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Cubic planar $n$-vertex graphs with faces of length at most $6$, e.g., fullerene graphs, have diameter in $\Omega(\sqrt{n})$. It has been suspected, that a similar result can be shown for cubic planar graphs with faces of bounded length.…
This paper considers affine analogues of the isoperimetric inequality in the sense of piecewise linear topology. Given a closed polygon P embedded in R^d having n edges, we give upper and lower bounds for the minimal number of triangles…
We realize many sharp spectral bounds of the spectral radius of a nonnegative square matrix $C$ by using the largest real eigenvalues of suitable matrices of smaller sizes related to $C$ that are very easy to find. As applications, we give…
In this paper we consider a partial overdetermined mixed boundary value problem in domains inside a cone as in [18]. We show that in cones having an isoperimetric property the only domains which admit a solution and which minimize a…
We report new world records for the maximal determinant of an n-by-n matrix with entries +/-1. Using various techniques, we beat existing records for n=22, 23, 27, 29, 31, 33, 34, 35, 39, 45, 47, 53, 63, 69, 73, 77, 79, 93, and 95, and we…
An $n\times n$ symmetric matrix $A$ is copositive if the quadratic form $x^TAx$ is nonnegative on the nonnegative orthant. The cone of copositive matrices strictly contains the cone of completely positive matrices, i.e., all matrices of the…
In [4] we developed the theory of positive cones on finite-dimensional simple algebras with involution, inspired by the classical Artin-Schreier theory of orderings on fields, and based on the notion of signatures of hermitian forms [1]. In…
It is well-known that the second-order cone can be outer-approximated to an arbitrary accuracy $\epsilon$ by a polyhedral cone of compact size defined by irrational data. In this paper, we propose two rational polyhedral…
Positive semidefinite (PSD) cone is the cone of positive semidefinite matrices, and is the object of interest in semidefinite programming (SDP). A computational efficient approximation of the PSD cone is the $k$-PSD closure, $1 \leq k < n$,…
We show that a graph with $n$ vertices and vertex cover of size $k$ has at most $4^k + n$ potential maximal cliques. We also show that for each positive integer $k$, there exists a graph with vertex cover of size $k$, $O(k^2)$ vertices, and…
Let $K$ be an algebraically closed field and let $M_n(K)$ denote the algebra of $n\times n$ matrices over $K$. A classical problem asks for the minimal possible dimension of a maximal commutative subalgebra $A \subseteq M_n(K)$. We…
The authors in a previous paper devised certain subcones of the semidefinite plus nonnegative cone and showed that satisfaction of the requirements for membership of those subcones can be detected by solving linear optimization problems…
The projective degrees of strict partitions of n were computed for all n < 101 and the partitions with maximal projective degree were found for each n. It was observed that maximizing partitions for successive values of n "lie close to each…
A polygon is \textit{small} if it has unit diameter. The maximal area of a small polygon with a fixed number of sides $n$ is not known when $n$ is even and $n\geq14$. We determine an improved lower bound for the maximal area of a small…
In spite of a recent breakthrough on upper bounds of the size of cap sets (by Croot, Lev and Pach (2017) and Ellenberg and Gijswijt (2017)), the classical cap set constructions had not been affected. In this work, we introduce a very…
We derive a new upper bound on the diameter of a polyhedron P = {x \in R^n : Ax <= b}, where A \in Z^{m\timesn}. The bound is polynomial in n and the largest absolute value of a sub-determinant of A, denoted by \Delta. More precisely, we…
We consider selfinjective Artin algebras whose cohomology groups are finitely generated over a central ring of cohomology operators. For such an algebra, we show that the representation dimension is strictly greater than the maximal…
Positive definite matrices abound in a dazzling variety of applications. This ubiquity can be in part attributed to their rich geometric structure: positive definite matrices form a self-dual convex cone whose strict interior is a…
New families of nonnegative biquadratic forms that have 8, 9 or 10 real zeros in $\mathbb{P}^2\times \mathbb{P}^2$ are constructed. These are the first examples with 8, 9 or 10 real zeros. It is known that nonnegative biquadratic forms with…
We investigate the hierarchy of conic inner approximations $\mathcal{K}^{(r)}_n$ ($r\in \mathbb{N}$) for the copositive cone $\text{COP}_n$, introduced by Parrilo (Structured Semidefinite Programs and Semialgebraic Geometry Methods in…