A family F of permutations of the vertices of a hypergraph H is called pairwise suitable for H if, for every pair of disjoint edges in H, there exists a permutation in F in which all the vertices in one edge precede those in the other. The cardinality of a smallest such family of permutations for H is called the separation dimension of H and is denoted by π(H). Equivalently, π(H) is the smallest natural number k so that the vertices of H can be embedded in ℝk such that any two disjoint edges of H can be separated by a hyperplane normal to one of the axes. We show that the separation dimension of a hypergraph H is equal to the boxicity of the line graph of H. This connection helps us in borrowing results and techniques from the extensive literature on boxicity to study the concept of separation dimension.
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Basavaraju, M., Sunil Chandran, L., Golumbic, M. C., Mathew, R., & Rajendraprasad, D. (2014). Boxicity and separation dimension. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 8747, pp. 81–92). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12340-0_7
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