379 research outputs found
Coloring Planar Graphs via Colored Paths in the Associahedra
Hassler Whitney's theorem of 1931 reduces the task of finding proper, vertex
4-colorings of triangulations of the 2-sphere to finding such colorings for the
class of triangulations of the 2-sphere that have a Hamiltonian
circuit. This has been used by Whitney and others from 1936 to the present to
find equivalent reformulations of the 4 Color Theorem (4CT). Recently there has
been activity to try to use some of these reformuations to find a shorter proof
of the 4CT. Every triangulation in has a dual graph that is a
union of two binary trees with the same number of leaves. Elements of a group
known as Thompson's group are equivalence classes of pairs of binary
trees with the same number of leaves. This paper explores this resemblance and
finds that some recent reformulations of the 4CT are essentially attempting to
color elements of using expressions of elements of as
words in a certain generating set for . From this, we derive information
about not just the colorability of certain elements of , but
also about all possible ways to color these elements. Because of this we raise
(and answer some) questions about enumeration. We also bring in an extension
of the group and ask whether certain elements ``parametrize'' the
set of all colorings of the elements of that use all four
colors.Comment: 74 pages, table of contents, index. Revision of V.
Weighted Graph Colorings
We study two weighted graph coloring problems, in which one assigns
colors to the vertices of a graph such that adjacent vertices have different
colors, with a vertex weighting that either disfavors or favors a given
color. We exhibit a weighted chromatic polynomial associated with
this problem that generalizes the chromatic polynomial . General
properties of this polynomial are proved, and illustrative calculations for
various families of graphs are presented. We show that the weighted chromatic
polynomial is able to distinguish between certain graphs that yield the same
chromatic polynomial. We give a general structural formula for for
lattice strip graphs with periodic longitudinal boundary conditions. The
zeros of in the and planes and their accumulation sets in
the limit of infinitely many vertices of are analyzed. Finally, some
related weighted graph coloring problems are mentioned.Comment: 60 pages, 6 figure
On the numbers of 1-factors and 1-factorizations of hypergraphs
A 1-factor of a hypergraph is a set of hyperedges such that every
vertex of is incident to exactly one hyperedge from the set. A
1-factorization is a partition of all hyperedges of into disjoint
1-factors. The adjacency matrix of a -uniform hypergraph is the
-dimensional (0,1)-matrix of order such that an element of equals 1 if and only if is a hyperedge of . Here we estimate the number of
1-factors of uniform hypergraphs and the number of 1-factorizations of complete
uniform hypergraphs by means of permanents of their adjacency matrices
Tutte Polynomials and Related Asymptotic Limiting Functions for Recursive Families of Graphs
We prove several theorems concerning Tutte polynomials for
recursive families of graphs. In addition to its interest in mathematics, the
Tutte polynomial is equivalent to an important function in statistical physics,
the Potts model partition function of the -state Potts model, ,
where is a temperature-dependent variable. We determine the structure of
the Tutte polynomial for a cyclic clan graph comprised of a
chain of copies of the complete graph such that the linkage
between each successive pair of 's is a join , and and are
arbitrary. The explicit calculation of the case (for arbitrary ) is
presented. The continuous accumulation set of the zeros of in the limit is considered. Further, we present calculations of two special
cases of Tutte polynomials, namely, flow and reliability polynomials, for
cyclic clan graphs and discuss the respective continuous accumulation sets of
their zeros in the limit . Special valuations of Tutte
polynomials give enumerations of spanning trees and acyclic orientations. Two
theorems are presented that determine the number of spanning trees on
and , where means that the identity
linkage. We report calculations of the number of acyclic orientations for
strips of the square lattice and use these to obtain an improved lower bound on
the exponential growth rate of the number of these acyclic orientations.Comment: 50 pages, latex, 5 figure
From Matrix Models and quantum fields to Hurwitz space and the absolute Galois group
We show that correlators of the hermitian one-Matrix model with a general
potential can be mapped to the counting of certain triples of permutations and
hence to counting of holomorphic maps from world-sheet to sphere target with
three branch points on the target. This allows the use of old matrix model
results to derive new explicit formulae for a class of Hurwitz numbers.
