Property Testing in Bounded Degree Hypergraphs

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Main Authors: Aaronson, Hugo, Carenini, Gaia, Chanda, Atreyi
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author Aaronson, Hugo
Carenini, Gaia
Chanda, Atreyi
author_facet Aaronson, Hugo
Carenini, Gaia
Chanda, Atreyi
contents We extend the bounded degree graph model for property testing introduced by Goldreich and Ron (Algorithmica, 2002) to hypergraphs. In this framework, we analyse the query complexity of three fundamental hypergraph properties: colorability, $k$-partiteness, and independence number. We present a randomized algorithm for testing $k$-partiteness within families of $k$-uniform $n$-vertex hypergraphs of bounded treewidth whose query complexity does not depend on $n$. In addition, we prove optimal lower bounds of $Ω(n)$ on the query complexity of testing algorithms for $k$-colorability, $k$-partiteness, and independence number in $k$-uniform $n$-vertex hypergraphs of bounded degree. For each of these properties, we consider the problem of explicitly constructing $k$-uniform hypergraphs of bounded degree that differ in $Θ(n)$ hyperedges from any hypergraph satisfying the property, but where violations of the latter cannot be detected in any neighborhood of $o(n)$ vertices.
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spellingShingle Property Testing in Bounded Degree Hypergraphs
Aaronson, Hugo
Carenini, Gaia
Chanda, Atreyi
Computational Complexity
Discrete Mathematics
We extend the bounded degree graph model for property testing introduced by Goldreich and Ron (Algorithmica, 2002) to hypergraphs. In this framework, we analyse the query complexity of three fundamental hypergraph properties: colorability, $k$-partiteness, and independence number. We present a randomized algorithm for testing $k$-partiteness within families of $k$-uniform $n$-vertex hypergraphs of bounded treewidth whose query complexity does not depend on $n$. In addition, we prove optimal lower bounds of $Ω(n)$ on the query complexity of testing algorithms for $k$-colorability, $k$-partiteness, and independence number in $k$-uniform $n$-vertex hypergraphs of bounded degree. For each of these properties, we consider the problem of explicitly constructing $k$-uniform hypergraphs of bounded degree that differ in $Θ(n)$ hyperedges from any hypergraph satisfying the property, but where violations of the latter cannot be detected in any neighborhood of $o(n)$ vertices.
title Property Testing in Bounded Degree Hypergraphs
topic Computational Complexity
Discrete Mathematics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18382