Pub Date : 2024-11-12DOI: 10.1016/j.disc.2024.114325
You Lu , Rong Luo , Cun-Quan Zhang
Bouchet's 6-flow conjecture states that every flow-admissible signed graph admits a nowhere-zero 6-flow. Seymour's 6-flow theorem states that the conjecture holds for balanced signed graphs. Rollová et al. show that every flow-admissible signed graph with frustration index two admits a nowhere-zero 7-flow, where the frustration index of a signed graph is the smallest number of edges whose deletion leaves a balanced signed graph. Wang et al. improve the result to 6-flows. In this paper, we further extend these results, and confirm Bouchet's 6-flow conjecture for signed graphs with frustration index three. There are infinitely many signed graphs with frustration index three admitting a nowhere-zero 6-flow but no 5-flow. From the point of view of flow theory, signed graphs with frustration index two are very similar to those of ordinary graphs. However, there are significant differences between ordinary graphs and signed graphs with frustration index three.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-12DOI: 10.1016/j.disc.2024.114308
Hubert Grochowski, Konstanty Junosza-Szaniawski
The concept of packing coloring in graph theory is motivated by the challenge of frequency assignment in radio networks. This approach entails assigning positive integers to vertices, with the requirement that for any given label (color) i, the distance between any two vertices sharing this label must exceed i. Recently, after over 20 years of intensive research, the minimal number of colors needed for packing coloring of an infinite square grid has been established to be 15. Moreover, it is known that a hexagonal grid requires a minimum of 7 colors for packing coloring, and a triangular grid is not colorable with any finite number of colors in a packing way.
Therefore, two questions come to mind: What fraction of a triangular grid can be colored in a packing model, and how much do we need to weaken the condition of packing coloring to enable coloring a triangular grid with a finite number of colors?
With the partial help of the Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) solver, we have proven that it is possible to color at least 72.8% but no more than 82.2% of a triangular grid in a packing way.
Additionally, we have investigated the relaxation of packing coloring, called quasi-packing coloring, which is a special case of S-packing coloring. We have established that the S-packing chromatic number for the triangular grid, where , is between 11 and 33. Furthermore, we have proven that the aforementioned sequence S is the best possible in some sense.
We have also considered the partial packing and quasi-packing coloring of an infinite hypercube and present several open problems for other classes of graphs.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-08DOI: 10.1016/j.disc.2024.114318
Marian Genčev
The purpose of this paper is the study of the binomial sum where denotes the parameterized analogue of the k-th harmonic number of order s. For , these binomial sums were investigated by Mneimneh, who gave a probabilistic interpretation related to hiring problems. We present a generalization of Mneimneh's summation formula and establish several new identities and a connection of these sums with specific multiple polylogarithms, called unit Euler sums, based upon the Toeplitz limit theorem.
本文的目的是研究二项式和∑k=1n(nk)⋅Hk(s)(a)⋅pk⋅(1-p)n-k,其中 Hk(s)(a)=∑i=1kai/is 表示阶数 s 的 k 次谐波数的参数化类似值。对于 a=s=1,这些二项式和由 Mneimneh 研究,他给出了与招聘问题有关的概率解释。我们提出了 Mneimneh 求和公式的广义化,并根据托普利兹极限定理,建立了这些和与特定多重多项式(称为单位欧拉和)之间的若干新特性和联系。
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Pub Date : 2024-11-08DOI: 10.1016/j.disc.2024.114316
John M. Campbell
Laohakosol et al. recently introduced enumerative techniques based on second-order difference equations to prove a number of conjectured evaluations for polynomial continued fractions generated by the Ramanujan Machine. Each of the discrete difference equations required according to the combinatorial approach employed by Laohakosol et al. can be solved in an explicit way according to an alternative and hypergeometric-based approach that we apply to prove further conjectures produced by the Ramanujan Machine. An advantage of our hypergeometric approach, compared to the methods of Laohakosol et al. and compared to solving for ODEs satisfied by formal power series corresponding to the Euler–Wallis recursions, is given by the explicit evaluations for the nonlinear difference equations that we obtain.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-06DOI: 10.1016/j.disc.2024.114306
Shuya Chiba , Koshin Yoshida
In this paper, we prove the following result. For given integers with and an odd integer , there exists an integer satisfying the following: If D is a digraph of order , and if for every two distinct vertices u and v with , then D contains k vertex-disjoint directed cycles of length ℓ or such that at least t of them are of length ℓ. This is a common extension of the results obtained by Brandt et al. (1997) and, Chiba and Yamashita (2018). We also discuss the relation between our result and problems on packing alternating cycles into bipartite graphs.
