English

Domination inequalities and dominating graphs

Combinatorics 2024-11-27 v2

Abstract

We say that a graph HH dominates another graph HH' if the number of homomorphisms from HH' to any graph GG is dominated, in an appropriate sense, by the number of homomorphisms from HH to GG. We study the family of dominating graphs, those graphs with the property that they dominate all of their subgraphs. It has long been known that even-length paths are dominating in this sense and a result of Hatami implies that all weakly norming graphs are dominating. In a previous paper, we showed that every finite reflection group gives rise to a family of weakly norming, and hence dominating, graphs. Here we revisit this connection to show that there is a much broader class of dominating graphs.

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@article{arxiv.2303.01997,
  title  = {Domination inequalities and dominating graphs},
  author = {David Conlon and Joonkyung Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.01997},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

16 pages, to appear in Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc

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