A natural digraph analogue of the graph-theoretic concept of an ‘independent set’ is that of an ‘acyclic set’, namely a set of vertices not spanning a directed cycle. Hence a digraph analogue of a graph coloring is a decomposition of the vertex set into acyclic sets and we say a digraph is uniquely n-colorable when this decomposition is unique up to relabeling. It was shown probabilistically in...

Following the last talk on graph homomorphisms, we continue to discuss some examples of graph homomorphisms. But this time we will focus on some models, that is, the homomorphism G → H for the graph H with fixed weights. The main reference is Section 1 in [2].

We show that if a graph H is k-colorable, then (k−1)-branching walks on H exhibit long range action, in the sense that the position of a token at time 0 constrains the configuration of its descendents arbitrarily far into the future. This long range action property is one of several investigated herein; all are similar in some respects to chromatic number but based on viewing H as the range, in...

This lectures were given by Florian Enescu at the mini-course on classical problems in commutative algebra held at University of Utah, June 2004. The references listed were used extensively in preparing these notes and the author makes no claim of originality. Moreover, he encourages the reader to consult these references for more details and many more results that had to be omitted due to time...

We characterize finite, connected posets $P$ having a crown as retract. define multigraph $\mathfrak{F}(P)$ whose vertices are the so-called improper 4-crowns contained in extremal points of $P$, and we show that contains 4-crown retract iff there exists graph homomorphism certain type from to $\mathfrak{C}$ not depending on $P$. Additionally retract-crown with $n \geq 6$ poset induced by $n$ p...

We prove that a Jordan homomorphism from a Banach algebra into a semisimple commutative Banach algebra is a ring homomorphism. Using a signum effectively, we can give a simple proof of the Hyers-Ulam-Rassias stability of a Jordan homomorphism between Banach algebras. As a direct corollary, we show that to each approximate Jordan homomorphism f from a Banach algebra into a semisimple commutative...

In this paper, we consider the hidden subgroup problem (HSP) over the class of semi-direct product groups Zn ⋊ Zq. The definition of the semi-direct product depending on the choice of an homomorphism, we first analyze the different possibilities for this homomorphism in function of n and q. Then, we present a polynomial-time quantum algorithm solving the HSP over the groups of the form Zpr ⋊ Zp...