Turán and Ramsey Problems for Alternating Multilinear Maps
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- Journal Article
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- Discrete Analysis, 2023, 2023
- Issue Date:
- 2023-01-01
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Guided by the connections between hypergraphs and exterior algebras, we study Turán and Ramsey type problems for alternating multilinear maps. This study lies at the intersection of combinatorics, group theory, and algebraic geometry, and has origins in the works of Lovász (Proc. Sixth British Combinatorial Conf., 1977), Buhler, Gupta, and Harris (J. Algebra, 1987), and Feldman and Propp (Adv. Math., 1992). Our main result is a Ramsey theorem for alternating bilinear maps. Given s, t ∈ N, s, t ≥ 2, and an alternating bilinear map ϕ: V × V → U with dim(V) ≥ s ·t4, we show that there exists either a dimension-s subspaceW ≤ V such that dim(span(ϕ(W,W))) = 0, or a dimension-t subspaceW ≤ V such that dim(span(ϕ(W,W))) = (t2). This result has natural group-theoretic (for finite p-groups) and geometric (for Grassmannians) implications, and leads to new Ramsey-type questions for varieties of groups and Grassmannians.
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