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An exact characterization of saturation for permutation matrices

Combinatorics 2023-09-28 v2

Abstract

A 0-1 matrix MM contains a 0-1 matrix pattern PP if we can obtain PP from MM by deleting rows and/or columns and turning arbitrary 1-entries into 0s. The saturation function sat(P,n)\mathrm{sat}(P,n) for a 0-1 matrix pattern PP indicates the minimum number of 1s in an n×nn \times n 0-1 matrix that does not contain PP, but changing any 0-entry into a 1-entry creates an occurrence of PP. Fulek and Keszegh recently showed that each pattern has a saturation function either in O(1)O(1) or in Θ(n)\Theta(n). We fully classify the saturation functions of permutation matrices.

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@article{arxiv.2105.02210,
  title  = {An exact characterization of saturation for permutation matrices},
  author = {Benjamin Aram Berendsohn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.02210},
  year   = {2023}
}

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Revised journal version, as published in Combinatorial Theory. Supersedes arXiv:2012.14717, with text overlap

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