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Discrete Mathematics & Combinatorics

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Study gives exact recursive rules for binary phylogenetic trees

A mathematical preprint gives recursive formulas for binary-tree covering numbers and an exact structural result for survival covering on non-binary trees. It also shows that one unrestricted sequence can reduce every non-trivial subtree, while the ordinary covering number for general non-binary trees remains unresolved.

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Preprint links partial permutations to ‘forgotten’ symmetric functions

A mathematics preprint develops exact identities connecting partial permutations, class functions and forgotten symmetric functions. Its formulas lead to ribbon-tiling and rim-hook descriptions of irreducible-character evaluations, while a cancellation argument narrows one set-mapping calculation to partitions with at most two parts.

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Preprint finds regular expanders can still lack near-spanning cycles

A new arXiv preprint constructs an infinite family of simple, exactly regular expanding graphs whose longest cycles cover less than a chosen fraction of all vertices. The result shows that regularity and sublinear expansion alone do not force a cycle covering every vertex, while leaving open whether stronger degree conditions at the logarithmic-square scale guarantee Hamiltonicity.

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