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most citedPartisan gerrymandering with geographically compact districts

13 citations · 14 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

math.AG2026

On the atomic decomposition of complete intersection in flag varieties

Boris Alexeev, Leonardo F. Cavenaghi, Giovane Galindo +3

We develop a root-theoretic localization formalism for genus-zero Gromov--Witten invariants of flag varieties and of smooth zero loci of globally generated homogeneous vector bundl…

math.NT2026★ 1 cited

Primitive sets and von Mangoldt chains: Erdős Problem #1196 and beyond

Boris Alexeev, Kevin Barreto, Yanyang Li +5

A set of integers is primitive if no number in the set divides another. We introduce a new method for bounding Erdős sums of primitive sets, suggested from output of GPT-5.4 Pro, b…

math.CO2026

Short proofs in combinatorics, probability and number theory II

Boris Alexeev, Moe Putterman, Mehtaab Sawhney +2

We give a quintet of proofs resulting from questions posed by Erdős. These questions concern ordinary lines in planar point sets, sequences with uniformly small exponential sums, $…

math.CO2025

Asymptotically optimal approximate Hadamard matrices

Boris Alexeev, John Jasper, Dustin G. Mixon

An approximate Hadamard matrix is a well-conditioned square matrix with all entries in . We measure the quality of a matrix by its condition number, i.e., the ratio of it…

math.CO2025

Forbidden Sidon subsets of perfect difference sets, featuring a human-assisted proof

Boris Alexeev, Dustin G. Mixon

We resolve a $1000 Erdős prize problem, complete with formal verification generated by a large language model. In over a dozen papers, beginning in 1976 and spanning two decades, P…

math.CO2025

The independence and clique cover numbers of the squarefree graph

Boris Alexeev, Dustin G. Mixon, Will Sawin

We determine the largest subset such that for all , the product is not squarefree. Specifically, the maximum size is achieved by the comp…

cs.LG2025

On the clustering behavior of sliding windows

Boris Alexeev, Wenyan Luo, Dustin G. Mixon +1

Things can go spectacularly wrong when clustering timeseries data that has been preprocessed with a sliding window. We highlight three surprising failures that emerge depending on…

cs.IT2025

Rewinding the byte trail of the White Whale

Boris Alexeev, Dustin G. Mixon

Motivated by a popular code golf challenge, we review some key ideas from information theory and discuss how to efficiently compress a streaming file with an acceptable error rate.

math.CO2024

The Erdős unit distance problem for small point sets

Boris Alexeev, Dustin G. Mixon, Hans Parshall

We improve the best known upper bound on the number of edges in a unit-distance graph on vertices for each . When , our bounds match the best kn…

math.MG2024

The nerd snipers problem

Boris Alexeev, Dustin G. Mixon

We correct errors that appear throughout "The vicious neighbour problem" by Tao and Wu. We seek to solve the following problem. Suppose nerds are distributed uniformly at rando…

math.CO2024

Compact majority-minority districts almost never exist

Boris Alexeev, Dustin G. Mixon

For a uniformly distributed population, we show that with high probability, any majority-minority voting district containing a fraction of the population necessarily exhibits a tin…

math.CO2017★ 13 cited

Partisan gerrymandering with geographically compact districts

Boris Alexeev, Dustin G. Mixon

Bizarrely shaped voting districts are frequently lambasted as likely instances of gerrymandering. In order to systematically identify such instances, researchers have devised sever…

math.CO2017

An impossibility theorem for gerrymandering

Boris Alexeev, Dustin G. Mixon

The U.S. Supreme Court is currently deliberating over whether a proposed mathematical formula should be used to detect unconstitutional partisan gerrymandering. We show that in som…

math.CO2010

On minimal colorings without monochromatic solutions to a linear equation

Boris Alexeev, Jacob Fox, Ron Graham

For a ring R and system L of linear homogeneous equations, we call a coloring of the nonzero elements of R minimal for L if there are no monochromatic solutions to L and the colori…