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Nathanson's Heights and the CSS Conjecture for Cayley Graphs

Number Theory 2008-05-06 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

Let GG be a finite directed graph, β(G)\beta(G) the minimum size of a subset XX of edges such that the graph G=(V,EX)G' = (V,E \smallsetminus X) is directed acyclic and γ(G)\gamma(G) the number of pairs of nonadjacent vertices in the undirected graph obtained from GG by replacing each directed edge with an undirected edge. Chudnovsky, Seymour and Sullivan \cite{CSS07} proved that if GG is triangle-free, then β(G)γ(G)\beta(G) \leq \gamma(G). They conjectured a sharper bound (so called the "CSS conjecture") that β(G)γ(G)2\beta(G) \leq \dfrac{\gamma(G)}{2}. Nathanson and Sullivan verified this conjecture for the directed Cayley graph \Cay(\bbZ/N\bbZ,EA)\Cay(\bbZ/N\bbZ, E_A) whose vertex set is the additive group \bbZ/N\bbZ\bbZ/N\bbZ and whose edge set EAE_A is determined by EA=(x,x+a):x\bbZ/N\bbZ,aAE_A = {(x,x+a) : x \in \bbZ/N\bbZ, a \in A} when NN is prime in \cite{NS07} by introducing "height". In this work, we extend the definition of height and the proof of CSS conjecture for \Cay(\bbZ/N\bbZ,EA)\Cay(\bbZ/N\bbZ, E_A) to any positive integer NN.

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@article{arxiv.0805.0341,
  title  = {Nathanson's Heights and the CSS Conjecture for Cayley Graphs},
  author = {Yotsanan Meemark and Chaiwat Pinthubthaworn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.0341},
  year   = {2008}
}

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9 pages

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