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Combinatorial Problems On The Integers: Colorings, Games, And Permutations, Collier Gaiser
Combinatorial Problems On The Integers: Colorings, Games, And Permutations, Collier Gaiser
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation consists of several combinatorial problems on the integers. These problems fit inside the areas of extremal combinatorics and enumerative combinatorics.
We first study monochromatic solutions to equations when integers are colored with finitely many colors in Chapter 2. By looking at subsets of {1, 2, . . . , n} whose least common multiple is small, we improved a result of Brown and Rödl on the smallest integer n such that every 2-coloring of {1, 2, . . . , n} has a monochromatic solution to equations with unit fractions. Using a recent result of Boza, …
Graph Homomorphisms And Vector Colorings, Michael Robert Levet
Graph Homomorphisms And Vector Colorings, Michael Robert Levet
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A graph vertex coloring is an assignment of labels, which are referred to as colors, such that no two adjacent vertices receive the same color. The vertex coloring problem is NP-Complete [8], and so no polynomial time algorithm is believed to exist. The notion of a graph vector coloring was introduced as an efficiently computable relaxation to the graph vertex coloring problem [7]. In [6], the authors examined the highly symmetric class of 1-walk regular graphs, characterizing when such graphs admit unique vector colorings. We present this characterization, as well as several important consequences discussed in [5, 6]. By appealing …
Construction Of Weavings In The Plane, Eden Delight Miro, Aliw-Iw Zambrano, Agnes Garciano
Construction Of Weavings In The Plane, Eden Delight Miro, Aliw-Iw Zambrano, Agnes Garciano
Mathematics Faculty Publications
This work develops, in graph-theoretic terms, a methodology for systematically constructing weavings of overlapping nets derived from 2-colorings of the plane. From a 2-coloring, two disjoint simple, connected graphs called nets are constructed. The union of these nets forms an overlapping net, and a weaving map is defined on the intersection points of the overlapping net to form a weaving. Furthermore, a procedure is given for the construction of mixed overlapping nets and for deriving weavings from them.
Quandle Coloring And Cocycle Invariants Of Composite Knots And Abelian Extensions, W Edwin Clark, Masahico Saito, Leandro Vendramin
Quandle Coloring And Cocycle Invariants Of Composite Knots And Abelian Extensions, W Edwin Clark, Masahico Saito, Leandro Vendramin
Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Publications
Quandle colorings and cocycle invariants are studied for composite knots, and applied to chirality and abelian extensions. The square and granny knots, for example, can be distinguished by quandle colorings, so that a trefoil and its mirror can be distinguished by quandle coloring of composite knots. We investigate this and related phenomena. Quandle cocycle invariants are studied in relation to quandle coloring of the connected sum, and formulas are given for computing the cocycle invariant from the number of colorings of composite knots. Relations to corresponding abelian extensions of quandles are studied, and extensions are examined for the table of …