor \frac { n + 1 } { 3 } \right\rfloor } \end{array} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is minimum because if an ordered subset <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-200"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T ^ { \prime } \subseteq T \subseteq \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p><p><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-201"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle V ( C _ { n } ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is taken with <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-202"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \left| T ^ { \prime } \right| < \left| T \right| \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , say <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-203"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T ^ { \prime } = T \backslash \{ v _ { i } \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> for some <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-204"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle i \in \{ 1 , 3 , \dotsc , 2 \left\lfloor { \frac { n + 1 } { 3 } } \right\rfloor - 1 \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , then there exists a vertex <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-205"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v _ { j } \in V ( C _ { n } ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> such that</p><disp-formula id="equation-8"><tex-math id="math-206"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle r _ {A} (v _ {i} \mid T ^ {\prime}) = r _ {A} (v _ {j} \mid T ^ {\prime}) = \underbrace {\{2 , 2 , \ldots , 2 \}} _ {\left\lfloor \frac {n + 1}{3} \right\rfloor - 1} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></disp-formula><p>with <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-207"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle 1 \leq i , j \leq n , i \neq j \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , and <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-208"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v _ { i } \nsim v _ { j } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p><p>Thus, any ordered subset <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-209"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T ^ { \prime } \subseteq T \subseteq V ( C _ { n } ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> with <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-210"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \left| T ^ { \prime } \right| < \left| T \right| \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is not a nonlocaladjacency metric resolving set of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-211"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle C _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . Consequently, the nonlocal-adjacency metric dimension of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-212"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle C _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is dim <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-213"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \begin{array} { r } { { \bf \nabla } _ { A n l } ( C _ { n } ) = | T | = \left\lfloor \frac { n + 1 } { 3 } \right\rfloor } \end{array} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p><p><bold>Case 2</bold> For <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-214"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle n \geq 6 . \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , <italic>n</italic> even.</p><p>Choose the ordered set <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-215"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T = \{ v _ { 2 k - 1 } \mid k \in \{ 1 , 2 , \ldots , \left| { \frac { n - 1 } { 2 } } \right| \} \} \subseteq V ( C _ { n } ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . The adjacency metric representation of the vertices <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-216"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v _ { i } \in V ( C _ { n } ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> with respect to <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-217"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is</p><disp-formula id="equation-9"><tex-math id="math-218"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle r _ {A} (v _ {i} \mid T) = \left(d _ {A} (v _ {i}, v _ {1}), d _ {A} (v _ {i}, v _ {3}), \dots , d _ {A} (v _ {i}, v _ {2 \lfloor \frac {n - 1}{2} \rfloor - 1})\right), \text { with } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></disp-formula><disp-formula id="equation-10"><tex-math id="math-219"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle d_{A}(v_{i},v_{j}) = \left\{\begin{array}{l l}0 & , \text{if } i = j \\1 & , \text{if } |i-j| = 1 \\2 & , \text{if } |i-j| \geq 2\end{array}\right. \end{document} ]]></tex-math></disp-formula><p>for <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-220"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle i \in \{ 1 , 2 , \ldots , n \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-221"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle j = 2 k - 1 , k \in \{ 1 , 2 , \dots , \left\lfloor { \frac { n - 1 } { 2 } } \right\rfloor \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p><p>Hence, every vertex has a distinct nonlocal-adjacency metric representation. <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-222"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \mathrm { S o } , T \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is a nonlocal-adjacency metric resolving set of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-223"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle C _ { n } . \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> The cardinality <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-224"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \textstyle | T | = { \big | } { \frac { n - 1 } { 2 } } { \big | } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is minimum because if any ordered subset <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-225"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T ^ { \prime } \subseteq T \subseteq V ( C _ { n } ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is taken with <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-226"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle | T ^ { \bar { \prime } } | \overset { \cdot } { < } | T | \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> say <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-227"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T ^ { \prime } = T \setminus \{ v _ { i } \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , for some <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-228"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle i \in \{ 1 , 3 , \dots , 2 \mid { \frac { n - 1 } { 2 } } \mid - \dot { 1 } \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , then there exists a vertex <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-229"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v _ { j } \in V ( C _ { n } ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> such that <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-230"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle r _ { A } ( v _ { i } \mid T ^ { \prime } ) = r _ { A } ( v _ { j } \mid \stackrel { } { T ^ { \prime } } ) \stackrel { } { = } \{ 2 , 2 , \ldots , 2 \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> with <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-231"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle 1 \leq i , j \leq n \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-232"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \textstyle \left\lfloor { \frac { n - 1 } { 2 } } \right\rfloor - 1 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p><p><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-233"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle i \neq j , \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-234"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v _ { i } \nsim v _ { j } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p><p>Hence, any ordered subset <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-235"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T ^ { \prime } \subseteq T \subseteq V ( C _ { n } ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> with <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-236"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle | T ^ { \prime } | < | T | \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> cannot serve as a nonlocal-adjacency metric resolving set for <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-237"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle C _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . Consequently, the nonlocaladjacency metric dimension of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-238"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle C _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is given by dim <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-239"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \operatorname { A n l } ( C _ { n } ) = { \big | } T { \big | } = { \big \lfloor } { \frac { n - 1 } { 2 } } { \big \rfloor } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , where n is even and <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-240"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle n \geq 6 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> □</p></sec><sec id="sec-9"><title>3.2. Nonlocal-Adjacency Metric Dimension of Centered Graphs G _ { c } .</title><p>Non local-adjacency metric dimension of centered graphs that are basic graphs are presented in Theorem <xref ref-type="custom" custom-type="reference-target" rid="anchor-07fc0811-76b9-4bf9-a3fa-d6aee5b170ad">3.4</xref> and Theorem <xref ref-type="custom" custom-type="reference-target" rid="anchor-9b97fc50-4941-4fa9-8d65-61cf63610f20">3.5</xref>. The following theorems, up to Theorem 3.8, address the nonlocal-adjacency metric dimension of centered graph that are the result of an operation. Characterization of nonlocal-adjacency metric dimension of a graph is presented in Theorem <xref ref-type="custom" custom-type="reference-target" rid="anchor-07fc0811-76b9-4bf9-a3fa-d6aee5b170ad">3.4</xref>.<target id="anchor-07fc0811-76b9-4bf9-a3fa-d6aee5b170ad" target-type="reference-target"/></p><p><bold>Theorem 3.4.</bold><italic>Nonlocal-adjacency metric dimension of </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-241"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G _ { c } , d i m _ { A n l } ( G _ { c } ) = 0 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> if and only if </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-242"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G _ { c } = K _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p><p><italic>Proof</italic>. (⇐) It is known that <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-243"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G _ { c } \ = \ K _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . From Definition <xref ref-type="custom" custom-type="reference-target" rid="anchor-cedea9f5-5eed-4e1d-adca-38f51e10e06c">2.4</xref>, we know that all vertices in <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-244"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G _ { c } ~ = ~ K _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> are adjacent to each other. <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-245"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle { \mathrm { S o } } , \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> there is no vertex in <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-246"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G _ { c } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> that is not adjacent to another. Hence, there is no vertex that can be chosen as a candidate for the element of the nonlocal-adjacency metric resolving set of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-247"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G _ { c } . \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> Therefore, the nonlocal-adjacency metric resolving set of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-248"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G _ { c } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is the empty set. Thus, the minimum cardinality of the nonlocal-adjacency metric resolving set is zero or dim <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-249"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle _ { A n l } ( G _ { c } ) = 0 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p><p>(⇒) It is known that the nonlocal-adjacency metric dimension of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-250"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G _ { c } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is zero. This means the cardinality of the nonlocal-adjacency metric resolving set of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-251"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G _ { c } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is zero. Therefore, the nonlocal-adjacency metric resolving set of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-252"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G _ { c } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is the empty set. This means there is no vertex in <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-253"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G _ { c } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> that is not adjacent to another. Hence, all vertices in <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-254"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G _ { c } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> are adjacent to each other. The only connected graph that has this property is <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-255"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> □</p><p>So, zero is lower bound of the nonlocal-adjacency metric dimension of graphs. This lower bound is sharp because <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-256"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle d i m _ { A n l } ( G ) = 0 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is achieved by <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-257"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G = K _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . Thus, we can write <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-258"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle 0 \leq d i m _ { A n l } ( G ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p><p>Theorem <xref ref-type="custom" custom-type="reference-target" rid="anchor-9b97fc50-4941-4fa9-8d65-61cf63610f20">3.5</xref> presents the nonlocal-adjacency metric dimension of star graph <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-259"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle S _ { n } , n \geq 4 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><target id="anchor-9b97fc50-4941-4fa9-8d65-61cf63610f20" target-type="reference-target"/></p><p><bold>Theorem 3.5.</bold><italic>Nonlocal-adjacency metric dimension of </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-260"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle S _ { n } , n \geq 4 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> is </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-261"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle d i m _ { A n l } ( S _ { n } ) = \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic></italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-262"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle n - 2 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p><p><italic>Proof</italic>. Suppose the graph <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-263"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle S _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is labeled as shown in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="figure-3">Figure 3</xref>. The vertex set of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-264"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle S _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-265"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle V ( S _ { n } ) = \{ v _ { 1 } , v _ { 2 } , v _ { 3 } , \ldots , v _ { n - 1 } , v _ { n } \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , with deg <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-266"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle ( v _ { i } ) = 1 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> for <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-267"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle i \in \{ 1 , 2 , 3 , \dotsc , n - 1 \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> 2 and <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-268"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \deg ( v _ { n } ) = n - 1 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . Every vertex v with <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-269"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle i \in \{ 1 , 2 , 3 , \dotsc , n - 1 \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is not adjacent to one another. Let us choose the set <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-270"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T = \{ v _ { 1 } , v _ { 2 } , v _ { 3 } , \ldots , v _ { n - 2 } \} \subseteq V ( S _ { n } ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . We will show that <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-271"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is a nonlocal-adjacency metric resolving set for <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-272"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle S _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . The adjacency metric representations of the vertices in <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-273"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle S _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> with respect to the set <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-274"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> are:</p><disp-formula id="equation-11"><tex-math id="math-275"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle r _ {A} (v _ {n} \mid T) = \underbrace {(1 , 1 , 1 , \ldots , 1)} _ {(n - 2)}, \quad r _ {A} (v _ {n - 1} \mid T) = \underbrace {(2 , 2 , 2 , \ldots , 2)} _ {(n - 2)}, \end{document} ]]></tex-math></disp-formula><disp-formula id="equation-12"><tex-math id="math-276"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle r _ {A} (v _ {i} \mid T) = \left(d _ {A} (v _ {i}, v _ {1}), d _ {A} (v _ {i}, v _ {2}), \dots , d _ {A} (v _ {i}, v _ {n - 2})\right), \end{document} ]]></tex-math></disp-formula><p>with</p><disp-formula id="equation-13"><tex-math id="math-277"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle d_{A}(v_{i},v_{j}) = \left\{\begin{array}{l l}0 & , \text{if } i = j \\2 & , \text{if } i \neq j\end{array}\right. \end{document} ]]></tex-math></disp-formula><p>and <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-278"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v _ { i } ~ \nsim ~ v _ { j } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> for all <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-279"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle i , j \in \{ 1 , 2 , 3 , \dotsc , n - 1 \} , i \neq j \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , while <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-280"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v _ { n } \ \sim \ v _ { i } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> for all <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-281"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle i \in \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-282"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \{ 1 , 2 , 3 , \dotsc , n - 1 \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p><p>Hence, all pairs of non-adjacent vertices in <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-283"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle S _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> have distinct representations. Therefore, <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-284"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is a nonlocal-adjacency metric resolving set for <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-285"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle S _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . The cardinality of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-286"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T , \vert T \vert = n - 2 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is minimum because if we take any ordered subset <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-287"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T ^ { \prime } \subset T \subseteq V ( S _ { n } ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> with <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-288"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle | T ^ { \prime } | < | T | = n - 2 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , and we choose <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-289"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T ^ { \prime } = T \setminus \{ v _ { i } \} , i \in \{ 1 , 2 , . . . , n - 1 \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> then there is exist a vertex <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-290"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v _ { j } \in V ( S _ { n } ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> such that <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-291"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle r _ { A } ( v _ { i } \mid T ^ { \prime } ) = r _ { A } ( v _ { j } \mid T ^ { \prime } ) = ( 2 , 2 , 2 , \ldots , 2 ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> {zn−3</p><p>with <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-292"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle 1 \leq i , j \leq n - 1 , i \neq j , v _ { i } \times v _ { j } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . Therefore, <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-293"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is a minimum nonlocal-adjacency metric resolving set for <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-294"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle S _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . Hence, the nonlocal-adjacency metric dimension of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-295"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle S _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-296"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle d i m _ { A _ { n l } } ( S _ { n } ) = n - 2 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> .</p><p>The next centered graph to be discussed is the fan graph. Let <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-297"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G _ { c } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> be a fan graph <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-298"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { 1 } + P _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> whose vertices are labeled as shown in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="figure-6">Figure 6</xref> .The vertex set of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-299"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { 1 } + P _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-300"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle V ( K _ { 1 } + P _ { n } ) = \{ v _ { 1 } , v _ { 2 } , v _ { 3 } , \ldots , v _ { n } , v _ { n + 1 } \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , so the order of the graph <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-301"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { 1 } + P _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-302"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle | V ( K _ { 1 } + P _ { n } ) | = n + 1 = m \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . The nonlocal-adjacency metric dimension of the graph <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-303"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { 1 } + P _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is given in the following theorem.</p><p><bold>Theorem 3.6.</bold><italic>Nonlocal-adjacency metric dimension of fan graph </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-304"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle F _ { m } = K _ { 1 } + P _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> 2 </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-305"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle f o r n \ge 4 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> is</italic></p><disp-formula id="equation-14"><tex-math id="math-306"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \dim_{Anl}(F_{m}) = \left\{\begin{array}{l l}1 & , \text{for } m = 5 \\2 & , \text{for } m = 6 \\\left\lfloor \frac{m - 3}{2} \right\rfloor & , \text{for } m \geq 7\end{array}\right. \end{document} ]]></tex-math></disp-formula><p>with <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-307"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle m = n + 1 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p><p><italic>Proof</italic>. Let the vertices of graph <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-308"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { 1 } + P _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> labeled as <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-309"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v _ { 0 } , v _ { 1 } , \ldots , v _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , where <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-310"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v _ { 0 } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is the vertex of degree <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-311"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle n , \ v _ { 1 } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-312"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> are the vertices of degree two, and <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-313"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v _ { 2 } , v _ { 3 } , \ldots , v _ { n - 1 } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> are the vertices of degree three. Hence, the vertex set of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-314"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { 1 } + P _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-315"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle V ( K _ { 1 } + P _ { n } ) = \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> = <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-316"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \{ v _ { 0 } , v _ { 1 } , v _ { 2 } , \ldots , v _ { n } \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . The proof is given in three cases.