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Circuits are fundamental objects in linear programming and oriented matroid theory, representing the elementary difference vectors of a polyhedron between points in its affine space. A recent concept introduced by Ekbatani, Natura, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Steffen Borgwardt , Nicholas Crawford , Sean Kafer , Jon Lee , Angela Morrison

Strategic interactions often take place in an environment rife with uncertainty. As a result, the equilibrium of a game is intimately related to the information available to its players. The \emph{signaling problem} abstracts the task faced…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-14 Yu Cheng , Ho Yee Cheung , Shaddin Dughmi , Shanghua Teng

An equilevel algebra is a subalgebra of the space of smooth functions $f: M \to {\mathbb R}$ distinguished in this space by finitely many linear conditions of the type $f(x_i) = f(\tilde x_i)$, $x_i \neq \tilde x_i \in M$, or approximated…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-03 V. A. Vassiliev

We address several related problems on combinatorial discrepancy of trees in a setting introduced by Erd\H{o}s, F\"{u}redi, Loebl and S\'{o}s. Given a fixed tree $T$ on $n$ vertices and an edge-colouring of the complete graph $K_n$, for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-23 Lawrence Hollom , Lyuben Lichev , Adva Mond , Julien Portier

We investigate strong Nash equilibria in the \emph{max $k$-cut game}, where we are given an undirected edge-weighted graph together with a set $\{1,\ldots, k\}$ of $k$ colors. Nodes represent players and edges capture their mutual…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Raffaello Carosi , Simone Fioravanti , Luciano Gualà , Gianpiero Monaco

We define a new type of vertex coloring which generalizes vertex coloring in graphs, hypergraphs, and simplicial complexes. This coloring also generalizes oriented coloring, acyclic coloring, and star coloring. There is an associated…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-22 John Machacek

The paper explores scaling properties of bubbles -- a complex analogue of Arnold tongues, associated to a one-dimensional family of analytic circle diffeomorphisms. Bubbles are smooth loops in the upper half-plane attached at all rational…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Nataliya Goncharuk , Igors Gorbovickis

In this paper, we discover that the class of random polynomials arising from the equilibrium analysis of random asymmetric evolutionary games is \textit{exactly} the Kostlan-Shub-Smale system of random polynomials, revealing an intriguing…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-10-03 Manh Hong Duong , The Anh Han

DP-coloring (also called correspondence coloring) is a generalization of list coloring that has been widely studied in recent years after its introduction by Dvo\v{r}\'{a}k and Postle in 2015. As the analogue of the chromatic polynomial of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Hemanshu Kaul , Michael Maxfield , Jeffrey A. Mudrock , Seth Thomason

In this paper we introduce a new formulation of Bennett's logical depth based on pebble transducers. This notion is defined based on the difference between the minimal length descriptional complexity of prefixes of infinite sequences from…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Liam Jordon , Philippe Moser

Similar to Euclidean geometry, graph theory is a science that studies figures that consist of points and lines. The core of Euclidean geometry is the parallel postulate, which provides the basis of the geometric invariant that the sum of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-01-09 Tony T. Lee , Qingqi Shi

Dividing asks about inconsistency along indiscernible sequences. In order to study the finer structure of simple theories without much dividing, the authors recently introduced shearing, which essentially asks about inconsistency along…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-07-13 M. Malliaris , S. Shelah

We consider the MAP-inference problem for graphical models, which is a valued constraint satisfaction problem defined on real numbers with a natural summation operation. We propose a family of relaxations (different from the famous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Stefan Haller , Paul Swoboda , Bogdan Savchynskyy

Graph problems are fundamentally challenging for large language models (LLMs). While LLMs excel at processing unstructured text, graph tasks require reasoning over explicit structure, permutation invariance, and computationally complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Angelo Zangari , Peyman Baghershahi , Sourav Medya

In this paper, a theorem is proved that generalizes several existing amalgamation results in various ways. The main aim is to disentangle a given edge-colored amalgamated graph so that the result is a graph in which the edges are shared out…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-12 Amin Bahmanian , Chris Rodger

Graph pebbling is a game played on a connected graph G. A player purchases pebbles at a dollar a piece, and hands them to an adversary who distributes them among the vertices of G (called a configuration) and chooses a target vertex r. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-11-21 D. Curtis , T. Hines , G. Hurlbert , T. Moyer

We investigate relations between different width parameters of graphs, in particular balanced separator number, treewidth, and cycle rank. Our main result states that a graph with balanced separator number k has treewidth at least k but…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Hermann Gruber

We survey results on the pebbling numbers of graphs as well as their historical connection with a number-theoretic question of Erd\H os and Lemke. We also present new results on two probabilistic pebbling considerations, first the random…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Glenn Hurlbert

We investigate a variation of the graph coloring game, as studied in [2]. In the original coloring game, two players, Alice and Bob, alternate coloring vertices on a graph with legal colors from a fixed color set, where a color {\alpha} is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-12-10 Michel Alexis , Davis Shurbert , Charles Dunn , Jennifer Nordstrom

Starting from the results of Charles Fefferman and Janos Koll\'ar in \texit{Continuous Solutions of Linear Equations} [1], we adopt a new approach based on Fefferman's techniques of Glaeser refinement to show a more general result than the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-20 Marcello Malagutti