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Treewidth of generalized Hamming graph, bipartite Kneser graph and generalized Petersen graph

Combinatorics 2025-09-23 v3

Abstract

Let t,qt,q and nn be positive integers. Write [q]={1,2,,q}[q] = \{1,2,\ldots,q\}. The generalized Hamming graph H(t,q,n)H(t,q,n) is the graph whose vertex set is the cartesian product of nn copies of [q][q] (q2q\ge 2), where two vertices are adjacent if their Hamming distance is at most tt. In particular, H(1,q,n)H(1,q,n) is the well-known Hamming graph and H(1,2,n)H(1,2,n) is the hypercube. In 2006, Chandran and Kavitha described the asymptotic value of tw(H(1,q,n))tw(H(1,q,n)), where tw(G)tw(G) denotes the treewidth of GG. In this paper, we give the exact pathwidth of H(t,2,n)H(t,2,n) and show that tw(H(t,q,n))=Θ(tqn/n)tw(H(t,q,n)) = \Theta(tq^n/\sqrt{n}) when nn goes to infinity. Based on those results, we show that the treewidth of the bipartite Kneser graph BK(n,k)BK(n,k) is (nk)1\binom{n}{k} - 1 when nn is sufficiently large relative to kk and the bounds of tw(BK(2k+1,k))tw(BK(2k+1,k)) are given. Moreover, we present the bounds of the treewidth of the generalized Petersen graph.

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@article{arxiv.2403.12549,
  title  = {Treewidth of generalized Hamming graph, bipartite Kneser graph and generalized Petersen graph},
  author = {Yichen Wang and Mengyu Cao and Zequn Lv and Mei Lu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.12549},
  year   = {2025}
}