A unified construction of semiring-homomorphic graph invariants

DOI10.1007/S10801-020-00983-YMaRDI QIDQ2052822zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Tobias Fritz

Publication date 29 November 2021

Published in Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01090

zbMATH Keywords

Shannon capacity of graphsfractional colouring numberLovász number

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vertex subsets with special properties (dominating sets, independent sets, cliques, etc.) (05C69) Coloring of graphs and hypergraphs (05C15) Ordered rings, algebras, modules (06F25) Fractional graph theory, fuzzy graph theory (05C72)

Abstract: It has recently been observed by Zuiddam that finite graphs form a preordered commutative semiring under the graph homomorphism preorder together with join and disjunctive product as addition and multiplication, respectively. This led to a new characterization of the Shannon capacity $Theta$ via Strassen's Positivstellensatz: $$, where $f:mathsfGraphomathbb{R}_{+}$ ranges over all monotone semiring homomorphisms. Constructing and classifying graph invariants $mathsfGraphomathbb{R}_{+}$ which are monotone under graph homomorphisms, additive under join, and multiplicative under disjunctive product is therefore of major interest. We call such invariants semiring-homomorphic. The only known such invariants are all of a fractional nature: the fractional chromatic number, the projective rank, the fractional Haemers bounds, as well as the Lov'asz number (with the latter two evaluated on the complementary graph). Here, we provide a unified construction of these invariants based on linear-like semiring families of graphs. Along the way, we also investigate the additional algebraic structure on the semiring of graphs corresponding to fractionalization. Linear-like semiring families of graphs are a new concept of combinatorial geometry different from matroids which may be of independent interest.

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