357 research outputs found
Short proofs of some extremal results
We prove several results from different areas of extremal combinatorics,
giving complete or partial solutions to a number of open problems. These
results, coming from areas such as extremal graph theory, Ramsey theory and
additive combinatorics, have been collected together because in each case the
relevant proofs are quite short.Comment: 19 page
Hypergraph matchings and designs
We survey some aspects of the perfect matching problem in hypergraphs, with
particular emphasis on structural characterisation of the existence problem in
dense hypergraphs and the existence of designs.Comment: 19 pages, for the 2018 IC
Correlation Clustering and Two-edge-connected Augmentation for Planar Graphs
In correlation clustering, the input is a graph with edge-weights, where every edge is labelled either + or - according to similarity of its endpoints. The goal is to produce a partition of the vertices that disagrees with the edge labels as little as possible.
In two-edge-connected augmentation, the input is a graph with edge-weights and a subset R of edges of the graph. The goal is to produce a minimum weight subset S of edges of the graph, such that for every edge in R, its endpoints are two-edge-connected in Rcup S.
For planar graphs, we prove that correlation clustering reduces to two-edge-connected augmentation, and that both problems have a polynomial-time approximation scheme
strongly balanced 4 kite designs nested into oq systems
In this paper we determine the spectrum for octagon quadrangle systems [OQS] which can be partitioned into two strongly balanced 4-kitedesigns
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