{"title":"On Geometry and Combinatorics of Finite Classical Polar Spaces","authors":"Valentino Smaldore","doi":"arxiv-2409.11131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2409.11131","url":null,"abstract":"Polar spaces over finite fields are fundamental in combinatorial geometry.\u0000The concept of polar space was firstly introduced by F. Veldkamp who gave a\u0000system of 10 axioms in the spirit of Universal Algebra. Later the axioms were\u0000simplified by J. Tits, who introduced the concept of subspaces. Later on, from\u0000the point of view of incidence geometry, axioms of polar spaces were also given\u0000by F. Buekenhout and E. Shult in 1974. The reader can find the three systems of\u0000axioms of polar spaces in Appendix A. Examples of polar spaces are the so\u0000called Finite classical polar spaces, i.e. incidence structures arising from\u0000quadrics, symplectic forms and Hermitian forms, which are in correspondance\u0000with reflexive sesquilinear forms.It is still an open problem to show whether\u0000or not classical polar spaces are the only example of finite polar spaces. Nowadays, some research problems related to finite classical polar space are:\u0000existence of spreads and ovoids; existence of regular systems and $m$-ovoids;\u0000upper or lower bounds on partial spreads and partial ovoids. Moreover, polar\u0000spaces are in relation with combinatorial objects as regular graphs, block\u0000designs and association schemes. In this Ph.D. Thesis we investigate the geometry of finite classical polar\u0000spaces, giving contributions to the above problems. The thesis is organized as\u0000follows. Part I is more focused on the geometric aspects of polar spaces, while\u0000in Part II some combinatorial objects are introduced such as regular graphs,\u0000association schemes and combinatorial designs. Finally Appendix B, C and D are\u0000dedicated to give more details on, respectively, maximal curves, linear codes\u0000and combinatorial designs, giving useful results and definitions.","PeriodicalId":501407,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - MATH - Combinatorics","volume":"2020 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142254791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Complexity of Maximizing the MST-ratio","authors":"Afrouz Jabal Ameli, Faezeh Motiei, Morteza Saghafian","doi":"arxiv-2409.11079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2409.11079","url":null,"abstract":"Given a finite set of red and blue points in $mathbb{R}^d$, the MST-ratio is\u0000the combined length of the Euclidean minimum spanning trees of red points and\u0000of blue points divided by the length of the Euclidean minimum spanning tree of\u0000the union of them. The maximum MST-ratio of a point set is the maximum\u0000MST-ratio over all non-trivial colorings of its points by red and blue. We\u0000prove that the problem of finding the maximum MST-ratio of a given point set is\u0000NP-hard when the dimension is a part of the input. Moreover, we present a\u0000$O(n^2)$ running time $3$-approximation algorithm for it. As a part of the\u0000proof, we show that in any metric space, the maximum MST-ratio is smaller than\u0000$3$. Additionally, we study the average MST-ratio over all colorings of a set\u0000of $n$ points. We show that this average is always at least $frac{n-2}{n-1}$,\u0000and for $n$ random points uniformly distributed in a $d$-dimensional unit cube,\u0000the average tends to $sqrt[d]{2}$ in expectation as $n$ goes to infinity.","PeriodicalId":501407,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - MATH - Combinatorics","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142255066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cops against a cheating robber","authors":"Nancy E. Clarke, Danny Dyer, William Kellough","doi":"arxiv-2409.11581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2409.11581","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate a cheating robot version of Cops and Robber, first introduced\u0000by Huggan and Nowakowski, where both the cops and the robber move\u0000simultaneously, but the robber is allowed to react to the cops' moves. For\u0000conciseness, we refer to this game as Cops and Cheating Robot. The cheating\u0000robot number for a graph is the fewest number of cops needed to win on the\u0000graph. We introduce a new parameter for this variation, called the push number,\u0000which gives the value for the minimum number of cops that move onto the\u0000robber's vertex given that there are a cheating robot number of cops on the\u0000graph. After producing some elementary results on the push number, we use it to\u0000give a relationship between Cops and Cheating Robot and Surrounding Cops and\u0000Robbers. We investigate the cheating robot number for planar graphs and give a\u0000tight bound for bipartite planar graphs. We show that determining whether a\u0000graph has a cheating robot number at most fixed $k$ can be done in polynomial\u0000time. We also obtain bounds on the cheating robot number for strong and\u0000lexicographic products of graphs.","PeriodicalId":501407,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - MATH - Combinatorics","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142255042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Algorithmic methods of finite discrete structures. Hamiltonian cycle of a complete graph and the Traveling salesman problem","authors":"Sergey Kurapov, Maxim Davidovsky, Svetlana Polyuga","doi":"arxiv-2409.11563","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2409.11563","url":null,"abstract":"The monography considers the problem of constructing a Hamiltonian cycle in a\u0000complete graph. A rule for constructing a Hamiltonian cycle based on isometric\u0000cycles of a graph is established. An algorithm for constructing a Hamiltonian\u0000cycle based on ring summation of isometric cycles of a graph is presented.\u0000Based on the matrix of distances between vertices, the weight of each cycle is\u0000determined as an additive sum of the weights of its edges. To construct an\u0000optimal route of a graph, the basic idea of finding an optimal route between\u0000four vertices is used. Further successive constructions are aimed at joining an\u0000adjacent isometric cycle with an increase in the number of vertices by one\u0000unit. The recursive process continues until all vertices of the graph are\u0000connected. Based on the introduced mathematical apparatus, the monography\u0000presents a new algorithm for solving the symmetric Traveling salesman problem.