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On P-unique hypergraphs

Combinatorics 2017-12-21 v1

Abstract

We study hypergraphs which are uniquely determined by their chromatic, independence and matching polynomials. B. Bollob\'as, L. Pebody and O. Riordan (2000) conjectured (BPR-conjecture) that almost all graphs are uniquely determined by their chromatic polynomials. We show that for rr-uniform hypergraphs with r3r \geq 3 this is almost never the case. This disproves the analolgue of the BPR-conjecture for 33-uniform hypergraphs. For r=2r =2 this also holds for the independence polynomial, as shown by J.A. Makowsky and V. Rakita (2017), whereas for the chromatic and matching polynomial this remains open.

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@article{arxiv.1712.07357,
  title  = {On P-unique hypergraphs},
  author = {J. A. Makowsky and R. X. Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.07357},
  year   = {2017}
}

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10 pages

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