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Product Dimension of Forests and Bounded Treewidth Graphs
The product dimension of a graph G is defined as the minimum natural number l
such that G is an induced subgraph of a direct product of l complete graphs. In
this paper we study the product dimension of forests, bounded treewidth graphs
and k-degenerate graphs. We show that every forest on n vertices has a product
dimension at most 1.441logn+3. This improves the best known upper bound of
3logn for the same due to Poljak and Pultr. The technique used in arriving at
the above bound is extended and combined with a result on existence of
orthogonal Latin squares to show that every graph on n vertices with a
treewidth at most t has a product dimension at most (t+2)(logn+1). We also show
that every k-degenerate graph on n vertices has a product dimension at most
\ceil{8.317klogn}+1. This improves the upper bound of 32klogn for the same by
Eaton and Rodl.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figure
Sabidussi Versus Hedetniemi for Three Variations of the Chromatic Number
We investigate vector chromatic number, Lovasz theta of the complement, and
quantum chromatic number from the perspective of graph homomorphisms. We prove
an analog of Sabidussi's theorem for each of these parameters, i.e. that for
each of the parameters, the value on the Cartesian product of graphs is equal
to the maximum of the values on the factors. We also prove an analog of
Hedetniemi's conjecture for Lovasz theta of the complement, i.e. that its value
on the categorical product of graphs is equal to the minimum of its values on
the factors. We conjecture that the analogous results hold for vector and
quantum chromatic number, and we prove that this is the case for some special
classes of graphs.Comment: 18 page
Irreducible factors of modular representations of mapping class groups arising in Integral TQFT
We find decomposition series of length at most two for modular
representations in positive characteristic of mapping class groups of surfaces
induced by an integral version of the Witten-Reshetikhin-Turaev SO(3)-TQFT at
the p-th root of unity, where p is an odd prime. The dimensions of the
irreducible factors are given by Verlinde-type formulas.Comment: 29 pages, two conjectures made in Remark 7.3 of version 1 are now
proved in the added subsection 7.5; simplified equation (5); added Remark
7.5; rewrote parts of section 4 to make paper more self-containe
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