</p><p><bold>Case 1.</bold><bold>For</bold> m = 5.</p><p>Then <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-317"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle n = m - 1 = 4 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , so <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-318"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle V ( K _ { 1 } + P _ { 4 } ) = \{ v _ { 0 } , v _ { 1 } , v _ { 2 } , v _ { 3 } , v _ { 4 } \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p><p>Choose the set <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-319"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T = \{ v _ { 1 } \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . The vertices in <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-320"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { 1 } + P _ { 4 } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> have the following adjacency metric representations with respect to the set <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-321"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula>  .</p><disp-formula id="equation-15"><tex-math id="math-322"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle r _ {A} (v _ {1} \mid T) = (0), \quad r _ {A} (v _ {2} \mid T) = r _ {A} (v _ {0} \mid T) = (1), \quad r _ {A} (v _ {3} \mid T) = r _ {A} (v _ {4} \mid T) = (2) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></disp-formula><p>However, <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-323"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v _ { 2 } \sim v _ { 0 } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-324"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v _ { 3 } \sim v _ { 4 } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . Therefore, T is a nonlocal-adjacency metric resolving set of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-325"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { 1 } + P _ { 4 } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , and the cardinality <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-326"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T , \ \vert T \vert = 1 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is minimum. Thus, the nonlocal-adjacency metric dimension of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-327"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { 1 } + P _ { 4 } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is dim <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-328"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle _ { A n l } ( K _ { 1 } + P _ { 4 } ) = 1 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p><p><bold>Case 2. For</bold><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-329"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle m = 6 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p><p>Then <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-330"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle n = 6 - 1 = 5 . \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , so <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-331"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle V ( K _ { 1 } + P _ { 5 } ) = \{ v _ { 0 } , v _ { 1 } , v _ { 2 } , v _ { 3 } , v _ { 4 } , v _ { 5 } \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p><p>Choose the set <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-332"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T = \{ v _ { 1 } , v _ { 3 } \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . The vertices in <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-333"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { 1 } + P _ { 5 } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> have the following adjacency metric representations with respect to the set <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-334"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p><disp-formula id="equation-16"><tex-math id="math-335"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \begin{array}{l l}r_{A}(v_{1} \mid T) = (0, 2), & r_{A}(v_{2} \mid T) = r_{A}(v_{0} \mid T) = (1, 1), \\r_{A}(v_{3} \mid T) = (2, 0), & r_{A}(v_{4} \mid T) = (2, 1), \quad r_{A}(v_{5} \mid T) = (2, 2).\end{array} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></disp-formula><p>Nevertheless, <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-336"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v _ { 2 } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is adjacent to <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-337"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v _ { 0 } . \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . Therefore, T constitutes a nonlocal-adjacency metric resolving set for the graph <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-338"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { 1 } + P _ { 5 } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , and its cardinality <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-339"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle | T | = 2 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is minimum. To justify minimumity, assume there exists a set <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-340"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T ^ { \prime } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> with <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-341"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle | T ^ { \prime } | = 1 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , for instance <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-342"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T ^ { \prime } = T \setminus \{ v _ { i } \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , where <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-343"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle i \in \{ 1 , 3 \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . In such a case, at least one pair of distinct vertices in the graph would share an identical nonlocal-adjacency metric representation with respect to <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-344"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T ^ { \prime } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p><p><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-345"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \begin{array}{l}\text{If } T' = T \setminus \{v_{1}\} = \{v_{3}\}, \text{ then } r_{A}(v_{3} \mid T') = r_{A}(v_{5} \mid T') = (2), \text{ and } v_{3} \not\sim v_{5}.\\\text{If } T' = T \setminus \{v_{3}\} = \{v_{1}\}, \text{ then } r_{A}(v_{1} \mid T') = r_{A}(v_{5} \mid T') = (2), \text{ and } v_{1} \not\sim v_{5}.\end{array} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p><p>Thus, <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-346"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T ^ { \prime } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is not a nonlocal-adjacency metric resolving set. Therefore, <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-347"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle d i m _ { A n l } ( K _ { 1 } + \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-348"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle P _ { 5 } ) = 2 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p><p><bold>Case 3. For</bold><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-349"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle m \geq 7 . \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p><p>Choose the ordered set <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-350"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T = \{ v _ { 4 } , v _ { 6 } , v _ { 8 } , \dotsc , v _ { 2 \lfloor \frac { m - 1 } { 2 } \rfloor } \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . The vertices <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-351"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v _ { i } \in V ( K _ { 1 } + P _ { n } ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> have the adjacency metric representations with respect to <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-352"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T , \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p><disp-formula id="equation-17"><tex-math id="math-353"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle r _ {A} (v _ {i} \mid T) = \left(d _ {A} (v _ {i}, v _ {4}), d _ {A} (v _ {i}, v _ {6}), d _ {A} (v _ {i}, v _ {8}), \dots , d _ {A} \left(v _ {i}, v _ {2 \lfloor \frac {m - 1}{2} \rfloor}\right)\right) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></disp-formula><p>with the distance defined by:</p><disp-formula id="equation-18"><tex-math id="math-354"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle d_{A}(v_{i},v_{j}) = \left\{\begin{array}{l l}0, & \text{if } i = j \\1, & \text{if } |i-j| = 1 \\2, & \text{if } |i-j| \geq 2.\end{array}\right. \end{document} ]]></tex-math></disp-formula><p>Hence, we obtain the adjacency metric representation <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-355"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle r _ { A } ( v _ { 1 } \mid T ) = r _ { A } ( v _ { 2 } \mid T ) = \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-356"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle ( 2 , 2 , \ldots , 2 ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> with <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-357"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v _ { 1 } \sim \ v _ { 2 } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . While all other vertices in <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-358"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle V ( K _ { 1 } + P _ { n } ) \setminus \{ v _ { 1 } , v _ { 2 } \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-359"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \lfloor { \frac { m - 3 } { 2 } } \rfloor \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p><p>have distinct representations. Thus, <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-360"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is a nonlocal-adjacency metric resolving set, and its cardinality <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-361"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \textstyle | T | = \left\lfloor { \frac { m - 3 } { 2 } } \right\rfloor \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is minimum, because if we choose any subset <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-362"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T ^ { \prime } \subseteq T \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> with <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-363"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \left| T ^ { \prime } \right| < \left| T \right| \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> will result the adjacency metric representasion <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-364"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle r _ { A } ( v _ { 1 } \mid T ^ { \prime } ) = \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-365"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle r _ { A } ( v _ { 2 } \mid T ^ { \prime } ) = ( 2 , 2 , . . . , 2 ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> with <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-366"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v _ { 1 } \ \sim \ v _ { 2 } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . Thus, <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-367"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T ^ { \prime } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is not a nonlocal-adjacency <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-368"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \lfloor { \frac { m - 1 } { 2 } } \rfloor - 1 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p><p>metric resolving set. Therefore, we conclude dim <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-369"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \begin{array} { r } { \ A n l { ( K _ { 1 } + P _ { n } ) } = \left\lfloor \frac { m - 3 } { 2 } \right\rfloor } \end{array} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula>.