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Existence of Quantum Symmetries for Graphs on Up to Seven Vertices: A Computer based Approach

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The symmetries of a finite graph are described by its automorphism group; in the setting of Woronowicz's quantum groups, a notion of a quantum automorphism group has been defined by Banica capturing the quantum symmetries of the graph. In general, there are more quantum symmetries than symmetries and it is a non-trivial task to determine when this is the case for a given graph: The question is whether or not the associative algebra associated to the quantum automorphism group is commutative. We use noncommutative Gröbner bases in order to tackle this problem; the implementation uses Gap and Singular:Letterplace. We determine the existence of quantum symmetries for all connected, undirected graphs without multiple edges and without self-edges, for up to seven vertices. As an outcome, we infer within our regime that a classical automorphism group of order one or two is an obstruction for the existence of quantum symmetries.

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      ISSAC '22: Proceedings of the 2022 International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation
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      1. algorithms
      2. noncommutative algebra
      3. quantum automorphism group
      4. quantum group
      5. quantum symmetry

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