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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2015.786
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-53363
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2015/5336/
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Fichtenberger, Hendrik ; Peng, Pan ; Sohler, Christian

On Constant-Size Graphs That Preserve the Local Structure of High-Girth Graphs

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Abstract

Let G=(V,E) be an undirected graph with maximum degree d. The k-disc of a vertex v is defined as the rooted subgraph that is induced by all vertices whose distance to v is at most k. The k-disc frequency vector of G, freq(G), is a vector indexed by all isomorphism types of k-discs. For each such isomorphism type Gamma, the k-disc frequency vector counts the fraction of vertices that have k-disc isomorphic to Gamma. Thus, the frequency vector freq(G) of G captures the local structure of G. A natural question is whether one can construct a much smaller graph H such that H has a similar local structure. N. Alon proved that for any epsilon>0 there always exists a graph H whose size is independent of |V| and whose frequency vector satisfies ||freq(G) - freq(G)||_1 <= epsilon. However, his proof is only existential and neither gives an explicit bound on the size of H nor an efficient algorithm. He gave the open problem to find such explicit bounds. In this paper, we solve this problem for the special case of high girth graphs. We show how to efficiently compute a graph H with the above properties when G has girth at least 2k+2 and we give explicit bounds on the size of H.

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@InProceedings{fichtenberger_et_al:LIPIcs:2015:5336,
  author =	{Hendrik Fichtenberger and Pan Peng and Christian Sohler},
  title =	{{On Constant-Size Graphs That Preserve the Local Structure of High-Girth Graphs}},
  booktitle =	{Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2015)},
  pages =	{786--799},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-89-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2015},
  volume =	{40},
  editor =	{Naveen Garg and Klaus Jansen and Anup Rao and Jos{\'e} D. P. Rolim},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2015/5336},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-53363},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX-RANDOM.2015.786},
  annote =	{Keywords: local graph structure, k-disc frequency vector, graph property testing}
}

Keywords: local graph structure, k-disc frequency vector, graph property testing
Collection: Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2015)
Issue Date: 2015
Date of publication: 13.08.2015

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