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JCT
2007
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What power of two divides a weighted Catalan number?
Given a sequence of integers b = (b0,b1,b2,...) one gives a Dyck path P of length 2n the weight wt(P) = bh1 bh2 ···bhn , where hi is the height of the ith ascent of P. The corr...
Alexander Postnikov, Bruce E. Sagan
STACS
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Hardness and Algorithms for Rainbow Connectivity
An edge-colored graph G is rainbow connected if any two vertices are connected by a path whose edges have distinct colors. The rainbow connectivity of a connected graph G, denoted ...
Sourav Chakraborty, Eldar Fischer, Arie Matsliah, ...
DM
2008
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A note on lattice chains and Delannoy numbers
Fix nonnegative integers n1, . . . , nd and let L denote the lattice of integer points (a1, . . . , ad) Zd satisfying 0 ai ni for 1 i d. Let L be partially ordered by the usua...
John S. Caughman IV, Clifford R. Haithcock, J. J. ...
FOCS
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Distance Oracles for Sparse Graphs
Abstract— Thorup and Zwick, in their seminal work, introduced the approximate distance oracle, which is a data structure that answers distance queries in a graph. For any integer...
Christian Sommer 0002, Elad Verbin, Wei Yu
ECCC
2008
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Algebrization: A New Barrier in Complexity Theory
Any proof of P = NP will have to overcome two barriers: relativization and natural proofs. Yet over the last decade, we have seen circuit lower bounds (for example, that PP does n...
Scott Aaronson, Avi Wigderson