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  text: 'There is no known polynomial-time algorithm for graph isomorphism testing,
    but elementary combinatorial “refinement” algorithms seem to be very efficient
    in practice. Some philosophical justification for this phenomenon is provided
    by a classical theorem of Babai, Erdős and Selkow: an extremely simple polynomial-time
    combinatorial algorithm (variously known as “naïve refinement”, “naïve vertex
    classification”, “colour refinement” or the “1-dimensional Weisfeiler–Leman algorithm”)
    yields a so-called canonical labelling scheme for “almost all graphs”. More precisely,
    for a typical outcome of a random graph G(n,1/2), this simple combinatorial algorithm
    assigns labels to vertices in a way that easily permits isomorphism-testing against
    any other graph.'
acknowledgement: All authors were supported by ERC Starting Grant “RANDSTRUCT” No.
  101076777. Michael Anastos was also supported in part by the Austrian Science Fund
  (FWF)[10.55776/ESP3863424] and by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and
  innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 101034413.
  For Open Access purposes, the authors have applied a CC BY public copyright license
  to any author accepted manuscript version arising from this submission.
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citation:
  ama: 'Anastos M, Kwan MA, Moore B. Smoothed analysis for graph isomorphism. In:
    <i>Proceedings of the 57th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing</i>. Association
    for Computing Machinery; 2025:2098-2106. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3717823.3718173">10.1145/3717823.3718173</a>'
  apa: 'Anastos, M., Kwan, M. A., &#38; Moore, B. (2025). Smoothed analysis for graph
    isomorphism. In <i>Proceedings of the 57th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing</i>
    (pp. 2098–2106). Prague, Czechia: Association for Computing Machinery. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3717823.3718173">https://doi.org/10.1145/3717823.3718173</a>'
  chicago: Anastos, Michael, Matthew Alan Kwan, and Benjamin Moore. “Smoothed Analysis
    for Graph Isomorphism.” In <i>Proceedings of the 57th Annual ACM Symposium on
    Theory of Computing</i>, 2098–2106. Association for Computing Machinery, 2025.
    <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3717823.3718173">https://doi.org/10.1145/3717823.3718173</a>.
  ieee: M. Anastos, M. A. Kwan, and B. Moore, “Smoothed analysis for graph isomorphism,”
    in <i>Proceedings of the 57th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing</i>,
    Prague, Czechia, 2025, pp. 2098–2106.
  ista: 'Anastos M, Kwan MA, Moore B. 2025. Smoothed analysis for graph isomorphism.
    Proceedings of the 57th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing. STOC: Symposium
    on Theory of Computing, 2098–2106.'
  mla: Anastos, Michael, et al. “Smoothed Analysis for Graph Isomorphism.” <i>Proceedings
    of the 57th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing</i>, Association for Computing
    Machinery, 2025, pp. 2098–106, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3717823.3718173">10.1145/3717823.3718173</a>.
  short: M. Anastos, M.A. Kwan, B. Moore, in:, Proceedings of the 57th Annual ACM
    Symposium on Theory of Computing, Association for Computing Machinery, 2025, pp.
    2098–2106.
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  text: "Let r, k,  be integers such that 0 ≤  ≤ (k/r). Given a large r-uniform hypergraph
    G, we consider the\r\nfraction of k-vertex subsets that span exactly  edges. If
    \ is 0 or (k/r), this fraction can be exactly 1 (by taking G to be empty or complete),
    but for all other values of , one might suspect that this fraction is always significantly
    smaller than 1.\r\nIn this paper we prove an essentially optimal result along
    these lines: if  is not 0 or (k/r), then this\r\nfraction is at most (1/e) + ε,
    assuming k is sufficiently large in terms of r and ε > 0, and G is sufficiently
    large in terms of k. Previously, this was only known for a very limited range
    of values of r, k,  (due to Kwan–Sudakov–Tran, Fox–Sauermann, and Martinsson–Mousset–Noever–Trujic).
