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Extremal graph theoretic questions for q-ary vectors

Combinatorics 2023-05-04 v1

Abstract

A qq-graph HH on nn vertices is a set of vectors of length nn with all entries from {0,1,,q}\{0,1,\dots,q\} and every vector (that we call a qq-edge) having exactly two non-zero entries. The support of a qq-edge x\mathbf{x} is the pair SxS_{\mathbf{x}} of indices of non-zero entries. We say that HH is an ss-copy of an ordinary graph FF if H=E(F)|H|=|E(F)|, FF is isomorphic to the graph with edge set {Sx:xH}\{S_{\mathbf{x}}:\mathbf{x}\in H\}, and whenever ve,eE(F)v\in e,e'\in E(F), the entries with index corresponding to vv in the qq-edges corresponding to ee and ee' sum up to at least ss. E.g., the qq-edges (1,3,0,0,0),(0,1,0,0,3)(1,3,0,0,0), (0,1,0,0,3), and (3,0,0,0,1)(3,0,0,0,1) form a 4-triangle. The Tur\'an number ex(n,F,q,s)\mathrm{ex}(n,F,q,s) is the maximum number of qq-edges that a qq-graph HH on nn vertices can have if it does not contain any ss-copies of FF. In the present paper, we determine the asymptotics of ex(n,F,q,q+1)\mathrm{ex}(n,F,q,q+1) for many graphs FF.

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@article{arxiv.2305.01919,
  title  = {Extremal graph theoretic questions for q-ary vectors},
  author = {Balázs Patkós and Zsolt Tuza and Máté Vizer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.01919},
  year   = {2023}
}
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