Bonferroni-Type Inequalities via Chordal Graphs

2002 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 349-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
KLAUS DOHMEN

Let {Av}v∈V be a finite collection of events and G = (V, E) be a chordal graph. Our main result – the chordal graph sieve – is a Bonferroni-type inequality where the selection of intersections in the estimates is determined by a chordal graph G. It interpolates between Boole's inequality (G empty) and the sieve formula (G complete). By varying G, several inequalities both well-known and new are obtained in a concise and unified way.

1993 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 409-415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Erdős ◽  
Edward T. Ordman ◽  
Yechezkel Zalcstein

To partition the edges of a chordal graph on n vertices into cliques may require as many as n2/6 cliques; there is an example requiring this many, which is also a threshold graph and a split graph. It is unknown whether this many cliques will always suffice. We are able to show that (1 − c)n2/4 cliques will suffice for some c > 0.


10.37236/1298 ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Gordon

We extend Crapo's $\beta $ invariant from matroids to greedoids, concentrating especially on antimatroids. Several familiar expansions for $\beta (G)$ have greedoid analogs. We give combinatorial interpretations for $\beta (G)$ for simplicial shelling antimatroids associated with chordal graphs. When $G$ is this antimatroid and $b(G)$ is the number of blocks of the chordal graph $G$, we prove $\beta (G)=1-b(G)$.


2009 ◽  
Vol DMTCS Proceedings vol. AK,... (Proceedings) ◽  
Author(s):  
Takuro Abe ◽  
Koji Nuida ◽  
Yasuhide Numata

International audience In this article, we propose a generalization of the notion of chordal graphs to signed graphs, which is based on the existence of a perfect elimination ordering for a chordal graph. We give a special kind of filtrations of the generalized chordal graphs, and show a characterization of those graphs. Moreover, we also describe a relation between signed graphs and a certain class of multiarrangements of hyperplanes, and show a characterization of free multiarrangements in that class in terms of the generalized chordal graphs, which generalizes a well-known result by Stanley on free hyperplane arrangements. Finally, we give a remark on a relation of our results with a recent conjecture by Athanasiadis on freeness characterization for another class of hyperplane arrangements. Dans cet article, nous proposons une généralisation de la notion des graphes triangulés à graphes signés, qui est basée sur l'existence d'un ordre d'élimination simplicial à un graphe triangulé. Nous donnons un genre spécial de filtrations des graphes triangulés généralisés, et montrons une caractérisation de ces graphes. De plus, nous décrivons aussi une relation entre graphes signés et une certaine classe de multicompositions d'hyperplans, et montrons une caractérisation de multicompositions libres dans cette classe en termes des graphes triangulés généralisés, qui généralise un résultat célèbre de Stanley sur compositions libres d'hyperplans. Finalement, nous donnons une remarque sur une relation de nos résultats avec une conjecture récente d'Athanasiadis sur une caractérisation du freeness d'une autre classe de compositions d'hyperplans.


10.37236/5571 ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michał Adamaszek

We show that the independence complex of a chordal graph is contractible if and only if this complex is dismantlable (strong collapsible) and it is homotopy equivalent to a sphere if and only if its core is a cross-polytopal sphere. The proof uses the properties of tree models of chordal graphs.


2018 ◽  
Vol 86 (5) ◽  
pp. 1867-1900 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Chernozhukov ◽  
Denis Chetverikov ◽  
Kengo Kato

Abstract This article considers the problem of testing many moment inequalities where the number of moment inequalities, denoted by $p$, is possibly much larger than the sample size $n$. There is a variety of economic applications where solving this problem allows to carry out inference on causal and structural parameters; a notable example is the market structure model of Ciliberto and Tamer (2009) where $p=2^{m+1}$ with $m$ being the number of firms that could possibly enter the market. We consider the test statistic given by the maximum of $p$ Studentized (or $t$-type) inequality-specific statistics, and analyse various ways to compute critical values for the test statistic. Specifically, we consider critical values based upon (1) the union bound combined with a moderate deviation inequality for self-normalized sums, (2) the multiplier and empirical bootstraps, and (3) two-step and three-step variants of (1) and (2) by incorporating the selection of uninformative inequalities that are far from being binding and a novel selection of weakly informative inequalities that are potentially binding but do not provide first-order information. We prove validity of these methods, showing that under mild conditions, they lead to tests with the error in size decreasing polynomially in $n$ while allowing for $p$ being much larger than $n$; indeed $p$ can be of order $\exp (n^{c})$ for some $c > 0$. Importantly, all these results hold without any restriction on the correlation structure between $p$ Studentized statistics, and also hold uniformly with respect to suitably large classes of underlying distributions. Moreover, in the online supplement, we show validity of a test based on the block multiplier bootstrap in the case of dependent data under some general mixing conditions.


10.37236/8566 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Seyed Amin Seyed Fakhari

Assume that $G$ is a chordal graph with edge ideal $I(G)$ and ordered matching number $\nu_{o}(G)$. For every integer $s\geq 1$, we denote the $s$-th symbolic power of $I(G)$ by $I(G)^{(s)}$. It is shown that ${\rm reg}(I(G)^{(s)})\leq 2s+\nu_{o}(G)-1$. As a consequence, we determine the regularity of symbolic powers of edge ideals of chordal Cameron-Walker graphs.


Filomat ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (9) ◽  
pp. 2599-2607 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergio Bermudo ◽  
Walter Carballosa ◽  
José Rodríguez ◽  
José Sigarreta

If X is a geodesic metric space and x1, x2, x3 ( X, a geodesic triangle T = {x1, x2, x3} is the union of the three geodesics [x1x2], [x2x3] and [x3x1] in X. The space X is ?-hyperbolic (in the Gromov sense) if any side of T is contained in a ?-neighborhood of the union of the other two sides, for every geodesic triangle T in X. An important problem in the study of hyperbolic graphs is to relate the hyperbolicity with some classical properties in graph theory. In this paper we find a very close connection between hyperbolicity and chordality: we extend the classical definition of chordality in two ways, edge-chordality and path-chordality, in order to relate this propertywith Gromov hyperbolicity. In fact, we prove that every edge-chordal graph is hyperbolic and that every hyperbolic graph is path-chordal. Furthermore, we prove that every path-chordal cubic graph with small path-chordality constant is hyperbolic.


10.37236/3928 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Hofer-Temmel ◽  
Florian Lehner

We investigate clique trees of infinite locally finite chordal graphs. Our main contribution is a bijection between the set of clique trees and the product of local finite families of finite trees. Even more, the edges of a clique tree are in bijection with the edges of the corresponding collection of finite trees. This allows us to enumerate the clique trees of a chordal graph and extend various classic characterisations of clique trees to the infinite setting. 


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