English

Recursive constructions of amoebas

Combinatorics 2021-04-21 v1

Abstract

Global amoebas are a wide and rich family of graphs that emerged from the study of certain Ramsey-Tur\'an problems in 22-colorings of the edges of the complete graph KnK_n that deal with the appearance of unavoidable patterns once a certain amount of edges in each color is guaranteed. Indeed, it turns out that, as soon as such coloring constraints are satisfied and if nn is sufficiently large, then every global amoeba can be found embedded in KnK_n such that it has half its edges in each color. Even more surprising, every bipartite global amoeba GG is unavoidable in every tonal-variation, meaning that, for any pair of integers r,br, b such that r+br + b is the number of edges of GG, there is a subgraph of KnK_n isomorphic to GG with rr edges in the first color and bb edges in the second. The feature that makes global amoebas work are one-by-one edge replacements that leave the structure of the graph invariant. By means of a group theoretical approach, the dynamics of this feature can be modeled. As a counterpart to the global amoebas that "live" inside a possibly large complete graph KnK_n, we also consider local amoebas which are spanning subgraphs of KnK_n with the same feature. In an effort to highlight their richness and versatility, we present here three different recursive constructions of amoebas, two of them yielding interesting families per se and one of them offering a wide range of possibilities.

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@article{arxiv.2104.09707,
  title  = {Recursive constructions of amoebas},
  author = {Adriana Hansberg and Amanda Montejano and Yair Caro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.09707},
  year   = {2021}
}

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11 pages, 3 figures to be published in the LAGOS 2021 proceedings

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