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Fully graphic degree sequences and P-stable degree sequences

Combinatorics 2024-12-18 v2 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

The notion of PP-stability of an infinite set of degree sequences plays influential role in approximating the permanents, rapidly sampling the realizations of graphic degree sequences, or even studying and improving network privacy. While there exist several known sufficient conditions for PP-stability, we don't know any useful necessary condition for it. We also do not have good insight of possible structure of PP-stable degree sequence families. At first we will show that every known infinite PP-stable degree sequence set, described by inequalities of the parameters n,c1,c2,Σn, c_1, c_2, \Sigma (the sequence length, the maximum and minimum degrees and the sum of the degrees) is ,,fully graphic" meaning that every degree sequence from the region with an even degree sum, is graphic. Furthermore, if Σ\Sigma does not occur in the determining inequality, then the notions of PP-stability and full graphicality will be proved equivalent. In turns, this equality provides a strengthening of the well-known theorem of Jerrum, McKay and Sinclair about PP-stability, describing the maximal PP-stable sequence set by n,c1,c2n, c_1, c_2. Furthermore we conjecture that similar equivalences occur in cases if Σ\Sigma also part of the defining inequality.

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@article{arxiv.2405.12013,
  title  = {Fully graphic degree sequences and P-stable degree sequences},
  author = {Péter L. Erdős and István Miklós and Lajos Soukup},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.12013},
  year   = {2024}
}

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23 pages, 1 figure

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