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On a problem of Specker about Euclidean representations of finite graphs

Combinatorics 2018-10-26 v5

Abstract

Say that a graph GG is \emph{representable in Rn\R ^n} if there is a map ff from its vertex set into the Euclidean space Rn\R ^n such that f(x)f(x)=f(y)f(y)\| f(x) - f(x')\| = \| f(y) - f(y')\| iff {x,x}\{x,x'\} and {y,y}\{y, y'\} are both edges or both non-edges in GG. The purpose of this note is to present the proof of the following result, due to Einhorn and Schoenberg: if GG finite is neither complete nor independent, then it is representable in RG2\R ^{|G|-2}. A similar result also holds in the case of finite complete edge-colored graphs.

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@article{arxiv.0810.2359,
  title  = {On a problem of Specker about Euclidean representations of finite graphs},
  author = {L. Nguyen Van Thé},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.2359},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

8 pages, 2 figures. The 2011 version of this article was supposed to remain unpublished because the question it answers was actually answered in 1966 (even before the question existed!). This new version, with a typo corrected on p.3, will nevertheless appear as an expository article in Expo. Math