Holomorphic maps with three branch points are related, by Belyi's theorem, to
curves and maps defined over algebraic numbers \bmQ. This shows that the
string theory dual of the one-matrix model at generic couplings has worldsheets
defined over the algebraic numbers and a target space \mP^1 (\bmQ). The
absolute Galois group Gal (\bmQ / \mQ) acts on the Feynman diagrams of the
1-matrix model, which are related to Grothendieck's Dessins d'Enfants.
Correlators of multi-matrix models are mapped to the counting of triples of
permutations subject to equivalences defined by subgroups of the permutation
groups. This is related to colorings of the edges of the Grothendieck Dessins.
The colored-edge Dessins are useful as a tool for describing some known
invariants of the Gal (\bmQ / \mQ) action on Grothendieck Dessins and for
defining new invariants.Comment: 54 pages, 17 figure
Knot theory for self-indexed graphs
We introduce and study so-called self-indexed graphs. These are (oriented)
finite graphs endowed with a map from the set of edges to the set of vertices.
Such graphs naturally arise from classical knot and link diagrams. In fact, the
graphs resulting from link diagrams have an additional structure, an integral
flow. We call a self-indexed graph with integral flow a comte. The analogy with
links allows us to define transformations of comtes generalizing the
Reidemeister moves on link diagrams. We show that many invariants of links can
be generalized to comtes, most notably the linking number, the Alexander
polynomials, the link group, etc. We also discuss finite type invariants and
quandle cocycle invariants of comtes.Comment: 14 page
A -chromatic two-distance graph in the plane
We prove that if one colors each point of the Euclidean plane with one of
five colors, then there exist two points of the same color that are either
distance or distance apart.Comment: 7 pages, 1 figur
An analytic family of representations for the mapping class group of punctured surfaces
We use quantum invariants to define an analytic family of representations for
the mapping class group of a punctured surface. The representations depend on a
complex number A with |A| <= 1 and act on an infinite-dimensional Hilbert
space. They are unitary when A is real or imaginary, bounded when |A|<1, and
only densely defined when |A| = 1 and A is not a root of unity. When A is a
root of unity distinct from 1, -1, i, -i the representations are
finite-dimensional and isomorphic to the "Hom" version of the well-known TQFT
quantum representations.
The unitary representations in the interval [-1,0] interpolate analytically
between two natural geometric unitary representations, the SU(2)-character
variety representation studied by Goldman and the multicurve representation
induced by the action of the mapping class group on multicurves.
The finite-dimensional representations converge analytically to the
infinite-dimensional ones. We recover Marche and Narimannejad's convergence
theorem, and Andersen, Freedman, Walker and Wang's asymptotic faithfulness,
that states that the image of a non-central mapping class is always non-trivial
after some level r. When the mapping class is pseudo-Anosov we give a simple
polynomial estimate of the level r in term of its dilatation.Comment: 41 pages, 13 figure
Square numbers, spanning trees and invariants of achiral knots
We give constructions to realize an odd number, which is representable as sum
of two squares, as determinant of an achiral knot, thus proving that these are
exactly the numbers occurring as such determinants. Later we study which
numbers occur as determinants of prime alternating achiral knots, and obtain a
complete result for perfect squares. Using the checkerboard coloring, then an
application is given to the number of spanning trees in planar self-dual
graphs. Another application are some enumeration results on achiral rational
knots. Finally, we describe the leading coefficients of the Alexander and skein
polynomial of alternating achiral knots.Comment: 22 pages, 4 figures; revision 2 Sep 01: some results extended and
questions answered, new examples included, application to spanning trees
added, Title changed; revision 26 Feb 03: several sections reorganized and
slightly extended, in last section citations and proofs for more special
cases of the questions adde
Trace functionals on non-commutative deformations of moduli spaces of flat connections
We describe an efficient construction of a canonical non-commutative
deformation of the algebraic functions on the moduli spaces of flat connections
on a Riemann surface. We show that this algebra, which is a variant of the
quantum moduli algebra introduced by Alekseev-Grosse-Schomerus and
Buffenoir-Roche, has a trace functional which is related to the canonical trace
in the formal index theory of Fedosov and Nest-Tsygan via the Verlinde formula
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