\u0000Some examples of solving the problem are provided.","PeriodicalId":501407,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - MATH - Combinatorics","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142255057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Backbone coloring for graphs with degree 4","authors":"Krzysztof Michalik, Krzysztof Turowski","doi":"arxiv-2409.10201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2409.10201","url":null,"abstract":"The $lambda$-backbone coloring of the graph $G$ with backbone $H$ is a\u0000graph-coloring problem in which we are given a graph $G$ and a subgraph $H$,\u0000and we want to assign colors to vertices in such a way that the endpoints of\u0000every edge from $G$ have different colors, and the endpoints of every edge from\u0000$H$ are assigned colors which differ by at least $lambda$. In this paper we pursue research on backbone coloring of bounded-degree\u0000graphs with well-known classes of backbones. Our result is an almost complete\u0000classification of problems in the form $BBC_{lambda}(G, H) le lambda + k$\u0000for graphs with maximum degree $4$ and backbones from the following classes:\u0000paths, trees, matchings, and galaxies.","PeriodicalId":501407,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - MATH - Combinatorics","volume":"104 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142269003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The minimum size of a chordal graph with given order and minimum degree","authors":"Xingzhi Zhan, Leilei Zhang","doi":"arxiv-2409.10261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2409.10261","url":null,"abstract":"A graph is chordal if it does not contain an induced cycle of length greater\u0000than three. We determine the minimum size of a chordal graph with given order\u0000and minimum degree. In doing so, we have discovered interesting properties of\u0000chordal graphs.","PeriodicalId":501407,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - MATH - Combinatorics","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142255069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Perfect coalition in graphs","authors":"Doost Ali Mojdeh, Mohammad Reza Samadzadeh","doi":"arxiv-2409.10185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2409.10185","url":null,"abstract":"noindent A perfect dominating set in a graph $G=(V,E)$ is a subset $S\u0000subseteq V$ such that each vertex in $V setminus S$ has exactly one neighbor\u0000in $S$. A perfect coalition in $G$ consists of two disjoint sets of vertices\u0000$V_i$ and $V_j$ such that i) neither $V_i$ nor $V_j$ is a dominating set, ii)\u0000each vertex in $V(G) setminus V_i$ has at most one neighbor in $V_i$ and each\u0000vertex in $V(G) setminus V_j$ has at most one neighbor in $V_j$, and iii) $V_i\u0000cup V_j$ is a perfect dominating set. A perfect coalition partition\u0000(abbreviated $prc$-partition) in a graph $G$ is a vertex partition $pi=\u0000lbrace V_1,V_2,dots ,V_k rbrace$ such that for each set $V_i$ of $pi$\u0000either $V_i$ is a singleton dominating set, or there exists a set $V_j in pi$\u0000that forms a perfect coalition with $V_i$. In this paper, we initiate the study\u0000of perfect coalition partitions in graphs. We obtain a bound on the number of\u0000perfect coalitions involving each member of a perfect coalition partition, in\u0000terms of maximum degree. The perfect coalition of some special graphs are\u0000investigated. The graph $G$ with $delta(G)=1$, the triangle-free graphs $G$\u0000with prefect coalition number of order of $G$ and the trees $T$ with prefect\u0000coalition number in ${n,n-1,n-2}$ where $n=|V(T)|$ are characterized.","PeriodicalId":501407,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - MATH - Combinatorics","volume":"75 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142255070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The maximum size of a nonhamiltonian-connected graph with given order and minimum degree","authors":"Leilei Zhang","doi":"arxiv-2409.10255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2409.10255","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we determine the maximum size of a nonhamiltonian-connected\u0000graph with prescribed order and minimum degree. We also characterize the\u0000extremal graphs that attain this maximum size. This work generalizes a previous\u0000result obtained by Ore [ J. Math. Pures Appl. 42 (1963) 21-27] and further\u0000extends a theorem proved by Ho, Lin, Tan, Hsu, and Hsu [Appl. Math. Lett. 23\u0000(2010) 26-29]. As a corollary of our main result, we determine the maximum size\u0000of a $k$-connected nonhamiltonian-connected graph with a given order.","PeriodicalId":501407,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - MATH - Combinatorics","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142269002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Lower Bound for Number of Hexagons in Strongly Regular Graphs with Parameters $λ=1$ and $μ=2$","authors":"Reimbay Reimbayev","doi":"arxiv-2409.10620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2409.10620","url":null,"abstract":"The existence of $srg(99,14,1,2)$ has been a question of interest for several\u0000decades to the moment. In this paper we consider the structural properties in\u0000general for the family of strongly regular graphs with parameters $lambda =1$\u0000and $mu =2$. In particular, we establish the lower bound for the number of\u0000hexagons and, by doing that, we show the connection between the existence of\u0000the aforementioned graph and the number of its hexagons.","PeriodicalId":501407,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - MATH - Combinatorics","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142268999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The strong Nash-Williams orientation theorem for rayless graphs","authors":"Max Pitz, Jacob Stegemann","doi":"arxiv-2409.10378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/arxiv-2409.10378","url":null,"abstract":"In 1960, Nash-Williams proved his strong orientation theorem that every\u0000finite graph has an orientation in which the number of directed paths between\u0000any two vertices is at least half the number of undirected paths between them\u0000(rounded down). Nash-Williams conjectured that it is possible to find such\u0000orientations for infinite graphs as well. We provide a partial answer by\u0000proving that all rayless graphs have such an orientation.","PeriodicalId":501407,"journal":{"name":"arXiv - MATH - Combinatorics","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142255068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}