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完全图与超图的奇数覆盖

Odd Covers of Complete Graphs and Hypergraphs

Imre Leader, Ta Sheng Tan

AI总结:

本文证明完全图奇数覆盖数猜想,并利用高度对称的完全超图构造给出偶数阶 3-图精确结果及 r=3、4 时小于划分数的结论。

摘要:

完全图的“奇数覆盖数”是指一族完全二部图的最小规模,使得每条边都被覆盖奇数次。对于奇数 n,Buchanan、Clifton、Culver、Nie、O'Neill、Rombach 和 Yin 证明了 K_n 的奇数覆盖数等于 (n+1)/2 或 (n+3)/2,并且他们猜想该值始终为 (n+1)/2。我们证明了这一猜想。对于偶数 n,Babai 和 Frankl 证明了 K_n 的奇数覆盖数始终至少为 n/2,而上述作者以及 Radhakrishnan、Sen 和 Vishwanathan 给出了若干使等号成立的 n 值。我们给出了一些新的例子。我们的构造源于针对完全超图相应问题的一些高度对称的构造。因此,完全 3-图 K_n^(3) 的奇数覆盖数,是使每个 3-元组都包含在奇数个完全三部 3-图中的此类图的最小数量。我们证明,对于偶数 n,K_n^(3) 的奇数覆盖数恰好为 n/2;而对于奇数 n,在无穷多个 n 值上该数为 (n-1)/2。我们还证明,对于 r=3 和 r=4,K_n^(r) 的奇数覆盖数严格小于划分数,从而回答了 Buchanan、Clifton、Culver、Nie、O'Neill、Rombach 和 Yin 针对这些 r 值提出的问题。

英文摘要:

The `odd cover number' of a complete graph is the smallest size of a family of complete bipartite graphs that covers each edge an odd number of times. For $n$ odd, Buchanan, Clifton, Culver, Nie, O'Neill, Rombach and Yin showed that the odd cover number of $K_n$ is equal to $(n+1)/2$ or $(n+3)/2$, and they conjectured that it is always $(n+1)/2$. We prove this conjecture. For $n$ even, Babai and Frankl showed that the odd cover number of $K_n$ is always at least $n/2$, and the above authors and Radhakrishnan, Sen and Vishwanathan gave some values of $n$ for which equality holds. We give some new examples. Our constructions arise from some very symmetric constructions for the corresponding problem for complete hypergraphs. Thus the odd cover number of the complete 3-graph $K_n^{(3)}$ is the smallest number of complete 3-partite 3-graphs such that each 3-set is in an odd number of them. We show that the odd cover number of $K_n^{(3)}$ is exactly $n/2$ for even $n$, and we show that for odd $n$ it is $(n-1)/2$ for infinitely many values of $n$. We also show that for $r=3$ and $r=4$ the odd cover number of $K_n^{(r)}$ is strictly less than the partition number, answering a question of Buchanan, Clifton, Culver, Nie, O'Neill, Rombach and Yin for those values of $r$.

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