The Zeta Function of a Hypergraph

We generalize the Ihara-Selberg zeta function to hypergraphs in a natural way. Hashimoto's factorization results for biregular bipartite graphs apply, leading to exact factorizations. For $(d,r)$-regular hypergraphs, we show that a modified Riemann hypothesis is true if and only if the hypergraph is Ramanujan in the sense of Winnie Li and Patrick Sol\'e. Finally, we give an example to show how the generalized zeta function can be applied to graphs to distinguish non-isomorphic graphs with the same Ihara-Selberg zeta function.Comment: 24 pages, 6 figure

Hypergraph Learning with Line Expansion

Previous hypergraph expansions are solely carried out on either vertex level or hyperedge level, thereby missing the symmetric nature of data co-occurrence, and resulting in information loss. To address the problem, this paper treats vertices and hyperedges equally and proposes a new hypergraph formulation named the \emph{line expansion (LE)} for hypergraphs learning. The new expansion bijectively induces a homogeneous structure from the hypergraph by treating vertex-hyperedge pairs as "line nodes". By reducing the hypergraph to a simple graph, the proposed \emph{line expansion} makes existing graph learning algorithms compatible with the higher-order structure and has been proven as a unifying framework for various hypergraph expansions. We evaluate the proposed line expansion on five hypergraph datasets, the results show that our method beats SOTA baselines by a significant margin

Isomorphy up to complementation

Considering uniform hypergraphs, we prove that for every non-negative integer $h$ there exist two non-negative integers $k$ and $t$ with $k\leq t$ such that two $h$-uniform hypergraphs ${\mathcal H}$ and ${\mathcal H}'$ on the same set $V$ of vertices, with $| V| \geq t$, are equal up to complementation whenever ${\mathcal H}$ and ${\mathcal H}'$ are $k$-{hypomorphic up to complementation}. Let $s(h)$ be the least integer $k$ such that the conclusion above holds and let $v(h)$ be the least $t$ corresponding to $k=s(h)$. We prove that $s(h)= h+2^{\lfloor \log_2 h\rfloor}$. In the special case $h=2^{\ell}$ or $h=2^{\ell}+1$, we prove that $v(h)\leq s(h)+h$. The values $s(2)=4$ and $v(2)=6$ were obtained in a previous work.Comment: 15 page

The extremal spectral radii of kk-uniform supertrees

In this paper, we study some extremal problems of three kinds of spectral radii of $k$-uniform hypergraphs (the adjacency spectral radius, the signless Laplacian spectral radius and the incidence $Q$-spectral radius). We call a connected and acyclic $k$-uniform hypergraph a supertree. We introduce the operation of "moving edges" for hypergraphs, together with the two special cases of this operation: the edge-releasing operation and the total grafting operation. By studying the perturbation of these kinds of spectral radii of hypergraphs under these operations, we prove that for all these three kinds of spectral radii, the hyperstar $\mathcal{S}_{n,k}$ attains uniquely the maximum spectral radius among all $k$-uniform supertrees on $n$ vertices. We also determine the unique $k$-uniform supertree on $n$ vertices with the second largest spectral radius (for these three kinds of spectral radii). We also prove that for all these three kinds of spectral radii, the loose path $\mathcal{P}_{n,k}$ attains uniquely the minimum spectral radius among all $k$-th power hypertrees of $n$ vertices. Some bounds on the incidence $Q$-spectral radius are given. The relation between the incidence $Q$-spectral radius and the spectral radius of the matrix product of the incidence matrix and its transpose is discussed

Tournaments, 4-uniform hypergraphs, and an exact extremal result

We consider $4$-uniform hypergraphs with the maximum number of hyperedges subject to the condition that every set of $5$ vertices spans either $0$ or exactly $2$ hyperedges and give a construction, using quadratic residues, for an infinite family of such hypergraphs with the maximum number of hyperedges. Baber has previously given an asymptotically best-possible result using random tournaments. We give a connection between Baber's result and our construction via Paley tournaments and investigate a `switching' operation on tournaments that preserves hypergraphs arising from this construction.Comment: 23 pages, 6 figure