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Using polynomial equations to model combinatorial problems has been a popular tool both in computational combinatorics as well as an approach to proving new theorems. In this paper, we look at several combinatorics problems modeled by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-19 Bart Sevenster , Jacob Turner

Hilbert's Nullstellensatz is a fundamental result in algebraic geometry that gives a necessary and sufficient condition for a finite collection of multivariate polynomials to have a common zero in an algebraically closed field. Associated…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Rida Ait El Manssour , Nikhil Balaji , Klara Nosan , Mahsa Shirmohammadi , James Worrell

We revisit a well-known family of polynomial ideals encoding the problem of graph-$k$-colorability. Our paper describes how the inherent combinatorial structure of the ideals implies several interesting algebraic properties. Specifically,…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2014-10-28 Jesús A. De Loera , Susan Margulies , Michael Pernpeintner , Eric Riedl , David Rolnick , Gwen Spencer , Despina Stasi , Jon Swenson

Alon's combinatorial Nullstellensatz, and in particular the resulting nonvanishing criterion is one of the most powerful algebraic tools in combinatorics, with many important applications. In this paper we extend the nonvanishing theorem in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-08-16 Géza Kós , Tamás Mészáros , Lajos Rónyai

Efficient algorithms for many problems in optimization and computational algebra often arise from casting them as systems of polynomial equations. Blum, Shub, and Smale formalized this as Hilbert's Nullstellensatz Problem $HN_R$: given…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Markus Bläser , Sagnik Dutta , Gorav Jindal

This paper studies Positivstellens\"atze and moment problems for sets $K$ that are given by universal quantifiers. Let $Q$ be a closed set and let $g = (g_1,...,g_s)$ be a tuple of polynomials in two vector variables $x$ and $y$. Then $K$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-04 Xiaomeng Hu , Igor Klep , Jiawang Nie

Hilbert's Nullstellensatz is one of the most fundamental correspondences between algebra and geometry, and has inspired a plethora of noncommutative analogs. In last two decades, there has been an increased interest in understanding…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Jurij Volčič

A polynomial $p\in\mathbb{R}[z_1,\dots,z_n]$ is real stable if it has no roots in the upper-half complex plane. Gurvits's permanent inequality gives a lower bound on the coefficient of the $z_1z_2\dots z_n$ monomial of a real stable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-10 Nima Anari , Shayan Oveis Gharan

An invariant for cospectral graphs is a property shared by all cospectral graphs. In this paper, we establish three novel arithmetic invariants for cospectral graphs, revealing deep connections between spectral properties and combinatorial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Yizhe Ji , Quanyu Tang , Wei Wang , Hao Zhang

We announce two breakthrough results concerning important questions in the Theory of Computational Complexity. In this expository paper, a systematic and comprehensive geometric characterization of the Subset Sum Problem is presented. We…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Srinivas Balaji Bollepalli

Starting from the results of Charles Fefferman and Janos Koll\`ar in 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 one…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Marcello Malagutti

The complexity class PPA consists of NP-search problems which are reducible to the parity principle in undirected graphs. It contains a wide variety of interesting problems from graph theory, combinatorics, algebra and number theory, but…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Aleksandrs Belovs , Gábor Ivanyos , Youming Qiao , Miklos Santha , Siyi Yang

In this paper, we discuss characteristic polynomials in (Clifford) geometric algebras ${\mathcal {G}}_{p,q}$ of vector space of dimension $n=p+q$. We present basis-free formulas for all characteristic polynomial coefficients in the cases…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-09-13 K. S. Abdulkhaev , D. S. Shirokov

In this article, we use the Combinatorial Nullstellensatz to give new proofs of the Cauchy-Davenport, the Dias da Silva-Hamidoune and to generalize a previous addition theorem of the author. Precisely, this last result proves that for a set…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-22 Eric Balandraud

Let $K$ be a field and $D$ be a finite-dimensional central division algebra over $K$. We prove a variant of the Nullstellensatz for $2$-sided ideals in the ring of polynomial maps $D^n \to D$. In the case where $D = K$ is commutative, our…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2021-08-10 Zhengheng Bao , Zinovy Reichstein

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

We study zeros of polynomials in the multivariate skew polynomial ring $D[x_1,\ldots,x_n; \sigma]$, where $\sigma$ is an automorphism of a division ring $D$. We prove a generalization of Alon's celebrated Combinatorial Nullstellensatz for…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2025-08-15 Gil Alon , Angelot Behajaina , Elad Paran

Asymptotic expansions of Gaussian integrals may often be interpreted as generating functions for certain combinatorial objects (graphs with additional data). In this article we discuss a general approach to all such cases using colored…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-05-18 I. V. Artamkin

The author in [7] was proved the generalized remainder and quotient theorems of polynomial in one indeterminate where the divisor is complete factorization to linear factors. In this paper we give the formula for the generalized remainder…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-23 Wiwat Wanicharpichat

Let $G$ be a graph and $A$ the adjacency matrix of $G$. The permanental polynomial of $G$ is defined as $\mathrm{per}(xI-A)$. In this paper some of the results from a numerical study of the permanental polynomials of graphs are presented.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-29 Shunyi Liu , Jinjun Ren