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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2019.39
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-109836
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2019/10983/
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Haviv, Ishay

Approximating the Orthogonality Dimension of Graphs and Hypergraphs

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Abstract

A t-dimensional orthogonal representation of a hypergraph is an assignment of nonzero vectors in R^t to its vertices, such that every hyperedge contains two vertices whose vectors are orthogonal. The orthogonality dimension of a hypergraph H, denoted by overline{xi}(H), is the smallest integer t for which there exists a t-dimensional orthogonal representation of H. In this paper we study computational aspects of the orthogonality dimension of graphs and hypergraphs. We prove that for every k >= 4, it is NP-hard (resp. quasi-NP-hard) to distinguish n-vertex k-uniform hypergraphs H with overline{xi}(H) <= 2 from those satisfying overline{xi}(H) >= Omega(log^delta n) for some constant delta>0 (resp. overline{xi}(H) >= Omega(log^{1-o(1)} n)). For graphs, we relate the NP-hardness of approximating the orthogonality dimension to a variant of a long-standing conjecture of Stahl. We also consider the algorithmic problem in which given a graph G with overline{xi}(G) <= 3 the goal is to find an orthogonal representation of G of as low dimension as possible, and provide a polynomial time approximation algorithm based on semidefinite programming.

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@InProceedings{haviv:LIPIcs:2019:10983,
  author =	{Ishay Haviv},
  title =	{{Approximating the Orthogonality Dimension of Graphs and Hypergraphs}},
  booktitle =	{44th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2019)},
  pages =	{39:1--39:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-117-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{138},
  editor =	{Peter Rossmanith and Pinar Heggernes and Joost-Pieter Katoen},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2019/10983},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-109836},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2019.39},
  annote =	{Keywords: orthogonal representations of hypergraphs, orthogonality dimension, hardness of approximation, Kneser and Schrijver graphs, semidefinite programming}
}

Keywords: orthogonal representations of hypergraphs, orthogonality dimension, hardness of approximation, Kneser and Schrijver graphs, semidefinite programming
Collection: 44th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2019)
Issue Date: 2019
Date of publication: 20.08.2019

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