Saturation of multidimensional 0-1 matrices
Abstract
A 0-1 matrix is saturating for a 0-1 matrix if does not contain a submatrix that can be turned into by flipping any number of its -entries to -entries, and changing any -entry to -entry of introduces a copy of . Matrix is semisaturating for if changing any -entry to -entry of introduces a new copy of , regardless of whether originally contains or not. The functions and are the maximum and minimum possible number of -entries a 0-1 matrix saturating for can have, respectively. Function is the minimum possible number of -entries a 0-1 matrix semisaturating for can have. Function has been studied for decades, while investigation on and was initiated recently. In this paper, we make nontrivial generalization of results regarding these functions to multidimensional 0-1 matrices. In particular, we find the exact values of and when is a -dimensional identity matrix. Then we give the necessary and sufficient condition for a multidimensional 0-1 matrix to have bounded semisaturation function.
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@article{arxiv.2208.12682,
title = {Saturation of multidimensional 0-1 matrices},
author = {Shen-Fu Tsai},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.12682},
year = {2022}
}