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We generalize the Guth--Katz joints theorem from lines to varieties. A special case says that $N$ planes (2-flats) in 6 dimensions (over any field) have $O(N^{3/2})$ joints, where a joint is a point contained in a triple of these planes not…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-03 Jonathan Tidor , Hung-Hsun Hans Yu , Yufei Zhao

The Erd\H{o}s--Ginzburg--Ziv Problem is a classical extremal problem in discrete geometry. Given $m$ and $n$, the problem asks about the smallest number $s$ such that among any $s$ points in the integer lattice $\mathbb{Z}^n$ one can find…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-01 Lisa Sauermann , Dmitrii Zakharov

Erd\H{o}s-Ginzburg-Ziv theorem says that if there are 2n-1 number is given, then there are n numbers such that their sum is divided by n. We will connect this theorem with the Ramsey theoretic large sets and will prove an infinitary version…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-03 Sayan Goswami

Steinitz's theorem states that if a point $a \in \mathrm{int\,conv\,} X$ for a set $X \subset \mathbb{R}^d$, then $X$ contains a subset $Y$ of size at most $2d$ such that $a \in \mathrm{int\,conv\,}Y$. The bound $2d$ is best possible here.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Imre Bárány , Yun Qi

According to Suk's breakthrough result on the Erdos-Szekeres problem, any point set in general position in the plane, which has no $n$ elements that form the vertex set of a convex $n$-gon, has at most $2^{n+O\left({n^{2/3}\log n}\right)}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-04 Andreas F. Holmsen , Hossein Nassajian Mojarrad , János Pach , Gábor Tardos

In 1960, W. Sierpinski proved that there are infinitely many positive odd numbers $k$, such that for any positive integer $n$, $k\times2^n+1$ is a composite number. Such numbers are called "Sierpinski numbers". In this study, by using…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Chi Zhang

Legendre's conjecture states that there is a prime number between n^2 and (n+1)^2 for every positive integer n. We consider the following question : for all integer n>1 and a fixed integer k<=n does there exist a prime number such that kn <…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2009-01-11 Shiva Kintali

A consequence of Bertrand's postulate, proved by L. Greenfield and S. Greenfield in 1998, assures that the set of integers $\{1,2,\cdots, 2n\}$ can be partitioned into pairs so that the sum of each pair is a prime number for any positive…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-20 Hong-Bin Chen , Hung-Lin Fu , Jun-Yi Guo

A well-known conjecture states that the Whitney numbers of the second kind of a geometric lattice (simple matroid) are logarithmically concave. We show this conjecture to be equivalent to proving an upper bound on the number of new copoints…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-11-10 W. M. B. Dukes

We prove a conjecture of Adamaszek generalizing the seating couples problem to the case of $2n$ seats. Concretely, we prove that given a positive integer $n$ and $d_1,\ldots,d_n\in(\mathbb{Z}/2n)^*$ we can partition $\mathbb{Z}/2n$ into $n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-23 Daniel Kohen , Iván Sadofschi Costa

We introduce the theory of div point sets, which aims to provide a framework to study the combinatoric nature of any set of points in general position on an Euclidean plane. We then show that proving the unsatisfiability of some first-order…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-02 Archy Will He

Alon, Frankl, and Lov\'asz proved a conjecture of Erd\H{o}s that one needs at least $\lceil \frac{n-r(k-1)}{r-1} \rceil$ colors to color the $k$-subsets of $\{1, \dots, n\}$ such that any $r$ of the $k$-subsets that have the same color are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-21 Jai Aslam , Shuli Chen , Ethan Coldren , Florian Frick , Linus Setiabrata

The union-closed sets conjecture, also known as Frankl's conjecture, is a well-studied problem with various formulations. In terms of lattices, the conjecture states that every finite lattice $L$ with more than one element contains a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Christopher Bouchard

More than twenty-five years ago, Manickam, Mikl\'{o}s, and Singhi conjectured that for positive integers $n,k$ with $n \geq 4k$, every set of $n$ real numbers with nonnegative sum has at least $\binom{n-1}{k-1}$ $k$-element subsets whose…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-07-22 Ameera Chowdhury , Ghassan Sarkis , Shahriar Shahriari

Let $P$ be a partially ordered set. We prove that if $n$ is sufficiently large, then there exists a packing $\mathcal{P}$ of copies of $P$ in the Boolean lattice $(2^{[n]},\subset)$ that covers almost every element of $2^{[n]}$:…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-11 Istvan Tomon

In this paper we study sum-free subsets of the set $\{1,...,n\}$, that is, subsets of the first $n$ positive integers which contain no solution to the equation $x + y = z$. Cameron and Erd\H{o}s conjectured in 1990 that the number of such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Noga Alon , József Balogh , Robert Morris , Wojciech Samotij

Zeckendorf proved that every integer can be written uniquely as a sum of non-consecutive Fibonacci numbers $\{F_n\}$, and later researchers showed that the distribution of the number of summands needed for such decompositions of integers in…

The Ehrhart polynomial $ehr_P (n)$ of a lattice polytope $P$ gives the number of integer lattice points in the $n$-th dilate of $P$ for all integers $n\geq 0$. The degree of $P$ is defined as the degree of its $h^\ast$-polynomial, a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Matthias Beck , Ellinor Janssen , Katharina Jochemko

This paper is intended as a sequel to a paper arXiv:0803.2636 written by four of the coauthors here. In the paper, they proved a stronger form of the Erd\H{o}s-Mirksy conjecture which states that there are infinitely many positive integers…

We show that there are sets of $n$ points in the plane with $n$ arbitrarily large that contain more than $n^{1.014}$ pairs of points separated by a distance exactly $1$. This improves on very recent work of a team at OpenAI, who proved the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Will Sawin