Problem Given two codes , their Tensor Product is the code that consists of the matrices whose rows are codewords of and whose columns are codewords of . The product is said to be robust if whenever a matrix is far from , the rows (columns) of are far from (, respectively).
The problem is to give a characterization of the pairs whose tensor product is robust.
Question Is the MSO-alternation hierarchy strict for pictures that are balanced, in the sense that the width and the length are polynomially (or linearly) related.
An alternating walk in a digraph is a walk so that the vertex is either the head of both and or the tail of both and for every . A digraph is universal if for every pair of edges , there is an alternating walk containing both and
Question Does there exist a locally finite highly arc transitive digraph which is universal?
Problem Given a link in , let the symmetry group of be denoted ie: isotopy classes of diffeomorphisms of which preserve , where the isotopies are also required to preserve .
Now let be a hyperbolic link. Assume has the further `Brunnian' property that there exists a component of such that is the unlink. Let be the subgroup of consisting of diffeomorphisms of which preserve together with its orientation, and which preserve the orientation of .
There is a representation given by restricting the diffeomorphism to the . It's known that is always a cyclic group. And is a signed symmetric group -- the wreath product of a symmetric group with .
Throughout this post, by projective plane we mean the set of all lines through the origin in .
Definition Say that a subset of the projective plane is octahedral if all lines in pass through the closure of two opposite faces of a regular octahedron centered at the origin.
Definition Say that a subset of the projective plane is weakly octahedral if every set such that is octahedral.
Conjecture Suppose that the projective plane can be partitioned into four sets, say and such that each set is weakly octahedral. Then each is octahedral.
For every finite multiplicative group , let () denote the smallest integer so that every sequence of elements of has a subsequence of length (length ) which has product equal to 1 in some order.
Conjecture It has been shown that a -outerplanar embedding for which is minimal can be found in polynomial time. Does a similar result hold for -edge-outerplanar graphs?
Conjecture Can the approximation ratio be improved for the Maximum Edge Disjoint Paths problem (MaxEDP) in planar graphs or can an inapproximability result stronger than -hardness?