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We investigate the representation of a symmetric group $S_n$ on the homology of its Quillen complex at a prime $p$. For homology groups in small codimension, we derive an explicit formula for this representation in terms of the…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2008-08-25 John Shareshian , Michelle L Wachs

A graph is called Dirac if its minimum degree is at least half of the number of vertices in it. Joos and Kim showed that every collection $\mathbb{G}=\{G_1,\ldots,G_n\}$ of Dirac graphs on the same vertex set $V$ of size $n$ contains a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Michael Anastos , Debsoumya Chakraborti

Dirac proved that any graph with minimum vertex degree $\delta$ contains either a cycle of length at least $2\delta$ or a Hamilton cycle. Motivated by this result, we characterize those graphs having no cycle longer than $2\delta$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Galen E. Turner

Many combinatorial properties of a point set in the plane are determined by the set of possible partitions of the point set by a line. Their essential combinatorial properties are well captured by the axioms of oriented matroids. In fact,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-08 Hiroyuki Miyata

We develop a limit theory for $1$-cochains of complete graphs with coefficients from a finite abelian group. We prove an analogue of the large deviation principle of Chatterjee and Varadhan for random cochains. We use these new tools to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-09 András Mészáros

Our main result is that every graph $G$ on $n\ge 10^4r^3$ vertices with minimum degree $\delta(G) \ge (1 - 1 / 10^4 r^{3/2} ) n$ has a fractional $K_r$-decomposition. Combining this result with recent work of Barber, K\"uhn, Lo and Osthus…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Ben Barber , Daniela Kühn , Allan Lo , Richard Montgomery , Deryk Osthus

For $0\leq \ell <k$, a Hamiltonian $\ell$-cycle in a $k$-uniform hypergraph $H$ is a cyclic ordering of the vertices of $H$ in which the edges are segments of length $k$ and every two consecutive edges overlap in exactly $\ell$ vertices. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-01 Asaf Ferber , Liam Hardiman , Adva Mond

Motivated by the $(\mathfrak{g},K)$-cohomology and Dirac cohomology, we determine Dirac series of $\mathrm{GL}(n,\mathbb{H})$, and show that the spin lowest $K$-type of any Dirac series, which determines the Dirac cohomology, is unique and…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-27 Yihao Ding , Hongfeng Zhang

A filtration over a simplicial complex $K$ is an ordering of the simplices of $K$ such that all prefixes in the ordering are subcomplexes of $K$. Filtrations are at the core of Persistent Homology, a major tool in Topological Data Analysis.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Jean-Daniel Boissonnat , Karthik C. S.

We show that the problem k-Dominating Set and its several variants including k-Connected Dominating Set, k-Independent Dominating Set, and k-Dominating Clique, when parameterized by the solution size k, are W[1]-hard in either…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Minghui Jiang , Yong Zhang

Recently, Daligault, Rao and Thomass\'e asked in [3] if every hereditary class which is well-quasi-ordered by the induced subgraph relation is of bounded clique-width. There are two reasons why this questions is interesting. First, it…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-08-26 Aistis Atminas , Vadim V. Lozin , Igor Razgon

We prove that the `Upper Matching Conjecture' of Friedland, Krop, and Markstr\"om and the analogous conjecture of Kahn for independent sets in regular graphs hold for all large enough graphs as a function of the degree. That is, for every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-02 Ewan Davies , Matthew Jenssen , Will Perkins

Refining a basic result of Alexander, we show that two flag simplicial complexes are piecewise linearly homeomorphic if and only if they can be connected by a sequence of flag complexes, each obtained from the previous one by either an edge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-08-08 Frank H. Lutz , Eran Nevo

Let $G$ be a connected graph with the usual shortest-path metric $d$. The graph $G$ is $\delta$-hyperbolic provided for any vertices $x,y,u,v$ in it, the two larger of the three sums $d(u,v)+d(x,y),d(u,x)+d(v,y)$ and $d(u,y)+d(v,x)$ differ…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-06-03 Yaokun Wu , Chengpeng Zhang

This is the second part in a series of two papers. The $k$-Dirac complex is a complex of differential operators which are natural to a particular $|2|$-graded parabolic geometry. In this paper we will consider the $k$-Dirac complex over a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-02-19 Tomas Salac

We give an $O(n^2(k+\log n))$ algorithm for computing the $k$-dimensional persistent homology of a filtration of clique complexes of cyclic graphs on $n$ vertices. This is nearly quadratic in the number of vertices $n$, and therefore a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Henry Adams , Ethan Coldren , Sean Willmot

A platypus graph is a non-hamiltonian graph for which every vertex-deleted subgraph is traceable. They are closely related to families of graphs satisfying interesting conditions regarding longest paths and longest cycles, for instance…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-15 Jan Goedgebeur , Addie Neyt , Carol T. Zamfirescu

The notion of Laplacian of a graph can be generalized to simplicial complexes and hypergraphs, and contains information on the topology of these structures. Even for a graph, the consideration of associated simplicial complexes is…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-05-08 Thomas Bonis , Laurent Decreusefond , Viet Chi Tran , Zhihan Iris Zhang

We generalize the definition and enumeration of spanning trees from the setting of graphs to that of arbitrary-dimensional simplicial complexes $\Delta$, extending an idea due to G. Kalai. We prove a simplicial version of the Matrix-Tree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-10-05 Art M. Duval , Caroline J. Klivans , Jeremy L. Martin

The Horizontal Chord Theorem states that if a continuous curve connects points $A$ and $B$ in the plane, then for any integer $k$ there are points $C$ and $D$ on the curve such that $\overrightarrow{AB}=k \overrightarrow{CD}$. In this note,…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-09-21 Mohammad Javaheri