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Extremal Infinite Graph Theory
We survey various aspects of infinite extremal graph theory and prove several
new results. The lead role play the parameters connectivity and degree. This
includes the end degree. Many open problems are suggested.Comment: 41 pages, 16 figure
Graphs, free groups and the Hanna Neumann conjecture
A new bound for the rank of the intersection of finitely generated subgroups
of a free group is given, formulated in topological terms, and very much in the
spirit of Stallings. The bound is a contribution to (although unfortunately not
a solution of) the strengthened Hanna Neumann conjecture.Comment: J. Group Theory (to appear
Trees and Matchings
In this article, Temperley's bijection between spanning trees of the square
grid on the one hand, and perfect matchings (also known as dimer coverings) of
the square grid on the other, is extended to the setting of general planar
directed (and undirected) graphs, where edges carry nonnegative weights that
induce a weighting on the set of spanning trees. We show that the weighted,
directed spanning trees (often called arborescences) of any planar graph G can
be put into a one-to-one weight-preserving correspondence with the perfect
matchings of a related planar graph H.
One special case of this result is a bijection between perfect matchings of
the hexagonal honeycomb lattice and directed spanning trees of a triangular
lattice. Another special case gives a correspondence between perfect matchings
of the ``square-octagon'' lattice and directed weighted spanning trees on a
directed weighted version of the cartesian lattice.
In conjunction with results of Kenyon, our main theorem allows us to compute
the measures of all cylinder events for random spanning trees on any (directed,
weighted) planar graph. Conversely, in cases where the perfect matching model
arises from a tree model, Wilson's algorithm allows us to quickly generate
random samples of perfect matchings.Comment: 32 pages, 19 figures (minor revisions from version 1
Dimers, Tilings and Trees
Generalizing results of Temperley, Brooks, Smith, Stone and Tutte and others
we describe a natural equivalence between three planar objects: weighted
bipartite planar graphs; planar Markov chains; and tilings with convex
polygons. This equivalence provides a measure-preserving bijection between
dimer coverings of a weighted bipartite planar graph and spanning trees on the
corresponding Markov chain. The tilings correspond to harmonic functions on the
Markov chain and to ``discrete analytic functions'' on the bipartite graph.
The equivalence is extended to infinite periodic graphs, and we classify the
resulting ``almost periodic'' tilings and harmonic functions.Comment: 23 pages, 5 figure
Anchored burning bijections on finite and infinite graphs
Let be an infinite graph such that each tree in the wired uniform
spanning forest on has one end almost surely. On such graphs , we give a
family of continuous, measure preserving, almost one-to-one mappings from the
wired spanning forest on to recurrent sandpiles on , that we call
anchored burning bijections. In the special case of , ,
we show how the anchored bijection, combined with Wilson's stacks of arrows
construction, as well as other known results on spanning trees, yields a power
law upper bound on the rate of convergence to the sandpile measure along any
exhaustion of . We discuss some open problems related to these
findings.Comment: 26 pages; 1 EPS figure. Minor alterations made after comments from
refere
Processes on Unimodular Random Networks
We investigate unimodular random networks. Our motivations include their
characterization via reversibility of an associated random walk and their
similarities to unimodular quasi-transitive graphs. We extend various theorems
concerning random walks, percolation, spanning forests, and amenability from
the known context of unimodular quasi-transitive graphs to the more general
context of unimodular random networks. We give properties of a trace associated
to unimodular random networks with applications to stochastic comparison of
continuous-time random walk.Comment: 66 pages; 3rd version corrects formula (4.4) -- the published version
is incorrect --, as well as a minor error in the proof of Proposition 4.10;
4th version corrects proof of Proposition 7.1; 5th version corrects proof of
Theorem 5.1; 6th version makes a few more minor correction
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