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Enumerative combinatorics, graph theory, order theory, posets, matroids, designs and other discrete structures. It also includes algebraic, analytic and probabilistic combinatorics.

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Singmaster's conjecture

There is an upper bound of $O\left(\frac{(\log n)(\log \log \log n)}{(\log \log n)^3}\right)$ due to Daniel Kane: see "Improved bounds on the number of ways of expressing t as a binomial coefficient, …
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A random walk matrix has eigenvalue 1 with multiplicty 1 - why?

For large enough n, the matrix B = A + A2 + ... + An has positive entries since there's a path of length at most n connecting any two vertices. Thus by the Perron-Frobenius theorem B has a unique max …
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Knot groups with big number of generators

If $\pi_1(S^3\setminus K)$ has a presentation with $n$ generators then its representation variety $\mathrm{Hom}(\pi_1(S^3\setminus K),SL_2(\mathbb{C}))$ is a subvariety of $(SL_2(\mathbb{C}))^n$, whic …
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