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On the neighborhood complex of $\vec{s}$-stable Kneser graphs

Combinatorics 2019-04-18 v1 Algebraic Topology

Abstract

In 2002, A. Bj\"orner and M. de Longueville showed the neighborhood complex of the 22-stable Kneser graph KG(n,k)2stab{KG(n, k)}_{2-\textit{stab}} has the same homotopy type as the (n2k)(n-2k)-sphere. A short time ago, an analogous result about the homotopy type of the neighborhood complex of almost ss-stable Kneser graph has been announced by J. Oszt\'{e}nyi. Combining this result with the famous Lov\'{a}sz's topological lower bound on the chromatic number of graphs has been yielded a new way for determining the chromatic number of these graphs which was determined a bit earlier by P. Chen. In this paper we present a common generalization of the mentioned results. We will define the s\vec{s}-stable Kneser graph KG(n,k)sstab{KG(n, k)}_{\vec{s}-\textit{stab}} as the induced subgraph of the Kneser graph KG(n,k)KG(n, k) on s\vec{s}-stable vertices. And we prove, for given an integer vector s=(s1,,sk)\vec{s}=(s_1,\ldots, s_k) and ni=1k1si+2n\geq\sum_{i=1}^{k-1}s_i+2 where si2s_i\geq2 for iki\neq k and sk{1,2}s_k\in\{1,2\}, the neighborhood complex of KG(n,k)sstab{KG(n, k)}_{\vec{s}-\textit{stab}} is homotopy equivalent to the (ni=1k1si2)\left(n-\sum_{i=1}^{k-1}s_i-2\right)-sphere. In particular, this implies that χ(KG(n,k)sstab)=ni=1k1si\chi\left({KG(n, k)}_{\vec{s}-\textit{stab}}\right)= n-\sum_{i=1}^{k-1}s_i for the mentioned parameters. Moreover, as a simple corollary of the previous result, we will determine the chromatic number of 3-stable kneser graphs with at most one error.

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@article{arxiv.1904.08219,
  title  = {On the neighborhood complex of $\vec{s}$-stable Kneser graphs},
  author = {Hamid Reza Daneshpajouh and József Osztényi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.08219},
  year   = {2019}
}