Mittagsseminar (in cooperation with A. Steger, D. Steurer and B. Sudakov)

Date and Time: Thursday, October 21, 2004, 12:15 pm

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Speaker: Alexander Engström (KTH Stockholm)

Evasive Graph Properties

Given a graph property, and a graph G, one can decide if G has the property by asking questions, "is (x,y) an edge of G?". If an algorithm asks the questions in a clever order, it may be able to decide if G has the property without asking about all pairs of vertices.

On the other hand, for some graph properties, there is no such algorithm. Whatever algorithm one tries, there is a graph which forces the algorithm to ask about all pairs of vertices. Such properties are called evasive.

The most rewarding methods to determine which properties are evasive, are from topological combinatorics. We will survey some of these methods, and talk about current trends and results.

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