本文将证明以下结果。对于给定整数 k≥1,t≥0,且 k≥t 和奇整数 ℓ≥3,存在满足以下条件的整数 n0=n0(k,t,ℓ):如果 D 是阶数 n≥n0 的数图,且对于每两个不同的顶点 u 和 v,且 (u,v)∉A(D) 的 dD+(u)+dD-(v)≥n+t ,那么 D 包含长度为 ℓ 或 ℓ+1 的 k 个顶点相交的有向循环,且其中至少有 t 个循环的长度为 ℓ。这是对 Brandt 等人(1997)以及 Chiba 和 Yamashita(2018)所获结果的常见扩展。我们还讨论了我们的结果与将交替循环打包进双方形图问题之间的关系。
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Pub Date : 2024-11-05DOI: 10.1016/j.disc.2024.114307
Michitaka Furuya , Akira Saito , Shoichi Tsuchiya
A spanning tree of a graph without vertices of degree 2 is called a homeomorphically irreducible spanning tree (or a HIST) of the graph. Albertson et al. (1990) [1] gave a minimum degree condition for the existence of a HIST, and recently, Ito and Tsuchiya (2022) [11] found a sharp degree-sum condition for the existence of a HIST. In this paper, we refine these results, and extend the first one to a spanning tree in which no vertex other than the endvertices has small degree.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-31DOI: 10.1016/j.disc.2024.114305
Adam Kabela, Zdeněk Ryjáček, Mária Skyvová, Petr Vrána
We show that every 3-connected -free graph is Hamilton-connected, where is the graph obtained by joining two vertex-disjoint triangles with a path of length 3. This resolves one of the two last open cases in the characterization of pairs of connected forbidden subgraphs implying Hamilton-connectedness. The proof is based on a new closure technique, developed in a previous paper, and on a structural analysis of small subgraphs, cycles and paths in line graphs of multigraphs. The most technical steps of the analysis are computer-assisted.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-31DOI: 10.1016/j.disc.2024.114296
Ivan Mogilnykh, Anna Taranenko, Konstantin Vorob'ev
We obtain a classification of completely regular codes with covering radius 1 and the second eigenvalue in the Hamming graphs up to q and intersection array. Due to the works of Meyerowitz, Mogilnykh, and Valyuzenich, our result completes the classifications of completely regular codes with covering radius 1 and the second eigenvalue in the Hamming graphs for any n and completely regular codes with covering radius 1 in .
{"title":"Completely regular codes with covering radius 1 and the second eigenvalue in 3-dimensional Hamming graphs","authors":"Ivan Mogilnykh, Anna Taranenko, Konstantin Vorob'ev","doi":"10.1016/j.disc.2024.114296","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.disc.2024.114296","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We obtain a classification of completely regular codes with covering radius 1 and the second eigenvalue in the Hamming graphs <span><math><mi>H</mi><mo>(</mo><mn>3</mn><mo>,</mo><mi>q</mi><mo>)</mo></math></span> up to <em>q</em> and intersection array. Due to the works of Meyerowitz, Mogilnykh, and Valyuzenich, our result completes the classifications of completely regular codes with covering radius 1 and the second eigenvalue in the Hamming graphs <span><math><mi>H</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>n</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>q</mi><mo>)</mo></math></span> for any <em>n</em> and completely regular codes with covering radius 1 in <span><math><mi>H</mi><mo>(</mo><mn>3</mn><mo>,</mo><mi>q</mi><mo>)</mo></math></span>.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50572,"journal":{"name":"Discrete Mathematics","volume":"348 2","pages":"Article 114296"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142560885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-10-31DOI: 10.1016/j.disc.2024.114298
Majid Khabbazian , Muriel Médard
The -Locally recoverable codes (LRC) studied in this work are a well-studied family of linear codes for which the value of each symbol can be recovered by a linear combination of at most r other symbols. In this paper, we study the LMD problem, which is to find the largest possible minimum distance of -LRCs, denoted by . LMD can be approximated within an additive term of one—it is known that is equal to either or , where . Moreover, for a range of parameters, it is known precisely whether the distance is or . However, the problem is still open despite a significant effort. In this work, we convert LMD to an equivalent simply-stated problem in graph theory. Using this conversion, we show that an instance of LMD is at least as hard as computing the size of a maximal graph of high girth, a hard problem in extremal graph theory. This is an evidence that LMD—although can be approximated within an additive term of one—is hard to solve in general. As a positive result, thanks to the conversion and the exiting results in extremal graph theory, we solve LMD for a range of code parameters that has not been solved before.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-31DOI: 10.1016/j.disc.2024.114303
