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Independent sets of a given size and structure in the hypercube

Combinatorics 2022-02-10 v2

Abstract

We determine the asymptotics of the number of independent sets of size β2d1\lfloor \beta 2^{d-1} \rfloor in the discrete hypercube Qd={0,1}dQ_d = \{0,1\}^d for any fixed β[0,1]\beta \in [0,1] as dd \to \infty, extending a result of Galvin for β[11/2,1]\beta \in [1-1/\sqrt{2},1]. Moreover, we prove a multivariate local central limit theorem for structural features of independent sets in QdQ_d drawn according to the hard core model at any fixed fugacity λ>0\lambda>0. In proving these results we develop several general tools for performing combinatorial enumeration using polymer models and the cluster expansion from statistical physics along with local central limit theorems.

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@article{arxiv.2106.09709,
  title  = {Independent sets of a given size and structure in the hypercube},
  author = {Matthew Jenssen and Will Perkins and Aditya Potukuchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.09709},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

Typo corrected in Section 3.2.1