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Sperner's colorings of hypergraphs arising from edgewise triangulations

Combinatorics 2025-06-10 v1

Abstract

We investigate Sperner's labelings of Hk,qπH^\pi_{k,q}, the hypergraph whose hyperedges are facets of the edgewise triangulation of a (k1)(k-1)-simplex defined by a permutation πSk1\pi\in \mathbb{S}_{k-1}. Mirzakhani and Vondr\' ak showed that the greedy coloring of Hk,qIdH^{\mathrm{Id}}_{k,q} produces the maximal number of monochromatic hyperedges. The line graph of Hk,qπH_{k,q}^\pi is built from the copies of the graph GπG_\pi that represents which subsets of consecutive numbers of [k1][k-1] are contiguous in π\pi. We characterize these graphs in terms of dissections a regular kk-gon and also show how they encode the adjacency relation between a hypersimplex and the facets of its alcoved triangulation. The natural action of the dihedral group DkD_k on a regular kk-gon and graphs GπG_\pi extends on the group of permutations Sk1\mathbb S_{k-1}. Independent sets of the graphs GπG_\pi of the permutations that are not invariant under the rotation are used to define a class of Sperner's colorings that produce more monochromatic hyperedges then the greedy colorings. This colorings are also optimal for a certain permutations.

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@article{arxiv.2506.07201,
  title  = {Sperner's colorings of hypergraphs arising from edgewise triangulations},
  author = {Duško Jojić and Ognjen Papaz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.07201},
  year   = {2025}
}