</p><p>Let <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-370"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G _ { c } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> be a wheel graph <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-371"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { 1 } + C _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> with vertices labeled as shown in the following figure.</p><fig id="figure-7"><label>Figure 7.</label><caption><p>K1 + Cn</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="https://jims-a.org/index.php/jimsa/article/download/1842/560/13967" mime-subtype="jpeg" mimetype="image"><alt-text>Figure 7.</alt-text></graphic></fig><p>The vertex set of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-372"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { 1 } + C _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-373"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle V ( K _ { 1 } + C _ { n } ) = \left\{ v _ { 1 } , v _ { 2 } , \ldots , v _ { n + 1 } \right\} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . The nonlocaladjacency metric dimension of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-374"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { 1 } + C _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is given in the following theorem.</p><p><bold>Theorem 3.7.</bold><italic>Nonlocal-adjacency metric dimension of </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-375"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { 1 } + C _ { n } , f o r n \ge 5 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> , is</italic></p><disp-formula id="equation-19"><tex-math id="math-376"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \dim_{Anl}(K_{1} + C_{n}) = \left\{\begin{array}{l l}\left\lfloor \frac{n + 1}{3} \right\rfloor & , \text{for odd } n \geq 5 \\\left\lfloor \frac{n - 1}{2} \right\rfloor & , \text{for even } n \geq 6.\end{array}\right. \end{document} ]]></tex-math></disp-formula><p><italic>Proof</italic>. Proof is divided into two cases.</p><p><bold>Case 1.</bold> For odd <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-377"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle n \geq 5 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . Choose the ordered set <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-378"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T = \{ v _ { 1 } , v _ { 3 } , v _ { 5 } , \dotsc , v _ { 2 \left| \frac { n + 1 } { 3 } \right| - 1 } \} \subseteq \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-379"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle V ( K _ { 1 } + C _ { n } ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . For every vertex <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-380"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v _ { i } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> in <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-381"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { 1 } + C _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , the adjacency metric representation with respect to <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-382"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is</p><disp-formula id="equation-20"><tex-math id="math-383"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle r _ {A} (v _ {i} | T) = \Big (d _ {A} (v _ {i}, v _ {1}), d _ {A} (v _ {i}, v _ {3}), d _ {A} (v _ {i}, v _ {5}), \ldots , d _ {A} (v _ {i}, v _ {2 \left\lfloor \frac {n + 1}{3} \right\rfloor - 1}) \Big) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></disp-formula><p>with</p><disp-formula id="equation-21"><tex-math id="math-384"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle d_{A}(v_{i},v_{j}) = \left\{\begin{array}{l l}0 & , \text{if } i = j \\1 & , \text{if } |i-j| = 1 \\2 & , \text{if } |i-j| \geq 2\end{array}\right. \end{document} ]]></tex-math></disp-formula><p>for <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-385"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle i \in \{ 1 , 2 , \ldots , n + 1 \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-386"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle j \in \{ 1 , 3 , 5 , \dots , 2 \left| \frac { n + 1 } { 3 } \right| - 1 \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . Specifically for <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-387"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle n = 5 , \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-388"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle r _ { A } ( v _ { 1 } | T ) = r _ { A } ( v _ { n + 1 } | T ) = ( 1 , 1 ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> but v and <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-389"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v _ { n + 1 } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> are adjacent. Similarly for <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-390"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle n = 7 . \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-391"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle r _ { A } ( v _ { 1 } | T ) = r _ { A } ( v _ { n + 1 } | T ) = ( 1 , 1 ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> ) and <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-392"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle r _ { A } ( v _ { n - 1 } | T ) = r _ { A } ( v _ { n - 2 } | T ) = ( 2 , 2 ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , but the vertices with the same adjacency metric representation are still adjacent. For <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-393"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle n \geq 9 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-394"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle r_{A}(v_{n-1} \mid T) = r_{A}(v_{n-2} \mid T)= \underbrace{(2,2,\ldots,2)}_{\left\lfloor \frac{n+1}{3} \right\rfloor} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , but <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-395"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v _ { n - 1 } \sim v _ { n - 2 } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . It follows that the {z⌊ n+1 ⌋</p><p>adjacency metric representation of non-adjacent vertices in <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-396"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { 1 } + C _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is all distinct. Consequently, <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-397"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is a nonlocal-adjacency metric resolving set of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-398"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { 1 } + C _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> The cardinality of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-399"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T , \ \vert { \cal T } \vert \ = \ \lfloor { \frac { n + 1 } { 3 } } \rfloor \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , is minimum, since if any ordered set <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-400"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T ^ { \prime } \subseteq T \subseteq \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-401"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle V ( K _ { 1 } + C _ { n } ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> with <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-402"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \vert T ^ { \prime } \vert < \vert T \vert \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is taken, say <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-403"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \begin{array} { r } { T ^ { \prime } = T \setminus \{ v _ { j } \} , j \in \{ 1 , 3 , \dotsc , | \frac { n + 1 } { 3 } | - 1 \} } \end{array} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> then there exist vertices <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-404"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v _ { i } , \ i \in \{ 1 , 2 , . . . , n \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> such that <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-405"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle r_{A}(v_i \mid T') = r_{A}(v_j \mid T') = \underbrace{(2,2,\ldots,2)}_{\left\lfloor \frac{n+1}{3} \right\rfloor - 1} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula>  where <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-406"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle 1 \leq i , j \leq n , \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , and <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-407"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle i \neq j \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , that is <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-408"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T ^ { \prime } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> not being a nonlocal <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-409"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \lfloor \frac { n + 1 } { 3 } \rfloor - 1 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p><p>adjacency metric resolving set of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-410"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { 1 } + C _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . Therefore, <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-411"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is the nonlocal-adjacency metric basis of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-412"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { 1 } + C _ { n } . \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , and <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-413"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \begin{array} { r } { d i m _ { A n l } ( K _ { 1 } + C _ { n } ) = | T | = \left\lfloor \frac { n + 1 } { 3 } \right\rfloor } \end{array} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , for odd <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-414"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle n \geq 5 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula>.</p><p><bold>Case 2.</bold> For even <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-415"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle n \geq 6 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . Choose the ordered set <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-416"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T = \{ v _ { 1 } , v _ { 2 } , v _ { 4 } , v _ { 6 } , . . . , v _ { 2 \left\lfloor { \frac { n - 3 } { 2 } } \right\rfloor } \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> The adjacency metric representation of the vertices in <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-417"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { 1 } + C _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is</p><disp-formula id="equation-22"><tex-math id="math-418"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle r _ {A} (v _ {i} | T) = \left(d _ {A} (v _ {i}, v _ {1}), d _ {A} (v _ {i}, v _ {2}), d _ {A} (v _ {i}, v _ {4}), \dots , d _ {A} (v _ {i}, v _ {2 \lfloor \frac {n - 3}{2} \rfloor})\right) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></disp-formula><p>with</p><disp-formula id="equation-23"><tex-math id="math-419"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle d_{A}(v_{i},v_{j}) = \left\{\begin{array}{l l}0 & , \text{if } i = j \\1 & , \text{if } |i-j| = 1 \\2 & , \text{if } |i-j| \geq 2\end{array}\right. \end{document} ]]></tex-math></disp-formula><p>for <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-420"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle i \in \{ 1 , 2 , \ldots , n { + } 1 \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-421"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle j \in \{ 1 , 2 , 4 , . . . , 2 \left\lfloor \frac { n - 3 } { 2 } \right\rfloor \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . For every <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-422"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle r_{A}(v_{n-1} \mid T) = r_{A}(v_{n-2} \mid T) = \underbrace{(2,2,\ldots,2)}_{\left\lfloor \frac{n-3}{2} \right\rfloor} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , but <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-423"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v _ { n - 1 } \sim v _ { n - 2 } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . Therefore, the adjacency metric representation of non-adjacent vertices is distinct. Thus, T is a nonlocal-adjacency metric resolving set of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-424"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { 1 } + C _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . The cardinality of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-425"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T , \ \left| T \right| = \ \left| \frac { n - 3 } { 2 } \right| \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , is minimum, since if any ordered set <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-426"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T ^ { \prime } \subseteq T \subseteq V ( K _ { 1 } + C _ { n } ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> with <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-427"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle | T ^ { \prime } | < | T | \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is taken, say <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-428"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T ^ { \prime } = T - \{ v _ { j } \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , where <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-429"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle j \in \{ 1 , 2 , 4 , 6 , . . . , 2 \left| \frac { n - 3 } { 2 } \right| \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , then there exist vertices <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-430"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v _ { i } \in V ( K _ { 1 } + C _ { n } ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> such that <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-431"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle r_{A}(v_{i} \mid T') = r_{A}(v_{j} \mid T') = \underbrace{(2,2,\ldots,2)}_{\left\lfloor \frac{n-3}{2} \right\rfloor - 1} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula>, with <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-432"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle 1 \leq i , j \leq n \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-433"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle i \neq j \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , and <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-434"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v _ { i } \nsim v _ { j } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . Therefore, T is the nonlocal-adjacency metric basis of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-435"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { 1 } + C _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-436"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle d i m _ { A n l } ( K _ { 1 } \stackrel { \_ } { + } C _ { n } ) = | T | = \left\lfloor \frac { n - 3 } { 2 } \right\rfloor \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , for even <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-437"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle n \geq 6 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> .</p><p>Given a complete graph <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-438"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { m } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> with the vertex set <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-439"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle V ( K _ { m } ) = \{ v _ { 1 } , v _ { 2 } , \ldots , v _ { m } \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> and a graph <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-440"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \overline { { K _ { n } } } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> with the vertex set <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-441"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle V ( \overline { { K _ { n } } } ) = \{ x _ { 1 } , x _ { 2 } , \ldots , x _ { n } \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . The graph <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-442"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { m } + \overline { { K _ { n } } } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is obtained by taking the graph <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-443"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { m } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> and the graph <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-444"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \overline { { K _ { n } } } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . Then, every vertex in <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-445"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { m } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is connected to all the vertices in <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-446"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \overline { { K _ { n } } } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . The graph <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-447"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { m } + \overline { { K _ { n } } } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> has vertex set <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-448"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle V ( K _ { m } + \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-449"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \overline { { K _ { n } } } ) = V ( K _ { m } ) \cup V ( \overline { { K _ { n } } } ) = \{ v _ { 1 } , v _ { 2 } , \ldots , v _ { m } , x _ { 1 } , x _ { 2 } , \ldots , x _ { n } \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> and edge set <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-450"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle E ( K _ { m } + \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-451"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \overline { { K _ { n } } } ) = E ( K _ { m } ) \cup \{ v _ { i } x _ { j } \mid i \in \{ 1 , 2 , \ldots , m \} , j \in \{ 1 , 2 , \ldots , n \} \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . This can be expanded as  <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-452"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \left\{ v _ { 1 } x _ { 1 } , v _ { 2 } x _ { 1 } , \ldots , v _ { m } x _ { 1 } \right\} \cup \left\{ v _ { 1 } x _ { 2 } , v _ { 2 } x _ { 2 } , \ldots , v _ { m } x _ { 2 } \right\} \cup \ldots \cup \left\{ v _ { 1 } x _ { n } , v _ { 2 } x _ { n } , \ldots , v _ { m } x _ { n } \right\} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula>.</p><p>As an illustration, the graph Km+Kncan be seen in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="figure-8">Figure 8</xref>.</p><fig id="figure-8"><label>Figure 8.</label><caption><p>Graph Km + overline Kn</p></caption><long-desc>As an illustration, the graph Km+ overline Kn can be seen in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="figure-8">Figure 8</xref>.</long-desc><graphic xlink:href="https://jims-a.org/index.php/jimsa/article/download/1842/560/13968" mime-subtype="jpeg" mimetype="image"><alt-text>As an illustration, the graph Km+ overline Kn can be seen in Figure 8.</alt-text></graphic></fig><p>In <xref ref-type="fig" rid="figure-8">Figure 8</xref>], the red vertex represents the vertex of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-453"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { m } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> and the green vertex represents the vertex of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-454"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \overline { { K _ { n } } } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . The Nonlocal-adjacency metric dimension of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-455"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { m } + \overline { { K _ { n } } } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> with <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-456"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle m \geq 3 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-457"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle n \geq 1 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , is presented below.</p><p><bold>Theorem 3.8.</bold><italic>Let </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-458"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G _ { c } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> be a complete graph </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-459"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { m } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> with </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-460"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle m \geq 3 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> and let H be an empty graph </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-461"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \overline { { K _ { n } } } , \ n \geq 1 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> . Nonlocal-adjacency metric dimension of </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-462"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { m } + \overline { { K _ { n } } } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> is </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-463"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle d i m _ { A n l } ( K _ { m } + \overline { { K _ { n } } } ) = n - 1 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p><p><italic>Proof</italic>. Let <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-464"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T = \{ x _ { j } | j \in \{ 1 , 2 , \ldots , n - 1 \} \} \subseteq V ( { \overline { { K _ { n } } } } ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . Adjacency metric representations of the vertices of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-465"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { m } + \overline { { K _ { n } } } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> with respect to <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-466"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> are <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-467"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle r _ { A } ( v _ { i } \mid T ) \ = \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-468"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \bigl ( d _ { A } \bigl ( v _ { i } , x _ { 1 } \bigr ) , d _ { A } \bigl ( v _ { i } , x _ { 2 } \bigr ) , \ldots , d _ { A } \bigl ( v _ { i } , x _ { n - 1 } \bigr ) \bigr ) , \quad i \in \{ 1 , 2 , \ldots , m \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> with <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-469"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle d _ { A } ( v _ { i } , x _ { j } ) = 1 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-470"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle j \in \{ 1 , 2 , . . . , n \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-471"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle r _ { A } ( x _ { h } \mid T ) = ( d _ { A } ( x _ { h } , x _ { 1 } ) , d _ { A } ( x _ { h } , x _ { 2 } ) , \ldots , d _ { A } ( x _ { h } , x _ { n - 1 } ) ) , \quad h \in \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-472"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \{ 1 , 2 , \ldots , n \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> with</p><disp-formula id="equation-24"><tex-math id="math-473"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle d_{A}(x_{h},x_{j}) = \left\{\begin{array}{l l}0 & , \text{if } j = h \\2 & , \text{if } j \neq h.\end{array}\right. \end{document} ]]></tex-math></disp-formula><p>Since all of vertices that <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-474"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle r _ { A } ( v _ { i } \mid T ) , i \in \{ 1 , 2 , \ldots , m \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> are all the same, which is equal to <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-475"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \underbrace{(1,1,\ldots,1)}_{(n-1)} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> where <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-476"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v _ { i } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> are all adjacent to each other, then the adjacency metric representation of every two adjacent vertices is not diferent. However, for every <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-477"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle h , j \in \{ 1 , 2 , \ldots , n \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> with <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-478"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle h \neq j , x _ { h } \sim x _ { j } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-479"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle r _ { A } ( x _ { h } \mid T ) \ne r _ { A } ( x _ { j } \mid T ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> Hence, although T serves as a nonlocal-adjacency metric resolving set for the graph <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-480"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { m } + \overline { { K _ { n } } } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , this does not establish it as a lower bound. Therefore, the nonlocal adjacency metric dimension satisfies <italic>dim</italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-481"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle _ { A n l } ( K _ { m } + { \overline { { K _ { n } } } } ) \leq n - 1 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula>.