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Melchior’s Inequality (1941) implies that, in a rank-3 real-representable matroid, the average number of points in a line is less than three. This was extended to the complex-representable matroids by Hirzebruch in 1983 with the slightly weaker bound of four. In this talk, we discuss and sketch the proof of the recent result that, in …
For any finite point set $P \subset \mathbb{R}^d$, we denote by $\text{diam}(P)$ the ratio of the largest to the smallest distances between pairs of points in $P$. Let $c_{d, \alpha}(n)$ be the largest integer $c$ such that any $n$-point set $P \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ in general position, satisfying $\text{diam}(P) < \alpha\sqrt{n}$ (informally speaking, `non-elongated'), contains a …
The uniform Turán density $\pi_u(F)$ of a hypergraph $F$, introduced by Erdős and Sós, is the smallest value of $d$ such that any hypergraph $H$ where all linear-sized subsets of vertices of $H$ have density greater than $d$ contains $F$ as a subgraph. Over the past few years the value of $\pi_u(F)$ was determined for …
We prove the existence of a computable function $f\colon\mathbb{N}\to\mathbb{N}$ such that for every integer $k$ and every digraph $D$ either contains a collection $\mathcal{C}$ of $k$ directed cycles of even length such that no vertex of $D$ belongs to more than four cycles in $\mathcal{C}$, or there exists a set $S\subseteq V(D)$ of size at …
There has been a raising interest on the study of perfect matchings in uniform hypergraphs in the past two decades, including extremal problems and their algorithmic versions. I will introduce the problems and some recent developments.
Amazon drivers hit the road every day, each taking a Prime van in a traveling salesman problem tour through 150 or more customer stops. But even a whisper of the TSP strikes fear in the heart of the computing world. A Washington Post article reported it would take "1,000 years to compute the most efficient …
We prove a conjecture of Bonamy, Bousquet, Pilipczuk, Rzążewski, Thomassé, and Walczak, that for every graph $H$, there is a polynomial $p$ such that for every positive integer $s$, every graph of average degree at least $p(s)$ contains either $K_{s,s}$ as a subgraph or contains an induced subdivision of $H$. This improves upon a result …
Let $\mathcal{G}$ and $\mathcal{H}$ be minor-closed graphs classes. The class $\mathcal{H}$ has the Erdős-Pósa property in $\mathcal{G}$ if there is a function $f : \mathbb{N} \to \mathbb{N}$ such that every graph $G$ in $\mathcal{G}$ either contains (a packing of) $k$ disjoint copies of some subgraph minimal graph $H \not\in \mathcal{H}$ or contains (a covering of) …
Bollobás proved that for every $k$ and $\ell$ such that $k\mathbb{Z}+\ell$ contains an even number, an $n$-vertex graph containing no cycle of length $\ell \bmod k$ can contain at most a linear number of edges. The precise (or asymptotic) value of the maximum number of edges in such a graph is known for very few …
The positive discrepancy of a graph $G$ of edge density $p$ is defined as the maximum of $e(U) - p|U|(|U|-1)/2$, where the maximum is taken over subsets of vertices in G. In 1993 Alon proved that if G is a $d$-regular graph on $n$ vertices and $d = O(n^{1/9})$, then the positive discrepancy of $G$ …