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A basic pigeonhole principle insures an existence of two objects of the same type if the number of objects is larger than the number of types. Can such a principle be extended to a more complex combinatorial structure? Here, we address such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-06 Maria Axenovich , Ryan R. Martin , Torsten Ueckerdt

If K is an odd-dimensional flag closed manifold, flag generalized homology sphere or a more general flag weak pseudomanifold with sufficiently many vertices, then the maximal number of edges in K is achieved by the balanced join of cycles.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-03-25 Michal Adamaszek

Let $\mathcal G$ be an addable, minor-closed class of graphs. We prove that the zero-one law holds in monadic second-order logic (MSO) for the random graph drawn uniformly at random from all {\em connected} graphs in $\mathcal G$ on $n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-10 Peter Heinig , Tobias Muller , Marc Noy , Anusch Taraz

A pebbling move on a graph removes two pebbles from a vertex and adds one pebble to an adjacent vertex. A vertex is reachable from a pebble distribution if it is possible to move a pebble to that vertex using pebbling moves. The optimal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-26 Ervin Győri , Gyula Y. Katona , László F. Papp

A well-known conjecture states that a random symmetric $n \times n$ matrix with entries in $\{-1,1\}$ is singular with probability $\Theta\big( n^2 2^{-n} \big)$. In this paper we prove that the probability of this event is at most…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Marcelo Campos , Letícia Mattos , Robert Morris , Natasha Morrison

The size-Ramsey number of a graph $F$ is the smallest number of edges in a graph $G$ with the Ramsey property for $F$, that is, with the property that any 2-colouring of the edges of $G$ contains a monochromatic copy of $F$. We prove that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Dennis Clemens , Meysam Miralaei , Damian Reding , Mathias Schacht , Anusch Taraz

In this paper, we provide a uniform framework for investigating small circuit classes and bounds through the lens of ordinary differential equations (ODEs). Following an approach recently introduced to capture the class of polynomial-time…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Melissa Antonelli , Arnaud Durand , Juha Kontinen

We derive a sufficient condition for a sparse graph G on n vertices to contain a copy of a tree T of maximum degree at most d on (1-\epsilon)n vertices, in terms of the expansion properties of G. As a result we show that for fixed d\geq 2…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-06-29 Noga Alon , Michael Krivelevich , Benny Sudakov

The class P is in fact a proper sub-class of NP. We explore topological properties of the Hamming space 2^[n] where [n]={1, 2,..., n}. With the developed theory, we show: (i) a theorem that is closely related to Erdos and Rado's sunflower…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-10-23 Junichiro Fukuyama

We consider the performance of the Depth First Search (DFS) algorithm on the random graph $G\left(n,\frac{1+\epsilon}{n}\right)$, $\epsilon>0$ a small constant. Recently, Enriquez, Faraud and M\'enard [2] proved that the stack $U$ of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-27 Sahar Diskin , Michael Krivelevich

A hole in a graph G is an induced cycle of length at least four; an antihole is a hole in the complement of G. In 2005, Chudnovsky, Cornuejols, Liu, Seymour and Vuskovic showed that it is possible to test in polynomial time whether a graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-04 Maria Chudnovsky , Alex Scott , Paul Seymour , Sophie Spirkl

Rigid frameworks in some Euclidian space are embedded graphs having a unique local realization (up to Euclidian motions) for the given edge lengths, although globally they may have several. We study the number of distinct planar embeddings…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ciprian Borcea , Ileana Streinu

This paper concerns Boolean satisfiability (SAT) solvers based on Ordered Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs), especially those that can generate proofs of unsatisfiability. Mengel (arXiv:2306.00886) has presented a theoretical analysis that a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Randal E. Bryant

Suppose $G$ is a graph with degrees bounded by $d$, and one needs to remove more than $\epsilon n$ of its edges in order to make it planar. We show that in this case the statistics of local neighborhoods around vertices of $G$ is far from…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-02-10 Itai Benjamini , Oded Schramm , Asaf Shapira

We prove geometric Ramsey-type statements on collections of lines in 3-space. These statements give guarantees on the size of a clique or an independent set in (hyper)graphs induced by incidence relations between lines, points, and reguli…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Jean Cardinal , Michael S. Payne , Noam Solomon

Consider a surface $\Sigma$ with punctures that serve as marked points and at least one marked point on each boundary component. We build a filling surface $\Sigma_n$ by singling out one of the boundary components and denoting by $n$ the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Pallavi Panda , Hugo Parlier , Lionel Pournin

We study the problem of releasing the weights of all-pair shortest paths in a weighted undirected graph with differential privacy (DP). In this setting, the underlying graph is fixed and two graphs are neighbors if their edge weights differ…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Badih Ghazi , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi , Jelani Nelson

In this paper, we study the extremal behaviour of deep holes in polyominoes. We determine the maximum number, $h_n$ of deep holes that an $n$-omino can enclose, ensuring that the boundary of each hole is disjoint from the boundaries of any…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Djordje Baralic , Shiven Uppal

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

We investigate the space complexity of refuting $3$-CNFs in Resolution and algebraic systems. No lower bound for refuting any family of $3$-CNFs was previously known for the total space in resolution or for the monomial space in algebraic…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-11-07 Ilario Bonacina , Nicola Galesi , Tony Huynh , Paul Wollan