scholarly journals Avoider-enforcer star games

2015 ◽  
Vol Vol. 17 no. 1 (Combinatorics) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrzej Grzesik ◽  
Mirjana Mikalački ◽  
Zoltán Lóránt Nagy ◽  
Alon Naor ◽  
Balázs Patkós ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Complete Graph ◽  
Order Of Magnitude ◽  
Winning Strategies ◽  
International Audience

Combinatorics International audience In this paper, we study (1 : b) Avoider-Enforcer games played on the edge set of the complete graph on n vertices. For every constant k≥3 we analyse the k-star game, where Avoider tries to avoid claiming k edges incident to the same vertex. We consider both versions of Avoider-Enforcer games — the strict and the monotone — and for each provide explicit winning strategies for both players. We determine the order of magnitude of the threshold biases fmonF, f-F and f+F, where F is the hypergraph of the game.

scholarly journals Turán theorems for unavoidable patterns

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
ANTÓNIO GIRÃO ◽  
BHARGAV NARAYANAN
Keyword(s):  
Complete Graph ◽  
Blow Up ◽  
Ramsey Numbers ◽  
Order Of Magnitude ◽  
Transitive Tournament ◽  
Unavoidable Patterns

Abstract We prove Turán-type theorems for two related Ramsey problems raised by Bollobás and by Fox and Sudakov. First, for t ≥ 3, we show that any two-colouring of the complete graph on n vertices that is δ-far from being monochromatic contains an unavoidable t-colouring when δ ≫ n−1/t, where an unavoidable t-colouring is any two-colouring of a clique of order 2t in which one colour forms either a clique of order t or two disjoint cliques of order t. Next, for t ≥ 3, we show that any tournament on n vertices that is δ-far from being transitive contains an unavoidable t-tournament when δ ≫ n−1/[t/2], where an unavoidable t-tournament is the blow-up of a cyclic triangle obtained by replacing each vertex of the triangle by a transitive tournament of order t. Conditional on a well-known conjecture about bipartite Turán numbers, both our results are sharp up to implied constants and hence determine the order of magnitude of the corresponding off-diagonal Ramsey numbers.

scholarly journals Random assignment and shortest path problems

2006 ◽  
Vol DMTCS Proceedings vol. AG,... (Proceedings) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Wästlund
Keyword(s):  
Limit Theorem ◽  
Shortest Path ◽  
Complete Graph ◽  
Assignment Problem ◽  
Shortest Path Problem ◽  
Random Assignment ◽  
Shortest Path Problems ◽  
Parisi Formula ◽  
International Audience ◽  
Random Assignment Problem

International audience We explore a similarity between the $n$ by $n$ random assignment problem and the random shortest path problem on the complete graph on $n+1$ vertices. This similarity is a consequence of the proof of the Parisi formula for the assignment problem given by C. Nair, B. Prabhakar and M. Sharma in 2003. We give direct proofs of the analogs for the shortest path problem of some results established by D. Aldous in connection with his $\zeta (2)$ limit theorem for the assignment problem.

scholarly journals Largest cliques in connected supermagic graphs

2005 ◽  
Vol DMTCS Proceedings vol. AE,... (Proceedings) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Lladó
Keyword(s):  
Complete Graph ◽  
Additional Condition ◽  
Induced Subgraph ◽  
Sidon Sets ◽  
International Audience ◽  
Integer Labeling

International audience A graph $G=(V,E)$ is said to be $\textit{magic}$ if there exists an integer labeling $f: V \cup E \to [1, |V \cup E|]$ such that $f(x)+f(y)+f(xy)$ is constant for all edges $xy \in E$. Enomoto, Masuda and Nakamigawa proved that there are magic graphs of order at most $3n^2+o(n^2)$ which contain a complete graph of order $n$. Bounds on Sidon sets show that the order of such a graph is at least $n^2+o(n^2)$. We close the gap between those two bounds by showing that, for any given graph $H$ of order $n$, there are connected magic graphs of order $n^2+o(n^2)$ containing $H$ as an induced subgraph. Moreover it can be required that the graph admits a supermagic labelling $f$, which satisfies the additional condition $f(V)=[1,|V|]$.

scholarly journals Cayley and Tutte polytopes

2012 ◽  
Vol DMTCS Proceedings vol. AR,... (Proceedings) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matjaž Konvalinka ◽  
Igor Pak
Keyword(s):  
Complete Graph ◽  
Tutte Polynomial ◽  
Convex Hulls ◽  
Connected Graphs ◽  
Labeled Trees ◽  
Graph Traversal ◽  
International Audience ◽  
Search Graph ◽  
Traversal Algorithm

