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September 11, two years later
Like other historical milestones, the second anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack in the United States provides a good opportunity for critical evaluation. It invites an interim assessment of the successes and failures of the offensive launched by the US-led international coalition against terrorism and terrorist organizations, first and foremost al-Qaeda and its affiliates. Examining the unique..
Using the Incompressibility Method to obtain Local Lemma results for Ramsey-type Problems
We reveal a connection between the incompressibility method and the Lovasz
local lemma in the context of Ramsey theory. We obtain bounds by repeatedly
encoding objects of interest and thereby compressing strings. The method is
demonstrated on the example of van der Waerden numbers. It applies to lower
bounds of Ramsey numbers, large transitive subtournaments and other Ramsey
phenomena as well.Comment: 8 pages, 1 figur
Frequency Dependent Electrical Transport in the Integer Quantum Hall Effect
The status of the ac quantum Hall effect is reviewed with emphasis on the
theoretical development in recent years. In particular, the numerical
approaches for the calculation of the frequency dependent Hall and longitudinal
conductivities of non-interacting electrons are considered in detail. Results
for the frequency scaling at the critical point and for the frequency dependent
deviation of the Hall conductivity from the quantised plateau value are
presented.Comment: 18 pages incl. 9 figures. "The Anderson Transition and its
Ramifications -- Localisation, Quantum Interference, and Interactions",
'Lecture Notes in Physics' series, ed. T. Brandes and S. Kettemann, Springer
Verlag, to be publishe
Towards an Isomorphism Dichotomy for Hereditary Graph Classes
In this paper we resolve the complexity of the isomorphism problem on all but
finitely many of the graph classes characterized by two forbidden induced
subgraphs. To this end we develop new techniques applicable for the structural
and algorithmic analysis of graphs. First, we develop a methodology to show
isomorphism completeness of the isomorphism problem on graph classes by
providing a general framework unifying various reduction techniques. Second, we
generalize the concept of the modular decomposition to colored graphs, allowing
for non-standard decompositions. We show that, given a suitable decomposition
functor, the graph isomorphism problem reduces to checking isomorphism of
colored prime graphs. Third, we extend the techniques of bounded color valence
and hypergraph isomorphism on hypergraphs of bounded color size as follows. We
say a colored graph has generalized color valence at most k if, after removing
all vertices in color classes of size at most k, for each color class C every
vertex has at most k neighbors in C or at most k non-neighbors in C. We show
that isomorphism of graphs of bounded generalized color valence can be solved
in polynomial time.Comment: 37 pages, 4 figure
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