Combinatorics

Sequence defined on multisets ★★

Author(s): Erickson

Conjecture   Define a $ 2 \times n $ array of positive integers where the first row consists of some distinct positive integers arranged in increasing order, and the second row consists of any positive integers in any order. Create a new array where the first row consists of all the integers that occur in the first array, arranged in increasing order, and the second row consists of their multiplicities. Repeat the process. For example, starting with the array $ [1; 1] $, the sequence is: $ [1; 1] $ -> $ [1; 2] $ -> $ [1, 2; 1, 1] $ -> $ [1, 2; 3, 1] $ -> $ [1, 2, 3; 2, 1, 1] $ -> $ [1, 2, 3; 3, 2, 1] $ -> $ [1, 2, 3; 2, 2, 2] $ -> $ [1, 2, 3; 1, 4, 1] $ -> $ [1, 2, 3, 4; 3, 1, 1, 1] $ -> $ [1, 2, 3, 4; 4, 1, 2, 1] $ -> $ [1, 2, 3, 4; 3, 2, 1, 2] $ -> $ [1, 2, 3, 4; 2, 3, 2, 1] $, and we now have a fixed point (loop of one array).

The process always results in a loop of 1, 2, or 3 arrays.

Keywords: multiset; sequence

Posted by Martin Erickson
updated July 18th, 2011
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Combinatorics

Dividing up the unrestricted partitions ★★

Author(s): David S.; Newman

Begin with the generating function for unrestricted partitions:

(1+x+x^2+...)(1+x^2+x^4+...)(1+x^3+x^6+...)...

Now change some of the plus signs to minus signs. The resulting series will have coefficients congruent, mod 2, to the coefficients of the generating series for unrestricted partitions. I conjecture that the signs may be chosen such that all the coefficients of the series are either 1, -1, or zero.

Keywords: congruence properties; partition

Posted by DavidSNewman
updated May 18th, 2010
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Number Theory » Computational N.T.

Perfect cuboid ★★

Author(s):

Conjecture   Does a perfect cuboid exist?

Keywords:

Posted by tsihonglau
updated January 27th, 2012
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Graph Theory

Finding k-edge-outerplanar graph embeddings ★★

Author(s): Bentz

Conjecture   It has been shown that a $ k $-outerplanar embedding for which $ k $ is minimal can be found in polynomial time. Does a similar result hold for $ k $-edge-outerplanar graphs?

Keywords: planar graph; polynomial algorithm

Posted by jcmeyer
updated April 18th, 2010
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Graph Theory

Approximation ratio for k-outerplanar graphs ★★

Author(s): Bentz

Conjecture   Is the approximation ratio for the Maximum Edge Disjoint Paths (MaxEDP) or the Maximum Integer Multiflow problem (MaxIMF) bounded by a constant in $ k $-outerplanar graphs or tree-width graphs?

Keywords: approximation algorithms; planar graph; polynomial algorithm

Posted by jcmeyer
updated April 18th, 2010
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