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We prove a generalization of the Ahlswede-Cai local-global principle. A new technique to handle edge-isoperimetric problems is introduced which we call the pull-push method.
This paper describes an enumeration of all words having a combinatoric property called "rhythmic oddity property"named \emph{rop-words}. \ This property was introduced by Simha Aron in the 1990s.
Tuza's Conjecture states that if a graph $G$ does not contain more than $k$ edge-disjoint triangles, then some set of at most $2k$ edges meets all triangles of $G$. We prove Tuza's Conjecture for all graphs $G$ having no subgraph with average degree at least $7$.
There is a canonical way to associate two simplicial complexes K, L to any relation $R\subset X\times Y$. Moreover, the geometric realizations of K and L are homotopy equivalent.
In this paper we prove the following new sufficient condition for a digraph to be Hamiltonian: <br>{\it Let $D$ be a 2-strong digraph of order $n\geq 9$. <br>If $n-1$ vertices of $D$ have degrees at least $n+k$ and the remaining vertex has degree at least $n-k-4$, where $k$ is a non-negative integer, then $D$ is Hamil...
We introduce and study the Doubly Balanced Connected graph Partitioning (DBCP) problem: Let $G=(V,E)$ be a connected graph with a weight (supply/demand) function $p:V\rightarrow \{-1,+1\}$ satisfying $p(V)=\sum_{j\in V} p(j)=0$. The objective is to partition $G$ into $(V_1,V_2)$ such that $G[V_1]$ and $G[V_2]$ are con...
Ovoids of the hyperbolic quadric $Q^+(7,q)$ of $\mathrm{PG}(7,q)$ have been extensively studied over the past 40 years, partly due to their connections with other combinatorial objects. It is well known that the points of an ovoid of $Q^+(7,q)$ can be parametrized by three polynomials $f_1(X,Y,Z)$, $f_2(X,Y,Z)$, $f_3(...
We show that minimally 3-rigid block-and-hole graphs, with one block or one hole, are characterised as those which are constructible from $K_3$ by vertex splitting, and also, as those having associated looped face graphs which are $(3,0)$-tight. This latter property can be verified in polynomial time by a form of pebb...
Let $G$ be an edge-coloured graph. The minimum colour degree $\delta^c(G)$ of $G$ is the largest integer $k$ such that, for every vertex $v$, there are at least $k$ distinct colours on edges incident to $v$.
This paper is a sequel to the work of Bhattacharjya et al. \ (J. Phys. A-Math. 57.33: 335303, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/ad6653" rel="external noopener nofollow" class="link-external link-https">this https URL</a>) on quantum state transfer on blow-up graphs, where instead of the adjacency matrix, we ta...
In this paper, we determine all connected net-regular strongly regular signed graphs with degree 5. There are five and two strongly regular signed graphs with net-degree 3 and 1, respectively.
The 2-blowup of a graph is obtained by replacing each vertex with two non-adjacent copies; a graph is biplanar if it is the union of two planar graphs. We disprove a conjecture of Gethner that 2-blowups of planar graphs are biplanar: iterated Kleetopes are counterexamples.
Given an arbitrary non-zero simplicial cycle and a generic vector coloring of its vertices, there is a way to produce a graded Poincare duality algebra associated with these data. The procedure relies on the theory of volume polynomials and multi-fans.
In this short note, we supply a new upper bound on the cop number in terms of tree decompositions. Our results in some cases extend a previously derived bound on the cop number using treewidth.
This is a revised version of our original paper (<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00489v2" data-arxiv-id="1808.00489v2" class="link-https">arXiv:1808.00489v2</a>) incorporating the corrections published in a corrigendum (<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00489v3" data-arxiv-id="1808.00489v3" class="link-https">arX...
Let $V=V(n,q)$ denote the vector space of dimension $n$ over the finite field with $q$ elements. A subspace partition ${\mathcal P}$ of $V$ is a collection of nontrivial subspaces of $V$ such that each nonzero vector of $V$ is in exactly one subspace of ${\mathcal P}$.
We give an extension of the lower bound of Vucic and Zivaljevic for the number of Tverberg partitions from the prime to the prime power case. Our proof is inspired by the Z_p-index version of the proof in Matousek&#39;s book &#34;Using the Borsuk-Ulam Theorem&#34; and uses Volovikov&#39;s Lemma.