</p><p>Now, we show that dim <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-482"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle { \mathrm { ~ \xi ~ } } _ { A n l } ( K _ { m } + \overline { { K _ { n } } } ) ~ \geq ~ n - 1 . \quad \mathrm { L e t } ~ T ^ { \prime } ~ = ~ \{ x _ { j } ~ | ~ j ~ \in ~ { \bf \Omega } ~ \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-483"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \{ 1 , 2 , \ldots , n - 1 \} \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> be a nonlocal-adjacency metric resolving set with <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-484"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle | T ^ { \prime } | = n - 1 . \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> Assume that an ordered set <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-485"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T ^ { \prime } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is another minimum nonlocal-adjacency metric resolving set, or <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-486"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle | T ^ { \prime } | < | T | = n - 1 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . If we select an ordered set <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-487"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T ^ { \prime } \subseteq T - \{ x _ { h } , x _ { j } \} , 1 \leq \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-488"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle h , j ~ \leq ~ n , ~ h ~ \neq ~ j , \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> so there is exist two vertices <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-489"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle x _ { h } , x _ { j } \ \in \ V ( K _ { m } + \overline { { K _ { n } } } ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> such that <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-490"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle r_{A}(x_{h} \mid T') = r_{A}(x_{j} \mid T') = \underbrace{(2,2,\ldots,2)}_{(n-1)} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> It should be noted that <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-491"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is </p><p>not a nonlocal-adjacency metric resolving set, which is contrary to the assumption. <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-492"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \mathrm { S o } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , the lower bound is dim <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-493"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle _ { A n l } ( K _ { m } + \overline { { K _ { n } } } ) \geq n - 1 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula>. We conclude that <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-494"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle d i m _ { A n l } ( K _ { m } + \overline { { K _ { n } } } ) = n - 1 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula>.</p></sec><sec id="sec-10"><title>3.3. Nonlocal-Adjacency Metric Dimension of Degree Corona Graphs.</title><p>This subsection explained definition of degree corona graph and the nonlocaladjacency metric dimension of the graph resulting from degree corona operation. Degree corona operation is an extension of the corona operation discovered by <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="BIBR-4">[4]</xref>. The following is the definition of a degree corona graph.</p><p><bold>Definition 3.9.</bold><italic>The degree corona graph of two graphs G and </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-495"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle H _ { i } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> , denoted by </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-496"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G \odot _ { \mathrm { d e g } } H \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> , is a graph obtained by taking a graph G and </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-497"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \scriptstyle \sum _ { i = 1 } ^ { | V ( G ) | } \deg ( v _ { i } ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> copies of the graph H, denoted by </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-498"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle H _ { i j } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> (the </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-499"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle i j ^ { t h } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> copy of </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-500"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle H ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> . For each </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-501"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle i ^ { t h } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> vertex </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-502"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v _ { i } \in \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic></italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-503"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle V ( G ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> , connect </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-504"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle v _ { i } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> to every vertex in each </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-505"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle H _ { i j } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> , where </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-506"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle i \in \{ 1 , 2 , \ldots , | V ( G ) | \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> and </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-507"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle j \in \{ 1 , 2 , . . . , \deg ( v _ { i } ) \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p><p>As an illustration, the degree corona graph can be seen in Figure <xref ref-type="fig" rid="figure-9">Figure 9</xref></p><fig id="figure-9"><label>Figure 9.</label><caption><p>Graph Sn \odot _ { \mathrm { d e g } } K1</p></caption><long-desc>As an illustration, the degree corona graph can be seen in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="figure-9">Figure 9</xref></long-desc><graphic xlink:href="https://jims-a.org/index.php/jimsa/article/download/1842/560/13969" mime-subtype="jpeg" mimetype="image"><alt-text>As an illustration, the degree corona graph can be seen in Figure 9</alt-text></graphic></fig><p>In <xref ref-type="fig" rid="figure-9">Figure 9</xref>, the red vertex represents the vertex of the graph <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-508"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle S _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> and the blue vertex represents the vertex of the graph <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-509"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { 1 } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p><p><bold>Observation 3.10.</bold><italic>Given a connected graph </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-510"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G , \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> and H is a graph with at least two vertices. In any subgraph </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-511"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle H _ { i } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> of </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-512"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G \odot _ { \mathrm { d e g } } H \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> , the vertices u and v are considered similar adjacency distance with respect to </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-513"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle H _ { i } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p><p>Based on the above observation, we can formulate the lemma below.</p><p><bold>Lemma 3.11.</bold><italic>Let </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-514"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G = ( V ( G ) , E ( G ) ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> be a connected graph with order </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-515"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle n \geq 2 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> , and let H be a graph of order at least two such that H is not isomorphic to the complete graph </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-516"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> . For each i, let </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-517"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle H _ { i } = ( V _ { i } ( H _ { i } ) , E _ { i } ( H _ { i } ) ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> ) represent the subgraph in </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-518"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G \odot _ { \mathrm { d e g } } H \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> associated with the </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-519"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle i ^ { t h } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> copy of H.</italic></p><list list-type="order"><list-item><p>For any pair of vertices <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-520"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \alpha , \beta ~ \in ~ V _ { i } ( H _ { i } ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , it holds that <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-521"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle d_{A\odot_{\deg H}}(\alpha,p) = d_{A\odot_{\deg H}}(\beta,p) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula>  for every vertex <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-522"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle p \in V ( G \odot _ { \deg } H ) \setminus V _ { i } ( H _ { i } ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p></list-item><list-item><p><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-523"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle I f T \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> is a nonlocal-adjacency metric resolving set for the graph </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-524"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G \odot _ { \mathrm { d e g } } H \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> ， then for each </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-525"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle i \in \{ 1 , 2 , \ldots , n \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> , we have </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-526"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle V _ { i } ( H _ { i } ) \cap T \neq \emptyset \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p></list-item><list-item><p>If <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-527"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is a nonlocal-adjacency metric resolving set with minimum cardinality for <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-528"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G \odot _ { \mathrm { d e g } } H \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , then we have <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-529"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle V ( G ) \cap T = \emptyset \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p></list-item><list-item><p>If H be a graph, and let T be a nonlocal-adjacency metric resolving set for the graph <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-530"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G \odot _ { \mathrm { d e g } } H \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . Then, for each <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-531"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle i \in \{ 1 , 2 , \ldots , n \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , the subset <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-532"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle V _ { i } ( H _ { i } ) \cap T \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> serves as a nonlocal-adjacency metric resolving set for the subgraph <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-533"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle H _ { i } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p></list-item></list><p><italic>Proof</italic>. </p><list list-type="order"><list-item><p>Suppose <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-534"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle q ~ = ~ \beta _ { i } ~ \in ~ V ( G ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . The conclusion follows immediately from the fact that <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-535"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle d _ { A _ { G \odot _ { \bf d e g } } H } ( \alpha , p ) \ = \ d _ { A _ { G \odot _ { \bf d e g } } H } ( \alpha , q ) + d _ { A _ { G \odot _ { \bf d e g } } H } ( q , p ) \ = \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-536"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle d _ { A _ { G \odot _ { \bf d e g } H } } ( \beta , q ) + d _ { A _ { G \odot _ { \bf d e g } H } } ( { \it { q } } , p ) = d _ { A _ { G \odot _ { \bf d e g } H } } ( \beta , p ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula>.</p></list-item><list-item><p>We suppose <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-537"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle V _ { i } ( H _ { i } ) \cap T ^ { \mathsf { ^ { \prime } } } = \emptyset \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> for some <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-538"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle i \in \{ 1 , 2 , \ldots , n \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . Let <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-539"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle p , q \in V _ { i } ( H _ { i } ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> By (1), we have <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-540"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle d _ { A _ { G \odot _ { \mathrm { d e g } } } { \cal H } } ( p , \alpha ) = d _ { A _ { G \odot _ { \mathrm { d e g } } } { \cal H } } ( q , \alpha ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> for every vertex <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-541"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \alpha \in T \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> which is a contradiction.</p></list-item><list-item><p>In the following, we show that <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-542"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T ^ { \prime } = T \backslash V ( G ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is a nonlocal-adjacency metric resolving set for <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-543"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G \odot _ { \mathrm { d e g } } H \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . Let <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-544"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle p , q \in V ( \odot _ { \mathrm { d e g } } H ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> ) with <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-545"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle p \neq q \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . We examine the proof by considering the following cases.</p><p><bold>Case 1.</bold><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-546"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle p , q \in V _ { i } ( H _ { i } ) . \mathrm { ~ B y ~ } ( 1 ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , we conclude that there exists <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-547"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \beta \in V _ { i } ( H _ { i } ) \cap T ^ { \prime } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> such that <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-548"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle d _ { A _ { G \odot _ { \mathrm { d e g } } } { H } } ( p , \beta ) \neq d _ { A _ { G \odot _ { \mathrm { d e g } } } { H } } ( q , \beta ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p><p><bold>Case 2.</bold><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-549"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle p \in V _ { i } , \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-550"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle q \in V _ { j } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , with <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-551"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle i \neq j . \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . Let <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-552"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \beta \in V _ { i } ( H _ { i } ) \cap T ^ { \prime } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . Then we have <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-553"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle d _ { A _ { G \odot _ { \mathrm { d e s } } , H } } ( p , \beta ) = 2 = d _ { A _ { G \odot _ { \mathrm { d e s } } , H } } ( q , \beta ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p><p><bold>Case 3.</bold><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-554"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle p , q \in { \bar { V } } ( G ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . Let <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-555"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle p = \beta _ { i } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-556"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \ddot { \beta } \in V _ { i } \cap T ^ { \prime } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . Then we have </p><disp-formula id="equation-25"><tex-math id="math-557"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle d_{A_{G \odot_{\mathrm{deg} H}}}(p,\beta)= 1 < \left(1 + d_{A_{G \odot_{\mathrm{deg} H}}}(q,p)\right)= d_{A_{G \odot_{\mathrm{deg} H}}}(q,\beta) = 2. \end{document} ]]></tex-math></disp-formula><p><bold>Case 4.</bold><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-558"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle q \in V _ { i } ( H _ { i } ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , and <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-559"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle q \in V ( G ) . \mathrm { ~ I f ~ } \bar { q } \sim q , \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> then <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-560"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle q \ = \ \beta _ { i } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . Let <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-561"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \beta _ { j } ~ \in ~ V . \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> with <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-562"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle j \neq i , \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , and let <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-563"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \beta \in V _ { j } \cap T ^ { \prime } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . Then we have  <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-564"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle d_{A_{G \odot_{\mathrm{deg} H}}}(p,\beta)1 + d _ { A _ { G \odot _ { \bf d e g } } H } ( q , \beta ) = 2 = d _ { A _ { G \odot _ { \bf d e g } } H } ( q , \beta ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . For <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-565"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle q \not \sim q = \beta _ { i } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , we take <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-566"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \beta \in \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-567"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle V _ { i } \cap T ^ { \prime } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> and obtain <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-568"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle d _ { A _ { G \odot _ { \bf d e g } } { H } } ( p , \beta ) = d _ { A _ { G \odot _ { \bf d e g } } { H } } ( p , q ) + d _ { A _ { G \odot _ { \bf d e g } } { H } } ( q , \beta ) > \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-569"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle d _ { A _ { G \odot _ { \mathrm { d e g } } } H } ( q , \beta ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . Therefore, <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-570"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T ^ { \prime } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is a nonlocal-adjacency metric resolving set <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-571"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \operatorname { f o r } G \odot _ { \mathrm { d e g } } H \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p></list-item><list-item><p>Let <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-572"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T _ { i } = T \cap V _ { i } ( H _ { i } ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . For any <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-573"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle q \in T _ { i } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , the conclusion is immediate. Now suppose <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-574"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle p , q \in V _ { i } \setminus T _ { i } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . Since T is a nonlocal-adjacency metric resolving set for <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-575"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G \odot _ { \mathrm { d e g } } H , \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , it follows that <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-576"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle r ( p \mid T ) \neq r ( q \mid T ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . According to (1), for every vertex α in <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-577"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G \odot _ { \mathrm { d e g } } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> H that does not belong to <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-578"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle V _ { i } ( H _ { i } ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , we have <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-579"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle d _ { A _ { G \odot _ { \mathrm { d e g } } } { \cal H } } ( p , \alpha ) = d _ { A _ { G \odot _ { \mathrm { d e g } } } { \cal H } } ( q , \alpha ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . Therefore, there must exist some <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-580"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \beta \in \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-581"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T _ { i } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> such that <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-582"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle d _ { A _ { G \odot _ { \mathrm { d e g } } } { \cal H } } ( \stackrel { \sim } { p , } \beta ) \neq d _ { A _ { G \odot _ { \mathrm { d e g } } } { \cal H } } ( q , \beta ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . This implies that either <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-583"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \beta \sim p \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-584"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \beta \nsim q , \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> or the other way around. In the first case, we obtain <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-585"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle d_{A_{G \odot_{\mathrm{deg} H}}}(p,\beta) = d_{H_i}(p,\beta) = 1, \quad \text{while} \quad d_{A_{G \odot_{\mathrm{deg} H}}}(q,\beta) > 1 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula>  . The second case, where <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-586"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \beta \sim q \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-587"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \beta \not \sim p , \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> yields a similar conclusion. Hence, <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-588"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T _ { i } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> forms a nonlocal-adjacency metric resolving set for <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-589"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle H _ { i } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> .</p></list-item></list><p>An observation regarding the element of basis of the degree corona graph was also obtained as follows.<target id="anchor-3f2612a6-e2b5-40be-831e-330b3557d955" target-type="reference-target"/></p><p><bold>Observation 3.12.