MATH 750B/COMP 760 The Regularity Lemma - Winter 2011


Course Info

Time & Place:
Tuesday and Thursday 13:00-14:30, BURN1234

Instructor:
Bruce Reed . MC301, breed@cs.mcgill.ca

Prerequisite: None- Basic Knowledge of Graph Theory Helpful.

The course discusses Szemeredi's Regularity Lemma and its applications in graph theory and additive combinatorics.

Evaluation

The course mark will be based entirely on student presentations.

Text

All courses materials will be available here.

Syllabus

Tao-Vu Extract , NOW READABLE. Some of the comments may be obscure due to notation. The definitions on regular pairs and the statement of the Regularity Lemma are acessible. This is all you absolutely need. The rest, I hope is also accessible if you attended the lectures. Note they don't use the triangle removal lemma but a related lemma which only considers one regular pair (instead of 3).

Exercise Set for Lecture on Tuesday January 11

Blow up Lemma

Proof of The Alon Yuster Conjecture

Proof of The Posa-Seymour Conjecture

Gowers Regularity Lemma for 3-regular hypergraphs

Rodl's Regularity Lemma for hypergraphs

A Short Proof of The Hajnal Szemeredi Theorem

The Computational Complexity of Regular Partitions

Embedding Trees

Testing Graph Properties

Furstenberg's Proof of Szemeredi's Theorem

Skokan Bibliography