{"title":"On Graphs Embeddable in a Layer of a Hypercube and Their Extremal Numbers","authors":"Maria Axenovich, Ryan R. Martin, Christian Winter","doi":"10.1007/s00026-024-00705-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00026-024-00705-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A graph is cubical if it is a subgraph of a hypercube. For a cubical graph <i>H</i> and a hypercube <span>(Q_n)</span>, <span>(textrm{ex}(Q_n, H))</span> is the largest number of edges in an <i>H</i>-free subgraph of <span>(Q_n)</span>. If <span>(textrm{ex}(Q_n, H))</span> is at least a positive proportion of the number of edges in <span>(Q_n)</span>, then <i>H</i> is said to have positive Turán density in the hypercube; otherwise it has zero Turán density. Determining <span>(textrm{ex}(Q_n, H))</span> and even identifying whether <i>H</i> has positive or zero Turán density remains a widely open question for general <i>H</i>. In this paper we focus on layered graphs, i.e., graphs that are contained in an edge layer of some hypercube. Graphs <i>H</i> that are not layered have positive Turán density because one can form an <i>H</i>-free subgraph of <span>(Q_n)</span> consisting of edges of every other layer. For example, a 4-cycle is not layered and has positive Turán density. However, in general, it is not obvious what properties layered graphs have. We give a characterization of layered graphs in terms of edge-colorings. We show that most non-trivial subdivisions have zero Turán density, extending known results on zero Turán density of even cycles of length at least 12 and of length 8. However, we prove that there are cubical graphs of girth 8 that are not layered and thus having positive Turán density. The cycle of length 10 remains the only cycle for which it is not known whether its Turán density is positive or not. We prove that <span>(textrm{ex}(Q_n, C_{10})= Omega (n2^n/ log ^a n))</span>, for a constant <i>a</i>, showing that the extremal number for a 10-cycle behaves differently from any other cycle of zero Turán density.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50769,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Combinatorics","volume":"28 4","pages":"1257 - 1283"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00026-024-00705-2.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141873456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Likely Maximum Size of Twin Subtrees in a Large Random Tree","authors":"Miklós Bóna, Ovidiu Costin, Boris Pittel","doi":"10.1007/s00026-024-00711-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00026-024-00711-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We call a pair of vertex-disjoint, induced subtrees of a rooted tree twins if they have the same counts of vertices by out-degrees. The likely maximum size of twins in a uniformly random, rooted Cayley tree of size <span>(nrightarrow infty )</span> is studied. It is shown that the expected number of twins of size <span>((2+delta )sqrt{log ncdot log log n})</span> approaches zero, while the expected number of twins of size <span>((2-delta )sqrt{log ncdot log log n})</span> approaches infinity.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50769,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Combinatorics","volume":"29 1","pages":"167 - 181"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141771052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Symmetry Parameters of Two-Generator Circulant Graphs","authors":"Sally Cockburn, Sarah Loeb","doi":"10.1007/s00026-024-00709-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00026-024-00709-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The derived graph of a voltage graph consisting of a single vertex and two loops of different voltages is a circulant graph with two generators. We characterize the automorphism groups of connected, two-generator circulant graphs, and give their determining and distinguishing number, and when relevant, their cost of 2-distinguishing. We do the same for the subdivisions of connected, two-generator circulant graphs obtained by replacing one loop in the voltage graph with a directed cycle.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50769,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Combinatorics","volume":"28 4","pages":"1093 - 1117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141771034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Prym Variety of a Dilated Double Cover of Metric Graphs","authors":"Arkabrata Ghosh, Dmitry Zakharov","doi":"10.1007/s00026-024-00707-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00026-024-00707-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We calculate the volume of the tropical Prym variety of a harmonic double cover of metric graphs having non-trivial dilation. We show that the tropical Prym variety behaves discontinuously under deformations of the double cover that change the number of connected components of the dilation subgraph.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50769,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Combinatorics","volume":"29 2","pages":"439 - 460"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141570620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Bump Statistic on Permutations Resulting from the Robinson–Schensted Correspondence","authors":"Mark Dukes, Andrew Mullins","doi":"10.1007/s00026-024-00708-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00026-024-00708-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper, we investigate a permutation statistic that was independently introduced by Romik (Funct Anal Appl 39(2):52–155, 2005). This statistic counts the number of bumps that occur during the execution of the Robinson–Schensted procedure when applied to a given permutation. We provide several interpretations of this bump statistic that include the tableaux shape and also as an extremal problem concerning permutations and increasing subsequences. Several aspects of this bump statistic are investigated from both structural and enumerative viewpoints.