We present a simple and e cient dictionary with worst case constant lookup time, equaling the theoretical performance of the classic dynamic perfect hashing scheme of Dietzfelbinger et al. (Dynamic perfect hashing: Upper and lower bounds. SIAM J. Comput., 23(4):738 761, 1994). The space usage is similar to that of binary search trees, i.e., three words per key on average. The practicality of th...

A graph is Berge if no induced subgraph of it is an odd cycle of length at least five or the complement of one. In joint work with Robertson, Seymour, and Thomas we recently proved the Strong Perfect Graph Theorem, which was a conjecture about the chromatic number of Berge graphs. The proof consisted of showing that every Berge graph either belongs to one of a few basic classes, or admits one o...

Although nontrivial perfect binary codes exist only for length n = 2m−1 with m ≥ 3 and for length n = 23, many problems concerning these codes remain unsolved. Herein, we present solutions to some of these problems. In particular, we show that the smallest nonempty intersection of two perfect codes of length 2m − 1 consists of two codewords, for all m ≥ 3. We also provide a complete solution to...

Normal graphs are defined in terms of cross-intersecting set families: a graph is normal if it admits a clique cover Q and a stable set cover S s.t. every clique in Q intersects every stable set in S. Normal graphs can be considered as closure of perfect graphs by means of co-normal products (K ̈orner [6]) and graph entropy (Czisz ́ar et al. [5]). Perfect graphs have been recently characterized a...

Neighborhood-perfect graphs form a subclass of the perfect graphs if the Strong Perfect Graph Conjecture of C. Berge is true. However, they are still not shown to be perfect. Here we propose the characterization of neighborhood-perfect graphs by studying minimal non-neighborhood-perfect graphs (MNNPG). After presenting some properties of MNNPGs, w e show that the only MNNPGs with neighborhood i...

A bst r ac t This paper is focused on the study of perfect discrete Morse functions on a 2-simplicial complex. These are those discrete Morse functions such that the number of critical i-simplices coincides with the i-th Betti number of the complex. In particular, we establish conditions under which a 2-complex admits a perfect discrete Morse function and conversely, we get topological properti...

In a perfect category every object has a minimal projective resolution. We give a sufficient condition for the category of modules over a category-graded algebra to be perfect. AMS Subject Classification (2000): 18E15, 16W50. In [6] the second author explored homological properties of algebras graded over a small category. Our interest in these algebras arose from our research on the homologica...