Lightness and sparsity are two natural parameters for Euclidean $(1+\varepsilon)$-spanners. Classical results show that, when the dimension $d\in \mathbb{N}$ and $\varepsilon>0$ are constant, every set $S$ of $n$ points in $d$-space admits a $(1+\...

An identifying code $C$ of a graph $G$ is a dominating set of $G$ such that any two distinct vertices of $G$ have distinct closed neighborhoods within $C$. These codes have been widely studied for over two decades. We give an improvement over all the best ...

In the Many-visits Path TSP, we are given a set of $n$ cities along with their pairwise distances (or costs) $c(uv)$, and moreover each city $v$ comes with an associated positive integer request $r(v)$. The goal is to find a minimum-cost path, starting at ...

We characterize all digraphs $H$ such that orientations of chordal graphs with no induced copy of $H$ have bounded dichromatic number.

An odd diagram class is a set of permutations with the same odd diagram. Brenti, Carnevale, and Tenner [Comb. Theory, 2 (2022), 13] showed that each odd diagram class is an interval in the Bruhat order. They conjectured that such intervals are rank-...

We obtain upper bounds on the cardinality of Hilbert cubes in finite fields, which avoid large product sets and reciprocals of sum sets. In particular, our results replace recent estimates of N. Hegyvári and P. P. Pach [J. Number Theory, 217 (2020), pp. ...

We prove new complexity results for Feedback Vertex Set and Even Cycle Transversal on $H$-free graphs, that is, graphs that do not contain some fixed graph $H$ as an induced subgraph. In particular, we prove that for every $s\geq 1$, both problems are ...

We consider the rank of a class of sparse Boolean matrices of size $n \times n$. In particular, we show that the probability that such a matrix has full rank, and is thus invertible, is a positive constant with value about 0.2574 for large $n$. The ...

We establish a Hanani--Tutte style characterization for hierarchical partial planarity and initiate the study of partitioned partial planarity.

For $n\geq s> r\geq 1$ and $k\geq 2$, write $n \rightarrow (s)_{k}^r$ if every hyperedge coloring with $k$ colors of the complete $r$-uniform hypergraph on $n$ vertices has a monochromatic subset of size $s$. Improving upon previous results by M. Axenovich, ...

Obtaining strong linear relaxations for capacitated covering problems constitutes a significant technical challenge. For one of the most basic cases, the relaxation based on knapsack-cover inequalities has an integrality gap of 2. We generalize the ...

A matching of a graph is a set of edges without common end vertex. A graph is called 1-planar if it admits a drawing in the plane such that each edge is crossed at most once. Recently, Biedl and Wittnebel [J. Graph Theory, 99 (2022), pp. 217--230] proved ...

For given posets $P$ and $Q$ and an integer $n$, the generalized Turán problem for posets asks for the maximum number of copies of $Q$ in a $P$-free subset of the $n$-dimensional Boolean lattice, $2^{[n]}$. In this paper, among other results, we show the ...

We consider robust variants of the bin packing problem with uncertain item sizes. Specifically we consider two uncertainty sets previously studied in the literature. The first is budgeted uncertainty (the $U^\Gamma$ model), in which at most $\Gamma$ ...

Halin proved that every minimally $k$-connected graph has a vertex of degree $k$. More generally, does every minimally vertically $k$-connected matroid have a $k$-element cocircuit? Results of Murty and Wong give an affirmative answer when $k \le 3$. We ...

A Sidon set is a subset of an Abelian group with the property that each sum of two distinct elements is distinct. We construct a small maximal Sidon set of size $O((n \cdot 2^n)^{1/3})$ in the group ${\mathbb{Z}}_2^n$, generalizing a result of Ruzsa ...

We study the complexity of approximating the partition function $Z_{\mathrm{Ising}}(G; \beta)$ of the Ising model in terms of the relation between the edge interaction $\beta$ and a parameter $\Delta$ which is an upper bound on the maximum degree of the ...

The class of cographs or complement-reducible graphs is the class of graphs that can be generated from $K_1$ using the operations of disjoint union and complementation. By analogy, this paper introduces the class of binary comatroids as the class of ...

Bonnet et al. [J. ACM, 69 (2022), 3] introduced the twin-width of a graph. We show that the twin-width of an $n$-vertex graph is less than $(n+\sqrt{n\ln n}+\sqrt{n}+2\ln n)/2$, and the twin-width of an $m$-edge graph for a positive $m$ is less than $\...

In a recent breakthrough, Adiprasito, Avvakumov, and Karasev constructed a triangulation of the $n$-dimensional real projective space with a subexponential number of vertices. They reduced the problem to finding a small downward closed set-system $\cal F$ ...