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The Manickam-Mikl\'os-Singhi Parameter of Graphs and Degree Sequences

Combinatorics 2018-08-20 v1

Abstract

Let GG be a simple graph. Consider all weightings of the vertices of GG with real numbers whose total sum is nonnegative. How many edges of GG have endpoints with a nonnegative sum? We consider the minimum number of such edges over all such weightings as a graph parameter. Computing this parameter has been shown to be NP-hard but we give a polynomial algorithm to compute the minimum of this parameter over realizations of a given degree sequence. We also completely determine the minimum and maximum value of this parameter for regular graphs.

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@article{arxiv.1808.05835,
  title  = {The Manickam-Mikl\'os-Singhi Parameter of Graphs and Degree Sequences},
  author = {Zoltán Király and Neeraja Kulkarni and Ian McMeeking and Joshua Mundinger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.05835},
  year   = {2018}
}