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Isoperimetry in product graphs

Combinatorics 2024-11-19 v2

Abstract

In this short note, we establish an edge-isoperimetric inequality for arbitrary product graphs. Our inequality is sharp for subsets of many different sizes in every product graph. In particular, it implies that the 2d2^d-element sets with smallest edge-boundary in the hypercube are subcubes and is only marginally weaker than the Bollob\'as\unicodex2013\unicode{x2013}Leader edge-isoperimetric inequalities for grids and tori. Additionally, it improves two edge-isoperimetric inequalities for products of regular graphs proved by Erde, Kang, Krivelevich, and the first author and answers two questions about edge-isoperimetry in powers of regular graphs raised in their work.

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@article{arxiv.2407.02058,
  title  = {Isoperimetry in product graphs},
  author = {Sahar Diskin and Wojciech Samotij},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.02058},
  year   = {2024}
}

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6 pages

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