Vaek Chvátal's list of publications
(with a few links to related web pages).
Papers
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On
finite and countable rigid graphs and tournaments,
Comment.Math.Univ.Carolin. 6 (1965), 429-438.
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Remark on a paper of Lovász, Comment.Math.Univ.Carolin. 9
(1968), 47-50.
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On finite polarized partition relations, Canad.Math.Bull. 12 (1969),
321-326.
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Planarity of graphs with given degrees of vertices, Nieuw Arch.Wisk.
17 (1969), 47-60.
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A remark on a problem of Harary, Czechoslovak Math.J. 20 (1970),
109-111.
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The smallest triangle-free 4-chromatic 4-regular graph, J.Combin.Theory
9 (1970), 93-94.
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A note on coefficients of chromatic polynomials, J.Combin.Theory 9
(1970), 95-96.
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Some unknown van
der Waerden numbers , in: Combinatorial Structures and Their
Applications (R.Guy et al.,eds.), Gordon and Breach, New York,
1970, pp.31-33.
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On a problem of Erdős, in: Combinatorial Structures
and Their Applications (R.Guy et al.,eds.), Gordon and
Breach, New York, 1970, pp.495-497.
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A remark on Newman's conjecture, in: Proceedings of the
Washington State University Conference on Number Theory (J.H.Jordan and
W.A.Webb, eds.), Washington State University, 1971, pp.113-129.
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Hypergraphs
and Ramseyian theorems, Proc.Amer.Math.Soc. 27
(1971), 434-440.
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On finite delta-systems of Erdős and Rado,
Acta Math.Acad.Sci.Hungar. 21 (1970), 341-355.
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Some
combinatorial theorems on monotonicity (joint with J.
Komlós), Canad.Math.Bull. 14 (1971), 151-157.
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Some relations among invariants of graphs, Czechoslovak Math.J. 21
(1971), 366-368.
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Every finite graph is a full subgraph of a rigid graph (joint with P.
Hell, L.Kucera and J.Neetril), J.Combin.Theory
(1971), 284-286.
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A note on
hamiltonian circuits (joint with P.Erdős), Discrete
Math. 2 (1972), 111-113.
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Remarks on a problem of Moser, Canad.Math.Bull. 15 (1972), 19-21.
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On Hamilton's ideals, J.Combin.Theory 12 (1972), 163-168.
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Flip-flops in hypohamiltonian graphs, Canad.Math.Bull. 16 (1973),
33-42.
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Generalized Ramsey theory for graphs (joint with F.Harary),
Bull.Amer.Math.Soc. 78 (1972), 423-426.
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Generalized Ramsey theory for graphs II. Small diagonal numbers. (joint with F.Harary),
Proc.Amer.Math.Soc. 32 (1972), 389-394.
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Generalized
Ramsey theory for graphs. III. Small off-diagonal numbers.
(joint with F.Harary),
Pacific J.Math. 41 (1972), 335-345.
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Ramsey's
theorem and self-complementary graphs (joint with P.
Erdős and Z.Hedrlín), Discrete Math. 3 (1972), 301-304.
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Monochromatic paths in edge-colored graphs, J.Combin.Theory 13 (1972),
69-70.
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Generalized
Ramsey theory for graphs. I. Diagonal numbers (joint with F.Harary),
Period.Math.Hungar. 3 (1973), 115-124.
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Tough graphs and hamiltonian circuits, Discrete Math. 5
(1973), 215-228.
Reprinted
in 35th Special Anniversary Issue of
Discrete Mathematics (Volume 306, Issues 10-11 , 28 May
2006), 910-917.
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Chromatic automorphisms of graphs (joint with J.Sichler), J.Combin.
Theory 14 (1973), 209-215.
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Edmonds polytopes and weakly hamiltonian graphs, Math.Programming 5
(1973), 29-40.
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Edmonds polytopes and a hierarchy of combinatorial problems, Discrete
Math. 4 (1973), 305-337.
Reprinted
in 35th Special Anniversary Issue of
Discrete Mathematics (Volume 306, Issues 10-11 , 28 May
2006), 886-904.
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New directions in hamiltonian graph theory, in: New Directions in
the Theory of Graphs (F.Harary, ed.), Academic Press, New York, 1973,
pp.65-95.
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Intersecting families of edges in hypergraphs having the
hereditary property, in: Hypergraph Seminar (C.Berge et al.,
eds.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin and New York, 1974, pp.61-66.
