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A Note on the Sparing Number of Graphs
An integer additive set-indexer is defined as an injective function
such that the induced function defined by is also
injective. An IASI is said to be a weak IASI if
for all . A graph which admits a
weak IASI may be called a weak IASI graph. The set-indexing number of an
element of a graph , a vertex or an edge, is the cardinality of its
set-labels. The sparing number of a graph is the minimum number of edges
with singleton set-labels, required for a graph to admit a weak IASI. In
this paper, we study the sparing number of certain graphs and the relation of
sparing number with some other parameters like matching number, chromatic
number, covering number, independence number etc.Comment: 10 pages, 10 figures, submitte
Dominating sequences in grid-like and toroidal graphs
A longest sequence of distinct vertices of a graph such that each
vertex of dominates some vertex that is not dominated by its preceding
vertices, is called a Grundy dominating sequence; the length of is the
Grundy domination number of . In this paper we study the Grundy domination
number in the four standard graph products: the Cartesian, the lexicographic,
the direct, and the strong product. For each of the products we present a lower
bound for the Grundy domination number which turns out to be exact for the
lexicographic product and is conjectured to be exact for the strong product. In
most of the cases exact Grundy domination numbers are determined for products
of paths and/or cycles.Comment: 17 pages 3 figure
Ramsey expansions of metrically homogeneous graphs
We discuss the Ramsey property, the existence of a stationary independence
relation and the coherent extension property for partial isometries (coherent
EPPA) for all classes of metrically homogeneous graphs from Cherlin's
catalogue, which is conjectured to include all such structures. We show that,
with the exception of tree-like graphs, all metric spaces in the catalogue have
precompact Ramsey expansions (or lifts) with the expansion property. With two
exceptions we can also characterise the existence of a stationary independence
relation and the coherent EPPA.
Our results can be seen as a new contribution to Ne\v{s}et\v{r}il's
classification programme of Ramsey classes and as empirical evidence of the
recent convergence in techniques employed to establish the Ramsey property, the
expansion (or lift or ordering) property, EPPA and the existence of a
stationary independence relation. At the heart of our proof is a canonical way
of completing edge-labelled graphs to metric spaces in Cherlin's classes. The
existence of such a "completion algorithm" then allows us to apply several
strong results in the areas that imply EPPA and respectively the Ramsey
property.
The main results have numerous corollaries on the automorphism groups of the
Fra\"iss\'e limits of the classes, such as amenability, unique ergodicity,
existence of universal minimal flows, ample generics, small index property,
21-Bergman property and Serre's property (FA).Comment: 57 pages, 14 figures. Extends results of arXiv:1706.00295. Minor
revisio
Odd-Cycle-Free Facet Complexes and the K\"onig property
We use the definition of a simplicial cycle to define an odd-cycle-free facet
complex (hypergraph). These are facet complexes that do not contain any cycles
of odd length. We show that besides one class of such facet complexes, all of
them satisfy the
K\"onig property. This new family of complexes includes the family of
balanced hypergraphs, which are known to satisfy the K\"onig property. These
facet complexes are, however, not Mengerian; we give an example to demonstrate
this fact.Comment: 12 pages, 11 figure
The Shannon capacity of a graph and the independence numbers of its powers
The independence numbers of powers of graphs have been long studied, under
several definitions of graph products, and in particular, under the strong
graph product. We show that the series of independence numbers in strong powers
of a fixed graph can exhibit a complex structure, implying that the Shannon
Capacity of a graph cannot be approximated (up to a sub-polynomial factor of
the number of vertices) by any arbitrarily large, yet fixed, prefix of the
series. This is true even if this prefix shows a significant increase of the
independence number at a given power, after which it stabilizes for a while
Vertex decomposable graphs and obstructions to shellability
Inspired by several recent papers on the edge ideal of a graph G, we study
the equivalent notion of the independence complex of G. Using the tool of
vertex decomposability from geometric combinatorics, we show that 5-chordal
graphs with no chordless 4-cycles are shellable and sequentially
Cohen-Macaulay. We use this result to characterize the obstructions to
shellability in flag complexes, extending work of Billera, Myers, and Wachs. We
also show how vertex decomposability may be used to show that certain graph
constructions preserve shellability.Comment: 13 pages, 3 figures. v2: Improved exposition, added Section 5.2 and
additional references. v3: minor corrections for publicatio
Second Order Freeness and Fluctuations of Random Matrices: II. Unitary Random Matrices
We extend the relation between random matrices and free probability theory
from the level of expectations to the level of fluctuations. We show how the
concept of "second order freeness", which was introduced in Part I, allows one
to understand global fluctuations of Haar distributed unitary random matrices.
In particular, independence between the unitary ensemble and another ensemble
goes in the large limit over into asymptotic second order freeness. Two
important consequences of our general theory are: (i) we obtain a natural
generalization of a theorem of Diaconis and Shahshahani to the case of several
independent unitary matrices; (ii) we can show that global fluctuations in
unitarily invariant multi-matrix models are not universal.Comment: 31 pages, new section on failure of universality added, typos
corrected, additional explanation
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