Independence numbers in certain families of highly symmetric graphs

FI-graphs were introduced by the second author and White to capture the idea of a family of nested graphs, each member of which is acted on by a progressively larger symmetric group. That work was built on the newly minted foundations of representation stability theory and FI-modules. Examples of such families include the complete graphs and the Kneser and Johnson graphs, among many others. While it was shown in the originating work how various counting invariants in these families behave very regularly, not much has thus far been proven about the behaviors of the typical extremal graph theoretic invariants such as their independence and clique numbers. In this paper we provide a conjecture on the growth of the independence and clique numbers in these families, and prove this conjecture in one case. We also provide computer code that generates experimental evidence in many other cases. All of this work falls into a growing trend in representation stability theory that displays the regular behaviors of a number of extremal invariants that arise when one looks at FI-algebras and modules.
Comment: Associated code can be found here: https://ericgramos.github.io/code.html