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Every digraph has a semi-kernel (joint with L.Lovász),
in: Hypergraph Seminar (C.Berge et al., eds.), Springer-Verlag,
Berlin and New York, 1974, p.17.
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The minimality of the Mycielski graph, in: Graphs and Combinatorics
(R.A.Bari and F.Harary, eds.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin and New York,
1974, pp.243-246.
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On the Ramsey number of the five-spoked wheel (joint with A.Schwenk),
in: Graphs and Combinatorics
(R.A.Bari and F.Harary, eds.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin and New York,
1974, pp.247-261.
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Some linear programming aspects of combinatorics,
Congr.Numer. 13 (1975), 2-30.
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On a conjecture of Fejés Tóth, Period.Math.Hungar. 6
(1975), 357-362.
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An extremal set-intersection theorem, J.London Math.Soc. (1974),
355-359.
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Longest common subsequences of two random sequences (joint with D.
Sankoff), J.Appl.Probab. (1975), 306-315.
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A combinatorial theorem in plane geometry, J.Combin.Theory 18 (1975),
39-41.
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On certain polytopes associated with graphs, J.Combin.Theory 18 (1975),
138-154.
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D.Ray Fulkerson's contributions to Operations Research,
Math.Oper.Res. 1 (1976), 311-320.
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Degrees and matchings (joint with D.Hanson), J.Combin.Theory 20
(1976), 128-138.
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On the strong perfect graph conjecture, J.Combin.Theory 20 (1976),
139-141.
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A method in graph theory (joint with J.A.Bondy), Discrete
Math. 15
(1976), 111-135.
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There are $2^{\aleph_{\alpha}}$ friendship graphs of cardinal
$\aleph_{\alpha}$ (joint with R.O.Davies, A.Kotzig, and
I.G.Rosenberg), Canad.Math.Bull. 19 (1976), 431-433.
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Tree-complete graph Ramsey numbers, J.Graph Theory 1 (1977), 93.
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Aggregation of inequalities in integer programming
(joint with P.L.
Hammer), Ann.Discrete Math. 1 (1977), 145-162.
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Determining the stability number of a graph, SIAM J.Comput. 6
(1977), 643-662.
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Distances in orientations of graphs (joint with C.Thomassen), J.
Combin.Theory Ser.B 24 (1978), 61-75.
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Biased
positional games
(joint with P.Erdős),
Ann.Discrete Math. 2 (1978), 221-229.
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Two results concerning multicoloring (joint with M.Garey and D.S.Johnson),
Ann.Discrete Math. 2 (1978), 151-154.
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Notes on Bland's pivoting rule (joint with D.Avis),
Math.Programming Study 8 (1978), 24-34.
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The tail of the hypergeometric distribution, Discrete Math. 25 (1979),
285-287.
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Combinatorial
designs related to
the strong perfect graph conjecture
(joint with R.L.Graham, A.F.Perold and S.H.Whitesides), Discrete
Math. 26 (1979), 83-92.
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A greedy heuristic for the set-covering problem, Math.Oper.Res.
4 (1979), 233-235.
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Three-regular subgraphs of four-regular graphs (joint with H.
Fleischner, J.Sheehan and C.Thomassen), J.Graph Theory 3 (1979),
371-386.
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Tricky problems, simple algorithms, in: 1979
International Symposium on Circuits and Systems Proceedings,
The IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, 1979, pp.254-255.
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Recognizing intersection patterns, Ann.Discrete Math. 8 (1980),
249-251.
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Hard knapsack problems, Oper.Res. 28 (1980), 1402-1411.
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Finding largest convex subsets (joint with G.Klincsek), Congr.
Numer. 29 (1980), 453-460.
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On the Erdős-Stone theorem (joint with E.Szemerédi), J.
London Math.Soc. (2) 23 (1981), 207-214.
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A short
proof of the linear arboricity for cubic graphs (joint with
J.Akiyama), Bull. Liber. Arts & Sci., NMS No.2 (1981),
(1)-(3).
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Balancing signed graphs (joint with J.Akiyama, D.Avis and H.Era),
Discrete Appl.Math. 3 (1981), 227-233.
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Combinatorial properties of polyominoes (joint with C.Berge, C.C.
Chen and C.S.Seow), Combinatorica 1 (1981), 217-224.
