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A note on the computational complexity of weak saturation

Combinatorics 2025-10-22 v1

Abstract

We prove that determining the weak saturation number of a host graph FF with respect to a pattern graph HH is already a computationally hard problem when HH is the triangle. As our main tool we establish a connection between weak saturation and shellability of simplicial complexes.

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@article{arxiv.2501.12096,
  title  = {A note on the computational complexity of weak saturation},
  author = {Martin Tancer and Mykhaylo Tyomkyn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.12096},
  year   = {2025}
}
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