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A Graph Decomposition motivated by the Geometry of Randomized Rounding

Combinatorics 2021-06-04 v3

Abstract

We introduce a graph decomposition which exists for all simple, connected graphs G=(V,E)G=(V,E). The decomposition V=ABCV = A \cup B \cup C is such that each vertex in AA has more neighbors in BB than in AA and vice versa. CC is `balanced': each vCv \in C has the same number of neighbours in AA and BB. These decompositions arise naturally from the behavior of an associated dynamical system (`Randomized Rounding') on (S1)V(\mathbb{S}^1)^{|V|}. Connections to judicious partitions and the \textsc{MaxCut} problem (in particular the Burer-Monteiro-Zhang heuristic) are being discussed.

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@article{arxiv.2104.11198,
  title  = {A Graph Decomposition motivated by the Geometry of Randomized Rounding},
  author = {Stefan Steinerberger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.11198},
  year   = {2021}
}
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