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On the Bandwidth of 3-dimensional Hamming graphs

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We believe that equality should hold in Theorem 1.

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    Problem: For fixed d≥1d\ge1, let KndK_n^d be the dd-fold Cartesian product of KnK_n, with vertices {0,…,n−1}d\{0,\dots,n-1\}^d, adjacent when they differ in exactly one coordinate. Let

    Bd:=bw([0,1]d)B_d:=bw([0,1]^d)

    be the continuous bandwidth defined in the paper: the infimum of bw(η)bw(\eta) over monotone, measure-preserving numberings η:[0,1]d→[0,1]\eta:[0,1]^d\to[0,1]. Theorem 1 proves

    lim inf⁡n→∞bw(Knd)nd≥Bd.\liminf_{n\to\infty}\frac{bw(K_n^d)}{n^d}\ge B_d .

    The conjecture “equality should hold in Theorem 1” is thus:

    lim⁡n→∞bw(Knd)nd=bw([0,1]d).\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{bw(K_n^d)}{n^d}=bw([0,1]^d).

    Result: The conjecture is true.

    Fix a continuous numbering η\eta with bw(η)=cbw(\eta)=c. For each nn, sample η\eta on

    Pn={0,1/n,…,(n−1)/n}d.P_n=\{0,1/n,\dots,(n-1)/n\}^d.

    Order the vertices v∈{0,…,n−1}dv\in\{0,\dots,n-1\}^d by the values η(v/n)\eta(v/n), breaking ties arbitrarily. This gives a numbering of KndK_n^d.

    We need one counting estimate. If A⊆[0,1]dA\subseteq[0,1]^d is measurable and downward closed, and

    Nn(A)=∣A∩Pn∣,N_n(A)=|A\cap P_n|,

    then

    λ(A)nd≤Nn(A)≤(λ(A)+d/n)nd.\lambda(A)n^d\le N_n(A)\le (\lambda(A)+d/n)n^d.

    Indeed, the lower bound follows because every x∈Ax\in A lies in a grid cell whose lower-left corner is also in AA. For the upper bound, the union of grid cells whose lower-left corner lies in AA is contained in the 1/n1/n-coordinatewise enlargement of AA, and enlarging a downward-closed set in one coordinate increases measure by at most 1/n1/n; doing this in all dd coordinates gives measure increase at most d/nd/n.

    Now take an edge uvuv of KndK_n^d. Then u/nu/n and v/nv/n differ in exactly one coordinate, so

    ∣η(u/n)−η(v/n)∣≤c.|\eta(u/n)-\eta(v/n)|\le c.

    Assume η(u/n)≤η(v/n)\eta(u/n)\le \eta(v/n). The number of labels between uu and vv is at most the number of sampled points with η\eta-value in this interval. Since η\eta is measure-preserving and its sublevel sets are downward closed,

    ∣{p∈Pn:η(u/n)≤η(p)≤η(v/n)}∣≤(c+d/n)nd.|\{p\in P_n:\eta(u/n)\le \eta(p)\le \eta(v/n)\}| \le (c+d/n)n^d.

    Hence

    bw(Knd)≤cnd+dnd−1.bw(K_n^d)\le c n^d+d n^{d-1}.

    Taking c≤Bd+εc\le B_d+\varepsilon gives

    lim sup⁡n→∞bw(Knd)nd≤Bd+ε.\limsup_{n\to\infty}\frac{bw(K_n^d)}{n^d}\le B_d+\varepsilon.

    Letting ε→0\varepsilon\to0, and combining with Theorem 1, yields

    lim⁡n→∞bw(Knd)nd=Bd.\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{bw(K_n^d)}{n^d}=B_d.

    Citation: The lower inequality is Theorem 1 of Balogh, Bezrukov, Harper, and Seress, “On the bandwidth of 3-dimensional Hamming graphs,” Theoretical Computer Science 407 (2008), 488–495. The reverse inequality is proved above.

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      machine: correct

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      The argument attacks the correct statement: the missing reverse inequality lim sup⁡bw(Knd)/nd≤bw([0,1]d)\limsup bw(K_n^d)/n^d \le bw([0,1]^d). For a monotone measure-preserving continuous numbering, its sublevel sets are downsets, and the grid-counting estimate correctly controls the number of sampled points in any η\eta-interval up to O(nd−1)O(n^{d-1}). This handles ties and endpoint issues asymptotically. Taking an ε\varepsilon-optimal numbering gives the desired limsup bound, and Theorem 1 supplies the liminf bound.

      I see no fatal gap, and no prior stronger/similar resolution is evident from the available context.

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      TYPE1

      Classification rationale: Assuming the accepted proof is correct, the result appears genuinely new but minor. It is a short discretization/rounding lemma: sample an ε\varepsilon-optimal continuous monotone numbering on the nn-grid and use an O(nd−1)O(n^{d-1}) downset-counting error. It does not compute bw([0,1]d)bw([0,1]^d), improve the numerical 33-dimensional bounds, or settle the harder 4/94/9 dynamic-programming conjecture. This would be useful as a remark or addendum, but not a standalone combinatorics paper.

      Literature check: Searches for the exact title, the exact conjectural phrase, “continuous Hamming graph bandwidth,” “bw([0,1]^d),” “liminf bandwidth Hamming graph [0,1],” and “product of complete graphs bandwidth” found the original paper and mirrors, plus related but non-resolving works. Harper’s earlier paper gives asymptotics in dd for (Kn)d(K_n)^d, Appelt discusses products of complete graphs, Akhtar–Jiang–Miller treat edge-bandwidth, and van Dam–Sotirov give computational/SDP bounds for finite symmetric graphs. I found no source stating the fixed-dd convergence

      lim⁡n→∞bw(Knd)/nd=bw([0,1]d)\lim_{n\to\infty} bw(K_n^d)/n^d=bw([0,1]^d)

      or the reverse inequality proved here.

      Citation: J. Balogh, S. L. Bezrukov, L. H. Harper, A. Seress, “On the bandwidth of 3-dimensional Hamming graphs,” Theoretical Computer Science 407 (2008), 488–495, doi:10.1016/j.tcs.2008.07.029. Related non-resolving references include L. H. Harper, “On the bandwidth of a Hamming graph,” TCS 2003, and E. R. van Dam, R. Sotirov, “On bounding the bandwidth of graphs with symmetry,” INFORMS J. Computing 27 (2015), 75–88.

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