COMBINATORICA is an international journal of the Bolyai Mathematical Society, Hungary, published jointly bythe Bolyai Mathematical Society and Springer.
COMBINATORICA publishes research papers in a variety of areas of combinatorics and the theory of computing, with particular emphasis on general techniques and unifying principles. Coverage in COMBINATORICA includes:
Six issues appear each year. A total of 30-40 papers are accepted for publication out of roughly 300 submissions per year.
Imre Bárány, Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest József Solymosi, University of British Columbia
László Babai, University of Chicago László Lovász, ELTE Eötvös University, Budapest
Lilla Tóthmérész, ELTE Eötvös University, Budapest Viktor Harangi, Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest
Gyula O.H. Katona, Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest Miklós Simonovits, Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest Vera T. Sós 1930—2023 Endre Szemerédi, Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest
Miklós Abért, Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest Noga Alon, Tel Aviv University & Princeton University József Balogh, University of Illinois Anders Björner, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm Béla Bollobás, University of Cambridge & The University of Memphis Maria Chudnovsky, Princeton University András Frank, ELTE Eötvös University, Budapest Peter Frankl, Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest Zoltán Füredi, Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest Péter Komjáth, ELTE Eötvös University, Budapest Nathan Linial, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jaroslav Nešetřil, Charles University, Prague János Pach, Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest & EPFL, Lausanne Alexander A. Razborov, University of Chicago & Steklov Math. Inst., Moscow Vojtěch Rödl, Emory University, Atlanta Imre Z. Ruzsa, Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest Lisa Sauermann, MIT Alexander Schrijver, CWI Amsterdam & University of Amsterdam Alexander Scott, University of Oxford Paul D. Seymour, Princeton University Benny Sudakov, ETH, Zürich Gábor Tardos, Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest Van H. Vu, Yale University Avi Wigderson, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
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Lukas Kölsch, Alexandr Polujan Value Distributions of Perfect Nonlinear Functions Pages 231-268 | DOI:10.1007/s00493-023-00067-y Benjamin Bedert On Unique Sums in Abelian Groups Pages 269-298 | DOI:10.1007/s00493-023-00069-w Artūras Dubickas An Upper Bound for the Height of a Tree with a Given Eigenvalue Pages 299-310 | DOI:10.1007/s00493-023-00071-2 Jan Corsten, Walner Mendonça Tiling Edge-Coloured Graphs with Few Monochromatic Bounded-Degree Graphs Pages 311-335 | DOI:10.1007/s00493-023-00072-1 Nguyen Cong Minh, Thanh Vu A Characterization of Graphs Whose Small Powers of Their Edge Ideals Have a Linear Free Resolution Pages 337-353 | DOI:10.1007/s00493-023-00074-z A. De Schepper, J. Schillewaert, H. Van Maldeghem On the Generating Rank and Embedding Rank of the Hexagonic Lie Incidence Geometries Pages 355-392 | DOI:10.1007/s00493-023-00075-y Tao Zhang A Group Ring Approach to Fuglede’s Conjecture in Cyclic Groups Pages 393-416 | DOI:10.1007/s00493-023-00076-x Meike Hatzel, Gwenaël Joret, Piotr Micek, Marcin Pilipczuk, Torsten Ueckerdt, Bartosz Walczak Tight Bound on Treedepth in Terms of Pathwidth and Longest Path Pages 417-427 | DOI:10.1007/s00493-023-00077-w Yulai Ma, Davide Mattiolo, Eckhard Steffen, Isaak H. Wolf Edge-Connectivity and Pairwise Disjoint Perfect Matchings in Regular Graphs Pages 429-440 | DOI:10.1007/s00493-023-00078-9 Vuong Bui, Hamid Reza Daneshpajouh A Topological Version of Hedetniemi’s Conjecture for Equivariant Spaces Pages 441-452 | DOI:10.1007/s00493-023-00079-8
