Graphs, Friends and Acquaintances
As is well known, a graph is a mathematical object modeling the existence of a certain relation between pairs of elements of a given set. Therefore, it is not surprising that many of the first results concerning graphs made reference to relationships between people or groups of people. In this artic...
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| Formato: | informe técnico |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2010 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) |
| Repositorio: | UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/7159 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://hdl.handle.net/2117/7159 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Graph algorithms Graph theory Algebra, Boolean Graph Edge-coloring Boolean Algebra Ramsey Theory Distance-regularity Spectral Graph Theory Completely Regular Code Hall¿s Marriage Theorem Menger¿s Theorem Grafs, Teoria de Àlgebra booleana Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística::Matemàtica discreta::Teoria de grafs Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística::Àlgebra |
| Resumo: | As is well known, a graph is a mathematical object modeling the existence of a certain relation between pairs of elements of a given set. Therefore, it is not surprising that many of the first results concerning graphs made reference to relationships between people or groups of people. In this article, we comment on four results of this kind, which are related to various general theories on graphs and their applications: the Handshake lemma (related to graph colorings and Boolean algebra), a lemma on known and unknown people at a cocktail party (to Ramsey theory), a theorem on friends in common (to distanceregularity and coding theory), and Hall’s Marriage theorem (to the theory of networks). These four areas of graph theory, often with problems which are easy to state but difficult to solve, are extensively developed and currently give rise to much research work. As examples of representative problems and results of these areas, which are discussed in this paper, we may cite the following: the Four Colors Theorem (4CTC), the Ramsey numbers, problems of the existence of distance-regular graphs and completely regular codes, and finally the study of topological proprieties of interconnection networks. |
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