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Cliques in realization graphs

Combinatorics 2022-07-11 v2

Abstract

The realization graph G(d)\mathcal{G}(d) of a degree sequence dd is the graph whose vertices are labeled realizations of dd, where edges join realizations that differ by swapping a single pair of edges. Barrus [On realization graphs of degree sequences, Discrete Mathematics, vol. 339 (2016), no. 8, pp. 2146-2152] characterized dd for which G(d)\mathcal{G}(d) is triangle-free. Here, for any n4n \geq 4, we describe a structure in realizations of dd that exactly determines whether G(d)G(d) has a clique of size nn. As a consequence we determine the degree sequences dd for which G(d)\mathcal{G}(d) is a complete graph on nn vertices.

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@article{arxiv.2201.04730,
  title  = {Cliques in realization graphs},
  author = {Michael D. Barrus and Nathan Haronian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.04730},
  year   = {2022}
}

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15 pages, 8 figures

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