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Cheap, middling, or dear, in: The Mathematical Gardner
(D.A.Klarner, ed.), Prindle,Weber\&Schmidt, Boston, 1981, pp.44-50.
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Crossing-free subgraphs (joint with M.Ajtai, M.M.Newborn and E.
Szemerédi), Ann.Discrete Math. 12 (1982), 9-12.
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On the bicycle problem, Discrete Appl.Math. 5 (1983), 165-173.
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On an extremal problem concerning intervals (joint with E.
Szemerédi), European J.Combin. 3 (1982), 215-217.
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Notes on the Erdős-Stone theorem (joint with E.Szemerédi),
Ann.Discrete Math. 17 (1983), 183-190.
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The Ramsey number of a graph with a bounded maximum degree (joint with
V.Rödl, E.Szemerédi, and W.T.Trotter, Jr.), J.
Combinatorial Theory Ser.B 34 (1983), 239-243.
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Short cycles in directed graphs (joint with E.Szemerédi), J.
Combinatorial Theory Ser.B 35 (1983), 323-327.
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Mastermind, Combinatorica 3 (1983), 325-329.
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A Semi-Strong Perfect Graph Conjecture, Ann.Discrete Math. 21
(1984), 279-280.
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Perfectly ordered graphs, Ann.Discrete Math. 21 (1984), 63-65.
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Notes on perfect graphs, in: Progress in Combinatorial
Optimization (W.R.Pulleyblank, ed.), Academic Press, 1984, pp.107-115.
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Recognizing decomposable graphs, J.Graph Theory 8 (1984), 51-3.
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Probabilistic
methods in graph theory,
Ann.Oper.Res. 1 (1984), 171-182.
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Recent results on perfect graphs, in: 1985 International
Symposium on Circuits and Systems Proceedings, The IEEE Circuits and
Systems Society, 1985, pp.1183-1186.
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Cutting planes in combinatorics, European J.Combin. 6 (1985), 217-226.
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Hamiltonian cycles, in: The Traveling Salesman Problem (E.L.Lawler et
al., eds.), John Wiley, 1985, pp.403-429.
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Star-cutsets and perfect graphs, J.Combinatorial Theory Ser.B 39 (1985),
189-199.
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On the P4-structure of perfect graphs I. Even decompositions
(joint with C.T.Hoàng), J.Combinatorial Theory Ser.B 39
(1985), 209-219.
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Bull-free Berge graphs are perfect (joint with N.Sbihi), Graphs
Combin. 3 (1987), 127-139.
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Perfect graphs, in: Surveys in Combinatorics 1987 (C.Whitehead,
ed.), LMS Lecture Notes 123, Cambridge University Press, 1987, pp.43-51.
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On the maximum weight clique problem (joint with E.Balas and J.
Neetril), Math.Oper.Res. 12 (1987), 522-535.
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Four classes of perfectly orderable graphs (joint with C.T.Hoàng,
N.V.R.Mahadev, and D.deWerra), J.Graph Theory 11 (1987), 481-495.
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On the P4-structure of perfect graphs III. Partner
decompositions, J.Combinatorial Theory Ser.B 43 (1987), 349-353.
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Recognizing claw-free perfect graphs (joint with N.Sbihi), J.
Combinatorial Theory Ser.B 44 (1988), 154-176.
- F.Maffray and B.A. Reed, A description of claw-free perfect
graphs, J.
Combinatorial Theory Ser.B 75 (1999), 134-156.
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Many
hard examples for resolution (joint with E.Szemerédi),
J.Assoc.Comput.Mach. 35 (1988), 759-768.
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On cutting-plane proofs in combinatorial optimization (joint with W.
Cook and M.Hartmann), Linear Algebra Appl. 114/115 (1989), 455-499.
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A note on the traveling salesman problem, Oper.Res.Lett. 8 (1989),
77-78.
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Two-colorings that decompose perfect graphs (joint with W.J.Lenhart
and N.Sbihi), J.Combinatorial Theory Ser.B 49 (1990), 1-9.
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Which line-graphs are perfectly orderable?, J.Graph Theory 14 (1990),
247-255.
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Packing paths perfectly (joint with J.Akiyama), Discrete Math. 85
(1990), 247-255.
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A note on line digraphs and the directed max-cut problem (joint with
C.Ebenegger), Discrete Appl.Math. 29 (1990), 165-170.
