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Open problem session of HUJI-COMBSEM: Problem #5, Gil Kalai – the 3ᵈ problem
This post continues to describe problems presented at our open problems session back in November 2020. Here is the first post in the series. Today’s problem was presented by me, and it was an old 1989 conjecture of mine. A … Continue reading
Open problem session of HUJI-COMBSEM: Problem #1, Nati Linial – Turan type theorems for simplicial complexes.
On November, 2020 we had a very nice open problem session in our weekly combinatorics seminar at HUJI. So I thought to have a series of posts to describe you the problems presented there. This is the first post in … Continue reading
Péter Pál Pach and Richárd Palincza: a Glimpse Beyond the Horizon
Prologue Consider the following problems: P3: What is the maximum density of a set A in without a 3-term AP? (AP=arithmetic progression.) This is the celebrated Cap Set problem and we reported here in 2016 the breakthrough results by … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Geometry, Number theory, Open problems
Tagged Péter Pál Pach, Richárd Palincza
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Kelman, Kindler, Lifshitz, Minzer, and Safra: Towards the Entropy-Influence Conjecture
Let me briefly report on a remarkable new paper by Esty Kelman, Guy Kindler, Noam Lifshitz, Dor Minzer, and Muli Safra, Revisiting Bourgain-Kalai and Fourier Entropies. The paper describes substantial progress towards the Entropy-Influence conjecture, posed by Ehud Friedgut and … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Computer Science and Optimization, Open problems
Tagged Dor Minzer, Esty Kelman, Guy Kindler, Muli Safra, Noam Lifshitz
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Ringel Conjecture, Solved! Congratulations to Richard Montgomery, Alexey Pokrovskiy, and Benny Sudakov
Ringel’s conjecture solved (for sufficiently large n) A couple weeks ago and a few days after I heard an excellent lecture about it by Alexey Pokrovskiy in Oberwolfach, the paper A proof of Ringel’s Conjecture by Richard Montgomery, Alexey Pokrovskiy, … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Open problems, Updates
Tagged Alexey Pokrovskiy, Benny Sudakov, Richard Montgomery
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Test your intuition 43: Distribution According to Areas in Top Departments.
In the community of mamathetitians in a certain country there are mamathetitians in two areas: Anabra (fraction p of the mamathetitians) and Algasis (fraction 1-p of mamathetitians.) There are ten universities with 50 faculty members in each mamathetics department … Continue reading
Posted in Combinatorics, Open problems, Probability, Test your intuition
Tagged Test your intuition
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Gérard Cornuéjols’s baker’s eighteen 5000 dollars conjectures
Gérard Cornuéjols Gérard Cornuéjols‘s beautiful (and freely available) book from 2000 Optimization: Packing and Covering is about an important area of combinatorics which is lovely described in the preface to the book The integer programming models known as set packing … Continue reading
Richard Ehrenborg’s problem on spanning trees in bipartite graphs
Richard Ehrenborg with a polyhedron In the Problem session last Thursday in Oberwolfach, Steve Klee presented a beautiful problem of Richard Ehrenborg regarding the number of spanning trees in bipartite graphs. Let be a bipartite graph with vertices on one … Continue reading
A sensation in the morning news – Yaroslav Shitov: Counterexamples to Hedetniemi’s conjecture.
Two days ago Nati Linial sent me an email entitled “A sensation in the morning news”. The link was to a new arXived paper by Yaroslav Shitov: Counterexamples to Hedetniemi’s conjecture. Hedetniemi’s 1966 conjecture asserts that if and are two … Continue reading
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Tagged Hedetniemi's conjecture, Yaroslav Shitov
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Cohen, Haeupler, and Schulman: Explicit Binary Tree-Codes & Cancellations
The high-dimensional conference in Jerusalem is running with many exciting talks (and they are videotaped), and today in Tel Aviv there is a conference on Optimization and Discrete Geometry : Theory and Practice. Today in Jerusalem, Leonard Schulman talked (video available!) … Continue reading
