Variations on Sidorenko's conjecture in tournaments

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Autores principales: Fox, Jacob, Himwich, Zoe, Mani, Nitya, Zhou, Yunkun
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Publicado: 2024
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author Fox, Jacob
Himwich, Zoe
Mani, Nitya
Zhou, Yunkun
author_facet Fox, Jacob
Himwich, Zoe
Mani, Nitya
Zhou, Yunkun
contents We study variants of Sidorenko's conjecture in tournaments, where new phenomena arise that do not have clear analogues in the setting of undirected graphs. We first consider oriented graphs that are systematically under-represented in tournaments (called tournament anti-Sidorenko). We prove that such oriented graphs must be quite sparse; specifically, the maximum number of edges of a $k$-vertex oriented graph which is tournament anti-Sidorenko is $(1+o(1))k\log_2 k$. We also give several novel constructions of oriented graphs that are systematically over-represented in tournaments (tournament Sidorenko); as a representative example, we show that most ways to delete an edge from a transitive tournament yield a tournament Sidorenko oriented graph. As an illustration of our methods, we characterize which orientations of stars are tournament Sidorenko and which are tournament anti-Sidorenko.
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spellingShingle Variations on Sidorenko's conjecture in tournaments
Fox, Jacob
Himwich, Zoe
Mani, Nitya
Zhou, Yunkun
Combinatorics
We study variants of Sidorenko's conjecture in tournaments, where new phenomena arise that do not have clear analogues in the setting of undirected graphs. We first consider oriented graphs that are systematically under-represented in tournaments (called tournament anti-Sidorenko). We prove that such oriented graphs must be quite sparse; specifically, the maximum number of edges of a $k$-vertex oriented graph which is tournament anti-Sidorenko is $(1+o(1))k\log_2 k$. We also give several novel constructions of oriented graphs that are systematically over-represented in tournaments (tournament Sidorenko); as a representative example, we show that most ways to delete an edge from a transitive tournament yield a tournament Sidorenko oriented graph. As an illustration of our methods, we characterize which orientations of stars are tournament Sidorenko and which are tournament anti-Sidorenko.
title Variations on Sidorenko's conjecture in tournaments
topic Combinatorics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08418