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math.CO2026

Expected cost in Combinatorial Optimization under color constraints

Patrick Bennett, Alan Frieze, Wesley Pegden

We present an average case model of classical problems in combinatorial optimization where there are color constraints. In all cases we seek some (spanning) sub-structure of a comp…

math.CO2026

Binomial Random Matroids

Patrick Bennett, Alan Frieze

Let be a random collection of -subsets of where each possible set is present independently with probability . Let …

math.CO2025

On Minimum Cost Rainbow Structures

Patrick Bennett, Quentin Dubroff, Alan Frieze +1

We discuss the expected minimum cost of rainbow spanning trees and Hamilton cycles in randomly edge colored random graphs.

math.CO2025

Some Maker-Breaker games on hypergraphs

Patrick Bennett, Alan Frieze, Wesley Pegden

We consider some biased Maker-Breaker games. Starting with the complete -uniform hypergraph on vertices, at each turn Maker claims one edge, and then Breaker claims edge…

math.CO2024

The intersection of a random geometric graph with an Erdős-Rényi graph

Patrick Bennett, Alan Frieze, Wesley Pegden

We study the intersection of a random geometric graph with an Erdős-Rényi graph. Specifically, we generate the random geometric graph by choosing points uniformly at…

math.CO2024

Some online Maker-Breaker games

Patrick Bennett, Alan Frieze

We consider some Maker-Breaker games of the following flavor. We have some set of items for purchase. Maker's goal is to purchase some member of a given family $\cH$ of subsets…

math.CO2023

Weighted tree games

Patrick Bennett, Alan Frieze

We consider a variation on Maker-Breaker games on graphs or digraphs where the edges have random costs. We assume that Maker wishes to choose the edges of a spanning tree, but wish…