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Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-10 Vladimir Blinovsky

We study the behavior of West's stack-sorting map $s$ on permutations whose last entry is also their least. Let $S_{n}':=\{\pi0\mid \pi\in S_n\}$ where $\pi0$ denotes the concatenation of $\pi$ and $0$. For each permutation $\pi\in S_n'$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Jerry Zhang

We show that each perfect matching in a bipartite graph $G$ intersects at least half of the perfect matchings in $G$. This result has equivalent formulations in terms of the permanent of the adjacency matrix of a graph, and in terms of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-14 Matija Bucic , Pat Devlin , Mo Hendon , Dru Horne , Ben Lund

In this paper we study a variant of string pattern matching which deals with tuples of strings known as \textit{multi-track strings}. Multi-track strings are a generalisation of strings (or \textit{single-track strings}) that have primarily…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Carl Barton , Ewan Birney , Tomas Fitzgerald

Representations of sets are challenging to learn because operations on sets should be permutation-invariant. To this end, we propose a Permutation-Optimisation module that learns how to permute a set end-to-end. The permuted set can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Yan Zhang , Jonathon Hare , Adam Prügel-Bennett

A totally symmetric set is a finite subset of a group for which any permutation of the elements can be realized by conjugation in the ambient group. Such sets are rigid under homomorphisms, and so exert a great deal of control over the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-27 Noah Caplinger , Nick Salter

This paper presents the following results on sets that are complete for NP. 1. If there is a problem in NP that requires exponential time at almost all lengths, then every many-one NP-complete set is complete under length-increasing…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-02-03 Xiaoyang Gu , John M. Hitchcock , A. Pavan

We study the complexity of the problem of searching for a set of patterns that separate two given sets of strings. This problem has applications in a wide variety of areas, most notably in data mining, computational biology, and in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Giuseppe Lancia , Luke Mathieson , Pablo Moscato

Given a bipartite graph that has a perfect matching, a prefect proportional allocation is an assignment of positive weights to the nodes of the right partition so that every left node is fractionally assigned to its neighbors in proportion…

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An input to the Popular Matching problem, in the roommates setting, consists of a graph $G$ and each vertex ranks its neighbors in strict order, known as its preference. In the Popular Matching problem the objective is to test whether there…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Sushmita Gupta , Pranabendu Misra , Saket Saurabh , Meirav Zehavi

We consider the problem of sequencing a set of positive numbers. We try to find the optimal sequence to maximize the variance of its partial sums. The optimal sequence is shown to have a beautiful structure. It is interesting to note that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-02-14 Li Wei , Wangdong Qi , Dingxing Chen , Peng Liu , En Yuan

Transactions simplify concurrent programming by enabling computations on shared data that are isolated from other concurrent computations and are resilient to failures. Modern databases provide different consistency models for transactions…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Ranadeep Biswas , Constantin Enea

A perfect matching cut is a perfect matching that is also a cutset, or equivalently a perfect matching containing an even number of edges on every cycle. The corresponding algorithmic problem, Perfect Matching Cut, is known to be…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Édouard Bonnet , Dibyayan Chakraborty , Julien Duron

Cadences are structurally maximal arithmetic progressions of indices corresponding to equal characters in an underlying string. This paper provides a polynomial time detection algorithm for 3-cadences in grammar-compressed binary strings.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Julian Pape-Lange

The lattice of partitions of a set and its d-divisible generalization have been much studied for their combinatorial, topological, and representation-theoretic properties. An ordered set partition is a set partition where the subsets are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Bruce E Sagan , Sheila Sundaram

We present results on the enumeration of crossings and nestings for matchings and set partitions. Using a bijection between partitions and vacillating tableaux, we show that if we fix the sets of minimal block elements and maximal block…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 William Y. C. Chen , Eva Y. P. Deng , Rosena R. X. Du , Richard P. Stanley , Catherine H. Yan

We prove that completing an untimed, unbounded track in TrackMania Nations Forever is NP-complete by using a reduction from 3-SAT and showing that a solution can be checked in polynomial time.

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-11-24 Franck Dernoncourt

List colouring is an NP-complete decision problem even if the total number of colours is three. It is hard even on planar bipartite graphs. We give a polynomial-time algorithm for solving list colouring of permutation graphs with a bounded…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-06-25 Jessica Enright , Lorna Stewart , Gabor Tardos

A polynomial algorithm is obtained for the NP-complete linear ordering problem.

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Givi Bolotashvili

In this work, we consider pattern matching variants in small space, that is, in the read-only setting, where we want to bound the space usage on top of storing the strings. Our main contribution is a space-time trade-off for the Internal…

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