On boundedness of zeros of the independence polynomial of tori

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Main Authors: de Boer, David, Buys, Pjotr, Peters, Han, Regts, Guus
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author de Boer, David
Buys, Pjotr
Peters, Han
Regts, Guus
author_facet de Boer, David
Buys, Pjotr
Peters, Han
Regts, Guus
contents We study boundedness of zeros of the independence polynomial of tori for sequences of tori converging to the integer lattice. We prove that zeros are bounded for sequences of balanced tori, but unbounded for sequences of highly unbalanced tori. Here balanced means that the size of the torus is at most exponential in the shortest side length, while highly unbalanced means that the longest side length of the torus is super exponential in the product over the other side lengths cubed. We discuss implications of our results to the existence of efficient algorithms for approximating the independence polynomial on tori. This project was partially inspired by the relationship between zeros of partition functions and holomorphic dynamics, a relationship that in the last two decades played a prominent role in the field. Besides presenting new results, we survey this relationship and its recent consequences.
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spellingShingle On boundedness of zeros of the independence polynomial of tori
de Boer, David
Buys, Pjotr
Peters, Han
Regts, Guus
Combinatorics
Data Structures and Algorithms
Mathematical Physics
We study boundedness of zeros of the independence polynomial of tori for sequences of tori converging to the integer lattice. We prove that zeros are bounded for sequences of balanced tori, but unbounded for sequences of highly unbalanced tori. Here balanced means that the size of the torus is at most exponential in the shortest side length, while highly unbalanced means that the longest side length of the torus is super exponential in the product over the other side lengths cubed. We discuss implications of our results to the existence of efficient algorithms for approximating the independence polynomial on tori. This project was partially inspired by the relationship between zeros of partition functions and holomorphic dynamics, a relationship that in the last two decades played a prominent role in the field. Besides presenting new results, we survey this relationship and its recent consequences.
title On boundedness of zeros of the independence polynomial of tori
topic Combinatorics
Data Structures and Algorithms
Mathematical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.12934