A hypergraph Heilmann--Lieb theorem

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Auteurs principaux: Wan, Jiang-Chao, Wang, Yi, Fan, Yi-zheng
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author Wan, Jiang-Chao
Wang, Yi
Fan, Yi-zheng
author_facet Wan, Jiang-Chao
Wang, Yi
Fan, Yi-zheng
contents The Heilmann--Lieb theorem is a fundamental theorem in algebraic combinatorics which provides a characterization of the distribution of the zeros of matching polynomials of graphs. In this paper, we establish a hypergraph Heilmann--Lieb theorem as follows. Let $\h$ be a connected $k$-graph with maximum degree $Δ\geq 2$ and let $μ(\h, x)$ be its matching polynomial. We show that the zeros (with multiplicities) of $μ(\h, x)$ are invariant under a rotation of an angle $2π/{\ell}$ in the complex plane for some positive integer $\ell$ and $k$ is the maximum integer with this property. We further prove that the maximum modulus $λ(\h)$ of all the zeros of $μ(\h, x)$ is a simple root of $μ(\h, x)$ and satisfies $$Δ^{\frac{1}{ k}} \leq λ(\h)< \frac{k}{k-1}\big((k-1)(Δ-1)\big)^{\frac{1}{ k}}.$$ To achieve these, we prove that $μ(\h, x)$ divides the matching polynomial of the $k$-walk-tree of $\h$, which generalizes a classical result due to Godsil from graphs to hypergraphs.
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Wan, Jiang-Chao
Wang, Yi
Fan, Yi-zheng
Combinatorics
The Heilmann--Lieb theorem is a fundamental theorem in algebraic combinatorics which provides a characterization of the distribution of the zeros of matching polynomials of graphs. In this paper, we establish a hypergraph Heilmann--Lieb theorem as follows. Let $\h$ be a connected $k$-graph with maximum degree $Δ\geq 2$ and let $μ(\h, x)$ be its matching polynomial. We show that the zeros (with multiplicities) of $μ(\h, x)$ are invariant under a rotation of an angle $2π/{\ell}$ in the complex plane for some positive integer $\ell$ and $k$ is the maximum integer with this property. We further prove that the maximum modulus $λ(\h)$ of all the zeros of $μ(\h, x)$ is a simple root of $μ(\h, x)$ and satisfies $$Δ^{\frac{1}{ k}} \leq λ(\h)< \frac{k}{k-1}\big((k-1)(Δ-1)\big)^{\frac{1}{ k}}.$$ To achieve these, we prove that $μ(\h, x)$ divides the matching polynomial of the $k$-walk-tree of $\h$, which generalizes a classical result due to Godsil from graphs to hypergraphs.
title A hypergraph Heilmann--Lieb theorem
topic Combinatorics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.09558