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In contrast to the usual quantum systems which have at most a finite number of open spectral gaps if they are periodic in more than one direction, periodic quantum graphs may have gaps arbitrarily high in the spectrum. This property of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-26 Pavel Exner , Ondřej Turek

Treewidth is a parameter that emerged from the study of minor closed classes of graphs (i.e. classes closed under vertex and edge deletion, and edge contraction). It in some sense describes the global structure of a graph. Roughly, a graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-02 Tara Abrishami , Maria Chudnovsky , Kristina Vušković

We prove a tight upper bound on the independence polynomial (and total number of independent sets) of cubic graphs of girth at least 5. The bound is achieved by unions of the Heawood graph, the point/line incidence graph of the Fano plane.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-12 Guillem Perarnau , Will Perkins

A seminal result of Koml\'os, S\'ark\"ozy, and Szemer\'edi states that any n-vertex graph G with minimum degree at least (1/2 + {\alpha})n contains every n-vertex tree T of bounded degree. Recently, Pham, Sah, Sawhney, and Simkin extended…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-11 Paul Bastide , Clément Legrand-Duchesne , Alp Müyesser

We explore various techniques for counting the number of straight-edge crossing-free graphs that can be embedded on a planar point set. In particular, we derive a lower bound on the ratio of the number of such graphs with $m+1$ edges to the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-24 Siddharth Prasad

Kahale proved that linear sized sets in $d$-regular Ramanujan graphs have vertex expansion $\sim\frac{d}{2}$ and complemented this with construction of near-Ramanujan graphs with vertex expansion no better than $\frac{d}{2}$. However, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Theo McKenzie , Sidhanth Mohanty

We find a formula, in terms of n, d and p, for the value of the F-pure threshold for the generic homogeneous polynomial of degree d in n variables over an algebraically closed field of characteristic p. We also show that, in every…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Karen E. Smith , Adela Vraciu

A graph $G$ is {\em perfectly divisible} if, for each induced subgraph $H$ of $G$, $V(H)$ can be partitioned into $A$ and $B$ such that $H[A]$ is perfect and $\omega(H[B])<\omega(H)$. A {\em bull} is a graph consisting of a triangle with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Ran Chen , Paras Vinubhai Maniya , Di Wu , Junran Yu

Given a Gaussian Markov random field, we consider the problem of selecting a subset of variables to observe which minimizes the total expected squared prediction error of the unobserved variables. We first show that finding an exact…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-09-27 Satyaki Mahalanabis , Daniel Stefankovic

Despite enormous successful applications of graph neural networks (GNNs), theoretical understanding of their generalization ability, especially for node-level tasks where data are not independent and identically-distributed (IID), has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Jiaqi Ma , Junwei Deng , Qiaozhu Mei

A well-known conjecture by Harris states that any triangle-free $d$-degenerate graph has fractional chromatic number at most $O\left(\frac{d}{\ln d}\right)$. This conjecture has gained much attention in recent years, and is known to have…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-31 Anders Martinsson

In the random geometric graph model $\mathsf{Geo}_d(n,p)$, we identify each of our $n$ vertices with an independently and uniformly sampled vector from the $d$-dimensional unit sphere, and we connect pairs of vertices whose vectors are…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Siqi Liu , Sidhanth Mohanty , Tselil Schramm , Elizabeth Yang

Let $G$ be a triangle-free graph with $n$ vertices and average degree $t$. We show that $G$ contains at least \[ e^{(1-n^{-1/12})\frac{1}{2}\frac{n}{t}\ln t (\frac{1}{2}\ln t-1)} \] independent sets. This improves a recent result of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Jeff Cooper , Kunal Dutta , Dhruv Mubayi

We derive here the Friedland-Tverberg inequality for positive hyperbolic polynomials. This inequality is applied to give lower bounds for the number of matchings in $r$-regular bipartite graphs. It is shown that some of these bounds are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Shmuel Friedland , Leonid Gurvits

This paper extends the results by Afzali, Ghodrati and Maimani for the zero blocking numbers of Kneser graphs and Johnson graphs to generalized Kneser graphs and generalized Johnson graphs.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Hau-Yi Lin , Wu-Hsiung Lin , Gerard Jennhwa Chang

The Transversal problem, i.e, the enumeration of all the minimal transversals of a hypergraph in output-polynomial time, i.e, in time polynomial in its size and the cumulated size of all its minimal transversals, is a fifty years old open…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-09 Mamadou Moustapha Kanté , Vincent Limouzy , Arnaud Mary , Lhouari Nourine , Takeaki Uno

In analogy with epsilon-biased sets over Z_2^n, we construct explicit epsilon-biased sets over nonabelian finite groups G. That is, we find sets S subset G such that | Exp_{x in S} rho(x)| <= epsilon for any nontrivial irreducible…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-05-01 Sixia Chen , Cristopher Moore , Alexander Russell

We prove anti-concentration results for polynomials of independent random variables with arbitrary degree. Our results extend the classical Littlewood-Offord result for linear polynomials, and improve several earlier estimates. We discuss…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-08-11 Raghu Meka , Oanh Nguyen , Van Vu

We consider a variant of metrised graphs where the edge lengths take values in a commutative monoid, as a higher-rank generalisation of the notion of a tropical curve. Divisorial gonality, which Baker and Norine defined on combinatorial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-19 Josse van Dobben de Bruyn , David Holmes , David van der Vorm

We study the parameterized complexity of Split Contraction and Threshold Contraction. In these problems we are given a graph G and an integer k and asked whether G can be modified into a split graph or a threshold graph, respectively, by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-10-23 Leizhen Cai , Chengwei Guo