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86 Years of Ramsey R(3,k) (and counting!) - Joel Spencer

The search for the asymptotics of the Ramsey function R(3,k) has a long and fascinating history. It begins in the hill country surrounding Budapest and winding over the decades through Europe,…

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Modern Erdos Magic - Joel Spencer

Traditional Erdos Magic (a.k.a. The Probabilistic Method) proves the existence of an object with certain properties by showing that a random (appropriately defined) object will have those properties…

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A constant-factor approximation algorithm for the asymmetric traveling salesman problem - László A. Végh

We give a constant-factor approximation algorithm for the asymmetric traveling salesman problem. Our approximation guarantee is analyzed with respect to the standard LP relaxation, and thus our…

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