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Spanning trees of 3-uniform hypergraphs
Masbaum and Vaintrob's "Pfaffian matrix tree theorem" implies that counting
spanning trees of a 3-uniform hypergraph (abbreviated to 3-graph) can be done
in polynomial time for a class of "3-Pfaffian" 3-graphs, comparable to and
related to the class of Pfaffian graphs. We prove a complexity result for
recognizing a 3-Pfaffian 3-graph and describe two large classes of 3-Pfaffian
3-graphs -- one of these is given by a forbidden subgraph characterization
analogous to Little's for bipartite Pfaffian graphs, and the other consists of
a class of partial Steiner triple systems for which the property of being
3-Pfaffian can be reduced to the property of an associated graph being
Pfaffian. We exhibit an infinite set of partial Steiner triple systems that are
not 3-Pfaffian, none of which can be reduced to any other by deletion or
contraction of triples.
We also find some necessary or sufficient conditions for the existence of a
spanning tree of a 3-graph (much more succinct than can be obtained by the
currently fastest polynomial-time algorithm of Gabow and Stallmann for finding
a spanning tree) and a superexponential lower bound on the number of spanning
trees of a Steiner triple system.Comment: 34 pages, 9 figure
Scattering of Massless Particles: Scalars, Gluons and Gravitons
In a recent note we presented a compact formula for the complete tree-level
S-matrix of pure Yang-Mills and gravity theories in arbitrary spacetime
dimension. In this paper we show that a natural formulation also exists for a
massless colored cubic scalar theory. In Yang-Mills, the formula is an integral
over the space of n marked points on a sphere and has as integrand two factors.
The first factor is a combination of Parke-Taylor-like terms dressed with U(N)
color structures while the second is a Pfaffian. The S-matrix of a U(N)xU(N')
cubic scalar theory is obtained by simply replacing the Pfaffian with a U(N')
version of the previous U(N) factor. Given that gravity amplitudes are obtained
by replacing the U(N) factor in Yang-Mills by a second Pfaffian, we are led to
a natural color-kinematics correspondence. An expansion of the integrand of the
scalar theory leads to sums over trivalent graphs and are directly related to
the KLT matrix. We find a connection to the BCJ color-kinematics duality as
well as a new proof of the BCJ doubling property that gives rise to gravity
amplitudes. We end by considering a special kinematic point where the partial
amplitude simply counts the number of color-ordered planar trivalent trees,
which equals a Catalan number. The scattering equations simplify dramatically
and are equivalent to a special Y-system with solutions related to roots of
Chebyshev polynomials.Comment: 31 page
Even Orientations and Pfaffian graphs
We give a characterization of Pfaffian graphs in terms of even orientations,
extending the characterization of near bipartite non--pfaffian graphs by
Fischer and Little \cite{FL}. Our graph theoretical characterization is
equivalent to the one proved by Little in \cite{L73} (cf. \cite{LR}) using
linear algebra arguments
A Pfaffian formula for monomer-dimer partition functions
We consider the monomer-dimer partition function on arbitrary finite planar
graphs and arbitrary monomer and dimer weights, with the restriction that the
only non-zero monomer weights are those on the boundary. We prove a Pfaffian
formula for the corresponding partition function. As a consequence of this
result, multipoint boundary monomer correlation functions at close packing are
shown to satisfy fermionic statistics. Our proof is based on the celebrated
Kasteleyn theorem, combined with a theorem on Pfaffians proved by one of the
authors, and a careful labeling and directing procedure of the vertices and
edges of the graph.Comment: Added referenc
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