On the Reliability Roots of Simplicial Complexes and Matroids

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العنوان: On the Reliability Roots of Simplicial Complexes and Matroids
المؤلفون: Brown, J. I., DeGagne, C. D. C.
سنة النشر: 2018
المجموعة: Mathematics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Mathematics - Combinatorics, 05E45, 05B35, 68M15
الوصف: Assume that the vertices of a graph $G$ are always operational, but the edges of $G$ fail independently with probability $q \in[0,1]$. The \emph{all-terminal reliability} of $G$ is the probability that the resulting subgraph is connected. The all-terminal reliability can be formulated into a polynomial in $q$, and it was conjectured \cite{BC1} that all the roots of (nonzero) reliability polynomials fall inside the closed unit disk. It has since been shown that there exist some connected graphs which have their reliability roots outside the closed unit disk, but these examples seem to be few and far between, and the roots are only barely outside the disk. In this paper we generalize the notion of reliability to simplicial complexes and matroids and investigate when, for small simplicial complexes and matroids, the roots fall inside the closed unit disk.
Comment: 19 pages, 1 figure
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1809.10779
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.1809.10779
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv