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    Ramsey expansions of metrically homogeneous graphs

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    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

    Super edge-magic deficiency of join-product graphs

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    A graph GG is called \textit{super edge-magic} if there exists a bijective function ff from V(G)E(G)V(G) \cup E(G) to {1,2,,V(G)E(G)}\{1, 2, \ldots, |V(G) \cup E(G)|\} such that f(V(G))={1,2,,V(G)}f(V(G)) = \{1, 2, \ldots, |V(G)|\} and f(x)+f(xy)+f(y)f(x) + f(xy) + f(y) is a constant kk for every edge xyxy of GG. Furthermore, the \textit{super edge-magic deficiency} of a graph GG is either the minimum nonnegative integer nn such that GnK1G \cup nK_1 is super edge-magic or ++\infty if there exists no such integer. \emph{Join product} of two graphs is their graph union with additional edges that connect all vertices of the first graph to each vertex of the second graph. In this paper, we study the super edge-magic deficiencies of a wheel minus an edge and join products of a path, a star, and a cycle, respectively, with isolated vertices.Comment: 11 page

    Langford sequences and a product of digraphs

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    Skolem and Langford sequences and their many generalizations have applications in numerous areas. The h\otimes_h-product is a generalization of the direct product of digraphs. In this paper we use the h\otimes_h-product and super edge-magic digraphs to construct an exponential number of Langford sequences with certain order and defect. We also apply this procedure to extended Skolem sequences.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figures, to appear in European Journal of Combinatoric

    Quantum automorphism groups of homogeneous graphs

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    Associated to a finite graph XX is its quantum automorphism group GG. The main problem is to compute the Poincar\'e series of GG, meaning the series f(z)=1+c1z+c2z2+...f(z)=1+c_1z+c_2z^2+... whose coefficients are multiplicities of 1 into tensor powers of the fundamental representation. In this paper we find a duality between certain quantum groups and planar algebras, which leads to a planar algebra formulation of the problem. Together with some other results, this gives ff for all homogeneous graphs having 8 vertices or less.Comment: 30 page

    Ehrhart Series of Polytopes Related to Symmetric Doubly-Stochastic Matrices

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    In Ehrhart theory, the hh^*-vector of a rational polytope often provide insights into properties of the polytope that may be otherwise obscured. As an example, the Birkhoff polytope, also known as the polytope of real doubly-stochastic matrices, has a unimodal hh^*-vector, but when even small modifications are made to the polytope, the same property can be very difficult to prove. In this paper, we examine the hh^*-vectors of a class of polytopes containing real doubly-stochastic symmetric matrices.Comment: 11 pages; this revision removes an erroneous proposition from earlier versions and expands on the implication

    Group twin coloring of graphs

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    For a given graph GG, the least integer k2k\geq 2 such that for every Abelian group G\mathcal{G} of order kk there exists a proper edge labeling f:E(G)Gf:E(G)\rightarrow \mathcal{G} so that xN(u)f(xu)xN(v)f(xv)\sum_{x\in N(u)}f(xu)\neq \sum_{x\in N(v)}f(xv) for each edge uvE(G)uv\in E(G) is called the \textit{group twin chromatic index} of GG and denoted by χg(G)\chi'_g(G). This graph invariant is related to a few well-known problems in the field of neighbor distinguishing graph colorings. We conjecture that χg(G)Δ(G)+3\chi'_g(G)\leq \Delta(G)+3 for all graphs without isolated edges, where Δ(G)\Delta(G) is the maximum degree of GG, and provide an infinite family of connected graph (trees) for which the equality holds. We prove that this conjecture is valid for all trees, and then apply this result as the base case for proving a general upper bound for all graphs GG without isolated edges: χg(G)2(Δ(G)+col(G))5\chi'_g(G)\leq 2(\Delta(G)+{\rm col}(G))-5, where col(G){\rm col}(G) denotes the coloring number of GG. This improves the best known upper bound known previously only for the case of cyclic groups Zk\mathbb{Z}_k
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