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In this paper we present a simple unifying approach to prove several statements about intersecting and cross-intersecting families, including the Erd\H os--Ko--Rado theorem, the Hilton--Milner theorem, a theorem due to Frankl concerning the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-30 Andrey Kupavskii , Dmitriy Zakharov

The well-known Erd\H{o}s--Ko--Rado theorem states that for $n> 2k$, every intersecting family of $k$-sets of $[n]:=\{1,\ldots ,n\}$ has at most $ {n-1 \choose k-1}$ sets, and the extremal family consists of all $k$-sets containing a fixed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Yongjiang Wu , Yongtao Li , Lihua Feng , Jiuqiang Liu , Guihai Yu

A Hadamard matrix is a scaled orthogonal matrix with $\pm 1$ entries. Such matrices exist in certain dimensions: the Hadamard conjecture is that such a matrix always exists when $n$ is a multiple of 4. A conjecture attributed to Ryser is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Stefan Steinerberger

We prove an analogue of the classical Erd\H{o}s-Ko-Rado theorem for intersecting sets of permutations in finite 2-transitive groups. Given a finite group G acting faithfully and 2-transitively on the set X, we show that an intersecting set…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-07-24 Karen Meagher , Pablo Spiga , Pham Huu Tiep

The main object of this paper is to determine the maximum number of $\{0,\pm 1\}$-vectors subject to the following condition. All vectors have length $n$, exactly $k$ of the coordinates are $+1$ and one is $-1$, $n \geq 2k$. Moreover, there…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Peter Frankl , Andrey Kupavskii

We develop several efficient algorithms for the classical \emph{Matrix Scaling} problem, which is used in many diverse areas, from preconditioning linear systems to approximation of the permanent. On an input $n\times n$ matrix $A$, this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Zeyuan Allen-Zhu , Yuanzhi Li , Rafael Oliveira , Avi Wigderson

Let $M_k$ be a $2n$-vertex graph with $n$ pairwise disjoint edges and let $\mathcal{H}^{(p,s)}(n)$ be the family of subsets of $V(M_n)$ that span exactly $p$ edges and $s$ isolated vertices. We prove that for $n\ge 2p+s$ this family has the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-25 Dániel T. Nagy

We introduce the notions of $d$-orthostochastic, $d$-unistochastic, and $d$-qustochastic matrices. These are the particular cases of $F^d$-bistochastic matrices where $F$ is real or complex numbers or quaternions. The concept is motivated…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Eugene Gutkin

Mantel's theorem states that every $n$-vertex graph with $\lfloor \frac{n^2}{4} \rfloor +t$ edges, where $t>0$, contains a triangle. The problem of determining the minimum number of triangles in such a graph is usually referred to as the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-14 József Balogh , Felix Christian Clemen

We consider three matroids defined by Kalai in 1985: the symmetric completion matroid $\mathcal{S}_d$ on the edge set of a looped complete graph; the hyperconnectivity matroid $\mathcal{H}_d$ on the edge set of a complete graph; and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Dániel Garamvölgyi , Bill Jackson , Tibor Jordán , Soma Villányi

Inspired by the work of Zhou "On equivalence of maximum additive symmetric rank-distance codes" (2020) based on the paper of Schmidt "Symmetric bilinear forms over finite fields with applications to coding theory" (2015), we investigate the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-14 Rocco Trombetti , Ferdinando Zullo

We show that the sequence of ratios $d(n+1) / d(n)$ of consecutive values of the divisor function attains every positive rational infinitely many times. This confirms a prediction of Erd\H{o}s.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-31 Sean Eberhard

Let $n, d$ be integers with $1 \leq d \leq \left \lfloor \frac{n-1}{2} \right \rfloor$, and set $h(n,d):={n-d \choose 2} + d^2$ and $e(n,d):= \max\{h(n,d),h(n, \left \lfloor \frac{n-1}{2} \right \rfloor)\}$. Because $h(n,d)$ is quadratic in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-07 Zoltán Füredi , Alexandr Kostochka , Ruth Luo

Let S(n) be the symmetric group on n points. A subset S of S(n) is intersecting if for any pair of permutations \pi, \sigma in S there is a point i in {1,...,n} such that \pi(i)=\sigma(i). Deza and Frankl \cite{MR0439648} proved that if S a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-10-12 Chris Godsil , Karen Meagher

By definition, a rigid graph in $\mathbb{R}^d$ (or on a sphere) has a finite number of embeddings up to rigid motions for a given set of edge length constraints. These embeddings are related to the real solutions of an algebraic system.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-26 Evangelos Bartzos , Ioannis Z. Emiris , Raimundas Vidunas

In a landmark paper on arithmetical properties of Lambert series, Erd\H{o}s proved that $\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{1}{2^{n} - 1}$ is irrational. This value $E$ is now referred to as the Erd\H{o}s-Borwein constant. Crandall, in 2012, studied…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-26 John M. Campbell

We consider finite simple graphs. Given a graph $H$ and a positive integer $n,$ the Tur\'{a}n number of $H$ for the order $n,$ denoted ${\rm ex}(n,H),$ is the maximum size of a graph of order $n$ not containing $H$ as a subgraph. Erd\H{o}s…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-03 Pu Qiao , Xingzhi Zhan

We analyze the periodicity of optimal long products of matrices. A set of matrices is said to have the finiteness property if the maximal rate of growth of long products of matrices taken from the set can be obtained by a periodic product.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Raphael M. Jungers , Vincent D. Blondel

Let $h=\prod_{i=1}^{t}p_i^{s_i}$ be its decomposition into a product of powers of distinct primes, and $\mathbb{Z}_{h}$ be the residue class ring modulo $h$. Let $\mathbb{Z}_{h}^{n}$ be the $n$-dimensional row vector space over…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-04 Jun Guo

Erd\H{o}s and Hajnal proposed a problem that: is it true that every $(2n+1)$-vertex graph with $n^2+n+1$ edges contains two vertices of equal degree connected by a path of length three? The edge bound is sharp by the complete bipartite…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Xiamiao Zhao , Yichen Wang , Mei Lu