Nonstandard analysis was born in the decade of 1960 an attempt to give a formal context to the Leibniz approach to differential calculus, in particular in order to provide a rigorous foundation to the notions of infinitesimal ...

It is well known that, in general, part of the spectrum of a graph can be obtained from the adjacency matrix of its quotient graph given by a regular partition. In this paper, a method that gives all the spectrum, and also ...

We propose a new meta-module design for two important classes of modular robots. The new metamodule is three-dimensional, robust and compact, improving on the previously proposed one. It applies to socalled “edge-hinged” ...

We study the thresholds for the property of containing a solution to a linear homogeneous system in random sets. We expand a previous sparse Sz\'emeredi-type result of Schacht to the broadest class of matrices possible. ...

This paper discusses the use of probabilistic or randomized algorithms for solving combinatorial optimization problems. Our approach employs non-uniform probability distributions to add a biased random behavior to classical ...

The Erdős-Sós conjecture says that a graph G on n vertices and number of edges e(G) > n(k− 1)/2 contains all trees of size k. In this paper we prove a sufficient condition for a graph to contain every tree of size k ...

Matroids are combinatorial objects that capture abstractly the essence of dependence. The Tutte polynomial, defined for matroids and graphs, has a numerous amount of information about these structures. In this thesis, we ...

The Collatz conjecture is one of the most easy-to-state unsolved problems in Mathematics today. It states that after a finite number of iterations of the Collatz function, defined by C(n) = n/2 if n is even, and by C(n) = ...

A simple graph G=(V,E) is said to be antimagic if there exists a bijection f:E¿[1,|E|] such that the sum of the values of f on edges incident to a vertex takes different values on distinct vertices. The graph G is distance ...

To an arc A of PG(k-1,q) of size q+k-1-t we associate a tensor in ¿¿k,t(A)¿¿k-1 , where ¿k,t denotes the Veronese map of degree t defined on PG(k-1,q) . As a corollary we prove that for each arc A in PG(k-1,q) of size ...