Jesse Geneson , Shen-Fu Tsai
<div><div>A 0-1 matrix <em>M</em> contains another 0-1 matrix <em>P</em> if some submatrix of <em>M</em> can be turned into <em>P</em> by changing any number of 1-entries to 0-entries. The 0-1 matrix <em>M</em> is <span><math><mi>P</mi></math></span>-saturated where <span><math><mi>P</mi></math></span> is a family of 0-1 matrices if <em>M</em> avoids every element of <span><math><mi>P</mi></math></span> and changing any 0-entry of <em>M</em> to a 1-entry introduces a copy of some element of <span><math><mi>P</mi></math></span>. The extremal function <span><math><mi>ex</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>n</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>P</mi><mo>)</mo></math></span> and saturation function <span><math><mi>sat</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>n</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>P</mi><mo>)</mo></math></span> are the maximum and minimum possible number of 1-entries in an <span><math><mi>n</mi><mo>×</mo><mi>n</mi></math></span> <span><math><mi>P</mi></math></span>-saturated 0-1 matrix, respectively, and the semisaturation function <span><math><mi>ssat</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>n</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>P</mi><mo>)</mo></math></span> is the minimum possible number of 1-entries in an <span><math><mi>n</mi><mo>×</mo><mi>n</mi></math></span> <span><math><mi>P</mi></math></span>-semisaturated 0-1 matrix <em>M</em>, i.e., changing any 0-entry in <em>M</em> to a 1-entry introduces a new copy of some element of <span><math><mi>P</mi></math></span>.</div><div>We study these functions of multidimensional 0-1 matrices. In particular, we give upper bounds on parameters of minimally non-<span><math><mi>O</mi><mo>(</mo><msup><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>d</mi><mo>−</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow></msup><mo>)</mo></math></span> <em>d</em>-dimensional 0-1 matrices, generalized from minimally nonlinear 0-1 matrices in two dimensions, and we show the existence of infinitely many minimally non-<span><math><mi>O</mi><mo>(</mo><msup><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>d</mi><mo>−</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow></msup><mo>)</mo></math></span> <em>d</em>-dimensional 0-1 matrices with all dimensions of length greater than 1. For any positive integers <span><math><mi>k</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>d</mi></math></span> and integer <span><math><mi>r</mi><mo>∈</mo><mo>[</mo><mn>0</mn><mo>,</mo><mi>d</mi><mo>−</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>]</mo></math></span>, we construct a family of <em>d</em>-dimensional 0-1 matrices with both extremal function and saturation function exactly <span><math><mi>k</mi><msup><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>r</mi></mrow></msup></math></span> for sufficiently large <em>n</em>. We show that no family of <em>d</em>-dimensional 0-1 matrices has saturation function strictly between <span><math><mi>O</mi><mo>(</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>)</mo></math></span> and <span><math><mi>Θ</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>n</mi><mo>)</mo></math></span> and we construct a family of <em>d</em>-dimensional 0-1 matrices with bounded saturation function and extremal function <span><math><mi>Ω</mi><mo>(</mo><msup><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>d</mi><mo>−</mo><mi>ϵ</mi></mrow></msup><mo>)</mo></math></spa
