215 research outputs found
Hamilton cycles in graphs and hypergraphs: an extremal perspective
As one of the most fundamental and well-known NP-complete problems, the
Hamilton cycle problem has been the subject of intensive research. Recent
developments in the area have highlighted the crucial role played by the
notions of expansion and quasi-randomness. These concepts and other recent
techniques have led to the solution of several long-standing problems in the
area. New aspects have also emerged, such as resilience, robustness and the
study of Hamilton cycles in hypergraphs. We survey these developments and
highlight open problems, with an emphasis on extremal and probabilistic
approaches.Comment: to appear in the Proceedings of the ICM 2014; due to given page
limits, this final version is slightly shorter than the previous arxiv
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Symbolic powers of monomial ideals and Cohen-Macaulay vertex-weighted digraphs
In this paper we study irreducible representations and symbolic Rees algebras
of monomial ideals. Then we examine edge ideals associated to vertex-weighted
oriented graphs. These are digraphs having no oriented cycles of length two
with weights on the vertices. For a monomial ideal with no embedded primes we
classify the normality of its symbolic Rees algebra in terms of its primary
components. If the primary components of a monomial ideal are normal, we
present a simple procedure to compute its symbolic Rees algebra using Hilbert
bases, and give necessary and sufficient conditions for the equality between
its ordinary and symbolic powers. We give an effective characterization of the
Cohen--Macaulay vertex-weighted oriented forests. For edge ideals of transitive
weighted oriented graphs we show that Alexander duality holds. It is shown that
edge ideals of weighted acyclic tournaments are Cohen--Macaulay and satisfy
Alexander dualityComment: Special volume dedicated to Professor Antonio Campillo, Springer, to
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Cycles of length three and four in tournaments
Linial and Morgenstern conjectured that, among all -vertex tournaments
with cycles of length three, the number of cycles of length
four is asymptotically minimized by a random blow-up of a transitive tournament
with all but one part of equal size and one smaller part. We prove the
conjecture for by analyzing the possible spectrum of adjacency
matrices of tournaments. We also demonstrate that the family of extremal
examples is broader than expected and give its full description for
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