{ "id": "2109.06152", "version": "v1", "published": "2021-09-13T17:46:33.000Z", "updated": "2021-09-13T17:46:33.000Z", "title": "Enumerating independent sets in Abelian Cayley graphs", "authors": [ "Aditya Potukuchi", "Liana Yepremyan" ], "comment": "21 pages", "categories": [ "math.CO", "cs.DM" ], "abstract": "We show that any connected Cayley graph $\\Gamma$ on an Abelian group of order $2n$ and degree $\\tilde{\\Omega}(\\log n)$ has at most $2^{n+1}(1 + o(1))$ independent sets. This bound is tight up to to the $o(1)$ term when $\\Gamma$ is bipartite. Our proof is based on Sapozhenko's graph container method and uses the Pl\\\"{u}nnecke-Rusza-Petridis inequality from additive combinatorics.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2021-09-13T17:46:33.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "abelian cayley graphs", "enumerating independent sets", "sapozhenkos graph container method", "connected cayley graph", "abelian group" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 21, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }