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Extremal Values of the Interval Number of a Graph
The interval number of a simple graph is the smallest number such that to each vertex in there can be assigned a collection of at most finite closed intervals on the real line so that there is an edge between vertices and in if and only if some interval for intersects some interval for . The well known interval graphs are precisely those graphs with . We prove here that for any graph with maximum degree . This bound is attained by every regular graph of degree with no triangles, so is best possible. The degree bound is applied to show that for graphs on vertices and for graphs with edges
Locally -distance transitive graphs
We give a unified approach to analysing, for each positive integer , a
class of finite connected graphs that contains all the distance transitive
graphs as well as the locally -arc transitive graphs of diameter at least
. A graph is in the class if it is connected and if, for each vertex ,
the subgroup of automorphisms fixing acts transitively on the set of
vertices at distance from , for each from 1 to . We prove that
this class is closed under forming normal quotients. Several graphs in the
class are designated as degenerate, and a nondegenerate graph in the class is
called basic if all its nontrivial normal quotients are degenerate. We prove
that, for , a nondegenerate, nonbasic graph in the class is either a
complete multipartite graph, or a normal cover of a basic graph. We prove
further that, apart from the complete bipartite graphs, each basic graph admits
a faithful quasiprimitive action on each of its (1 or 2) vertex orbits, or a
biquasiprimitive action. These results invite detailed additional analysis of
the basic graphs using the theory of quasiprimitive permutation groups.Comment: Revised after referee report
A Statistical Mechanical Load Balancer for the Web
The maximum entropy principle from statistical mechanics states that a closed
system attains an equilibrium distribution that maximizes its entropy. We first
show that for graphs with fixed number of edges one can define a stochastic
edge dynamic that can serve as an effective thermalization scheme, and hence,
the underlying graphs are expected to attain their maximum-entropy states,
which turn out to be Erdos-Renyi (ER) random graphs. We next show that (i) a
rate-equation based analysis of node degree distribution does indeed confirm
the maximum-entropy principle, and (ii) the edge dynamic can be effectively
implemented using short random walks on the underlying graphs, leading to a
local algorithm for the generation of ER random graphs. The resulting
statistical mechanical system can be adapted to provide a distributed and local
(i.e., without any centralized monitoring) mechanism for load balancing, which
can have a significant impact in increasing the efficiency and utilization of
both the Internet (e.g., efficient web mirroring), and large-scale computing
infrastructure (e.g., cluster and grid computing).Comment: 11 Pages, 5 Postscript figures; added references, expanded on
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Operads, configuration spaces and quantization
We review several well-known operads of compactified configuration spaces and
construct several new such operads, C, in the category of smooth manifolds with
corners whose complexes of fundamental chains give us (i) the 2-coloured operad
of A-infinity algebras and their homotopy morphisms, (ii) the 2-coloured operad
of L-infinity algebras and their homotopy morphisms, and (iii) the 4-coloured
operad of open-closed homotopy algebras and their homotopy morphisms. Two
gadgets - a (coloured) operad of Feynman graphs and a de Rham field theory on C
- are introduced and used to construct quantized representations of the
(fundamental) chain operad of C which are given by Feynman type sums over
graphs and depend on choices of propagators.Comment: 58 page
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