Seminars in December 2017

  • Jaehoon Kim (김재훈), Spanning trees in a randomly perturbed graphs

    Spanning trees in a randomly perturbed graphs
    Jaehoon Kim (김재훈)
    School of Mathematics, Birmingham University, UK
    2017/12/28 Thursday 2PM-3PM (Room 3433)
    A classical result of Komlós, Sárközy and Szemerédi states that every n-vertex graph with minimum degree at least (1/2 +o(1))n contains every n-vertex tree with maximum degree at most O(n/log n) as a subgraph, and the bounds on the degree conditions are sharp.
    On the other hand, Krivelevich, Kwan and Sudakov recently proved that for every n-vertex graph G with minimum degree at least αn for any fixed α>0 and every n-vertex tree T with bounded maximum degree, one can still find a copy of T in G with high probability after adding O(n) randomly-chosen edges to G.
    We extend this result to trees with unbounded maximum degree. More precisely, for a given nε ≤ Δ≤ cn/log n and α>0, we determined the precise number (up to a constant factor) of random edges that we need to add to an arbitrary n-vertex graph G with minimum degree αn in order to guarantee with high probability a copy of any fixed T with maximum degree at most Δ. This is joint work with Felix Joos.
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  • Hong Liu, On the maximum number of integer colourings with forbidden monochromatic sums

    On the maximum number of integer colourings with forbidden monochromatic sums
    Hong Liu
    Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, Warwick, UK
    2017/12/27 Wed 4PM-5PM (Room 3433)
    Let f(n,r) denote the maximum number of colourings of A⊆{1,…,n} with r colours such that each colour class is sum-free. Here, a sum is a subset {x,y,z} such that x+y=z. We show that f(n,2) = 2⌈n/2⌉, and describe the extremal subsets. Further, using linear optimisation, we asymptotically determine the logarithm of f(n,r) for r≤5.
    Joint work with Maryam Sharifzadeh and Katherine Staden.
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