The Theta Number of Simplicial Complexes
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چکیده
We introduce a generalization of the celebrated Lovász theta number of a graph to simplicial complexes of arbitrary dimension. Our generalization takes advantage of real simplicial cohomology theory, in particular combinatorial Laplacians, and provides a semidefinite programming upper bound of the independence number of a simplicial complex. We consider properties of the graph theta number such as the relationship to Hoffman’s ratio bound and to the chromatic number and study how they extend to higher dimensions. Like in the case of graphs, the higher dimensional theta number can be extended to a hierarchy of semidefinite programming upper bounds reaching the independence number. We analyse the value of the theta number and of the hierarchy for dense random simplicial complexes.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره abs/1704.01836 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2017