Gain graphs are graphs in which each edge has a gain (a label from a group so that reversing the direction of an edge inverts the gain). In this paper we take a generalized view of gain graphs in which the gain of an edge is related to the gain of the reverse edge by an anti-involution, i.e., an anti-automorphism of order at most two. We call these skew gain graphs. Switching is an operation that transforms one skew gain graph into another, driven by a selector that selects an element of some group Γ in each of its vertices. In this paper, we investigate a generalization of this model, in which we insist that in each vertex v the selected elements are taken from a subgroup Γ_v of Γ. We call this operation subgroup switching. Our main interest in this paper is in establishing which properties of the theory of switching classes of the skew gain graphs carry over to subgroup switching classes, and which do not.
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In the context of graph transformation we look at the operation of switching, which can be viewed as a method for realizing global transformations of (group-labelled) graphs through local transformations of the vertices. In case vertices are given an identity, various relatively efficient algorithms exist for deciding whether a graph can be switched so that it contains some other graph, the query graph, as an induced subgraph. However, when considering graphs up to isomorphism, we immediately run into the graph isomorphism problem for which no efficient solution is known. Surprisingly enough however, in some cases the decision process can be simplified by transforming the query graph into a ``smaller'' graph without changing the answer. The main lesson learned is that the size of the query graph is not the dominating factor, but its cycle rank. Although a number of our results hold specifically for undirected, unlabelled graphs, we propose a more general framework and give many positive and negative results for more general cases, where the graphs are labelled with elements of a (finitely generated abelian) group.
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