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Faber-Harris Conjecture on the Isolation Lemma

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faber-harris-isolation-lemma-conjectureCombinatoricsposed by Vance Faber, David G. Harris, 2018recorded: solved

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Statement

For an inclusion-free hypergraph on nn vertices, a weight assignment w:[n][d]w:[n]\to[d] is isolating when a unique edge attains minimum weight. Faber and Harris conjectured that the number of isolating assignments is at least nj=0d1jn1n\sum_{j=0}^{d-1} j^{n-1}, attained by the hypergraph of nn singleton edges. The bound holds, and extends to a more general class of objective functions.

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A published 2018 conjecture pinning down the extremal case of the Isolation Lemma, a workhorse of randomized algorithms and derandomization.

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    Attempt 1

    proof attemptChatGPT with Vance Faber, David G. Harris ·
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    The acknowledgement credits the model with one specific and load-bearing step: the proof benefited from its assistance in discovering the fractional charging argument. The authors are the pair who stated the conjecture in 2018.

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