The interval count problem, a classical question in the study of interval orders, was introduced by Ronald Graham in the 1980s. This problem asks: given an interval order $P$, what is the minimum number of distinct interval lengths required to construct an interval representation of $P$?
A rational Dyck path of type $(m,d)$ is an increasing unit-step lattice path from $(0,0)$ to $(m,d) \in \mathbb{Z}^2$ that never goes above the diagonal line $y = (d/m)x$. On the other hand, a positroid of rank $d$ on the ground set $[d+m]$ is a special type of matroid coming from the totally nonnegative Grassmannian....
We characterize all permutations on even-by-even grids that maximally separate neighboring vertices. More precisely, let $n_1$, $n_2$ be positive even integers, let $I(n_1,n_2)=\{1,\dots,n_1\}\times\{1,\dots,n_2\}$ be the $n_1\times n_2$ grid, let $d$ be the $L_1$ metric on $I(n_1,n_2)$, and let $N=\{\{x,y\}\in I(n_1,...
Finding the maximum number of induced cycles of length $k$ in a graph on $n$ vertices has been one of the most intriguing open problems of Extremal Graph Theory. Recently Balogh, Hu, Lidický and Pfender answered the question in the case $k=5$.
The distinguishing number (index) $D(G)$ ($D&#39;(G)$) of a graph $G$ is the least integer $d$ such that $G$ has an vertex labeling (edge labeling) with $d$ labels that is preserved only by a trivial automorphism. The Kronecker product $G\times H$ of two graphs $G$ and $H$ is the graph with vertex set $V (G)\times V (...
The connectivity of a network directly signifies its reliability and fault-tolerance. Structure and substructure connectivity are two novel generalizations of the connectivity.
Edmonds&#39; fundamental theorem on arborescences characterizes the existence of $k$ pairwise arc-disjoint spanning arborescences with prescribed root sets in a digraph. In this paper, we study the problem of packing branchings in digraphs under cardinality constraints on their root sets by arborescence augmentation.
We discuss an elementary, yet unsolved, problem of Niederreiter concerning the enumeration of a class of subspaces of finite dimensional vector spaces over finite fields. A short and self-contained account of some recent progress on this problem is included and some related problems are discussed.
We show that there are $f$-vectors of balanced simplicial complexes giving a source of simplicial complexes exhibiting a Boolean decomposition similar to a geometric Lefschetz decomposition. The objects we are working with are $h$-vectors of flag spheres and balanced simplicial complexes whose $f$-vectors are equal to...
Consider the following broadcasting process run on a connected graph $G=(V,E)$. Suppose that $k \ge 2$ agents start on vertices selected from $V$ uniformly and independently at random.
For d-regular graph G, an edge-signing sigma:E(G) \rightarrow {-1,1} is called a good signing if the absolute eigenvalues of adjacency matrix are at most 2 \sqrt{d-1}. Bilu-Linial conjectured that for each regular graph there exists a good signing.
We prove that $K_n+I$, the complete graph of an even order with a $1$-factor duplicated, admits a decomposition into $2$-factors, each a disjoint union of cycles of length $m \geq 5$ if and only if $m \mid n$, except possibly when $m$ is odd and $n=4m$. In addition, we show that $K_n+I$ admits a decomposition into $2$...
For any graph $G=(V,E)$ with maximum degree $\Delta$ and without isolated edges, and a positive integer $r$, by $\chi&#39;_{\Sigma,r}(G)$ we denote the $r$-distant sum distinguishing index of $G$. This is the least integer $k$ for which a proper edge colouring $c:E\to\{1,2,\ldots,k\}$ exists such that $\sum_{e\ni u}c(...
When considering binary strings, it&#39;s natural to wonder how many distinct subsequences might exist in a given string. Given that there is an existing algorithm which provides a straightforward way to compute the number of distinct subsequences in a fixed string, we might next be interested in the expected number o...
The symmetric tensor power of graphs is introduced and its fundamental properties are explored. A wide range of intriguing phenomena occur when one considers symmetric tensor powers of familiar graphs.
We associate a quasisymmetric function to any Bruhat interval in a general Coxeter group. This association can be seen to be a morphism of Hopf algebras to the subalgebra of all peak functions, leading to an extension of the cd-index of convex polytopes.
