MathematikaPub Date : 2023-04-18DOI: 10.1112/mtk.12198
Stefan Steinerberger
{"title":"Sums of distances on graphs and embeddings into Euclidean space","authors":"Stefan Steinerberger","doi":"10.1112/mtk.12198","DOIUrl":"10.1112/mtk.12198","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Let <math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>G</mi>\u0000 <mo>=</mo>\u0000 <mo>(</mo>\u0000 <mi>V</mi>\u0000 <mo>,</mo>\u0000 <mi>E</mi>\u0000 <mo>)</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$G=(V,E)$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> be a finite, connected graph. We consider a greedy selection of vertices: given a list of vertices <math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msub>\u0000 <mi>x</mi>\u0000 <mn>1</mn>\u0000 </msub>\u0000 <mo>,</mo>\u0000 <mi>⋯</mi>\u0000 <mo>,</mo>\u0000 <msub>\u0000 <mi>x</mi>\u0000 <mi>k</mi>\u0000 </msub>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$x_1, dots , x_k$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>, take <math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <msub>\u0000 <mi>x</mi>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>k</mi>\u0000 <mo>+</mo>\u0000 <mn>1</mn>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </msub>\u0000 <annotation>$x_{k+1}$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> to be any vertex maximizing the sum of distances to the vertices already chosen and iterate, keep adding the “most remote” vertex. The frequency with which the vertices of the graph appear in this sequence converges to a set of probability measures with nice properties. The support of these measures is, generically, given by a rather small number of vertices <math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>m</mi>\u0000 <mo>≪</mo>\u0000 <mo>|</mo>\u0000 <mi>V</mi>\u0000 <mo>|</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$m ll |V|$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>. We prove that this suggests that the graph <i>G</i> is, in a suitable sense, “<i>m</i>-dimensional” by exhibiting an explicit 1-Lipschitz embedding <math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>ϕ</mi>\u0000 <mo>:</mo>\u0000 <mi>V</mi>\u0000 <mo>→</mo>\u0000 <msup>\u0000 <mi>ℓ</mi>\u0000 <mn>1</mn>\u0000 </msup>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>(</mo>\u0000 <msup>\u0000 <mi>R</mi>\u0000 <mi>m</mi>\u0000 </msup>\u0000 <mo>)</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$phi : V rightarrow ell ^1(mathbb {R}^m)$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> with good properties.</p>","PeriodicalId":18463,"journal":{"name":"Mathematika","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44399735","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}
MathematikaPub Date : 2023-04-14DOI: 10.1112/mtk.12196
Nathan Bowler, Marit Emde, Florian Gut
{"title":"The \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 K\u0000 \u0000 ℵ\u0000 0\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 $K^{aleph _0}$\u0000 game: Vertex colouring","authors":"Nathan Bowler, Marit Emde, Florian Gut","doi":"10.1112/mtk.12196","DOIUrl":"10.1112/mtk.12196","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We investigate games played between Maker and Breaker on an infinite complete graph whose vertices are coloured with colours from a given set, each colour appearing infinitely often. The players alternately claim edges, Maker's aim being to claim all edges of a sufficiently colourful infinite complete subgraph and Breaker's aim being to prevent this. We show that if there are only finitely many colours, then Maker can obtain a complete subgraph in which all colours appear infinitely often, but that Breaker can prevent this if there are infinitely many colours. Even when there are infinitely many colours, we show that Maker can obtain a complete subgraph in which infinitely many of the colours each appear infinitely often.</p>","PeriodicalId":18463,"journal":{"name":"Mathematika","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1112/mtk.12196","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44538270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}