Invariant systems of weighted representatives
Combinatorics
2026-02-25 v3 Group Theory
Abstract
It is known that, if removing some edges from a graph destroys all subgraphs isomorphic to a given finite graph , then all subgraphs isomorphic to can be destroyed by removing at most edges, which form a set invariant with respect to all automorphisms of . We construct the first examples of (connected) graphs for which this estimate is not sharp. Our arguments are based on a ``weighted analogue'' of an earlier known estimate for the cost of symmetry.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2306.11883,
title = {Invariant systems of weighted representatives},
author = {Anton A. Klyachko and Mikhail S. Terekhov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.11883},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
5 pages. A Russian version of this paper is at http://halgebra.math.msu.su/staff/klyachko/papers.htm . V3: minor corrections (thanks to Alexander Skutin)