</bold><italic>Given a connected graph </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-590"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G _ { i } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> and H be an empty graph containing one or more vertices. In any subgraph H (the </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-591"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle i ^ { t h } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> -copy of H) of the graph </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-592"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G \odot _ { \mathrm { d e g } } H \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> , the vertex </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-593"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle q \in V _ { i } ( H _ { i } ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><italic> is the element of basis of the graph </italic><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-594"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G \odot _ { \mathrm { d e g } } H \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p><p>In addition to the definition of the degree corona graph, this research also presents a theorem on the nonlocal-adjacency metric dimension of the degree corona graph of centered graphs <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-595"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G _ { c } \in \{ S _ { n } , \dot { K } _ { 1 } + \dot { P } _ { n } , K _ { 1 } + C _ { n } , K _ { m } + \overline { { K _ { n } } } \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> and the trivial graph <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-596"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { 1 } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p><p>Theorem 3.13. Let <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-597"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G _ { c } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> be a centered graph, <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-598"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G _ { c } \in \{ S _ { n } , K _ { 1 } + P _ { n } , K _ { 1 } + C _ { n } , K _ { m } + \overline { { K _ { n } } } \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> with <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-599"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle n \geq 4 \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> and H is the trivial graph <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-600"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { 1 } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . The nonlocal-adjacency metric dimension of the degree corona graph <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-601"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G _ { c } \odot _ { \mathrm { d e g } } K _ { 1 } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p><disp-formula id="equation-26"><tex-math id="math-602"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle d i m _ {A n l} (G _ {c} \odot_ {\deg} K _ {1}) = \left[ \sum_ {i = 1} ^ {| V (G _ {c}) |} \deg (v _ {i}) \right] - 1. \end{document} ]]></tex-math></disp-formula><p><italic>Proof</italic>. Based on Observation <xref ref-type="custom" custom-type="reference-target" rid="anchor-3f2612a6-e2b5-40be-831e-330b3557d955">3.12</xref>, let T be the nonlocal-adjacency metric resolving set of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-603"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G _ { c } \odot _ { \mathrm { d e g } } K _ { 1 } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , that is <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-604"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T = \{ x _ { 1 } , x _ { 2 } , \dots , x _ { \left[ \sum _ { i = 1 } ^ { | V ( G _ { c } ) | } \deg ( v _ { i } ) \right] - 1 } \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> but this is insuficient to establish it as the lower bound. So, the upper bound is  <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-605"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \begin{array} { r } { d i m _ { A n l } ( G _ { c } \odot _ { \deg } K _ { 1 } ) = \left[ \sum _ { i = 1 } ^ { | V ( G _ { c } ) | } \deg ( v _ { i } ) \right] - 1 } \end{array} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . If the basis selection, aside from the vertex of <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-606"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle H _ { i } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , then it is not a basis.</p><p>Now, we show that dim <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-607"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \begin{array} { r } { _ { A n l } ( G _ { c } \odot _ { \deg } K _ { 1 } ) \ge \left\lceil \sum _ { i = 1 } ^ { | V ( G _ { c } ) | } \deg ( v _ { i } ) \right\rceil - 1 } \end{array} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . Let <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-608"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T = \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-609"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \left\{ x _ { 1 } , x _ { 2 } , \dotsc , x _ { \left( \left[ \sum _ { i = 1 } ^ { | V ( G _ { c } ) | } \deg ( v _ { i } ) \right] - 1 \right) } \right\} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> be a nonlocal-adjacency metric resolving set with <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-610"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \begin{array} { r } { | T ^ { \prime } | = \left\lceil \sum _ { i = 1 } ^ { | V ( G _ { c } ) | } \deg ( v _ { i } ) \right\rceil - 1 } \end{array} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . Assume that an ordered set <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-611"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T ^ { \prime } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is another minimum nonlocal-adjacency metric resolving set, or <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-612"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \begin{array} { r } { | T ^ { \prime } | < | T | = \left\lceil \sum _ { i = 1 } ^ { | V ( G _ { c } ) | } \deg ( v _ { i } ) \right\rceil - } \end{array} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> 1. If we select an ordered set <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-613"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T ^ { \prime } \subseteq T \backslash \{ x _ { i } , x _ { j } \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-614"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \begin{array} { r } { 1 \leq i , j \leq \left\lceil \sum _ { i = 1 } ^ { | V ( G _ { c } ) | } \deg ( v _ { i } ) \right\rceil , \quad i \neq } \end{array} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> 2 j, so that there exist two vertices <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-615"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle x _ { i } , x _ { j } \ \in \ V ( G _ { c } \odot _ { \mathrm { d e g } } \mathbf { \bar { \Gamma } } K _ { 1 } ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> such that <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-616"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle r _ { A } ( x _ { i } ~ | \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-617"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \begin{array} { r } { T ^ { \prime } ) = r _ { A } ( x _ { j } \mid T ^ { \prime } ) = \qquad ( 2 , 2 , \ldots , 2 ) } \end{array} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . It should be noted that <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-618"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle T ^ { \prime } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> is not a <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-619"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle < \left( \left[ \sum _ { i = 1 } ^ { | V ( G _ { c } ) | } \deg ( v _ { i } ) \right] - 1 \right) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula></p><p>nonlocal-adjacency metric resolving set, which is contrary to the assumption. So, the lower bound is di <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-620"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \begin{array} { r } { n _ { A n l } ( G _ { c } \odot _ { \deg } K _ { 1 } ) \ge \left[ \sum _ { i = 1 } ^ { | V ( G _ { c } ) | } \deg ( v _ { i } ) \right] - 1 } \end{array} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . We conclude that <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-621"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle \begin{array} { r } { d i m _ { A n l } ( G _ { c } \odot _ { \deg } K _ { 1 } ) = \left[ \sum _ { i = 1 } ^ { | V ( G _ { c } ) | } \deg ( v _ { i } ) \right] - 1 } \end{array} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula>.</p></sec><sec id="sec-11"><title>3.4. Upper Bound of d i m _ { A n l } ( G )</title><p>Based on the above research results, the upper bound of the nonlocal-adjacency metric dimension is obtained as follows</p><disp-formula id="equation-27"><tex-math id="math-622"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle d i m _ {A n l} (G) \leq n - r, \quad \text { achieved by } \quad G = S _ {n}, \quad r = \operatorname{radius} (G). \end{document} ]]></tex-math></disp-formula></sec><sec id="sec-12"><title>3.5. Example of Application.</title><p>In the modern era, where online shopping platforms are rapidly growing, the logistics distribution system has become a key focus for optimization by shipping and expedition companies. In a distribution network, when two major cities are directly connected through a main transportation route, the shipping schedule can be carried out routinely and eficiently. However, for cities that are not directly connected (non-adjacent), shipment planning must be done carefully; the logistics must pass through other cities, and the shipping schedules need to be adjusted to minimize travel time and costs. In determining the metric dimension of nonlocal-adjacency, the vertices in the graph represent the cities. Cities that have a direct transportation route are represented as adjacent vertices in the graph, while cities without a direct transportation route are represented as non-adjacent vertices. These non-adjacent vertices need to be resolved, as they require a transit warehouse for collecting logistics, which are then scheduled for shipment according to the delivery schedule. By modeling the distribution network as a graph and applying the concepts of adjacency and metric dimension, we can identify key points such as warehouse locations and transit warehouses that can improve overall distribution eficiency.</p></sec></sec><sec id="sec-13"><title>4. CONCLUDING REMARKS</title><p>This study presents the determination and analysis of the nonlocal-adjacency metric dimension for basic graphs <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-623"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle P _ { n } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-624"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle C _ { n } , \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> centered graphs including <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-625"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { n } , S _ { n } , \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula><inline-formula><tex-math id="math-626"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { 1 } + P _ { n } , K _ { 1 } + C _ { n } , K _ { m } + { \overline { { K _ { n } } } } . \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> , and for the degree corona product of a centered graph <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-627"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G _ { c } \in \{ S _ { n } , K _ { 1 } + P _ { n } , K _ { 1 } + C _ { n } , K _ { m } + \overline { { K _ { n } } } \} \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> with the trivial graph <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-628"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle K _ { 1 } \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . From the discussion, it can be concluded that: Adding a vertex as a central vertex of a connected graph <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-629"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle G \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> one by one can increase the order of the graph, while the size of the nonlocal-adjacency metric dimension of graphs obtained remains the same as the original graph, thus dim <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-630"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle _ { A n l } ( K _ { 1 } + ( K _ { 1 } + \cdot \cdot \cdot + ( K _ { 1 } + ( K _ { 1 } + G ) ) \cdot \cdot \cdot ) ) = \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> dim <inline-formula><tex-math id="math-631"><![CDATA[ \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \displaystyle _ { A n l } ( G ) \end{document} ]]></tex-math></inline-formula> . Also, we obtained the upper bound, characteristics, and an example of the application of nonlocal-adjacency metric dimension concept of graphs.</p></sec></body><back><ack><title>Acknowledgement.</title><p>This study received funding from the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science and Data Analytics, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology through the Department’s Research Funding Agreement, Batch 1 Work Unit Funds for the year 2024. 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