In 1999 Michael Hartley showed that any abstract polytope can be constructed as a double coset poset, by means of a C-group $\C$ and a subgroup $N \leq \C$. Subgroups $N \leq \C$ that give rise to abstract polytopes through such construction are called {\em sparse}.
We completely characterize the first two entries, namely the $(f_0, f_1)$-vector pairs, for $6$-dimension polytopes. We also find the characterization for $7$-dimension polytopes with excess degree greater than $11$ and, we conjecture bounds fulfilled by $(f_0, f_1)$-vector pairs for any $d$-polytope having an excess ...
We investigate the structure of isometric subgraphs of hypercubes (i.e., partial cubes) which do not contain finite convex subgraphs contractible to the 3-cube minus one vertex $Q^-_3$ (here contraction means contracting the edges corresponding to the same coordinate of the hypercube). Extending similar results for me...
In this note, we give basic properties of ternary four-negacirculant self-dual codes. By exhaustive computer search based on the properties, we complete a classification of ternary extremal four-negacirculant self-dual codes of lengths 40, 44, 48, 52 and 60.
We study a subclass of Kähler-Einstein Fano polygons and how they behave under mutation. The polygons of interest are Kähler-Einstein Fano triangles and symmetric Fano polygons.
We provide an upper bound of the size of a subset A of F_p^n that does not admit a k-star of 3-APs (three-term arithmetic progressions). Namely, the subset A is assumed to contain no configuration of k 3-APs, sharing the middle term, such that all 2k+1 terms are distinct.
Multiple analogues of certain families of combinatorial numbers are recently constructed by the author in terms of well poised Macdonald functions, and some of their fundamental properties are developed. In this paper, we present combinatorial formulas for the well poised Macdonald functions, the multiple binomial coe...
In our previous paper, we determined a unified combinatorial framework to look at a large number of colored partition identities, and studied the five identities corresponding to the exceptional modular equations of prime degree of the Schroeter, Russell and Ramanujan type. The goal of this paper is to use the master ...
Given a bipartite graph with parts $A$ and $B$ having maximum degrees at most $\Delta_A$ and $\Delta_B$, respectively, consider a list assignment such that every vertex in $A$ or $B$ is given a list of colours of size $k_A$ or $k_B$, respectively. <br>We prove some general sufficient conditions in terms of $\Delta_A$,...
A {\em Wakeford pairing} from $S$ onto $T$ is a bijection $\phi : S \to T$ such that $x\phi(x)\notin T,$ for every $x\in S. $ The number of such pairings will be denoted by $\mu(S,T)$.
The walk matrix of an $n$-vertex graph $G$ with adjacency matrix $A$, denoted by $W(G)$, is $[e,Ae,\ldots,A^{n-1}e]$, where $e$ is the all-ones vector. Let $G\circ P_m$ be the rooted product of $G$ and a rooted path $P_m$ (taking an endvertex as the root), i.e., $G\circ P_m$ is a graph obtained from $G$ and $n$ copies...
The recently introduced A-homotopy groups for graphs are investigated. The main concern of the present article is the construction of an infinite cell complex, the homotopy groups of which are isomorphic to the A-homotopy groups of the given graph.
There are many open problems and some mysteries connected to the realizations of the associahedra as convex polytopes. In this note, we describe three -- concerning special realizations with the vertices on a sphere, the space of all possible realizations, and possible realizations of the multiassociahedron.
Recently, the problem of establishing bounds on the edge density of 1-planar graphs, including their subclass IC-planar graphs, has received considerable attention. In 2018, Angelini et al. showed that any n-vertex bipartite IC-planar graph has at most 2.25n-4 edges, which implies that bipartite IC-planar graphs have ...
For a finite connected simple graph, the Terwilliger algebra is a matrix algebra generated by the adjacency matrix and idempotents corresponding to the distance partition with respect to a fixed vertex. We will consider algebras defined by two other partitions and the centralizer algebra of the stabilizer of the fixed...
The divisorial gonality of a graph is the minimum degree of a positive rank divisor on that graph. We introduce the multiplicity-free gonality of a graph, which restricts our consideration to divisors that place at most \(1\) chip on each vertex.
We study the energy per vertex in regular graphs. For every k, we give an upper bound for the energy per vertex of a k-regular graph, and show that a graph attains the upper bound if and only if it is the disjoint union of incidence graphs of projective planes of order k-1 or, in case k=2, the disjoint union of triang...
