The rank and kernel of 1-perfect additive codes is determined. Additive codes could be seen as translation-invariant propelinear codes and, in this correspondence, a characterization of propelinear codes as codes having a regular subgroup of the full group of isometries of the code is established. A characterization of the automorphism group of a 1-perfect additive code is given and also the ca...

We consider the size of circuits that perfectly hash an arbitrary subset S⊂{0, 1} of cardinality 2 into {0, 1}. We observe that, in general, the size of such circuits is exponential in 2k−m, and provide a matching upper bound.

We give various reformulations of the Strong Perfect Graph Conjecture, based on a study of forced coloring procedures, uniquely colorable subgraphs and ! ? 1-cliques in minimal imperfect graphs.

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The construction of joins and secant varieties is studied in the combinatorial context of monomial ideals. For ideals generated by quadratic monomials, the generators of the secant ideals are obstructions to graph colorings, and this leads to a commutative algebra version of the Strong Perfect Graph Theorem. Given any projective variety and any term order, we explore whether the initial ideal o...

Perfect graphs were defined by Claude Berge in the 1960s. They are important objects for graph theory, linear programming and combinatorial optimization. Claude Berge made a conjecture about them, that was proved by Chudnovsky, Robertson, Seymour and Thomas in 2002, and is now called the strong perfect graph theorem. This is a survey about perfect graphs, mostly focused on the strong perfect gr...