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Reconstructing hypergraph matching polynomials

Combinatorics 2025-02-03 v1

Abstract

By utilizing the recently developed hypergraph analogue of Godsil's identity by the second author, we prove that for all nk2n \geq k \geq 2, one can reconstruct the matching polynomial of an nn-vertex kk-uniform hypergraph from the multiset of all induced sub-hypergraphs on k1kn+1\lfloor \frac{k-1}{k}n \rfloor + 1 vertices. This generalizes the well-known result of Godsil on graphs in 1981 to every uniform hypergraph. As a corollary, we show that for every graph FF, one can reconstruct the number of FF-factors in a graph under analogous conditions. We also constructed examples that imply the number k1kn+1\lfloor \frac{k-1}{k}n \rfloor + 1 is the best possible for all nk2n\geq k \geq 2 with nn divisible by kk.

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@article{arxiv.2501.19081,
  title  = {Reconstructing hypergraph matching polynomials},
  author = {Donggyu Kim and Hyunwoo Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.19081},
  year   = {2025}
}

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11 pages, 3 figures

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