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By Lovasz' proof of the Kneser conjecture, the chromatic number of a graph G is bounded from below by the index of the Z_2-space Hom(K_2,G) plus two. We show that the cohomological index of Hom(K_2,G) is also greater than the cohomological…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Carsten Schultz

We introduce a notion of ideal-related K-theory for rings, and use it to prove that if two complex Leavitt path algebras are Morita equivalent (respectively, isomorphic), then the ideal-related K-theories (respectively, the unital…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2012-12-17 Efren Ruiz , Mark Tomforde

Homomorphisms between relational structures are not only fundamental mathematical objects, but are also of great importance in an applied computational context. Indeed, constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs), a wide class of algorithmic…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-05-23 Martin Grohe , Marc Thurley

Lov\'asz conjectured that every connected 4-regular planar graph G admits a realization as a system of circles, i.e., it can be drawn on the plane utilizing a set of circles, such that the vertices of G correspond to the intersection and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Michael A. Bekos , Chrysanthi N. Raftopoulou

Combinatorial games are widely used in finite model theory, constraint satisfaction, modal logic and concurrency theory to characterize logical equivalences between structures. In particular, Ehrenfeucht-Fraisse games, pebble games, and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Samson Abramsky , Nihil Shah

In 1975 Lov\'{a}sz conjectured that every $r$-partite, $r$-uniform hypergraph contains $r-1$ vertices whose deletion reduces the matching number. If true, this statement would imply a well-known conjecture of Ryser from 1971, which states…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Alexander Clow , Penny Haxell , Bojan Mohar

We present a categorical theory of the composition methods in finite model theory -- a key technique enabling modular reasoning about complex structures by building them out of simpler components. The crucial results required by the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Tomáš Jakl , Dan Marsden , Nihil Shah

A graph $G$ with a perfect matching is called saturated if $G+e$ has more perfect matchings than $G$ for any edge $e$ that is not in $G$. Lov\'asz gave a characterization of the saturated graphs called the cathedral theorem, with some…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-01-07 Nanao Kita

Combinatorial games are widely used in finite model theory, constraint satisfaction, modal logic and concurrency theory to characterize logical equivalences between structures. In particular, Ehrenfeucht-Fraisse games, pebble games, and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Samson Abramsky , Nihil Shah

A digraph is connected-homogeneous if any isomorphism between finite connected induced subdigraphs extends to an automorphism of the digraph. We consider locally-finite connected-homogeneous digraphs with more than one end. In the case that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-11-30 Robert Gray , Rognvaldur G. Moller

We prove that an isomorphism of graded Grothendieck groups $K^{gr}_0$ of two Leavitt path algebras induces an isomorphism of a certain quotient of algebraic filtered $K$-theory and consequently an isomorphism of filtered $K$-theory of their…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2020-05-18 Pere Ara , Roozbeh Hazrat , Huanhuan Li

We construct a pair of non-isomorphic, bipartite graphs which are not distinguished by counting the number of homomorphisms to any tree. This answers a question motivated by Atserias et al. (LICS 2021). In order to establish the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Anuj Dawar

This is the first of a series of papers that develop a systematic bridge between constructions in discrete mathematics and the corresponding continuous analogs. In this paper, we establish an equivalence between Forman's discrete Morse…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-10 Jürgen Jost , Dong Zhang

We study the complexity of isomorphism of classes of metric structures using methods from infinitary continuous logic. For Borel classes of locally compact structures, we prove that if the equivalence relation of isomorphism is potentially…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-09-20 Andreas Hallbäck , Maciej Malicki , Todor Tsankov

Two graphs $G$ and $H$ are homomorphism indistinguishable over a class of graphs $\mathcal{F}$ if for all graphs $F \in \mathcal{F}$ the number of homomorphisms from $F$ to $G$ is equal to the number of homomorphisms from $F$ to $H$. Many…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-07 Tim Seppelt

In a number of recent papers, (k+l)-graphs have been constructed from k-graphs by inserting new edges in the last l dimensions. These constructions have been motivated by C*-algebraic considerations, so they have not been treated…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2010-06-10 Alex Kumjian , David Pask , Aidan Sims

Results of Fowler and Sims show that every k-graph is completely determined by its k-coloured skeleton and collection of commuting squares. Here we give an explicit description of the k-graph associated to a given skeleton and collection of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-11-01 Robert Hazlewood , Iain Raeburn , Aidan Sims , Samuel B. G. Webster

A classical result by Lov\'asz asserts that two graphs $G$ and $H$ are isomorphic if and only if they have the same left profile, that is, for every graph $F$, the number of homomorphisms from $F$ to $G$ coincides with the number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-02 Albert Atserias , Phokion G. Kolaitis , Wei-Lin Wu

We describe proper correspondences from graph C*-algebras to arbitrary C*-algebras by K-theoretic data. If the target C*-algebra is a graph C*-algebra as well, we may lift an isomorphism on a certain invariant to correspondences back and…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Rasmus Bentmann , Ralf Meyer

We prove that if two homomorphisms from O_{\infty} to a purely infinite simple C*-algebra have the same class in KK-theory, and if either both are unital or both are nonunital, then they are approximately unitarily equivalent. It follows…

funct-an · Mathematics 2008-02-03 Huaxin Lin , N. Christopher Phillips