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In recent years, we have seen several approaches to the graph isomorphism problem based on "generic" mathematical programming or algebraic (Gr\"obner basis) techniques. For most of these, lower bounds have been established. In fact, it has…

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This paper investigates quasi-isometries between graphs with variable edge lengths. A quasi-isometry is a mapping between metric spaces that approximately preserves distances, allowing for a bounded amount of additive and multiplicative…

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We study the expressive power of first-order logic with counting quantifiers, especially the $k$-variable and quantifier-rank-$q$ fragment, using homomorphism indistinguishability. Recently, Dawar, Jakl, and Reggio~(2021) proved that two…

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Razborov's flag algebra forms a powerful framework for deriving asymptotic inequalities between induced subgraph densities, underpinning many advances in extremal graph theory. This survey introduces flag algebra to computer scientists…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Gyeongwon Jeong , Seonghun Park , Hongseok Yang

We show that an improvement to the best known quantum lower bound for GRAPH-COLLISION problem implies an improvement to the best known lower bound for TRIANGLE problem in the quantum query complexity model. In GRAPH-COLLISION we are given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-15 Kaspars Balodis , Jānis Iraids

One of the key results in Robertson and Seymour's seminal work on graph minors is the Grid-Minor Theorem (also called the Excluded Grid Theorem). The theorem states that for every grid $H$, every graph whose treewidth is large enough…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-11 Chandra Chekuri , Julia Chuzhoy

Three science and engineering problems of recent interests -index coding, locally recoverable distributed storage, and guessing games on graphs- are discussed and the connection between their optimal solutions is elucidated. By generalizing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-04 Fatemeh Arbabjolfaei , Young-Han Kim

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 considers a class of two-player zero-sum games on directed graphs whose vertices are equipped with random payoffs of bounded support known by both players. Starting from a fixed vertex, players take turns to move a token along…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Luc Attia , Lyuben Lichev , Dieter Mitsche , Raimundo Saona , Bruno Ziliotto

We study the discrete graph-metric analogue of Gromov's filling area problem for the cycle graph \(C_n\). An abstract triangulation \(K\) is an isometric filling of \(C_n\) if \(\partial K=C_n\) and the graph distance between any two…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Runtai He

We extend the generic Bell inequalities suggested by Son, Lee, and Kim [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 060406 (2006)] to incorporate multiple observables for tripartite systems and introduce a geometric methodology for calculating classical upper…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Junghee Ryu , Jinhyoung Lee , Hoon Ryu

We prove a $pre$-$asymptotic$ bound on the total variation distance between the uniform distribution over two types of undirected graphs with $n$ nodes. One distribution places a prescribed number of $k_T$ triangles and $k_S$ edges not…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-09-30 Stephen DeSalvo , M. Puck Rombach

In this paper, we prove some isoperimetric inequalities and give a sharp bound for the positive solution of sublinear elliptic equations.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-03-22 Qiuyi Dai , Renchu He , Huaxiang Hu

We consider concurrent stochastic games played on graphs with reachability and safety objectives. These games can be solved by value iteration as well as strategy iteration, each of them yielding a sequence of under-approximations of the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Julia Eisentraut , Jan Křetínský , Alexej Rotar

Last-iterate behaviors of learning algorithms in repeated two-player zero-sum games have been extensively studied due to their wide applications in machine learning and related tasks. Typical algorithms that exhibit the last-iterate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yi Feng , Ping Li , Ioannis Panageas , Xiao Wang

Many important results in extremal graph theory can be roughly summarised as "if a triangle-free graph $G$ has certain properties, then it has a homomorphism to a triangle-free graph $\Gamma$ of bounded size". For example, bounds on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Lior Gishboliner , Eoin Hurley , Yuval Wigderson

A graph property is elusive (or evasive) if any algorithm testing it by asking questions of the form ''Is there an edge between vertices x and y?'' must, in the worst case, examine all pairs of vertices. Elusiveness for infinite vertex sets…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Márton Elekes , Tamás Kátay , Anett Kocsis

We study concurrent graph games where n players cooperate against an opponent to reach a set of target states. Unlike traditional settings, we study distributed randomisation: team players do not share a source of randomness, and their…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Léonard Brice , Thomas A. Henzinger , Alipasha Montaseri , Ali Shafiee , K. S. Thejaswini

A well-known conjecture by Lov\'asz and Plummer from the 1970s asserted that a bridgeless cubic graph has exponentially many perfect matchings. It was solved in the affirmative by Esperet et al. (Adv. Math. 2011). On the other hand,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-09 Marc Noy , Clément Requilé , Juanjo Rué

A geometric approach to differential game theory is illustrated. The parallel pursuit is considered as a two-player zero-sum differential game. The optimal strategies of each player is designed based on Riemann-Finsler geometry. Our…

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