Combinatorics

Finite structures, arrangements, and counting.

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Discrete geometry

Arrangements, distances, coverings, and extremal geometric configurations.

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46 total

Hadwiger conjecture

A graph that needs many colors is predicted to contain a correspondingly large complete graph after edges are contracted and vertices removed.

Hadwiger–Nelson problem

How many colors are needed to color every point of the plane so that points exactly one unit apart always have different colors?

Hadamard matrix conjecture

Square matrices of plus and minus ones can have mutually orthogonal rows. The conjecture predicts one for every size divisible by four.

Union-closed sets conjecture

If a finite collection of sets contains every union of two of its members, must some element occur in at least half the sets?

Lonely runner conjecture

Runners start together on a circular track at different constant speeds. Each is predicted to eventually be well separated from all the others.

Erdős–Hajnal conjecture

Forbidding one fixed induced graph is predicted to force a large group of vertices that are all connected to each other or all disconnected.

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