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Constructing New Geometries: A Generalized Approach to Halving for Hypertopes 构建新几何图形：高位面减半的通用方法
IF 1.1 2区 数学
Combinatorica Pub Date : 2025-01-16 DOI: 10.1007/s00493-024-00134-y
Claudio Alexandre Piedade, Philippe Tranchida
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How Balanced Can Permutations Be? 排列如何平衡？
IF 1.1 2区 数学
Combinatorica Pub Date : 2025-01-02 DOI: 10.1007/s00493-024-00127-x
Gal Beniamini, Nir Lavee, Nati Linial
{"title":"How Balanced Can Permutations Be?","authors":"Gal Beniamini, Nir Lavee, Nati Linial","doi":"10.1007/s00493-024-00127-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00493-024-00127-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A permutation <span>(pi in mathbb {S}_n)</span> is <i>k</i>-<i>balanced</i> if every permutation of order <i>k</i> occurs in <span>(pi )</span> equally often, through order-isomorphism. In this paper, we explicitly construct <i>k</i>-balanced permutations for <span>(k le 3)</span>, and every <i>n</i> that satisfies the necessary divisibility conditions. In contrast, we prove that for <span>(k ge 4)</span>, no such permutations exist. In fact, we show that in the case <span>(k ge 4)</span>, every <i>n</i>-element permutation is at least <span>(Omega _n(n^{k-1}))</span> far from being <i>k</i>-balanced. This lower bound is matched for <span>(k=4)</span>, by a construction based on the Erdős–Szekeres permutation.</p>","PeriodicalId":50666,"journal":{"name":"Combinatorica","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142916857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The Number of Colorings of the Middle Layers of the Hamming Cube 汉明立方体中间层的着色数
IF 1.1 2区 数学
Combinatorica Pub Date : 2025-01-02 DOI: 10.1007/s00493-024-00128-w
Lina Li, Gweneth McKinley, Jinyoung Park
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Uniacute Spherical Codes 单锐角球码
IF 1.1 2区 数学
Combinatorica Pub Date : 2025-01-02 DOI: 10.1007/s00493-024-00125-z
Saba Lepsveridze, Aleksandre Saatashvili, Yufei Zhao
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The Excluded Minors for Embeddability into a Compact Surface 紧曲面可嵌入性的排除次元
IF 1.1 2区 数学
Combinatorica Pub Date : 2024-12-29 DOI: 10.1007/s00493-024-00129-9
Agelos Georgakopoulos
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Chiral Extensions of Regular Toroids 正则环面的手性扩展
IF 1.1 2区 数学
Combinatorica Pub Date : 2024-12-29 DOI: 10.1007/s00493-024-00132-0
Antonio Montero, Micael Toledo
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A New Bound for the Fourier-Entropy-Influence Conjecture 傅里叶-熵-影响猜想的一个新界
IF 1.1 2区 数学
Combinatorica Pub Date : 2024-12-20 DOI: 10.1007/s00493-024-00133-z
Xiao Han
{"title":"A New Bound for the Fourier-Entropy-Influence Conjecture","authors":"Xiao Han","doi":"10.1007/s00493-024-00133-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00493-024-00133-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this paper, we prove that the Fourier entropy of an <i>n</i>-dimensional boolean function <i>f</i> can be upper-bounded by <span>(O(I(f)+ sum limits _{kin [n]}I_k(f)log frac{1}{I_k(f)}))</span>, where <i>I</i>(<i>f</i>) is its total influence and <span>(I_k(f))</span> is the influence of the <i>k</i>-th coordinate. There is no strict quantitative relationship between our bound with the known bounds for the Fourier-Min-Entropy-Influence conjecture <span>(O(I(f)log I(f)))</span> and <span>(O(I(f)^2))</span>. The proof is elementary and uses iterative bounds on moments of Fourier coefficients over different levels to estimate the Fourier entropy as its derivative.</p>","PeriodicalId":50666,"journal":{"name":"Combinatorica","volume":"69 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142939884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Unfriendly Partition Conjecture Holds for Line Graphs 线形图的不友好划分猜想成立
IF 1.1 2区 数学
Combinatorica Pub Date : 2024-12-18 DOI: 10.1007/s00493-024-00131-1
Rafał Kalinowski, Monika Pilśniak, Marcin Stawiski