Our main goal is to compute the decomposition of arbitrary Kronecker powers of the Harmonics of $S_n$. To do this, we give a new way of decomposing the character for the action of $S_n$ on polynomial rings with $k$ sets of $n$ variables.
Classic mass partition results are about dividing the plane into regions that are equal with respect to one or more measures (masses). We introduce a new concept in which the notion of partition is replaced by that of a cover.
In 2007, Alexander Shapovalov posed an old twist on the classical coin weighing problem by asking for strategies that manage to conceal the identities of specific coins while providing general information on the number of fake coins. In 2015, Diaco and Khovanova studied various cases of these &#34;discreet strategies&...
This paper considers the Fourier transform over the slice of the Boolean hypercube. We prove a relationship between the Fourier coefficients of a function over the slice, and the Fourier coefficients of its restrictions.
For words of length $n$, generated by independent geometric random variables, we consider the mean and variance of the number of inversions and of a parameter of Knuth from permutation in situ. In this way, $q$--analogues for these parameters from the usual permutation model are obtained.
Aguiar and Ardila defined the Hopf monoid GP of generalized permutahedra and showed that it contains many submonoids that correspond to combinatorial objects. They also give a basic polynomial invariant of generalized permutahedra, which then specializes to the submonoids.
A signed graph $S=(G, \sigma)$ is a pair in which $G$ is an underlying graph and $\sigma$ is a function from the edge set to $\{\pm1\}$. For signed graphs $S_{1}$ and $S_{2}$ on $n_{1}$ and $n_{2}$ vertices, respectively, the signed neighbourhood corona $S_{1} \star_s S_{2}$ (in short s-neighbourhood corona) of $S_{1}...
Although both noncrossing partitions and nonnesting partitions are uniformly enumerated for Weyl groups, the exact relationship between these two sets of combinatorial objects remains frustratingly mysterious. In this paper, we give a precise combinatorial answer in the case of the symmetric group: for any standard Co...
We provide bivariate asymptotics for the poly-Bernoulli numbers, a combinatorial array that enumerates lonesum matrices, using the methods of Analytic Combinatorics in Several Variables (ACSV). For the diagonal asymptotic (i.e., for the special case of square lonesum matrices) we present an alternative proof based on ...
A set of vertices $S$ in a graph $G$ is a {\em resolving set} for $G$ if, for any two vertices $u,v$, there exists $x\in S$ such that the distances $d(u,x) \neq d(v,x)$. In this paper, we consider the Johnson graphs $J(n,k)$ and Kneser graphs $K(n,k)$, and obtain various constructions of resolving sets for these graph...
An edge-weighted graph $G$, possibly with loops, is said to be antiferromagnetic if it has nonnegative weights and at most one positive eigenvalue, counting multiplicities. The number of graph homomorphisms from a graph $H$ to an antiferromagnetic graph $G$ generalises various important parameters in graph theory, inc...
An odd coloring of a graph $G$ is a proper coloring such that any non-isolated vertex in $G$ has a coloring appears odd times on its neighbors. The odd chromatic number, denoted by $\chi_o(G)$, is the minimum number of colors that admits an odd coloring of $G$.
We consider finite trees with edges labeled by letters on a finite alphabet $\varSigma$. Each pair of nodes defines a unique labeled path whose trace is a word of the free monoid $\varSigma^*$.
In this note, we show that the method of Croot, Lev, and Pach can be used to bound the size of a subset of $F_q^n$ with no three terms in arithmetic progression by $c^n$ with $c &lt; q$. For $q=3$, the problem of finding the largest subset with no three terms in arithmetic progression is called the `cap problem&#39;.
The $3$-path isolation number of a connected $n$-vertex graph $G$, denoted by $\iota(G,P_3)$, is the size of a smallest subset $D$ of the vertex set of $G$ such that the closed neighbourhood $N[D]$ of $D$ in $G$ intersects each $3$-vertex path of $G$, meaning that no two edges of $G-N[D]$ intersect. Zhang and Wu prove...
We state and prove an explicit evaluation of a certain multi-variate integral and use it to furnish a new, and shorter, proof of an elegant determinant identity of Michael Dougherty and Jon McCammond that came up in their study of critical values.
