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Edge Boundaries for a Family of Graphs on $\mathbb{Z}^n$

Combinatorics 2013-09-13 v1

Abstract

We consider the family of graphs whose vertex set is Zn\mathbb{Z}^n where two vertices are connected by an edge when their \ell_\infty-distance is 1. Towards an edge isoperimetric inequality for this graph, we calculate the edge boundary of any finite set SZnS \subset \mathbb{Z}^n. This boundary calculation leads to a desire to show that a set with optimal edge boundary has no ``gaps'' in any direction ϵ{1,0,1}n,ϵ0\epsilon \in \{-1,0,1\}^n, \epsilon \not=0. We show that one can find a set with optimal edge boundary that does not have gaps in any direction eie_i (or ei-e_i) where eie_i is the standard basis vector.

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@article{arxiv.1309.3251,
  title  = {Edge Boundaries for a Family of Graphs on $\mathbb{Z}^n$},
  author = {Ellen Veomett},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.3251},
  year   = {2013}
}

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13 pages, 11 figures