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The discipline number of a graph (joint with W.Cook), Discrete Math.
86 (1990), 191-198.
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Almost all graphs with 1.44n edges are 3-colorable, Random
Structures Algorithms 2 (1991) 11-28.
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Small transversals in hypergraphs (joint with C.McDiarmid),
Combinatorica 12 (1992), 19-26.
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Mick gets some (the odds are on his side) (joint with B.Reed), in:
Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Symposium on Foundations of
Computer Science, IEEE Computer Society Press, Washington, 1992,
pp. 620--627.
A related web page:
...
- A note on well-covered graphs (joint with P.J.Slater), in:
Quo Vadis, Graph Theory? (J.Gimbel et al., eds.), Ann.Discrete
Math. 55 (1993), 179-182.
- Which claw-free graphs are perfectly orderable?, Discrete
Appl. Math. 44 (1993), 39-63.
- In praise of Claude Berge, Discrete Math. 165-166 (1997),
3-9.
- Resolution search, Discrete Appl. Math. 73 (1997), 81-99.
(An abstract is
here.)
- Variations on a theorem of Ryser (joint with D.Cao,
A.J.Hoffman, and A.Vince), Linear Algebra Appl. 260 (1997),
215-222.
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On
the solution of traveling salesman problems
(joint with D. Applegate, R. Bixby, and W. Cook),
Documenta
Mathematica
Special Volume: Proceedings of the International Congress of
Mathematicians (1998) 645-656.
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Recognizing dart-free perfect graphs (joint with J. Fonlupt,
L. Sun, and A. Zemirline) SIAM Journal on Computing 31
(2002), 1315-1338. An extended
abstract appeared earlier in the
Proceedings of the
Eleventh Annual
ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms
(January 2000), pp. 50-53.
- A bibliography on perfect graphs, in
Perfect Graphs
(J.L. Ramírez-Alfonsín and B.A. Reed, eds.),
Wiley, 2001, pp. 329-358.
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TSP cuts which do not conform to the template paradigm
(joint with D. Applegate, R. Bixby, and W. Cook). In
Computational combinatorial optimization: optimal or provably near
optimal solutions (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 2241),
Michael Jünger and Denis Naddef, eds., Springer, 2001, pp. 261--303.
- Dirac-type characterizations of graphs without long chordless
cycles (joint with I. Rusu and R. Sritharan), Discrete Math.
256 (2002), 445-448.
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Claude Berge: 5.6.1926 -- 30.6.2002. Graphs and
Combinatorics 19 (2003), 1-6.
- Implementing the
Dantzig-Fulkerson-Johnson Algorithm for Large Traveling Salesman
Problems (joint with D. Applegate, R. Bixby, and
W. Cook). Mathematical Programming 97 (2003) 91 - 153.
- Sylvester-Gallai theorem and metric betweenness.
Discrete & Computational Geometry 31 (2004) 175 - 195.
- Problems related to a de Bruijn - Erdős
theorem (joint with X. Chen), Discrete Applied
Mathematics 156 (2008), 2101 - 2108.
(arXiv:math/0610036v1 [math.CO].)
- Ida Kantor, Balázs Patkós: Towards a de Bruijn-Erdős Theorem in
the $$L_1$$ -Metric. Discrete & Computational Geometry 49
(2013),
659 - 670 (arXiv:1207.3688 [math.CO])
- Remembering
Leo Khachiyan, Discrete Applied
Mathematics 156 (2008), 1961 - 1962.
- Certification
of an optimal TSP tour through 85,900 cities (joint with
D. Applegate, R. Bixby, W. Cook, D. Espinoza, M. Goycoolea, and
K. Helsgaun) Operations Research Letters 37 (2009), 11 - 15.
- Antimatroids,
betweenness, convexity, in: William Cook,
László Lovász, Jens Vygen (Editors), Research
Trends in Combinatorial Optimization, Springer, Berlin 2009,
pp. 57 -- 64.
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Another abstraction of the Erdős-Szekeres Happy End Theorem
(joint with N. Alon, E. Chiniforooshan, and F. Genest), The
Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 17 (2010),
Note
#N11 (6 pages).
