Tag Archives: Polymath3

Polymath3 (PHC6): The Polynomial Hirsch Conjecture – A Topological Approach

Posted on April 13, 2011 by

This is a new polymath3 research thread. Our aim is to tackle the polynomial Hirsch conjecture which asserts that there is a polynomial upper bound for the diameter of graphs of -dimensional polytopes with facets. Our research so far was … Continue reading →

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Polynomial Hirsch Conjecture 5: Abstractions and Counterexamples.

Posted on November 28, 2010 by

This is the 5th research thread of polymath3 studying the polynomial Hirsch conjecture. As you may remember, we are mainly interested in an abstract form of the problem about families of sets. (And a related version about families of multisets.) The … Continue reading →

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Polymath3: Polynomial Hirsch Conjecture 4

Posted on October 21, 2010 by

So where are we? I guess we are trying all sorts of things, and perhaps we should try even more things. I find it very difficult to choose the more promising ideas, directions and comments as Tim Gowers and Terry Tao did so … Continue reading →

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Polymath3 : Polynomial Hirsch Conjecture 3

Posted on October 10, 2010 by

Here is the third research thread for the polynomial Hirsch conjecture.  I hope that people will feel as comfortable as possible to offer ideas about the problem we discuss. Even more important, to think about the problem either in the directions suggested by … Continue reading →

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Polymath 3: The Polynomial Hirsch Conjecture 2

Posted on October 3, 2010 by

Here we start the second research thread about the polynomial Hirsch conjecture.  I hope that people will feel as comfortable as possible to offer ideas about the problem. The combinatorial problem looks simple and also everything that we know about it is rather simple: … Continue reading →

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Polymath 3: Polynomial Hirsch Conjecture

Posted on September 29, 2010 by

I would like to start here a research thread of the long-promised Polymath3 on the polynomial Hirsch conjecture. I propose to try to solve the following purely combinatorial problem. Consider t disjoint families of subsets of {1,2,…,n}, . Suppose that … Continue reading →

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Plans for polymath3

Posted on December 8, 2009 by

Polymath3 is planned to study the polynomial Hirsch conjecture. In order not to conflict with Tim Gowers’s next polymath project which I suppose will start around January, I propose that we will start polymath3 in mid April 2010. I plan to write a … Continue reading →

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