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A simple upper bound for trace function of a hypergraph with applications

Farhad Shahrokhi
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Let ${H}=(V, {E})$ be a hypergraph on the vertex set $V$ and edge set ${E}\subseteq 2^V$. We show that number of distinct {\it traces} on any $k-$ subset of $V$, is most $k.{\hat \alpha}(H)$, where ${\hat \alpha}(H)$ is the {\it degeneracy} of $H$. The result significantly improves/generalizes some of related results. For instance, the $vc$ dimension $H$ (or $vc(H)$) is shown to be at most $\log({\hat \alpha}(H))+1$ which was not known before. As a consequence $vc(H)$ can be computed in computed in $n^{O( {\rm log}({\hat \delta}(H)))}$ time. When applied to the neighborhood systems of a graphs excluding a fixed minor, it reduces the known linear upper bound on the $VC$ dimension to a logarithmic one, in the size of the minor. When applied to the location domination and identifying code numbers of any $n$ vertex graph $G$, one gets the new lower bound of $\Omega(n/({\hat \alpha}(G))$, where ${\hat \alpha}(G)$ is the degeneracy of $G$.

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Farhad Shahrokhi. 2019-02-22. A simple upper bound for trace function of a hypergraph with applications. https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.08366

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