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Two product formulas for counting successive vertex orderings

Combinatorics 2023-10-06 v1

Abstract

A vertex ordering of a graph GG is a bijection π ⁣:{1,,V(G)}V(G)\pi\colon\{1,\dots,|V(G)|\}\to V(G). It is successive if the induced subgraph G[vπ(1),,vπ(k)]G[v_{\pi(1)},\dots,v_{\pi(k)}] is connected for each kk. Lixing Fang, Hao Huang, J\'anos Pach, G\'abor Tardos, and Junchi Zuo [J. Comb. Theory A199 (2023), 105776] gave formulas for counting the number of successive vertex orderings for a class of graphs they called "fully regular," and conjectured that these formulas could be written as certain products involving differences or ratios of binomial coefficients in two cases: When the graph is the line graph L(Kn(3))L(K_n^{(3)}) of the complete 33-uniform hypergraph, or when it is the line graph L(Km,n(1,2))L(K_{m,n}^{(1,2)}) of a complete "bipartite" 33-uniform hypergraph. In this paper, we confirm both of these conjectures.

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@article{arxiv.2310.03356,
  title  = {Two product formulas for counting successive vertex orderings},
  author = {Boon Suan Ho},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.03356},
  year   = {2023}
}

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11 pages

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