Department of Mathematics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Korea
Archive for the ‘2009’ Category
Mitsugu Hirasaka, Finding n such that every transitive permutation group of degree n is multiplicity-free
Friday, April 10th, 2009Department of Mathematics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Korea
Tommy R. Jensen, The Cycle Double Cover Problem for graphs
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009Department of Mathematics, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea
The Cycle Double Cover Problem in Graph Theory suggests that all 2-connected graphs share a certain property with 2-connected planar maps. Such a map clearly contains a collection of cycles, indeed the boundary cycles of its faces, such that each edge belongs to exactly
two of them. The generalization of this property to nonplanar graphs remains one of the central open problems in Graph Theory.
We investigate this problem by generalizing a suitable variation of the statement of another almost obvious property of planar maps, namely the Jordan Curve Theorem. The generalization suggests a new conjecture which is much stronger than the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture. In fact it would imply a very strong form of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture, suggesting that every cycle in a 2-connected graph appears in at least one cycle double cover of the graph.
We prove the stronger conjecture in a few important special cases.
Eric Vigoda, Markov Chain Monte Carlo and Approximating the Permanent
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
Mark H. Siggers, CSP Dichotomy and the Fibre Construction
Monday, March 30th, 2009Department of Mathematics, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea
We talk about a recent graph theoretic construction, called the fibre construction, which can be used to get some of the important results achieved with universal algebra. This construction provides combinatorial version of the Classification Conjecture, and allows one to easily address restricted versions of the Conjecture. Further it leads to results unexpected by the universal algebra community.
Much of the material covered is joint work with Jaroslav Nešetřil and László Zádori.
Jack Koolen, Some topics in spectral graph theory
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009Department of Mathematics, POSTECH, Pohang, Korea
In this talk, I will discuss several topics in spectral graph theory.