Marcin Briański, James Davies, Bartosz Walczak Separating Polynomial Chi-Boundedness from Chi-Boundedness Pages 1-8 | DOI:10.1007/s00493-023-00054-3 Konstantin Tikhomirov On Bounded Degree Graphs with Large Size-Ramsey Numbers Pages 9-14 | DOI:10.1007/s00493-023-00056-1 P. Frankl On the Maximum of the Sum of the Sizes of Non-trivial Cross-Intersecting Families Pages 15-35 | DOI:10.1007/s00493-023-00060-5 António Girão, Freddie Illingworth, Emil Powierski, Michael Savery, Alex Scott, Youri Tamitegama , Jane Tan Induced Subgraphs of Induced Subgraphs of Large Chromatic Number Pages 37-62 | DOI:10.1007/s00493-023-00061-4 Arnau Padrol, Eva Philippe Sweeps, Polytopes, Oriented Matroids, and Allowable Graphs of Permutations Pages 63-123 | DOI:10.1007/s00493-023-00062-3 Daniel W. Cranston, Reem Mahmoud Kempe Equivalent List Colorings Pages 125-153 | DOI:10.1007/s00493-023-00063-2 Sam Mansfield, Jonathan Passant A Structural Theorem for Sets with Few Triangles Pages 155-178 | DOI:10.1007/s00493-023-00066-z Yuxuan Li, Binzhou Xia, Sanming Zhou , Wenying Zhu A Solution to Babai’s Problems on Digraphs with Non-diagonalizable Adjacency Matrix Pages 179-203 | DOI:10.1007/s00493-023-00068-x Torsten Mütze A Book Proof of the Middle Levels Theorem Pages 205-208 | DOI:10.1007/s00493-023-00070-3 Florian Lehner Universal Planar Graphs for the Topological Minor Relation Pages 209-230 | DOI:10.1007/s00493-023-00073-0
József Balogh, Ce Chen, Kevin Hendrey, Ben Lund, Haoran Luo, Casey Tompkins, Tuan Tran Maximal 3-Wise Intersecting Families Pages 1045-1066 | DOI:10.1007/s00493-023-00046-3 Claude Tardif The Chromatic Number of the Product of 5-Chromatic Graphs can be 4 Pages 1067-1073 | DOI:10.1007/s00493-023-00047-2 Marcelo Sales, Bjarne Schülke A Local Version of Katona’s Intersecting Shadow Theorem Pages 1075-1080 | DOI:10.1007/s00493-023-00048-1 Denys Bulavka, Martin Tancer, Mykhaylo Tyomkyn Weak Saturation of Multipartite Hypergraphs Pages 1081-1102 | DOI:10.1007/s00493-023-00049-0 Daniel McGinnis A Necessary and Sufficient Condition for (2d-2)-Transversals in R^2d Pages 1103-1109 | DOI:10.1007/s00493-023-00050-7 Gaurav Kucheriya, Gábor Tardos A Characterization of Edge-Ordered Graphs with Almost Linear Extremal Functions Pages 1111-1123 | DOI:10.1007/s00493-023-00052-5 Jun Gao, Hong Liu, Zixiang Xu Stability Through Non-Shadows Pages 1125-1137 | DOI:10.1007/s00493-023-00053-4 Andrew Granville, George Shakan, Aled Walker Effective Results on the Size and Structure of Sumsets Pages 1139-1178 | DOI:10.1007/s00493-023-00055-2 David J. Grynkiewicz A Generalization of the Chevalley–Warning and Ax–Katz Theorems with a View Towards Combinatorial Number Theory Pages 1179-1213 | DOI:10.1007/s00493-023-00057-0 Sebastian Mies, Benjamin Moore The Strong Nine Dragon Tree Conjecture is True for d≤k+1 Pages 1215-1239 | DOI:10.1007/s00493-023-00058-z
Lubotzky, A.; Phillips, R.; Sarnak, P. Ramanujan graphs Volume 8 (1988), Issue 3, 261–277 Karmarkar, N. A new polynomial-time algorithm for linear programming Volume 4 (1984), Issue 4, 373–395 Grötschel, M.; Lovász, L.; Schrijver, A. The ellipsoid method and its consequences in combinatorial optimization Volume 1 (1981), Issue 2, 169–197 Alon, N. Eigenvalues and expanders Volume 6 (1986), Issue 2, 83–96 Linial, Nathan; London, Eran; Rabinovich, Yuri The geometry of graphs and some of its algorithmic applications Volume 15 (1995), Issue 2, 215–245 Alon, N.; Tarsi, M. Colorings and orientations of graphs Volume 12 (1992), Issue 2, 125–134 Chung, F. R. K.; Graham, R. L.; Wilson, R. M. Quasi-random graphs Volume 9 (1989), Issue 4, 345–362 Szemerédi, Endre; Trotter, William T., Jr. Extremal problems in discrete geometry Volume 3 (1983), Issue 3-4, 381–392 de Fraysseix, H.; Pach, J.; Pollack, R. How to draw a planar graph on a grid Volume 10 (1990), Issue 1, 41–51 Frankl, P.; Wilson, R. M. Intersection theorems with