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Isoperimetry in integer lattices

Combinatorics 2018-09-05 v2

Abstract

The edge isoperimetric problem for a graph GG is to determine, for each nn, the minimum number of edges leaving any set of nn vertices. In general this problem is NP-hard, but exact solutions are known in some special cases, for example when GG is the usual integer lattice. We solve the edge isoperimetric problem asymptotically for every Cayley graph on Zd\mathbb Z^d. The near-optimal shapes that we exhibit are zonotopes generated by line segments corresponding to the generators of the Cayley graph.

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@article{arxiv.1707.04411,
  title  = {Isoperimetry in integer lattices},
  author = {Ben Barber and Joshua Erde},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.04411},
  year   = {2018}
}

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Published in Discrete Analysis

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