图论与组合 (Fall 2012)

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News

  • 2012/11/07: 更新了讲义。下次我们讨论的是这样一个问题：存在一个图使得色数大于1000，同时最小的圈也大于1000。
  • 2012/11/07: Hw8,下周三课前交。
  • 2012/10/31: 更新了讲义。更多的Ramsey Theory方面的话题见下面推荐读物的Ramsey Theory。van der Waerden定理的证明见A. Y. Khinchin: Three Pearls of Number Theory。

Lecture Notes

本学期的讲义：(ps) - (pdf)

  1. Lecture 1, 2012/09/12 introduction, basic counting, binomial numbers.
  2. Lecture 2, 2012/09/17 Lucas' theorem, combinatorial proofs, incidence algebra on posets.
  3. Lecture 3, 2012/09/19 posets, lattices, Mobius function, and Mobius inversion.
  4. Lecture 4, 2012/09/26 the inclusion-exclusion principle; energy function method.
  5. Lecture 5, 2012/10/10 permanant; classical Mobius inversion on numbers; count the monic irriducible polynomials of degree n; integer patitions.
  6. Lecture 6, 2012/10/15 Euler's pentagonal number theorem; introduction to graphs.
  7. Lecture 7, 2012/10/17 graphs.
  8. Lecture 8, 2012/10/24 pigeonhole principle; Ramsey theorems on graphs; introduction to hypergraphs.
  9. Lecture 9, 2012/10/31 Ramsey theorems and related theorems, Schur's Lemma, Happy ending problem.
  10. Lecture 10, 2012/11/7 The basic probabilistic method; lower bound on Ramsey numbers.

上学年的讲义: (ps) - (pdf)

Homework

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  8. Homework8 : Due 2012/11/14 10a.m. (tex) - (ps) - (pdf)

Course Description

Description: This course serves as a broad exploration in the field of combinatorics, with a focus on the topics in or related to the theory of graphs and hyper-graphs. The course starts with the basic enumerative combinatorics, including combinatorial proofs in counting, the inclusion-exclusion principle and Mobius inversion, recursion and generating functions. Then we will discuss many interesting topics and techniques, including Ramsey theorems, extremal graph theory, conbinatorial designs, combinatorial geometry, graph matching, connectivity, planarity, and colouring, random graphs, Szemeredi's regularity lemma, the probabilistic method, and the algebraic method. We will adore the legendary Erdos and his co-authors, and hopefully attack open problems. The course will be self-contained. The students are surely assumed to have the basic ability in problem solving.

Textbook(s) and Articles

教科书：

  • J.H. van Lint and R. M. Wilson: A Course in Combinatorics (2nd ed). Combridge University Press, 2001.

推荐读物：

  • B. Bollobas: Combinatorics. Combridge University Press, 1986.
  • R. Stanley: Enumerative Combinatorics Vol 1, Combridge University Press, 2000.
  • H. Wilf: Generatingfunctionology, A K Peters, 2006. (Also available online)
  • R. Graham, B. Rothschild, and J. Spencer: Ramsey Theory (2nd ed). Wiley-Interscience, 1990.
  • N. Alon and J. Spencer: The probabilistic Method (3rd ed). Wiley-Interscience, 2008.
  • A. Bondy and U.S.R. Murty: Graph Theory with Applications. Elsevier Science Ltd/North-Holland, 1976.
  • A. Bondy and U.S.R. Murty: Graph Theory. Springer 2010.
  • B. Bollobas: Modern Graph Theory. Springer, 1998.
  • D. West: Introduction to Graph Theory (2nd ed). Prentice Hall, 2000.
  • M. Aigner, G. Ziegler, and K. Hofmann: Proofs from the BOOK (4th ed). Springer, 2009.
  • Articles about Paul Erdos: http://www.ams.org/notices/199801/comm-erdos.pdf
  • An interview with Endre Szemeredi: http://www.math.toronto.edu/zsuzsi/research/Szemeredi.pdf

Contact

陈晓敏 gougle [at] gmail [dot] com

金斌 bjin1990+cs477 [at] gmail [got] com

Credits

All the errors and mistakes are due to yours truly and some others.

The homework problems are created by Jin Bin and me.

The midterm exam problems are formed by Shang Jingbo, Jin Bin, and me. As always, I thank Liu Zhiyan, Pang Ruoming, and Wu Xiaoqian for their comments on the problems.

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