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Combinatorics: Zur Luria (ETH), "New bounds for the n-queen's problem" | Einstein Institute of Mathematics

Combinatorics: Zur Luria (ETH), "New bounds for the n-queen's problem"

Date: 
Mon, 07/05/201811:00-12:30
Location: 
IIAS, Eilat hall, Feldman bldg, Givat Ram
Speaker: Zur Luria, ETH
Title: New bounds for the n-queen's problem
Abstract:
The famous n-queens problem asks: In how many ways can n nonattacking queens be placed on an n by n chessboard? This question also makes sense on the toroidal chessboard, in which opposite sides of the board are identified. In this setting, the n-queens problem counts the number of perfect matchings in a certain regular hypergraph. We give an extremely general bound for such counting problems, which include Sudoku squares and designs.
Our lower bound, which confirms a conjecture of Vardi and Rivin, is based on an algebraic construction which is similar to the algebraic absorbers used by Peter Keevash in his construction of designs.