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On the edge expansion of random polytopes

Combinatorics 2025-09-15 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

A 0/10/1-polytope in Rn\mathbb{R}^n is the convex hull of a subset of {0,1}n\{0,1\}^n. The graph of a polytope PP is the graph whose vertices are the zero-dimensional faces of PP and whose edges are the one-dimensional faces of PP. A conjecture of Mihail and Vazirani states that the edge expansion of the graph of every 0/10/1-polytope is at least one. We study a random version of the problem, where the polytope is generated by selecting vertices of {0,1}n\{0,1\}^n independently at random with probability p(0,1)p\in (0,1). Improving earlier results, we show that, for any p(0,1)p\in (0,1), with high probability the edge expansion of the random 0/10/1-polytope is bounded from below by an absolute constant.

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@article{arxiv.2509.09831,
  title  = {On the edge expansion of random polytopes},
  author = {Asaf Ferber and Michael Krivelevich and Marcelo Sales and Wojciech Samotij},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.09831},
  year   = {2025}
}

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16 pages, 4 figures