    Our result answers a question of Alon–Hefetz–Krivelevich–Tyomkyn, who suggested
    this as a hypergraph generalization of their edge-statistics conjecture. We also
    prove a much stronger bound when  is far from 0 and (k/r)."
acknowledgement: "This work was supported by NSF CAREER award DMS-2237646 [to V.J.],
  ERC Starting Grant “RANDSTRUCT” [no. 101076777 to M.K.], NSF grant DMS-2153576 [to
  D.M.], and the National Key Research and Development Program of China [2023YFA101020
  to T.T.].\r\nWe would like to thank Lisa Sauermann for her helpful comments. We
  would also like to thank Alex Grebennikov for identifying an oversight in the application
  of Theorem 7.1 (in a previous version of this paper)."
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    <i>International Mathematics Research Notices</i>. 2025;2025(18). doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/imrn/rnaf273">10.1093/imrn/rnaf273</a>
  apa: Jain, V., Kwan, M. A., Mubayi, D., &#38; Tran, T. (2025). The edge-statistics
    conjecture for hypergraphs. <i>International Mathematics Research Notices</i>.
    Oxford University Press. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/imrn/rnaf273">https://doi.org/10.1093/imrn/rnaf273</a>
  chicago: Jain, Vishesh, Matthew Alan Kwan, Dhruv Mubayi, and Tuan Tran. “The Edge-Statistics
    Conjecture for Hypergraphs.” <i>International Mathematics Research Notices</i>.
    Oxford University Press, 2025. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/imrn/rnaf273">https://doi.org/10.1093/imrn/rnaf273</a>.
  ieee: V. Jain, M. A. Kwan, D. Mubayi, and T. Tran, “The edge-statistics conjecture
    for hypergraphs,” <i>International Mathematics Research Notices</i>, vol. 2025,
    no. 18. Oxford University Press, 2025.
  ista: Jain V, Kwan MA, Mubayi D, Tran T. 2025. The edge-statistics conjecture for
    hypergraphs. International Mathematics Research Notices. 2025(18), rnaf273.
  mla: Jain, Vishesh, et al. “The Edge-Statistics Conjecture for Hypergraphs.” <i>International
    Mathematics Research Notices</i>, vol. 2025, no. 18, rnaf273, Oxford University
    Press, 2025, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/imrn/rnaf273">10.1093/imrn/rnaf273</a>.
  short: V. Jain, M.A. Kwan, D. Mubayi, T. Tran, International Mathematics Research
    Notices 2025 (2025).
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  text: "We continue a line of research which studies which hereditary families of
    digraphs have bounded dichromatic number. For a class of digraphs  C, a hero in
    \ C  is any digraph  H\r\n  such that  H -free digraphs in  C  have bounded dichromatic
    number. We show that if  F\r\n  is an oriented star of degree at least five, the
    only heroes for the class of  F -free digraphs are transitive tournaments. For
    oriented stars  F  of degree exactly four, we show the only heroes in  F -free
    digraphs are transitive tournaments, or possibly special joins of transitive tournaments.
    Aboulker et al. characterized the set of heroes of  {H,K1+P2→} -free digraphs
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    brooms, then every transitive tournament is a hero for this class of digraphs."
acknowledgement: "We thank the anonymous referees for their careful proofreading which
  helped improve the presentation of this paper. We also thank one of the anonymous
  referees for pointing out our construction implies Theorem 1.7!\r\nBenjamin Moore
  finished this project while a postdoctoral researcher at Charles University, and
  was supported by project 22-17398S (Flows and cycles in graphs on surfaces) of the
  Czech Science Foundation. Benjamin Moore is currently funded by RANDSTRUCT No. 101076777,
  and appreciates the gracious support. We acknowledge the support of the Natural
  Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), [funding reference
  number RGPIN-2020-03912]. Cette recherche a été financée par le Conseil de recherches
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  apa: Carbonero, A., Koerts, H., Moore, B., &#38; Spirkl, S. (2025). On heroes in
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    Elsevier. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejc.2024.104104">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejc.2024.104104</a>
  chicago: Carbonero, Alvaro, Hidde Koerts, Benjamin Moore, and Sophie Spirkl. “On
    Heroes in Digraphs with Forbidden Induced Forests.” <i>European Journal of Combinatorics</i>.
    Elsevier, 2025. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejc.2024.104104">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejc.2024.104104</a>.
  ieee: A. Carbonero, H. Koerts, B. Moore, and S. Spirkl, “On heroes in digraphs with
    forbidden induced forests,” <i>European Journal of Combinatorics</i>, vol. 125.
    Elsevier, 2025.
  ista: Carbonero A, Koerts H, Moore B, Spirkl S. 2025. On heroes in digraphs with
    forbidden induced forests. European Journal of Combinatorics. 125, 104104.
  mla: Carbonero, Alvaro, et al. “On Heroes in Digraphs with Forbidden Induced Forests.”
    <i>European Journal of Combinatorics</i>, vol. 125, 104104, Elsevier, 2025, doi:<a
    href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejc.2024.104104">10.1016/j.ejc.2024.104104</a>.
  short: A. Carbonero, H. Koerts, B. Moore, S. Spirkl, European Journal of Combinatorics
    125 (2025).
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  text: An ordered r-matching is an r-uniform hypergraph matching equipped with an
    ordering on its vertices. These objects can be viewed as natural generalisations
    of r-dimensional orders. The theory of ordered 2-matchings is well developed and
    has connections and applications to extremal and enumerative combinatorics, probability
    and geometry. On the other hand, in the case  r≥3 much less is known, largely
    due to a lack of powerful bijective tools. Recently, Dudek, Grytczuk and Ruciński
    made some first steps towards a general theory of ordered r-matchings, and in
    this paper we substantially improve several of their results and introduce some
    new directions of study. Many intriguing open questions remain.
acknowledgement: We would like to thank Timo Seppäläinen for some illuminating discussion
  about random high-dimensional orders and for bringing our attention to [59]. We
  would also like to thank the referees for helpful feedback. Michael Anastos is supported
  by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the
  Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 101034413. Matthew Kwan is supported
  by ERC Starting Grant ‘RANDSTRUCT’ No. 101076777, also funded by the European Union.
  Zhihan Jin and Benny Sudakov are supported by SNSF grant 200021-228014.
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  ama: Anastos M, Jin Z, Kwan MA, Sudakov B. Extremal, enumerative and probabilistic
    results on ordered hypergraph matchings. <i>Forum of Mathematics, Sigma</i>. 2025;13.
    doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/fms.2024.144">10.1017/fms.2024.144</a>
  apa: Anastos, M., Jin, Z., Kwan, M. A., &#38; Sudakov, B. (2025). Extremal, enumerative
    and probabilistic results on ordered hypergraph matchings. <i>Forum of Mathematics,
    Sigma</i>. Cambridge University Press. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/fms.2024.144">https://doi.org/10.1017/fms.2024.144</a>
  chicago: Anastos, Michael, Zhihan Jin, Matthew Alan Kwan, and Benny Sudakov. “Extremal,
    Enumerative and Probabilistic Results on Ordered Hypergraph Matchings.” <i>Forum
    of Mathematics, Sigma</i>. Cambridge University Press, 2025. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/fms.2024.144">https://doi.org/10.1017/fms.2024.144</a>.
  ieee: M. Anastos, Z. Jin, M. A. Kwan, and B. Sudakov, “Extremal, enumerative and
    probabilistic results on ordered hypergraph matchings,” <i>Forum of Mathematics,
    Sigma</i>, vol. 13. Cambridge University Press, 2025.
  ista: Anastos M, Jin Z, Kwan MA, Sudakov B. 2025. Extremal, enumerative and probabilistic
    results on ordered hypergraph matchings. Forum of Mathematics, Sigma. 13, e55.
  mla: Anastos, Michael, et al. “Extremal, Enumerative and Probabilistic Results on
    Ordered Hypergraph Matchings.” <i>Forum of Mathematics, Sigma</i>, vol. 13, e55,
    Cambridge University Press, 2025, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/fms.2024.144">10.1017/fms.2024.144</a>.
  short: M. Anastos, Z. Jin, M.A. Kwan, B. Sudakov, Forum of Mathematics, Sigma 13
    (2025).