geometric consequences Volume 1 (1981), Issue 4, 357–368 Godsil, C. D. On the full automorphism group of a graph Volume 1 (1981), Issue 3, 243–256 Füredi, Z.; Komlós, J. The eigenvalues of random symmetric matrices Volume 1 (1981), Issue 3, 233–241 Frieze, Alan; Kannan, Ravi Quick approximation to matrices and applications Volume 19 (1999), Issue 2, 175–220 Komlós, János; Sárközy, Gábor N.; Szemerédi, Endre Blow-up lemma Volume 17 (1997), Issue 1, 109–123 Wilson, Richard M. The exact bound in the Erdős-Ko-Rado theorem Volume 4 (1984), Issue 2-3, 247–257 Pach, János; Tóth, Géza Graphs drawn with few crossings per edge Volume 17 (1997), Issue 3, 427–439 Babai, L. On Lovász' lattice reduction and the nearest lattice point problem Volume 6 (1986), Issue 1, 1–13 Mulmuley, Ketan; Vazirani, Umesh V.; Vazirani, Vijay V. Matching is as easy as matrix inversion Volume 7 (1987), Issue 1, 105–113 Raghavan, P.; Thompson, C. D. Randomized rounding: a technique for provably good algorithms and algorithmic proofs Volume 7 (1987), Issue 4, 365–374 Robertson, Neil; Seymour, Paul; Thomas, Robin Hadwiger's conjecture for K6-free graphs Volume 13 (1993), Issue 3, 279–361
Jain, Kamal A factor 2 approximation algorithm for the generalized Steiner network problem Volume 21 (2001), Issue 1, 39–60 Bollobás, Béla; Riordan, Oliver The diameter of a scale-free random graph Volume 24 (2004), Issue 1, 5–34 Chudnovsky, Maria; Cornuéjols, Gérard; Liu, Xinming; Seymour, Paul; Vušković, Kristina Recognizing Berge graphs Volume 25 (2005), Issue 2, 143–186 Alon, Noga; Fischer, Eldar; Krivelevich, Michael; Szegedy, Mario Efficient testing of large graphs Volume 20 (2000), Issue 4, 451–476 Tao, Terence Product set estimates for non-commutative groups Volume 28 (2008), Issue 5, 547–594 Linial, Nathan; Meshulam, Roy Homological connectivity of random 2-complexes Volume 26 (2006), Issue 4, 475–487 Kim, Jeong Han; Vu, Van H. Concentration of multivariate polynomials and its applications Volume 20 (2000), Issue 3, 417–434 Thomassé, Stéphan; Yeo, Anders Total domination of graphs and small transversals of hypergraphs Volume 27 (2007), Issue 4, 473–487 Goldreich, Oded; Goldwasser, Shafi; Lehman, Eric; Ron, Dana; Samorodnitsky, Alex Testing monotonicity Volume 20 (2000), Issue 3, 301–337 Kühn, Daniela; Osthus, Deryk The minimum degree threshold for perfect graph packings Volume 29 (2009), Issue 1, 65–107
Sebő, András; Vygen, Jens Shorter tours by nicer ears: 7/5-approximation for the graph-TSP, 3/2 for the path version, and 4/3 for two-edge-connected subgraphs Volume 34 (2014), Issue 5, 597–629 Petridis, Giorgis New proofs of Plünnecke-type estimates for product sets in groups Volume 32 (2012), Issue 6, 721–733 Tóth, Csaba D. The Szemerédi-Trotter theorem in the complex plane Volume 35 (2015), Issue 1, 95–126 Ceballos, Cesar; Santos, Francisco; Ziegler, Günter M. Many non-equivalent realizations of the associahedron Volume 35 (2015), Issue 5, 513–551 Dujmović, Vida; Joret, Gwenaël; Kozik, Jakub; Wood, David R. Nonrepetitive colouring via entropy compression Volume 36 (2016), Issue 6, 661–686 Chudnovsky, Maria; Seymour, Paul The three-in-a-tree problem Volume 30 (2010), Issue 4, 387–417 Füredi, Zoltán; Jiang, Tao; Seiver, Robert Exact solution of the hypergraph Turán problem for k-uniform linear paths Volume 34 (2014), Issue 3, 299–322 Raigorodskii, A. M. On the chromatic numbers of spheres in Rn Volume 32 (2012), Issue 1, 111–123 Cilleruelo, Javier Combinatorial problems in finite fields and Sidon sets Volume 32 (2012), Issue 5, 497–511 Devos, Matt; Dvořák, Zdeněk; Fox, Jacob; McDonald, Jessica; Mohar, Bojan; Scheide, Diego A minimum degree condition forcing complete graph immersion Volume 34 (2014), Issue 3, 279–298 Rudnev, Misha On the number of incidences between points and planes in three dimensions Volume 38 (2018), Issue 1, 219–254
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