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3-colorings of the unit distance graph of $\Bbb R^3$
Let $\Gamma$ be the unit distance graph of $\Bbb R^3$: points $(x,y)$ form an edge if $|x,y|=1$.
Let $(A,B,C,D)$ be a unit side rhombus in the plane, with a transcendental diagonal, e.g. $A = (\alpha,...
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How much of the plane is 4-colorable?
In 1981, Falconer proved that the measurable chromatic number of the plane is at least 5. That is, there are no measurable sets $A_1,A_2,A_3,A_4\subseteq\mathbb{R}^2$, each avoiding unit distances, ...
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Unique domino tiling
Question: how does one enumerate all star-convex $2n$-vertex sublattices of the plane that have the unique domino-tiling property?
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A subset $S$ of the $xy$-plane is star-convex if there ...
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Is the choosability/list chromatic number of a circular arc graph equal to its chromatic number?
In 2003, Prowse and Woodall proved that for graphs $C_n^k$ which are powers of cycles,
$$\chi_\ell(C_n^k) = \chi(C_n^k).$$
They conjectured that this equality holds for the broader class of graphs ...
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Definition of Loop in an Oriented Matroid
I had posted this on Stackexchange because I don't believe this is a particlarly difficult question, but there were no answers, so I'm posting it on here now.
I just had a quick question about the ...
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Convergence of graph geodesics to geodesics on metric spaces
Let $(X,d)$ be a compact length space metric space $\mathbb{X}_{\delta}$ be a $\delta$-packing on $X$ and, for every $k\in \mathbb{N}_+$, let $G_{k,\delta}=(\mathbb{X}_{\delta},\mathcal{E}_k,W_k)$ ...
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Finding closest set of K disjoint hyperspheres to a point in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with uniform radius
I am interested in the following problem: in $\mathbb{R}^n$, we have $N$ overlapping hyperspheres all with the same radius. Given a point $p$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$, the objective is to find the $K$ non ...
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Counting homologically non-trivial and trivial cycles in $n \times n$ square lattice torus of a given length $l \geq n$
This should be a fairly standard question but I can't really seem to find a reference.
Consider an $n \times n$ square lattice torus $\mathbb T$. Given a length $l \geq n$, what is the number of ...
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Two questions on counterexamples to Borsuk's conjecture and ball-packings
In 1933 Karol Borsuk conjectured the following
Can every bounded subset $E$ of $\mathbb{R}^d$ be partitioned into $(d+1)$ sets, each of which has a smaller diameter than $E$?
Whilst new to this ...
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Distance spectra of uniform tilings
Let a uniform tiling be defined by a vertex configuration $(n_1.n_2.\cdots.n_k)^m$, which is either spherical, Euclidean or hyperbolic. Assume that the tiling is vertex-transitive, especially that ...
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Separating stars and large intersections of cycles
Let $\Gamma$ be a finite simplicial graph. For every $k \geq 0$, let $C_k(\Gamma)$ denote the graph whose vertices are the induced cycles of $\Gamma$ and whose edges link two cycles if their ...
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Is there a Havel-Hakimi for geometric graphs?
Suppose that we are given $n$ points in the plane, with a degree prescribed for each, and the question is whether we can place a geometric graph on them. Is there an efficient algorithm for this?
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Computationally decomposing a complete geometric graph into forests of stars
I'm working on the following problem:
I would like to see if it possible to decompose a complete geometric graph on $8$ vertices into $5$ planar star-forests. As doing this by hand was hopeless, I ...
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Checking existence of a non-crossing Hamiltonian path in geometric graphs
I am interested in the following computational problem. Given a geometric graph (i.e, a graph drawn in the plane so that its vertices are represented by points in general position and its edges are ...
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Structure Theory for Tree Decompositions
I that $G=(V,E,W)$ is a weighted graph with positive edge weights and a finite set of vertices $K$. Let $0\le k,M\le K$ be a fixed integer.
Is is known when $G$ admits the following type of ...
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Regular graphs of tangent spheres
Problem 1. Let several non-overlapping spheres in $\mathbb{R^3}$ are given. For which $n$ it is possible that each sphere is tangent to exactly $n$ other spheres?
Consider the smallest sphere. Since ...
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The number of faces in a Farey diagram/graph
A Farey line of order $(m, n)$ is a line given by an equation $ux + vy + w = 0$ with $u, v, w ∈ \mathbb{Z}$, $-m \leq u \leq m$, $-n \leq v \leq n$ and which intersects the border of $[0, 1]^2$ in ...
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Coarse-graining a hypergraph
$\DeclareMathOperator{\poly}{\mathrm{poly}}$I have asked this question on math.SE here, but couldn't get a satisfactory answer. I have also asked a related question on math overflow here, but haven't ...
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What lower bounds are known for pair crossing number and related questions in multigraphs?
So in terms of crossing number https://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.10480 gives a lower bound of $O(e^{2.5}/n^{1.5})$ for multigraphs with no face of length 2 with no node contained inside.
What do we know ...
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Conjecture on the increasing efficiency of the shortest minimum-link polygonal chains covering any grids of the form $\{0,1,2\}^k$ as $k$ grows
From the well-known Nine dots problem, we know that we need a polygonal chain with at least $4$ edges to connect the $9$ points of the planar grid $G_{3,2}:=\{\{0, 1, 2\} \times \{0, 1, 2\}\} \subset \...
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Chromatic number of 2-graph vs hypergraph of point-line incidences
Define the chromatic number $\chi(H)$ of a (hyper)graph $H$ as the smallest $k$ such that its vertices can be $k$-colored such that no (hyper)edge is monochromatic.
Given a finite set of points $P$ in ...
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How do the 3d models of the hypercube nets relate to the pairings?
In "Unfolding the Tesseract"
Journal of Recreational Mathematics, Vol. 17(1), 1984-85.
(Journal link.),
Peter Turney presents the pairings of an unfolded tesseract.
In "3D Models of the Unfoldings of ...
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Building an orthogonal embedding for a 4-planar graph
I'm interested in the following paper http://www.computer.org/csdl/trans/tc/1981/02/06312176.pdf
In particular i'm interested in the construction Valiant describes to prove that it is possible to ...
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Covering discrete triangle with generalized knight jumps
Consider for $n\in\mathbb{N}, n\geq 6$ the discrete triangle $\nabla=\{(i,j)\in \{1,\ldots,n-1\}^2 \mid j\leq n-i\}$. This is basically the lower "half" of a chess board if you cut it along ...
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What do optimal tours tell about finite point sets?
Let $T_{\mathrm{MIN}}$ and $T_{\mathrm{MAX}}$ denote the shortest, resp. longest Hamilton cycle through a set of $n=2k+1$ points.
Let further $S_{\mathrm{MIN}}$ and $S_{\mathrm{MAX}}$ be the "...
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