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  text: 'In 1981, Karp and Sipser proved a law of large numbers for the matching number
    of a sparse Erdős–Rényi random graph, in an influential paper pioneering the so-called
    differential equation method for analysis of random graph processes. Strengthening
    this classical result, and answering a question of Aronson, Frieze and Pittel,
    we prove a central limit theorem in the same setting: the fluctuations in the
    matching number of a sparse random graph are asymptotically Gaussian. Our new
    contribution is to prove this central limit theorem in the subcritical and critical
    regimes, according to a celebrated algorithmic phase transition first observed
    by Karp and Sipser. Indeed, in the supercritical regime, a central limit theorem
    has recently been proved in the PhD thesis of Kreačić, using a stochastic generalisation
    of the differential equation method (comparing the so-called Karp–Sipser process
    to a system of stochastic differential equations). Our proof builds on these methods,
    and introduces new techniques to handle certain degeneracies present in the subcritical
    and critical cases. Curiously, our new techniques lead to a non-constructive result:
    we are able to characterise the fluctuations of the matching number around its
    mean, despite these fluctuations being much smaller than the error terms in our
    best estimates of the mean. We also prove a central limit theorem for the rank
    of the adjacency matrix of a sparse random graph.'
acknowledgement: "We would like to thank Christina Goldschmidt and Eleonora Kreačić
  for insightful discussions and clarifications about their work in the thesis [26].
  Matthew Kwan was supported by ERC Starting Grant ‘RANDSTRUCT’ No. 101076777. Ashwin
  Sah and Mehtaab Sawhney were supported by NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
  DGE-2141064. Ashwin Sah was supported by the PD Soros Fellowship.\r\nOpen access
  funding provided by Institute of Science and Technology Austria/KEMÖ."
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  ama: Glasgow M, Kwan MA, Sah A, Sawhney M. A central limit theorem for the matching
    number of a sparse random graph. <i>Journal of the London Mathematical Society</i>.
    2025;111(4). doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1112/jlms.70101">10.1112/jlms.70101</a>
  apa: Glasgow, M., Kwan, M. A., Sah, A., &#38; Sawhney, M. (2025). A central limit
    theorem for the matching number of a sparse random graph. <i>Journal of the London
    Mathematical Society</i>. Wiley. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1112/jlms.70101">https://doi.org/10.1112/jlms.70101</a>
  chicago: Glasgow, Margalit, Matthew Alan Kwan, Ashwin Sah, and Mehtaab Sawhney.
    “A Central Limit Theorem for the Matching Number of a Sparse Random Graph.” <i>Journal
    of the London Mathematical Society</i>. Wiley, 2025. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1112/jlms.70101">https://doi.org/10.1112/jlms.70101</a>.
  ieee: M. Glasgow, M. A. Kwan, A. Sah, and M. Sawhney, “A central limit theorem for
    the matching number of a sparse random graph,” <i>Journal of the London Mathematical
    Society</i>, vol. 111, no. 4. Wiley, 2025.
  ista: Glasgow M, Kwan MA, Sah A, Sawhney M. 2025. A central limit theorem for the
    matching number of a sparse random graph. Journal of the London Mathematical Society.
    111(4), e70101.
  mla: Glasgow, Margalit, et al. “A Central Limit Theorem for the Matching Number
    of a Sparse Random Graph.” <i>Journal of the London Mathematical Society</i>,
    vol. 111, no. 4, e70101, Wiley, 2025, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1112/jlms.70101">10.1112/jlms.70101</a>.
  short: M. Glasgow, M.A. Kwan, A. Sah, M. Sawhney, Journal of the London Mathematical
    Society 111 (2025).
