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- To cheer you up in difficult times 21: Giles Gardam lecture and new result on Kaplansky’s conjectures
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- To cheer you up in difficult times 20: Ben Green presents super-polynomial lower bounds for off-diagonal van der Waerden numbers W(3,k)
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Monthly Archives: December 2017
Ilan Karpas: Frankl’s Conjecture for Large Families
Frankl’s conjecture Frankl’s conjecture is the following: Let be a finite family of finite subsets of which is closed under union, namely, if then also . Then there exists an element which belongs to at least half the sets in . … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Open problems
Tagged Abigail Raz, Frankl's conjecture, Ilan Karpas, Peter Frankl
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Third third of my ICM 2018 paper – Three Puzzles on Mathematics, Computation and Games. Corrections and comments welcome
Update: Here is a combined version of all three parts: Three puzzles on mathematics computations and games. Thanks for the remarks and corrections. More corrections and comments welcome. Dear all, here is the draft of the third third of my … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Computer Science and Optimization, Open problems, Physics, Quantum
Tagged ICM2018, Quantum computers
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Second third of my ICM 2018 paper – Three Puzzles on Mathematics, Computation and Games. Corrections and comments welcome
Update: Here is a combined version of all three parts: Three puzzles on mathematics computations and games. Thanks for the remarks and corrections. More corrections and comments welcome. Dear all, here is the draft of the second third of my paper … Continue reading
First third of my ICM2018 paper – Three Puzzles on Mathematics, Computation and Games. Corrections and comments welcome
Update: Here is a combined version of all three parts: Three puzzles on mathematics computations and games. Thanks for the remarks and corrections. More corrections and comments welcome. I have a very strict December 20 deadline (self-imposed, I missed the … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Computer Science and Optimization, Games, Updates
Tagged ICM2018
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Preview: The solution by Keller and Lifshitz to several open problems in extremal combinatorics
Peter Frankl (right) and Zoltan Furedi The news A new paper by Nathan Keller and Noam Lifshitz settles several open problems in extremal combinatorics for wide range of parameters. Those include the three problems we mention next. Three central open … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Open problems, Updates
Tagged David Ellis, Ehud Friedgut, Michel Deza, Nathan Keller, Noam Lifshitz, Paul Erdos, Peter Frankl, Zoltán Füredi
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