Embedding products of graphs into Euclidean spaces
Abstract
For any collection of graphs we find the minimal dimension d such that the product of these graphs is embeddable into the d-dimensional Euclidean space. In particular, we prove that the n-th powers of the Kuratowsky graphs are not embeddable into the 2n-dimensional Euclidean space. This is a solution of a problem of Menger from 1929. The idea of the proof is the reduction to a problem from so-called Ramsey link theory: we show that any embedding of L into the (2n-1)-dimensional sphere, where L is the join of n copies of a 4-point set, has a pair of linked (n-1)-dimensional spheres.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- August 2008
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0808.1199
- Bibcode:
- 2008arXiv0808.1199S
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Geometric Topology;
- 57Q35;
- 57Q45
- E-Print:
- in English and in Russian, 5 pages, 2 figures. Minor improvement of exposition, a reference to a popular-science introduction added