Inspired by a recent article by Anthony Zaleski and Doron Zeilberger, we investigate the question of determining the largest k for which there exists boolean formulas in disjunctive normal form (DNF) with n variables, none of whose conjunctions are `parallel&#39;, and such that all of them have at least k literals. Us...
A pseudo-hyperoval of a projective space $\PG(3n-1,q)$, $q$ even, is a set of $q^n+2$ subspaces of dimension $n-1$ such that any three span the whole space. We prove that a pseudo-hyperoval with an irreducible transitive stabiliser is elementary.
Elementary arguments that rely on previous results obtained by G. Ringel and B. Jackson are given to establish Ringel&#39;s generalized earth-moon problem for Dyck&#39;s surface and the Moebius band.
We deal with connected $k$-regular multigraphs of order $n$ that has only three distinct eigenvalues. In this paper, we study the largest possible number of vertices of such a graph for given $k$.
In 1994 S. McGuinness showed that any greedy clique decompo- sition of an n-vertex graph has at most $\lfloor n^2/4 \rfloor$ cliques (The greedy clique decomposition of a graph, J. Graph Theory 18 (1994) 427-430), where a clique decomposition means a clique partition of the edge set and a greedy clique decomposition of...
We provide an analogue of the Dulmage-Mendelsohn decomposition for a class of grafts known as comb-bipartite grafts. The Dulmage-Mendelsohn decomposition in matching theory is a classical canonical structure theorem for bipartite graphs.
Brown et al. provide a representation of a spread of the Tits quadrangle $T_2(\mathcal O)$, $\mathcal O$ an oval of $\mathrm PG(2,q)$, $q$ even, in terms of a certain family of $q$ ovals of $\mathrm PG(2,q)$. By combining this representation with the Vandendriessche classification of hyperovals in $\mathrm PG(2,64)$ a...
In his paper &#34;Kings in Bipartite Hypertournaments&#34; (Graphs $\&amp;$ Combinatorics 35, 2019), Petrovic stated two conjectures on 4-kings in multipartite hypertournaments. We prove one of these conjectures and give counterexamples for the other.
We undertake a detailed investigation into the structure of permutations in monotone grid classes whose row-column graphs do not contain components with more than one cycle. Central to this investigation is a new decomposition, called the $M$-sum, which generalises the well-known notions of direct sum and skew sum, an...
We introduce a general class of symmetric polynomials that have saturated Newton polytope and their Newton polytope has integer decomposition property. The class covers numerous previously studied symmetric polynomials.
Statistics over the Gaussian unitary ensemble and the Wishart ensemble of random matrices often have nice closed-form expressions. These are related to multivariate extensions of the Hermite, Laguerre, and Jacobi polynomials, which often occur in the study of these ensembles.
We establish a bijection between rigged configurations and highest weight elements of a tensor product of Kirillov-Reshetikhin crystals for all nonexceptional types. A key idea for the proof is to embed both objects into bigger sets for simply-laced types $A_n^{(1)}$ or $D_n^{(1)}$, whose bijections have already been ...
We show that the leading coefficient of the Kazhdan--Lusztig polynomial $P_{x,w}(q)$ known as $\mu(x,w)$ is always either 0 or 1 when $w$ is a Deodhar element of a finite Weyl group. The Deodhar elements have previously been characterized using pattern avoidance by Billey--Warrington (2001) and Billey--Jones (2007). I...
In this paper, we introduce the notion of strongly automatic semigroup, which implies the usual notion of auto- maticity. We focus on semigroups of \beta-adics developpements, for which we obtain a criterion of strong automaticity.
We develop a general theory of Markov chains realizable as random walks on $\mathscr R$-trivial monoids. It provides explicit and simple formulas for the eigenvalues of the transition matrix, for multiplicities of the eigenvalues via Möbius inversion along a lattice, a condition for diagonalizability of the transition...
This paper gives a systematic study of the lowering operators acting on the $K$-$k$-Schur functions, motivated by the pivotal role played by the operators in the definition and study of Katalan functions. A lowering operator formula for closed $K$-$k$-Schur functions is obtained.
We study combinatorial configurations with the associated point and line graphs being strongly regular. Examples not belonging to known classes such as partial geometries and their generalizations or elliptic semiplanes are constructed.
We introduce a new model of a stochastic sandpile on a graph $G$ containing a sink. When unstable, a site sends one grain to each of its neighbours independently with probability $p \in (0,1]$.