如果 M 的某个子矩阵可以通过将任意数量的 1 条目变为 0 条目而变成 P,则 0-1 矩阵 M 包含另一个 0-1 矩阵 P。如果 M 避开了 P 的每个元素,并且将 M 的任意 0 条目改为 1 条目都会引入 P 的某个元素的副本,那么 0-1 矩阵 M 就是 P 饱和的,其中 P 是 0-1 矩阵族。极值函数 ex(n,P) 和饱和函数 sat(n,P) 分别是 n×n P 饱和 0-1 矩阵中 1 条目的最大可能数目和最小可能数目,而半饱和函数 ssat(n,P) 是 n×n P 半饱和 0-1 矩阵 M 中 1 条目的最小可能数目,即、我们研究多维 0-1 矩阵的这些函数。特别是,我们给出了最小非 O(nd-1)d 维 0-1 矩阵参数的上限,这是从二维最小非线性 0-1 矩阵推广而来的;我们还证明了存在无限多的最小非 O(nd-1)d 维 0-1 矩阵,且所有维的长度都大于 1。对于任意正整数 k,d 和整数 r∈[0,d-1],我们构造了一个 d 维 0-1 矩阵族,其极值函数和饱和函数在足够大的 n 条件下正好为 knr。我们证明没有一个 d 维 0-1 矩阵族的饱和函数严格介于 O(1) 和 Θ(n) 之间,并且我们构造了一个 d 维 0-1 矩阵族,其饱和函数和极值函数 Ω(nd-ϵ) 对于任意 ϵ>0 都是有界的。对于某个整数 r∈[0,d-1],我们证明其半饱和函数总是 Θ(nr)。
{"title":"Extremal bounds for pattern avoidance in multidimensional 0-1 matrices","authors":"Jesse Geneson , Shen-Fu Tsai","doi":"10.1016/j.disc.2024.114303","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.disc.2024.114303","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A 0-1 matrix <em>M</em> contains another 0-1 matrix <em>P</em> if some submatrix of <em>M</em> can be turned into <em>P</em> by changing any number of 1-entries to 0-entries. The 0-1 matrix <em>M</em> is <span><math><mi>P</mi></math></span>-saturated where <span><math><mi>P</mi></math></span> is a family of 0-1 matrices if <em>M</em> avoids every element of <span><math><mi>P</mi></math></span> and changing any 0-entry of <em>M</em> to a 1-entry introduces a copy of some element of <span><math><mi>P</mi></math></span>. The extremal function <span><math><mi>ex</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>n</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>P</mi><mo>)</mo></math></span> and saturation function <span><math><mi>sat</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>n</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>P</mi><mo>)</mo></math></span> are the maximum and minimum possible number of 1-entries in an <span><math><mi>n</mi><mo>×</mo><mi>n</mi></math></span> <span><math><mi>P</mi></math></span>-saturated 0-1 matrix, respectively, and the semisaturation function <span><math><mi>ssat</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>n</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>P</mi><mo>)</mo></math></span> is the minimum possible number of 1-entries in an <span><math><mi>n</mi><mo>×</mo><mi>n</mi></math></span> <span><math><mi>P</mi></math></span>-semisaturated 0-1 matrix <em>M</em>, i.e., changing any 0-entry in <em>M</em> to a 1-entry introduces a new copy of some element of <span><math><mi>P</mi></math></span>.</div><div>We study these functions of multidimensional 0-1 matrices. In particular, we give upper bounds on parameters of minimally non-<span><math><mi>O</mi><mo>(</mo><msup><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>d</mi><mo>−</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow></msup><mo>)</mo></math></span> <em>d</em>-dimensional 0-1 matrices, generalized from minimally nonlinear 0-1 matrices in two dimensions, and we show the existence of infinitely many minimally non-<span><math><mi>O</mi><mo>(</mo><msup><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>d</mi><mo>−</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow></msup><mo>)</mo></math></span> <em>d</em>-dimensional 0-1 matrices with all dimensions of length greater than 1. For any positive integers <span><math><mi>k</mi><mo>,</mo><mi>d</mi></math></span> and integer <span><math><mi>r</mi><mo>∈</mo><mo>[</mo><mn>0</mn><mo>,</mo><mi>d</mi><mo>−</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>]</mo></math></span>, we construct a family of <em>d</em>-dimensional 0-1 matrices with both extremal function and saturation function exactly <span><math><mi>k</mi><msup><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>r</mi></mrow></msup></math></span> for sufficiently large <em>n</em>. We show that no family of <em>d</em>-dimensional 0-1 matrices has saturation function strictly between <span><math><mi>O</mi><mo>(</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>)</mo></math></span> and <span><math><mi>Θ</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>n</mi><mo>)</mo></math></span> and we construct a family of <em>d</em>-dimensional 0-1 matrices with bounded saturation function and extremal function <span><math><mi>Ω</mi><mo>(</mo><msup><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>d</mi><mo>−</mo><mi>ϵ</mi></mrow></msup><mo>)</mo></math></spa","PeriodicalId":50572,"journal":{"name":"Discrete Mathematics","volume":"348 2","pages":"Article 114303"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142555007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}