3 papers
math.CO2025
Most frequent subsequences in a word
Boris Bukh, Aleksandre Saatashvili
We prove that every -letter word over -letter alphabet contains some word as a subsequence in at least many ways, and that this is sharp as . F…
math.CO2025
Maximal sets of a given diameter in Hamming cubes
Boris Bukh, Aleksandre Saatashvili
A subset of the Hamming cube over -letter alphabet is said to be -maximal if its diameter is , and adding any point increases the diameter. Our main result shows that each…
math.CO2023
Uniacute Spherical Codes
Saba Lepsveridze, Aleksandre Saatashvili, Yufei Zhao
A spherical -code, where , consists of unit vectors in whose pairwise inner products are contained in . Determining the maximum cardin…