{"title":"Unfriendly Partition Conjecture Holds for Line Graphs","authors":"Rafał Kalinowski, Monika Pilśniak, Marcin Stawiski","doi":"10.1007/s00493-024-00131-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00493-024-00131-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A majority edge-coloring of a graph without pendant edges is a coloring of its edges such that, for every vertex <i>v</i> and every color <span>(alpha )</span>, there are at most as many edges incident to <i>v</i> colored with <span>(alpha )</span> as with all other colors. We extend some known results for finite graphs to infinite graphs, also in the list setting. In particular, we prove that every infinite graph without pendant edges has a majority edge-coloring from lists of size 4. Another interesting result states that every infinite graph without vertices of finite odd degrees admits a majority edge-coloring from lists of size 2. As a consequence of our results, we prove that line graphs of any cardinality admit majority vertex-colorings from lists of size 2, thus confirming the Unfriendly Partition Conjecture for line graphs.</p>","PeriodicalId":50666,"journal":{"name":"Combinatorica","volume":"82 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142841446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Improved Upper Bound for the Size of a Trifferent Code 改进的不同代码大小的上界
IF 1.1 2区 数学
Combinatorica Pub Date : 2024-12-18 DOI: 10.1007/s00493-024-00130-2
Siddharth Bhandari, Abhishek Khetan
{"title":"Improved Upper Bound for the Size of a Trifferent Code","authors":"Siddharth Bhandari, Abhishek Khetan","doi":"10.1007/s00493-024-00130-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00493-024-00130-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A subset <span>(mathcal {C}subseteq {0,1,2}^n)</span> is said to be a <i>trifferent</i> code (of block length <i>n</i>) if for every three distinct codewords <span>(x,y, z in mathcal {C})</span>, there is a coordinate <span>(iin {1,2,ldots ,n})</span> where they all differ, that is, <span>({x(i),y(i),z(i)})</span> is same as <span>({0,1,2})</span>. Let <i>T</i>(<i>n</i>) denote the size of the largest trifferent code of block length <i>n</i>. Understanding the asymptotic behavior of <i>T</i>(<i>n</i>) is closely related to determining the zero-error capacity of the (3/2)-channel defined by Elias (IEEE Trans Inform Theory 34(5):1070–1074, 1988), and is a long-standing open problem in the area. Elias had shown that <span>(T(n)le 2times (3/2)^n)</span> and prior to our work the best upper bound was <span>(T(n)le 0.6937 times (3/2)^n)</span> due to Kurz (Example Counterexample 5:100139, 2024). We improve this bound to <span>(T(n)le c times n^{-2/5}times (3/2)^n)</span> where <i>c</i> is an absolute constant.</p>","PeriodicalId":50666,"journal":{"name":"Combinatorica","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142841564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Anticoncentration of Random Vectors via the Strong Perfect Graph Theorem 通过强完美图定理反集中随机向量
IF 1.1 2区 数学
Combinatorica Pub Date : 2024-12-17 DOI: 10.1007/s00493-024-00124-0
Tomas Juškevičius, Valentas Kurauskas
{"title":"Anticoncentration of Random Vectors via the Strong Perfect Graph Theorem","authors":"Tomas Juškevičius, Valentas Kurauskas","doi":"10.1007/s00493-024-00124-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00493-024-00124-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this paper we give anticoncentration bounds for sums of independent random vectors in finite-dimensional vector spaces. In particular, we asymptotically establish a conjecture of Leader and Radcliffe (SIAM J Discrete Math 7:90–101, 1994) and a question of Jones (SIAM J Appl Math 34:1–6, 1978). The highlight of this work is an application of the strong perfect graph theorem by Chudnovsky et al. (Ann Math 164:51–229, 2006) in the context of anticoncentration.</p>","PeriodicalId":50666,"journal":{"name":"Combinatorica","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142832150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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