In this note we generalize the convolution formula for the Tutte polynomial of Kook-Reiner-Stanton and Etienne-Las Vergnas to a more general setting that includes both arithmetic matroids and delta-matroids. As corollaries, we obtain new proofs of two positivity results for pseudo-arithmetic matroids and a combinatori...
The number of positive and negative carries in the addition of two independent random signed digit expansions of given length is analyzed asymptotically for the $(q, d)$-system and the symmetric signed digit expansion. The results include expectation, variance, covariance between the positive and negative carries and ...
The theory of dense graph limits comes with a natural sampling process which yields an inhomogeneous variant G(n,W) of the Erdos-Renyi random graph. Here we study the clique number of these random graphs.
Let $M$ be a matroid satisfying a matroidal analogue of the Cayley-Bacharach condition. Given a number $k \ge 2$, we show that there is no nontrivial bound on ranks of a $k$-tuple of flats covering the underlying set of $M$.
Combinatorially Rich sets were introduced by Bergelson and Glasscock for commutative semigroup. Latter Hindman, Hosseini, Strauss and Tootkaboni extended the definition of Combinatorially Rich sets for arbitrary semigroup.
We consider the recently introduced knotting-unknotting game, in which two players take turns resolving crossings in a knot diagram which initially is missing all its crossing information. Once the knot is fully resolved, the winner is decided by whether the knot is equivalent to the unknot.
The $k$-section width and the Max-Cut for the configuration model are shown to exhibit phase transitions according to the values of certain parameters of the asymptotic degree distribution. These transitions mirror those observed on Erdős-Rényi random graphs, established by Luczak and McDiarmid (2001), and Coppersmith...
This paper considers the difficulty in the set-system approach to generalizing graph theory. These difficulties arise categorically as the category of set-system hypergraphs is shown not to be cartesian closed and lacks enough projective objects, unlike the category of directed multigraphs (i.e. quivers).
A repetition free Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) of two sequences x and y is an LCS of x and y where each symbol may appear at most once. Let R denote the length of a repetition free LCS of two sequences of n symbols each one chosen randomly, uniformly, and independently over a k-ary alphabet.
The reflexive dimension refldim(P) of a lattice polytope P is the minimal d so that P is the face of some d-dimensional reflexive polytope. <br>We show that refldim(P) is finite for every P, and give bounds for refldim(kP) in terms of refldim(P) and k.
Given an undirected graph $G = (V,E)$, the cut polytope $\mathrm{CUT}(G)$ is defined as the convex hull of the incidence vectors of all cuts in $G$. The 1-skeleton of $\mathrm{CUT}(G)$ is a graph whose vertex set is the vertex set of the polytope, and the edge set is the set of geometric edges or one-dimensional faces...
Let $n$, $s$, and $k$ be positive integers. We say that a sequence $f_1,\dots,f_s$ of nonnegative integers is satisfying if for any collection of $s$ families $\mathcal F_1,\dots,\mathcal F_s\subseteq [n]^k$ such that $|\mathcal F_i|=f_i$ for all $i$, there exists a rainbow matching, i.e., a list of pairwise disjoint ...
When ${\bf t} := \langle t_1,t_2,\ldots,t_k\rangle$ is a sequence of transpositions on the finite set $n:=\{0,1,\ldots,n-1\}$, then $\bigcirc{\bf t}:= t_1\circ t_2\circ\cdots\circ t_k$ denotes the compositional product of the sequence. Our paper treats the set ${\rm Prod}({\bf t})$ of all $\bigcirc{\bf s}$, where ${\b...
Let $G_{n,\gamma}$ be the set of all connected graphs on $n$ vertices with domination number $\gamma$. A graph is called a minimizer graph if it attains the minimum spectral radius among $G_{n,\gamma}$.
Gog and Magog trapezoids are certain arrays of positive integers that generalize alternating sign matrices (ASMs) and totally symmetric self-complementary plane partitions (TSSCPPs) respectively. Zeilberger used constant term formulas to prove that there is the same number of (n,k)-Gog trapezoids as there is of (n,k)-...
This paper develops graph analogues of the genus bounds for the maximal size of an automorphism group of a compact Riemann surface of genus $g\ge 2$. Inspired by the work of M. Baker and S. Norine on harmonic morphisms between finite graphs, we motivate and define the notion of a harmonic group action.