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Vertex covers by monochromatic pieces - A survey of results and problems
This survey is devoted to problems and results concerning covering the
vertices of edge colored graphs or hypergraphs with monochromatic paths, cycles
and other objects. It is an expanded version of the talk with the same title at
the Seventh Cracow Conference on Graph Theory, held in Rytro in September
14-19, 2014.Comment: Discrete Mathematics, 201
Trivalent expanders and hyperbolic surfaces
We introduce a family of trivalent expanders which tessellate compact
hyperbolic surfaces with large isometry groups. We compare this family with
Platonic graphs and modifications of them and prove topological and spectral
properties of these families
Termination Detection of Local Computations
Contrary to the sequential world, the processes involved in a distributed
system do not necessarily know when a computation is globally finished. This
paper investigates the problem of the detection of the termination of local
computations. We define four types of termination detection: no detection,
detection of the local termination, detection by a distributed observer,
detection of the global termination. We give a complete characterisation
(except in the local termination detection case where a partial one is given)
for each of this termination detection and show that they define a strict
hierarchy. These results emphasise the difference between computability of a
distributed task and termination detection. Furthermore, these
characterisations encompass all standard criteria that are usually formulated :
topological restriction (tree, rings, or triangu- lated networks ...),
topological knowledge (size, diameter ...), and local knowledge to distinguish
nodes (identities, sense of direction). These results are now presented as
corollaries of generalising theorems. As a very special and important case, the
techniques are also applied to the election problem. Though given in the model
of local computations, these results can give qualitative insight for similar
results in other standard models. The necessary conditions involve graphs
covering and quasi-covering; the sufficient conditions (constructive local
computations) are based upon an enumeration algorithm of Mazurkiewicz and a
stable properties detection algorithm of Szymanski, Shi and Prywes
High-dimensional fractionalization and spinon deconfinement in pyrochlore antiferromagnets
The ground states of Klein type spin models on the pyrochlore and
checkerboard lattice are spanned by the set of singlet dimer coverings, and
thus possess an extensive ground--state degeneracy. Among the many exotic
consequences is the presence of deconfined fractional excitations (spinons)
which propagate through the entire system. While a realistic electronic model
on the pyrochlore lattice is close to the Klein point, this point is in fact
inherently unstable because any perturbation restores spinon
confinement at . We demonstrate that deconfinement is recovered in the
finite--temperature region , where the deconfined phase
can be characterized as a dilute Coulomb gas of thermally excited spinons. We
investigate the zero--temperature phase diagram away from the Klein point by
means of a variational approach based on the singlet dimer coverings of the
pyrochlore lattices and taking into account their non--orthogonality. We find
that in these systems, nearest neighbor exchange interactions do not lead to
Rokhsar-Kivelson type processes.Comment: 19 page
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