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We study a generalization of Erd\H os's unit distances problem to chains of $k$ distances. Given $\mathcal P,$ a set of $n$ points, and a sequence of distances $(\delta_1,\ldots,\delta_k)$, we study the maximum possible number of tuples of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-25 Eyvindur Ari Palsson , Steven Senger , Adam Sheffer

Consider $k\ge 2$ distinct, linearly independent, homogeneous linear recurrences of order $k$ satisfying the same recurrence relation. We prove that the recurrences are related to a decomposable form of degree $k$, and there is a very broad…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-29 Kalman Gyory , Attila Petho , Laszlo Szalay

Given a finite poset P, we consider pairs of linear extensions of P with maximal distance, where the distance between two linear extensions L_1, L_2 is the number of pairs of elements of P appearing in different orders in L_1 and L_2. A…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-09-11 Graham Brightwell , Mareike Massow

The problem of classification of decomposable (in the sense of Stormer) positive maps between matrix algebras is presented. We propose the new notion of "finite" version of decomposability ($k$-decomposabilty). The characterisation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wladyslaw A. Majewski , Marcin Marciniak

In this paper, we study definable variants of the notion of the distinguishing number of a graph in descriptive set theoretic setting. We introduce the notion of the Borel distinguishing number of a Borel graph and provide examples that…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-09-17 Onur Bilge , Burak Kaya

Let $\mathcal{P} \subset \mathbb{R}^N$ be an integral convex polytope of dimension $d$ and write $k \mathcal{P}$, where $k = 1, 2, \ldots$, for dilations of $\mathcal{P}$. We say that $\mathcal{P}$ possesses the integer decomposition…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-06-18 David A. Cox , Christian Haase , Takayuki Hibi , Akihiro Higashitani

The Tree Decomposition Conjecture by Bar\'at and Thomassen states that for every tree $T$ there exists a natural number $k(T)$ such that the following holds: If $G$ is a $k(T)$-edge-connected simple graph with size divisible by the size of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-02 Martin Merker

The Borsuk problem asks for the smallest number of subsets with strictly smaller diameters into which any bounded set in the $d$-dimensional space can be decomposed. It is a classical problem in combinatorial geometry that has been subject…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-14 José Cáceres , Delia Garijo , Alberto Márquez , Rodrigo I. Silveira

We study the Decomposition Conjecture posed by Bar\'at and Thomassen (2006), which states that for every tree $T$ there exists a natural number $k_T$ such that, if $G$ is a $k_T$-edge-connected graph and $|E(T)|$ divides $|E(G)|$, then $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-07-30 Fábio Botler , Guilherme O. Mota , Marcio T. I. Oshiro , Yoshiko Wakabayashi

Earlier an arbitrary poset $P$ was proved to be isomorphic to the collection of subsets of a space $M$ with two closures which are closed in the first closure and open in the other. As a space $M$ for this representation an algebraic dual…

General Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 R. Breslav , A. Stavrova , R. R. Zapatrin

In this paper we give an algorithm to determine, for any given suborder closed class of series-parallel posets, a structure theorem for the class. We refer to these structure theorems as structural descriptions.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-10-18 Christian Joseph Altomare

The Boolean lattice $2^{[n]}$ is the power set of $[n]$ ordered by inclusion. A chain $c_{0}\subset...\subset c_{k}$ in $2^{[n]}$ is rank-symmetric, if $|c_{i}|+|c_{k-i}|=n$ for $i=0,...,k$; and it is symmetric, if $|c_{i}|=(n-k)/2+i$. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-25 Istvan Tomon

We ask if there exists a symmetric chain decomposition of the cuboid $Q_k \times n$ such that no chain is "taut", i.e. no chain has a subchain of the form $(a_1,\ldots, a_k,0)\prec \ldots\prec (a_1,\ldots,a_k,n-1)$. In this paper, we show…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-26 Stefan David , Hunter Spink , Marius Tiba

Every graph G can be embedded in a Euclidean space as a two-distance set. This allows us to reformulate the analogue of Borsuk's conjecture for two-distance sets in terms of graphs. This conjecture remains open for dimensions from 4 to 63.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Oleg R. Musin

Generalizing a well known theorem for finite matroids, we prove that for every (infinite) connected matroid M there is a unique tree T such that the nodes of T correspond to minors of M that are either 3-connected or circuits or cocircuits,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-08 Elad Aigner-Horev , Reinhard Diestel , Luke Postle

Courcelle's Theorem states that on graphs $G$ of tree-width at most $k$ with a given tree-decomposition of size $t(G)$, graph properties $\mathcal{P}$ definable in Monadic Second Order Logic can be checked in linear time in the size of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Yuval Filmus , Johann A. Makowsky

One-parameter criterion for 2-equipped posets with respect to cerepresentations is stated and proved. The list of sincere one-parameter 2-equipped posets is given as well as a complex matrix classification of all their indecomposables…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2018-06-14 Claudio Rodriguez

In the parlance of relational structures, the Finite Ramsey Theorem states that the class of all finite chains has the Ramsey property. A classical result of J. Ne\v{s}et\v{r}il and V. R\"{o}dl claims that the class of all finite posets…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-09 Nemanja Draganić , Dragan Mašulović

The goal of this paper is to prove that several variants of deciding whether a poset can be (weakly) embedded into a small Boolean lattice, or to a few consecutive levels of a Boolean lattice, are NP-complete, answering a question of Griggs…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Dömötör Pálvölgyi

It is known that the First-Fit algorithm for partitioning a poset P into chains uses relatively few chains when P does not have two incomparable chains each of size k. In particular, if P has width w then Bosek, Krawczyk, and Szczypka (SIAM…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Vida Dujmović , Gwenaël Joret , David R. Wood