English

Deciding the Bell number for hereditary graph properties

Combinatorics 2016-08-10 v3

Abstract

The paper [J. Balogh, B. Bollob\'{a}s, D. Weinreich, A jump to the Bell number for hereditary graph properties, J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 95 (2005) 29--48] identifies a jump in the speed of hereditary graph properties to the Bell number BnB_n and provides a partial characterisation of the family of minimal classes whose speed is at least BnB_n. In the present paper, we give a complete characterisation of this family. Since this family is infinite, the decidability of the problem of determining if the speed of a hereditary property is above or below the Bell number is questionable. We answer this question positively by showing that there exists an algorithm which, given a finite set F\mathcal{F} of graphs, decides whether the speed of the class of graphs containing no induced subgraphs from the set F\mathcal{F} is above or below the Bell number. For properties defined by infinitely many minimal forbidden induced subgraphs, the speed is known to be above the Bell number.

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@article{arxiv.1405.3118,
  title  = {Deciding the Bell number for hereditary graph properties},
  author = {Aistis Atminas and Andrew Collins and Jan Foniok and Vadim V. Lozin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.3118},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

19 pages; v2, v3: minor improvements in exposition

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