359 research outputs found
Almost spanning subgraphs of random graphs after adversarial edge removal
Let Delta>1 be a fixed integer. We show that the random graph G(n,p) with
p>>(log n/n)^{1/Delta} is robust with respect to the containment of almost
spanning bipartite graphs H with maximum degree Delta and sublinear bandwidth
in the following sense: asymptotically almost surely, if an adversary deletes
arbitrary edges in G(n,p) such that each vertex loses less than half of its
neighbours, then the resulting graph still contains a copy of all such H.Comment: 46 pages, 6 figure
Properly coloured copies and rainbow copies of large graphs with small maximum degree
Let G be a graph on n vertices with maximum degree D. We use the Lov\'asz
local lemma to show the following two results about colourings c of the edges
of the complete graph K_n. If for each vertex v of K_n the colouring c assigns
each colour to at most (n-2)/22.4D^2 edges emanating from v, then there is a
copy of G in K_n which is properly edge-coloured by c. This improves on a
result of Alon, Jiang, Miller, and Pritikin [Random Struct. Algorithms 23(4),
409-433, 2003]. On the other hand, if c assigns each colour to at most n/51D^2
edges of K_n, then there is a copy of G in K_n such that each edge of G
receives a different colour from c. This proves a conjecture of Frieze and
Krivelevich [Electron. J. Comb. 15(1), R59, 2008]. Our proofs rely on a
framework developed by Lu and Sz\'ekely [Electron. J. Comb. 14(1), R63, 2007]
for applying the local lemma to random injections. In order to improve the
constants in our results we use a version of the local lemma due to Bissacot,
Fern\'andez, Procacci, and Scoppola [preprint, arXiv:0910.1824].Comment: 9 page
A tight lower bound for an online hypercube packing problem and bounds for prices of anarchy of a related game
We prove a tight lower bound on the asymptotic performance ratio of
the bounded space online -hypercube bin packing problem, solving an open
question raised in 2005. In the classic -hypercube bin packing problem, we
are given a sequence of -dimensional hypercubes and we have an unlimited
number of bins, each of which is a -dimensional unit hypercube. The goal is
to pack (orthogonally) the given hypercubes into the minimum possible number of
bins, in such a way that no two hypercubes in the same bin overlap. The bounded
space online -hypercube bin packing problem is a variant of the
-hypercube bin packing problem, in which the hypercubes arrive online and
each one must be packed in an open bin without the knowledge of the next
hypercubes. Moreover, at each moment, only a constant number of open bins are
allowed (whenever a new bin is used, it is considered open, and it remains so
until it is considered closed, in which case, it is not allowed to accept new
hypercubes). Epstein and van Stee [SIAM J. Comput. 35 (2005), no. 2, 431-448]
showed that is and , and conjectured that
it is . We show that is in fact . To
obtain this result, we elaborate on some ideas presented by those authors, and
go one step further showing how to obtain better (offline) packings of certain
special instances for which one knows how many bins any bounded space algorithm
has to use. Our main contribution establishes the existence of such packings,
for large enough , using probabilistic arguments. Such packings also lead to
lower bounds for the prices of anarchy of the selfish -hypercube bin packing
game. We present a lower bound of for the pure price of
anarchy of this game, and we also give a lower bound of for
its strong price of anarchy
Tur\'annical hypergraphs
This paper is motivated by the question of how global and dense restriction
sets in results from extremal combinatorics can be replaced by less global and
sparser ones. The result we consider here as an example is Turan's theorem,
which deals with graphs G=([n],E) such that no member of the restriction set
consisting of all r-tuples on [n] induces a copy of K_r.
Firstly, we examine what happens when this restriction set is replaced just
by all r-tuples touching a given m-element set. That is, we determine the
maximal number of edges in an n-vertex such that no K_r hits a given vertex
set.
Secondly, we consider sparse random restriction sets. An r-uniform hypergraph
R on vertex set [n] is called Turannical (respectively epsilon-Turannical), if
for any graph G on [n] with more edges than the Turan number ex(n,K_r)
(respectively (1+\eps)ex(n,K_r), no hyperedge of R induces a copy of K_r in G.
We determine the thresholds for random r-uniform hypergraphs to be Turannical
and to epsilon-Turannical.
Thirdly, we transfer this result to sparse random graphs, using techniques
recently developed by Schacht [Extremal results for random discrete structures]
to prove the Kohayakawa-Luczak-Rodl Conjecture on Turan's theorem in random
graphs.Comment: 33 pages, minor improvements thanks to two referee
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