4 papers
An isoperimetric inequality for word overlap
Dmitrii Zakharov
Let and be sets of words of length over some finite alphabet. Suppose that no suffix of a word in coincides with a prefix of a word in . Then we show that the pr…
Color avoidance for monotone paths
Eion Mulrenin, Cosmin Pohoata, Dmitrii Zakharov
In 2014, Moshkovitz and Shapira determined the tower height for hypergraph Ramsey numbers of tight monotone paths. We address the color-avoiding version of this problem in which on…
Lower bounds for incidences
Alex Cohen, Cosmin Pohoata, Dmitrii Zakharov
Let be a set of points in the unit square and let be a set of -tubes such that passes through . We prove a lower bound for the numb…
Generalized Arithmetic Kakeya
Cosmin Pohoata, Dmitrii Zakharov
Around the early 2000-s, Bourgain, Katz and Tao introduced an arithmetic approach to study Kakeya-type problems. They showed that the Euclidean Kakeya conjecture follows from a nat…