Yusuke Watanabe

Coefficientwise Extremality and Rigidity for Independent Sets in Bipartite Graph Covers

Let $G$ be a finite bipartite graph and let $\widetilde G$ be an $M$-fold cover. We compare independent sets of $\widetilde G$ with those of the trivial cover, consisting of $M$ disjoint copies of $G$, after prescribing how many vertices are selected above each vertex of $G$. A conjecture from 2011, motivated by the Be...