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On a question of Vera T. S\'os about size forcing of graphons

Combinatorics 2022-07-26 v2

Abstract

The kk-sample G(k,W)\mathbb{G}(k,W) from a graphon W:[0,1]2[0,1]W:[0,1]^2\to [0,1] is the random graph on {1,,k}\{1,\dots,k\}, where we sample x1,,xk[0,1]x_1,\dots,x_k\in [0,1] uniformly at random and make each pair {i,j}{1,,k}\{i,j\}\subseteq \{1,\dots,k\} an edge with probability W(xi,xj)W(x_i,x_j), with all these choices being mutually independent. Let the random variable Xk(W)X_k(W) be the number of edges in G(k,W)\mathbb{G}(k,W). Vera T. S\'os asked in 2012 whether two graphons U,WU,W are necessarily weakly isomorphic if the random variables Xk(U)X_k(U) and Xk(W)X_k(W) have the same distribution for every integer k2k\ge 2. This question when one of the graphons WW is a constant function was answered positively by Endre Cs\'oka and independently by Jacob Fox, Tomasz {\L}uczak and Vera T. S\'os. Here we investigate the question when WW is a 2-step graphon and prove that the answer is positive for a 3-dimensional family of such graphons. We also present some related results.

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@article{arxiv.2103.09114,
  title  = {On a question of Vera T. S\'os about size forcing of graphons},
  author = {Oliver Cooley and Mihyun Kang and Oleg Pikhurko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.09114},
  year   = {2022}
}