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 -element sets with smallest edge-boundary in the hypercube are subcubes and is only marginally weaker than the Bollob\'asLeader 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.
Cite
@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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