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Weakly Distinguishing Graph Polynomials on Addable Properties

Combinatorics 2020-10-21 v1

Abstract

A graph polynomial PP is weakly distinguishing if for almost all finite graphs GG there is a finite graph HH that is not isomorphic to GG with P(G)=P(H)P(G)=P(H). It is weakly distinguishing on a graph property C\mathcal{C} if for almost all finite graphs GCG\in\mathcal{C} there is HCH \in \mathcal{C} that is not isomorphic to GG with P(G)=P(H)P(G)=P(H). We give sufficient conditions on a graph property C\mathcal{C} for the characteristic, clique, independence, matching, and domination and ξ\xi polynomials, as well as the Tutte polynomial and its specialisations, to be weakly distinguishing on C\mathcal{C}. One such condition is to be addable and small in the sense of C. McDiarmid, A. Steger and D. Welsh (2005). Another one is to be of genus at most kk.

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@article{arxiv.1910.06037,
  title  = {Weakly Distinguishing Graph Polynomials on Addable Properties},
  author = {Johann A. Makowsky and Vsevolod Rakita},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.06037},
  year   = {2020}
}

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17 pages, 6 figures

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