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Combinatorics '86

Author : M. Marchi

Publisher : Elsevier

Page : 519 pages

File Size : 46,42 MB

Release : 2011-09-22

Category : Mathematics

ISBN : 0080867774

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Book Description

Recent developments in all aspects of combinatorial and incidence geometry are covered in this volume, including their links with the foundations of geometry, graph theory and algebraic structures, and the applications to coding theory and computer science.Topics covered include Galois geometries, blocking sets, affine and projective planes, incidence structures and their automorphism groups. Matroids, graph theory and designs are also treated, along with weak algebraic structures such as near-rings, near-fields, quasi-groups, loops, hypergroups etc., and permutation sets and groups.The vitality of combinatorics today lies in its important interactions with computer science. The problems which arise are of a varied nature and suitable techniques to deal with them have to be devised for each situation; one of the special features of combinatorics is the often sporadic nature of solutions, stemming from its links with number theory. The branches of combinatorics are many and various, and all of them are represented in the 56 papers in this volume.



Extremal Problems for Finite Sets

Author : Peter Frankl

Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.

Page : 234 pages

File Size : 23,53 MB

Release : 2018-08-15

Category : Mathematics

ISBN : 1470440393

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One of the great appeals of Extremal Set Theory as a subject is that the statements are easily accessible without a lot of mathematical background, yet the proofs and ideas have applications in a wide range of fields including combinatorics, number theory, and probability theory. Written by two of the leading researchers in the subject, this book is aimed at mathematically mature undergraduates, and highlights the elegance and power of this field of study. The first half of the book provides classic results with some new proofs including a complete proof of the Ahlswede-Khachatrian theorem as well as some recent progress on the Erdos matching conjecture. The second half presents some combinatorial structural results and linear algebra methods including the Deza-Erdos-Frankl theorem, application of Rodl's packing theorem, application of semidefinite programming, and very recent progress (obtained in 2016) on the Erdos-Szemeredi sunflower conjecture and capset problem. The book concludes with a collection of challenging open problems.



Algebraic, Extremal and Metric Combinatorics 1986

Author : M. Deza

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 260 pages

File Size : 37,19 MB

Release : 1988-08-25

Category : Mathematics

ISBN : 9780521359238

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This book represents a comprehensive overview of the present state of progress in three related areas of combinatorics. It comprises selected papers from a conference held at the University of Montreal. Topics covered in the articles include association schemes, extremal problems, combinatorial geometrics and matroids, and designs. All the papers contain new results and many are extensive surveys of particular areas of research. Particularly valuable will be Ivanov's paper on recent Soviet research in these areas. Consequently this volume will be of great attraction to all researchers in combinatorics and to research students requiring a rapid introduction to some of the open problems in the subject.



Combinatorics

Author : Béla Bollobás

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 196 pages

File Size : 26,18 MB

Release : 1986-07-31

Category : Mathematics

ISBN : 9780521337038

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Book Description

Combinatorics is a book whose main theme is the study of subsets of a finite set. It gives a thorough grounding in the theories of set systems and hypergraphs, while providing an introduction to matroids, designs, combinatorial probability and Ramsey theory for infinite sets. The gems of the theory are emphasized: beautiful results with elegant proofs. The book developed from a course at Louisiana State University and combines a careful presentation with the informal style of those lectures. It should be an ideal text for senior undergraduates and beginning graduates.



Combinatorics and Graph Theory

Author : John Harris

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 392 pages

File Size : 30,28 MB

Release : 2009-04-03

Category : Mathematics

ISBN : 0387797114

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These notes were first used in an introductory course team taught by the authors at Appalachian State University to advanced undergraduates and beginning graduates. The text was written with four pedagogical goals in mind: offer a variety of topics in one course, get to the main themes and tools as efficiently as possible, show the relationships between the different topics, and include recent results to convince students that mathematics is a living discipline.



Counting and Configurations

Author : Jiri Herman

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 402 pages

File Size : 31,3 MB

Release : 2013-03-14

Category : Mathematics

ISBN : 1475739257

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This book presents methods of solving problems in three areas of elementary combinatorial mathematics: classical combinatorics, combinatorial arithmetic, and combinatorial geometry. Brief theoretical discussions are immediately followed by carefully worked-out examples of increasing degrees of difficulty and by exercises that range from routine to rather challenging. The book features approximately 310 examples and 650 exercises.



Combinatorial Species and Tree-like Structures

Author : François Bergeron

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 484 pages

File Size : 39,41 MB

Release : 1998

Category : Mathematics

ISBN : 9780521573238

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The combinatorial theory of species, introduced by Joyal in 1980, provides a unified understanding of the use of generating functions for both labelled and unlabelled structures and as a tool for the specification and analysis of these structures. Of particular importance is their capacity to transform recursive definitions of tree-like structures into functional or differential equations, and vice versa. The goal of this book is to present the basic elements of the theory and to give a unified account of its developments and applications. It offers a modern introduction to the use of various generating functions, with applications to graphical enumeration, Polya theory and analysis of data structures in computer science, and to other areas such as special functions, functional equations, asymptotic analysis and differential equations. This book will be a valuable reference to graduate students and researchers in combinatorics, analysis, and theoretical computer science.



Combinatorial Algebraic Topology

Author : Dimitry Kozlov

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 416 pages

File Size : 10,1 MB

Release : 2008-01-08

Category : Mathematics

ISBN : 9783540730514

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This volume is the first comprehensive treatment of combinatorial algebraic topology in book form. The first part of the book constitutes a swift walk through the main tools of algebraic topology. Readers - graduate students and working mathematicians alike - will probably find particularly useful the second part, which contains an in-depth discussion of the major research techniques of combinatorial algebraic topology. Although applications are sprinkled throughout the second part, they are principal focus of the third part, which is entirely devoted to developing the topological structure theory for graph homomorphisms.



Handbook of Formal Languages

Author : Grzegorz Rozenberg

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 890 pages

File Size : 21,50 MB

Release : 2012-12-06

Category : Computers

ISBN : 3642591361

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Book Description

This uniquely authoritative and comprehensive handbook is the first to cover the vast field of formal languages, as well as its traditional and most recent applications to such diverse areas as linguistics, developmental biology, computer graphics, cryptology, molecular genetics, and programming languages. No other work comes even close to the scope of this one. The editors are extremely well-known theoretical computer scientists, and each individual topic is presented by the leading authorities in the particular field. The maturity of the field makes it possible to include a historical perspective in many presentations. The work is divided into three volumes, which may be purchased as a set.



Sequences

Author : Renato M. Capocelli

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 549 pages

File Size : 50,66 MB

Release : 2012-12-06

Category : Mathematics

ISBN : 1461233526

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This volume contains all of the papers presented at the "Advanced In ternational Workshop on Sequences: Combinatorics, Compression, Se curity, and Transmission" held Monday June 6 through Saturday June 11, 1988 at the Palazzo Serra di Cassano in Naples and at the Hotel Covo dei Saraceni in Positano, Italy. The event was organized by the Departimento di Informatica ed Ap plicazioni of the University of Salerno in cooperation with the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici of Naples and the National Research Council of Italy (C.N.R.). I wish to express my warmest thanks to the members of the Program Committee: Professor B. Bose, Professor S. Even, Professor Z. Galil, Professor A. Lempel, Professor A. Restivo; and to my collaborators: Professor F. De Santis and Professor U. Vaccaro; for their effective, ceaseless help both during the organization of the workshop and dur ing the preparation ofthis volume. Finally, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all the participants in the Workshop."