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Biregularity in Sidorenko's Conjecture

Combinatorics 2021-08-27 v2

Abstract

Sidorenko's Conjecture says that the minimum density of a bigraph GG in a bigraphon WW of a given edge density is attained when WW is a constant function. A consequence of a result by B. Szegedy is that it is enough to show Sidorenko's Conjecture under the further assumption that WW is biregular. In this paper, we retrieve this result with a more elementary proof. With this biregularity result and some ideas of its proof, we also obtain simple proofs of several other results related to Sidorenko's Conjecture. Furthermore, we also show that bigraphs that have a special type of tree decomposition, called reflective tree decomposition, satisfy Sidorenko's conjecture. This both unifies and generalizes the notions of strong tree decompositions and NN-decompositions from the literature.

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@article{arxiv.2108.06599,
  title  = {Biregularity in Sidorenko's Conjecture},
  author = {Leonardo N. Coregliano and Alexander A. Razborov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.06599},
  year   = {2021}
}

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31 pages, 1 figure

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