International audience Cayley polytopes were defined recently as convex hulls of Cayley compositions introduced by Cayley in 1857. In this paper we resolve Braun's conjecture, which expresses the volume of Cayley polytopes in terms of the number of connected graphs. We extend this result to a two-variable deformations, which we call Tutte polytopes. The volume of the latter is given via an evaluation of the Tutte polynomial of the complete graph. Our approach is based on an explicit triangulation of the Cayley and Tutte polytope. We prove that simplices in the triangulations correspond to labeled trees and forests. The heart of the proof is a direct bijection based on the neighbors-first search graph traversal algorithm. Les polytopes de Cayley ont été définis récemment comme des ensembles convexes de compositions de Cayley introduits par Cayley en 1857. Dans ce papier, nous résolvons la conjecture de Braun. Cette dernière exprime le volume du polytopes de Cayley en termes du nombre de graphes connexes. Nous étendons ce résultat à des déformations de polytopes de Cayley à deux variables, à savoir les polytopes de Tutte. Le volume de ces derniers est donnè par une évaluation du polynôme de Tutte du graphe complet. Notre approche est basée sur une triangulation explicite des polytopes de Cayley et Tutte. Nous démontrons que les simplexes de ces triangulations correspondent à des arbres marqués. La pierre angulaire de notre démonstration est une bijection directe basées sur l'algorithme de la recherche du premier voisin sur le graphe.

scholarly journals The Size of One-Way Cellular Automata

2010 ◽  
Vol DMTCS Proceedings vol. AL,... (Proceedings) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Kutrib ◽  
Jonas Lefèvre ◽  
Andreas Malcher
Keyword(s):  
Cellular Automata ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Finite Automata ◽  
Fixed Number ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Upper And Lower Bounds ◽  
Worst Case ◽  
Order Of Magnitude ◽  
International Audience ◽  
Number Of Cells

International audience We investigate the descriptional complexity of basic operations on real-time one-way cellular automata with an unbounded as well well as a fixed number of cells. The size of the automata is measured by their number of states. Most of the bounds shown are tight in the order of magnitude, that is, the sizes resulting from the effective constructions given are optimal with respect to worst case complexity. Conversely, these bounds also show the maximal savings of size that can be achieved when a given minimal real-time OCA is decomposed into smaller ones with respect to a given operation. From this point of view the natural problem of whether a decomposition can algorithmically be solved is studied. It turns out that all decomposition problems considered are algorithmically unsolvable. Therefore, a very restricted cellular model is studied in the second part of the paper, namely, real-time one-way cellular automata with a fixed number of cells. These devices are known to capture the regular languages and, thus, all the problems being undecidable for general one-way cellular automata become decidable. It is shown that these decision problems are $\textsf{NLOGSPACE}$-complete and thus share the attractive computational complexity of deterministic finite automata. Furthermore, the state complexity of basic operations for these devices is studied and upper and lower bounds are given.

scholarly journals $Star^1$-convex functions on tropical linear spaces of complete graphs

2012 ◽  
Vol DMTCS Proceedings vol. AR,... (Proceedings) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Escobar
Keyword(s):  
Complete Graph ◽  
Piecewise Linear ◽  
Negative Answer ◽  
Linear Functions ◽  
One Dimension ◽  
Complete Graphs ◽  
Piecewise Linear Functions ◽  
Linear Spaces ◽  
International Audience ◽  
Tropical Linear Space

International audience Given a fan $\Delta$ and a cone $\sigma \in \Delta$ let $star^1(\sigma )$ be the set of cones that contain $\sigma$ and are one dimension bigger than $\sigma$ . In this paper we study two cones of piecewise linear functions defined on $\delta$ : the cone of functions which are convex on $star^1(σ\sigma)$ for all cones, and the cone of functions which are convex on $star^1(σ\sigma)$ for all cones of codimension 1. We give nice combinatorial descriptions for these two cones given two different fan structures on the tropical linear space of complete graphs. For the complete graph $K_5$, we prove that with the finer fan subdivision the two cones are not equal, but with the coarser subdivision they are the same. This gives a negative answer to a question of Gibney-Maclagan that for the finer subdivision the two cones are the same. Soit $\Delta$ un fan, pour $\sigma \in \Delta$ nous définissons $star^1(\sigma )$ comme l'ensemble de cônes qui contiennent $\sigma$ dont la dimension est un de plus que la dimension de $\sigma$ . Nous étudions deux cônes d'applications linéaires par morceaux définis sur $\Delta$ : le cône de fonctions convexes sur$star^1(\sigma )$, où $\sigma \in \Delta$ est un cône quelconque, et le cône de fonctions convexes sur $star^1(σ\sigma)$ où σ est un cône de codimension 1. étant donnés deux structures sur l'espace tropical linéaire de graphes complets, nous donnons de beaux descriptions combinatoires des cônes décrits en haut. Pour le graphe complet $K_5$, on démontre que avec la subdivision en fans plus fine, les deux cônes sont différentes, mais avec la subdivision plus gros ils sont cônes sont les mêmes. Ce résultant réponde négativement une question de Gibney-Maclagan.

scholarly journals Toppling numbers of complete and random graphs

2014 ◽  
Vol Vol. 16 no. 3 (Graph Theory) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Bonato ◽  
William B. Kinnersley ◽  
Pawel Pralat
Keyword(s):  
Graph Theory ◽  
Differential Equations ◽  
Random Graphs ◽  
Complete Graph ◽  
Complete Graphs ◽  
Asymptotic Bounds ◽  
Large N ◽  
Chip Firing ◽  
International Audience ◽  
Person Game

