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A framework for forcing constructions at successors of singular cardinals
We describe a framework for proving consistency results about singular cardinals of arbitrary cofinality and their successors. This framework allows the construction of models in which the Singular Cardinals Hypothesis fails at a singular cardinal κ of uncountable cofinality, while κ^+ enjoys various combinatorial properties. As a sample application, we prove the consistency (relative to that of ZFC plus a supercompact cardinal) of there being a strong limit singular cardinal κ of uncountable cofinality where SCH fails and such that there is a collection of size less than 2^{κ^+} of graphs on κ^+ such that any graph on κ^+ embeds into one of the graphs in the collection
Graph Isomorphism and the Lasserre Hierarchy
In this paper we show lower bounds for a certain large class of algorithms
solving the Graph Isomorphism problem, even on expander graph instances.
Spielman [25] shows an algorithm for isomorphism of strongly regular expander
graphs that runs in time exp(O(n^(1/3)) (this bound was recently improved to
expf O(n^(1/5) [5]). It has since been an open question to remove the
requirement that the graph be strongly regular. Recent algorithmic results show
that for many problems the Lasserre hierarchy works surprisingly well when the
underlying graph has expansion properties. Moreover, recent work of Atserias
and Maneva [3] shows that k rounds of the Lasserre hierarchy is a
generalization of the k-dimensional Weisfeiler-Lehman algorithm for Graph
Isomorphism. These two facts combined make the Lasserre hierarchy a good
candidate for solving graph isomorphism on expander graphs. Our main result
rules out this promising direction by showing that even Omega(n) rounds of the
Lasserre semidefinite program hierarchy fail to solve the Graph Isomorphism
problem even on expander graphs.Comment: 22 pages, 3 figures, submitted to CC
On the number of unlabeled vertices in edge-friendly labelings of graphs
Let be a graph with vertex set and edge set , and be a
0-1 labeling of so that the absolute difference in the number of edges
labeled 1 and 0 is no more than one. Call such a labeling
\emph{edge-friendly}. We say an edge-friendly labeling induces a \emph{partial
vertex labeling} if vertices which are incident to more edges labeled 1 than 0,
are labeled 1, and vertices which are incident to more edges labeled 0 than 1,
are labeled 0. Vertices that are incident to an equal number of edges of both
labels we call \emph{unlabeled}. Call a procedure on a labeled graph a
\emph{label switching algorithm} if it consists of pairwise switches of labels.
Given an edge-friendly labeling of , we show a label switching algorithm
producing an edge-friendly relabeling of such that all the vertices are
labeled. We call such a labeling \textit{opinionated}.Comment: 7 pages, accepted to Discrete Mathematics, special issue dedicated to
Combinatorics 201
Some colouring problems for Paley graphs
The Paley graph Pq, where q≡1(mod4) is a prime power, is the graph with vertices the elements of the finite field Fq and an edge between x and y if and only if x-y is a non-zero square in Fq. This paper gives new results on some colouring problems for Paley graphs and related discussion. © 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
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