- Comparison of two techniques for proving nonexistence of strongly
regular graphs, Graphs and Combinatorics 27 (2011), 171 -
175.
arXiv:0906.5389v1
[math.CO]
- A de Bruijn - Erdős theorem and metric spaces
(joint with Ehsan Chiniforooshan),
Discrete
Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science Vol 13 No 1 (2011),
67 - 74.
- Finite Sholander trees, trees, and their betweennes (joint with
Dieter Rautenbach and Philipp Matthias Schäfer),
Discrete Mathematics 311 (2011) 2143 - 2147.
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On Reichenbach's causal betweenness (joint with Baoyindureng Wu),
Erkenntnis 76 (2012), 41 - 48..
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Transversals in trees (joint with Victor Campos, Luc Devroye, and
Perouz Taslakian), Journal of Graph Theory 73 (2013), 32 -- 43.
arXiv:0705.1806v1
[math.CO].
- Local
cuts for mixed-integer programming (joint with William Cook and
Daniel Espinoza), Mathematical Programming Computation 5
(2013), 171-200.
- Lines in hypergraphs (joint with Laurent Beaudou, Adrian Bondy,
Xiaomin Chen, Ehsan Chiniforooshan, Maria Chudnovsky, Nicolas
Fraiman, and Yori
Zwols),
Combinatorica 33 (2013), 633-654.
.
- Number of lines in hypergraphs (joint with Pierre Aboulker,
Adrian Bondy, Xiaomin Chen, Ehsan Chiniforooshan, and Peihan
Miao),
Discrete Applied Mathematics 171 (2014) 137-140.
- A De Bruijn-Erdős theorem for 1-2 metric
spaces,
Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal 64 (2014), 45--51.
- A De Bruijn-Erdős theorem for chordal graphs (joint with Laurent Beaudou, Adrian Bondy,
Xiaomin Chen, Ehsan Chiniforooshan, Maria Chudnovsky, Nicolas
Fraiman, and Yori
Zwols), The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 22, Issue 1 (2015),
Paper
#P1.70 (6 pages).
- McCulloch-Pitts brains and pseudorandom functions, joint with Mark Goldsmith and Nan Yang, Neural Computation 28 (2016), 1042--1050.
arXiv:1603.01573 [math.DS]
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A de Bruijn-Erdős theorem for graphs? In:
Graph Theory Favorite Conjectures and Open Problems - 2,
edited by Ralucca Gera, Teresa W. Haynes, and Stephen T. Hedetniemi,
Springer Nature Switzerland (2018), pp. 149--176. arXiv:1812.06288 [math.CO]
Manuscripts and technical reports
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Selected combinatorial research problems (joint with D.A. Klarner
and D.E. Knuth), STAN CS-72-292, Department of Computer Science,
Stanford University, June 1972.
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On the computational complexity of finding a kernel.
Report No. CRM-300, Centre de recherches
mathématiques, Université de Montréal, June 1973.
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Rational
behaviour and computational complexity, Technical Report
SOCS-78.9, School of Computer Science, McGill University, November 1978.
- Cutting-plane
proofs and the stability number of a graph, Report No.
84326-OR, Institut für Ökonometrie und Operations
Research, Universität Bonn, March 1984.
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Lecture notes on the new AKS sorting network. DCS-TR-294,
Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University (1992).
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Notes on the Kolakoski sequence.
DIMACS TR: 93-84 (1993).
- Patterns of conjunctive forks (joint with Frantiek
Matú and Yori Zwols),
arXiv:1608.03949v2 [math.PR]
Books
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Linear Programming, W.H.Freeman, New York, 1983.
Japanese translation published by Keigaku Shuppan, Tokyo, 1986.
- Topics
on perfect graphs. (edited jointly with C.Berge),
North-Holland Mathematics Studies 88 (Annals of Discrete Math. 21),
1984.
- Creation
and Recreation: A Tribute to the Memory of Claude Berge
(edited jointly with A. Bondy), Discrete Mathematics Volume 306,
Issues 19-20, Pages 2293-2636 (6 October 2006)
- The
Traveling Salesman Problem: A Computational Study (joint with
D. Applegate, R. Bixby, and W. Cook), Princeton Series in Applied
Mathematics, February 2007.
- Combinatorial
Optimization: Methods and Applications (editor),
Volume 31 NATO Science for Peace and Security Series - D:
Information and Communication Security, IOS Press, 2011.
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The Discrete Mathematical Charms of Paul Erdős. A Simple Introduction.
Cambridge University Press, August 2021.
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