Graph Theory International audience We study a two-person game played on graphs based on the widely studied chip-firing game. Players Max and Min alternately place chips on the vertices of a graph. When a vertex accumulates as many chips as its degree, it fires, sending one chip to each neighbour; this may in turn cause other vertices to fire. The game ends when vertices continue firing forever. Min seeks to minimize the number of chips played during the game, while Max seeks to maximize it. When both players play optimally, the length of the game is the toppling number of a graph G, and is denoted by t(G). By considering strategies for both players and investigating the evolution of the game with differential equations, we provide asymptotic bounds on the toppling number of the complete graph. In particular, we prove that for sufficiently large n 0.596400 n2 < t(Kn) < 0.637152 n2. Using a fractional version of the game, we couple the toppling numbers of complete graphs and the binomial random graph G(n,p). It is shown that for pn ≥n² / √ log(n) asymptotically almost surely t(G(n,p))=(1+o(1)) p t(Kn).

scholarly journals The Diameter of the Minimum Spanning Tree of a Complete Graph

2006 ◽  
Vol DMTCS Proceedings vol. AG,... (Proceedings) ◽  
Author(s):  
Louigi Addario-Berry ◽  
Nicolas Broutin ◽  
Bruce Reed
Keyword(s):  
Complete Graph ◽  
Spanning Tree ◽  
Minimum Spanning Tree ◽  
Minimum Weight ◽  
Unique Minimum ◽  
International Audience ◽  
Minimum Weight Spanning Tree ◽  
Independent Identically Distributed

International audience Let $X_1,\ldots,X_{n\choose 2}$ be independent identically distributed weights for the edges of $K_n$. If $X_i \neq X_j$ for$ i \neq j$, then there exists a unique minimum weight spanning tree $T$ of $K_n$ with these edge weights. We show that the expected diameter of $T$ is $Θ (n^{1/3})$. This settles a question of [Frieze97].

scholarly journals Biased weak polyform achievement games

2014 ◽  
Vol Vol. 16 no. 3 (Combinatorics) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Norris ◽  
Nándor Sieben
Keyword(s):  
Winning Strategies ◽  
International Audience ◽  
New Type

Combinatorics International audience In a biased weak (a,b) polyform achievement game, the maker and the breaker alternately mark a,b previously unmarked cells on an infinite board, respectively. The maker's goal is to mark a set of cells congruent to a polyform. The breaker tries to prevent the maker from achieving this goal. A winning maker strategy for the (a,b) game can be built from winning strategies for games involving fewer marks for the maker and the breaker. A new type of breaker strategy called the priority strategy is introduced. The winners are determined for all (a,b) pairs for polyiamonds and polyominoes up to size four.

scholarly journals Avoidance colourings for small nonclassical Ramsey numbers

2011 ◽  
Vol Vol. 13 no. 2 (Graph and Algorithms) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alewyn Petrus Burger ◽  
Jan H. Vuuren
Keyword(s):  
Natural Number ◽  
Complete Graph ◽  
Domination Number ◽  
Ramsey Number ◽  
Computer Search ◽  
Ramsey Numbers ◽  
Blue Edge ◽  
International Audience ◽  
Upper Domination Number ◽  
Edge Colouring

Graphs and Algorithms International audience The irredundant Ramsey number s - s(m, n) [upper domination Ramsey number u - u(m, n), respectively] is the smallest natural number s [u, respectively] such that in any red-blue edge colouring (R, B) of the complete graph of order s [u, respectively], it holds that IR(B) \textgreater= m or IR(R) \textgreater= n [Gamma (B) \textgreater= m or Gamma(R) \textgreater= n, respectively], where Gamma and IR denote respectively the upper domination number and the irredundance number of a graph. Furthermore, the mixed irredundant Ramsey number t = t(m, n) [mixed domination Ramsey number v = v(m, n), respectively] is the smallest natural number t [v, respectively] such that in any red-blue edge colouring (R, B) of the complete graph of order t [v, respectively], it holds that IR(B) \textgreater= m or beta(R) \textgreater= n [Gamma(B) \textgreater= m or beta(R) \textgreater= n, respectively], where beta denotes the independent domination number of a graph. These four classes of non-classical Ramsey numbers have previously been studied in the literature. In this paper we introduce a new Ramsey number w = w(m, n), called the irredundant-domination Ramsey number, which is the smallest natural number w such that in any red-blue edge colouring (R, B) of the complete graph of order w, it holds that IR(B) \textgreater= m or Gamma(R) \textgreater= n. A computer search is employed to determine complete sets of avoidance colourings of small order for these five classes of nonclassical Ramsey numbers. In the process the fifteen previously unknown Ramsey numbers t(4, 4) = 14, t(6, 3) = 17, u(4, 4) = 13, v(4, 3) = 8, v(4, 4) = 14, v(5, 3) = 13, v(6, 3) = 17, w(3, 3) = 6, w(3, 4) = w(4, 3) = 8, w(4, 4) = 13, w(3, 5) = w(5, 3) = 12 and w(3, 6) = w(6, 3) = 15 are established.

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