Surveys in Combinatorics
Invited Papers for the Ninth British Combinatorial Conference 1983

This volume contains the invited papers from the 1983 British Combinatorial Conference.

E. Keith Lloyd (Edited by)

9780521275521, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 11 August 1983

270 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.405 kg

From rather modest beginnings, the British Combinatorial Conference grew into an established biennial international gathering. A successful format for the series of conferences was established, whereby several distinguished mathematicians were invited to give a survey lecture and to write a paper for the conference volume. The 1983 conference was held in Southampton, and this volume contains the invited papers, comprising three each from the United Kingdom, continental Europe and the United States. These papers cover a broad range of combinatorial topics, including enumeration, finite geometries, graph theory and permanents. The book will be of value not only to mathematicians, but also to scientists, engineers and others interested in combinatorial ideas.

Preface
1. Graphs and interconnection networks: diameter and vulnerability J. C. Bermond, J. Bond, M. Paoli and C. Peyrat
2. The friendship theorem and the love problem J. M. Hammersley
3. Maximum sets in finite projective spaces J. W. P. Hirschfeld
4. Quasigroup and orthogonal arrays C. C. Lindner
5. Bounds on permanents, and the number of 1-factors and 1-factorizations of bipartite graphs A. Schrijver
6. Redfield discovered again J. Sheehan
7. Characterizations of the lie incidence geometries E. E. Schult
8. GL(n, C) for combinatorialists R. P. Stanley
9. Irregularities of partitions: Ramsey theory, uniform distribution
Index of names
Subject index.

Subject Areas: Mathematical foundations [PBC]