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50769,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Combinatorics","volume":"29 2","pages":"375 - 394"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00026-024-00708-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141570583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Positivity of Infinite Products Connected to Partitions with Even Parts Below Odd Parts and Copartitions","authors":"Hannah E. Burson, Dennis Eichhorn","doi":"10.1007/s00026-024-00704-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00026-024-00704-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper, we give a combinatorial proof of a positivity result of Chern related to Andrews’s <span>(mathcal{E}mathcal{O}^*)</span>-type partitions. This combinatorial proof comes after reframing Chern’s result in terms of copartitions.Using this new perspective, we also reprove an overpartition result of Chern by showing that it comes essentially “for free” from our combinatorial proof and some basic properties of copartitions. Finally, the application of copartitions leads us to more general positivity conjectures for families of both infinite and finite products, with a proof in one special case.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50769,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Combinatorics","volume":"29 1","pages":"197 - 210"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141509563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Insertion Algorithms for Gelfand (S_n)-Graphs","authors":"Eric Marberg, Yifeng Zhang","doi":"10.1007/s00026-024-00701-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00026-024-00701-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The two tableaux assigned by the Robinson–Schensted correspondence are equal if and only if the input permutation is an involution, so the RS algorithm restricts to a bijection between involutions in the symmetric group and standard tableaux. Beissinger found a concise way of formulating this restricted map, which involves adding an extra cell at the end of a row after a Schensted insertion process. We show that by changing this algorithm slightly to add cells at the end of columns rather than rows, one obtains a different bijection from involutions to standard tableaux. Both maps have an interesting connection to representation theory. Specifically, our insertion algorithms classify the molecules (and conjecturally the cells) in the pair of <i>W</i>-graphs associated with the unique equivalence class of perfect models for a generic symmetric group.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50769,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Combinatorics","volume":"28 4","pages":"1199 - 1242"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00026-024-00701-6.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141509564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Legendre Theorems for a Class of Partitions with Initial Repetitions","authors":"Darlison Nyirenda, Beaullah Mugwangwavari","doi":"10.1007/s00026-024-00706-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00026-024-00706-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Partitions with initial repetitions were introduced by George Andrews. We consider a subclass of these partitions and find Legendre theorems associated with their respective partition functions. The results in turn provide partition-theoretic interpretations of some Rogers–Ramanujan identities due to Lucy J. Slater.</p>","PeriodicalId":50769,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Combinatorics","volume":"73 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141509565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fan Valuations and Spherical Intrinsic Volumes","authors":"Spencer Backman, Sebastian Manecke, Raman Sanyal","doi":"10.1007/s00026-024-00699-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00026-024-00699-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We generalize valuations on polyhedral cones to valuations on (plane) fans. For fans induced by hyperplane arrangements, we show a correspondence between rotation-invariant valuations and deletion– restriction invariants. In particular, we define a characteristic polynomial for fans in terms of spherical intrinsic volumes and show that it coincides with the usual characteristic polynomial in the case of hyperplane arrangements. This gives a simple deletion–restriction proof of a result of Klivans–Swartz. The metric projection of a cone is a piecewise-linear map, whose underlying fan prompts a generalization of spherical intrinsic volumes to indicator functions. We show that these <i>intrinsic indicators</i> yield valuations that separate polyhedral cones. Applied to hyperplane arrangements, this generalizes a result of Kabluchko on projection volumes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50769,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Combinatorics","volume":"28 4","pages":"1285 - 1302"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141509566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Infinite Families of Vertex-Transitive Graphs with Prescribed Hamilton Compression","authors":"Klavdija Kutnar, Dragan Marušič, Andriaherimanana Sarobidy Razafimahatratra","doi":"10.1007/s00026-024-00703-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00026-024-00703-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Given a graph <i>X</i> with a Hamilton cycle <i>C</i>, the <i>compression factor </i><span>(kappa (X,C))</span> <i>of </i><i>C</i> is the order of the largest cyclic subgroup of <span>({textrm{Aut}},(C)cap {textrm{Aut}},(X))</span>, and the <i>Hamilton compression </i><span>(kappa (X))</span> <i>of </i><i>X</i> is the maximum of <span>(kappa (X,C))</span> where <i>C</i> runs over all Hamilton cycles in <i>X</i>. Generalizing the well-known open problem regarding the existence of vertex-transitive graphs without Hamilton paths/cycles, it was asked by Gregor et al. (Ann Comb, arXiv:2205.08126v1, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00026-023-00674-y, 2023) whether for every positive integer <i>k</i>, there exists infinitely many vertex-transitive graphs (Cayley graphs) with Hamilton compression equal to <i>k</i>. Since an infinite family of Cayley graphs with Hamilton compression equal to 1 was given there, the question is completely resolved in this paper in the case of Cayley graphs with a construction of Cayley graphs of semidirect products <span>(mathbb {Z}_prtimes mathbb {Z}_k)</span> where <i>p</i> is a prime and <span>(k ge 2)</span> a divisor of <span>(p-1)</span>. Further, infinite families of non-Cayley vertex-transitive graphs with Hamilton compression equal to 1 are given. All of these graphs being metacirculants, some additional results on Hamilton compression of metacirculants of specific orders are also given.\u0000</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50769,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Combinatorics","volume":"28 4","pages":"1243 - 1255"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141509568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}