Squeezing the Accordion in a Strongly n-Uniform Hjelmslev Plane.
It is not known whether or not the stable rational cohomology groups H*(Aut(F∞);Q) always vanish (see Hatcher in [5] and Hatcher and Vogtmann in [7] where they pose the question and show that it does vanish in the first 6 dimensions). We show that either the rational cohomology does not vanish in certain dimensions, or the integral cohomology of a moduli space of pointed graphs does not stabilize in certain other dimensions. Similar results are stated for groups of outer automorphisms. This yields...
The Maximum Stable Set (MS) problem is a well known NP-hard problem. However different graph classes for which MS can be efficiently solved have been detected and the augmenting graph technique seems to be a fruitful tool to this aim. In this paper we apply a recent characterization of minimal augmenting graphs [22] to prove that MS can be solved for -free graphs in polynomial time, extending some known results.
Let n, k, α be integers, n, α>0, p be a prime and q=p α. Consider the complete q-uniform family We study certain inclusion matrices attached to F(k,q) over the field . We show that if l≤q−1 and 2l≤n then This extends a theorem of Frankl [7] obtained for the case α=1. In the proof we use arguments involving Gröbner bases, standard monomials and reduction. As an application, we solve a problem of Babai and Frankl related to the size of some L-intersecting families modulo q.
A star coloring of an undirected graph G is a coloring of the vertices of G such that (i) no two adjacent vertices receive the same color, and (ii) no path on 4 vertices is bi-colored. The star chromatic number of G, χs(G), is the minimum number of colors needed to star color G. In this paper, we show that if a graph G is either non-regular subcubic or cubic with girth at least 6, then χs(G) ≤ 6, and the bound can be realized in linear time.
Let be a multigraph. The star number of is the minimum number of stars needed to decompose the edges of . The star arboricity of is the minimum number of star forests needed to decompose the edges of . As usual denote the -fold complete graph on vertices (i.e., the multigraph on vertices such that there are edges between every pair of vertices). In this paper, we prove that for