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Category Archives: Guest blogger
To cheer you up in difficult times 32, Annika Heckel’s guest post: How does the Chromatic Number of a Random Graph Vary?
This is a guest post kindly written by Annika Heckel. We first reported about Annika Heckel’s breakthrough in this post. A pdf version of this post can be found here. Pick an -vertex graph uniformly at random. Pick another one. … Continue reading
Open problem session of HUJI-COMBSEM: Problem #4, Eitan Bachmat: Weighted Statistics for Permutations
This is a continuation of our series of posts on the HUJI seminar 2020 open problems. This time the post was kindly written by Eitan Bachmat who proposed the problem. My summary: understanding of the distribution of largest increasing subsequences … Continue reading
Noam Lifshitz: A new hypercontractivity inequality — The proof!
This is a guest post kindly contributed by Noam Lifshitz. Here is a pdf version. This post is a continuation of the post To cheer you up in difficult times 3: A guest post by Noam Lifshitz on the new … Continue reading
Dan Romik on the Riemann zeta function
This post, about the Riemann zeta function, which is among the most important and mysterious mathematical objects was kindly written by Dan Romik. It is related to his paper Orthogonal polynomial expansions for the Riemann xi function, that we mentioned … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Guest blogger, Number theory
Tagged Dan Romik, George Polya, Paul Turan, Riemann Hypothesis, Riemann zeta function
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Karim Adiprasito: The g-Conjecture for Vertex Decomposible Spheres
J Scott Provan (site) The following post was kindly contributed by Karim Adiprasito. (Here is the link to Karim’s paper.) Update: See Karim’s comment on the needed ideas for extend the proof to the general case. See also in the … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Convex polytopes, Geometry, Guest blogger
Tagged g-conjecture, J Scott Provan, Karim Adiprasito, Leonid Gurvits, Lou Billera
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Ladies and Gentlemen, Stan Wagon: TYI 32 – A Cake Problem.
The following post was kindly contributed by Stan Wagon. Stan (Wikipedea) is famous for his books, papers, snow-sculptures, and square-wheels bicycles (see picture below) ! A round cake has icing on the top but not the bottom. Cut out a … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Guest blogger, Test your intuition
Tagged Guest blogger, Stan Wagon, Test your intuition
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Eran Nevo: g-conjecture part 4, Generalizations and Special Cases
This is the fourth in a series of posts by Eran Nevo on the g-conjecture. Eran’s first post was devoted to the combinatorics of the g-conjecture and was followed by a further post by me on the origin of the g-conjecture. Eran’s second post was about … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Convex polytopes, Guest blogger, Open problems
Tagged Eran Nevo, g-conjecture
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Thilo Weinert: Transfinite Ramsey Numbers
This is first of three posts kindly written by Thilo Weinert Recently Gil asked me whether I would like to contribute to his blog and I am happy to do so. I enjoy both finite and infinite combinatorics and it … Continue reading