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  text: Two landmark results in combinatorial random matrix theory, due to Komlós
    and Costello–Tao–Vu, show that discrete random matrices and symmetric discrete
    random matrices are typically nonsingular. In particular, in the language of graph
    theory, when p is a fixed constant, the biadjacency matrix of a random Erdős–Rényi
    bipartite graph G(n,n,p) and the adjacency matrix of an Erdős–Rényi random graph
    G(n,p) are both nonsingular with high probability. However, very sparse random
    graphs (i.e., where p is allowed to decay rapidly with n) are typically singular,
    due to the presence of “local” dependencies such as isolated vertices and pairs
    of degree-1 vertices with the same neighbour. In this paper, we give a combinatorial
    description of the rank of a sparse random graph G(n,n,c/n) or G(n,c/n) in terms
    of such local dependencies, for all constants c=e (and we present some evidence
    that the situation is very different for c=e). This gives an essentially complete
    answer to a question raised by Vu (2014). As applications of our main theorem
    and its proof, we also determine the asymptotic singularity probability of the
    2-core of a sparse random graph, we show that the rank of a sparse random graph
    is extremely well approximated by its matching number, and we deduce a central
    limit theorem for the rank of G(n,c/n).
acknowledgement: "We would like to thank Noga Alon for suggesting that our main result
  gives\r\na linear-time algorithm for computing the rank. We also thank the referees
  for a number of thoughtful comments and suggestions. Glasgow was supported by NSF
  graduate research fellowship program award DGE1656518. Kwan was supported by ERC
  Starting Grant “RANDSTRUCT” No. 101076777. Sah and Sawhney were supported by NSF
  Graduate Research Fellowship Program DGE-1745302.\r\n"
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  apa: Glasgow, M., Kwan, M. A., Sah, A., &#38; Sawhney, M. (2025). The exact rank
    of sparse random graphs. <i>Journal of the European Mathematical Society</i>.
    European Mathematical Society Press. <a href="https://doi.org/10.4171/jems/1692">https://doi.org/10.4171/jems/1692</a>
  chicago: Glasgow, Margalit, Matthew Alan Kwan, Ashwin Sah, and Mehtaab Sawhney.
    “The Exact Rank of Sparse Random Graphs.” <i>Journal of the European Mathematical
    Society</i>. European Mathematical Society Press, 2025. <a href="https://doi.org/10.4171/jems/1692">https://doi.org/10.4171/jems/1692</a>.
  ieee: M. Glasgow, M. A. Kwan, A. Sah, and M. Sawhney, “The exact rank of sparse
    random graphs,” <i>Journal of the European Mathematical Society</i>. European
    Mathematical Society Press, 2025.
  ista: Glasgow M, Kwan MA, Sah A, Sawhney M. 2025. The exact rank of sparse random
    graphs. Journal of the European Mathematical Society.
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    of the European Mathematical Society</i>, European Mathematical Society Press,
    2025, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.4171/jems/1692">10.4171/jems/1692</a>.
  short: M. Glasgow, M.A. Kwan, A. Sah, M. Sawhney, Journal of the European Mathematical
    Society (2025).
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  text: "There are a number of well-known problems and conjectures about partitioning
    graphs to satisfy local constraints. For example, the majority colouring conjecture
    of Kreutzer, Oum, Seymour, van der Zypen and Wood states that every directed graph
    has a 3-colouring such that for every vertex v, at most half of the out-neighbours
    of v have the same colour as \r\n. As another example, the internal partition
    conjecture, due to DeVos and to Ban and Linial, states that for every d, all but
    finitely many d-regular graphs have a partition into two non-empty parts such
    that for every vertex v, at least half of the neighbours of v lie in the same
    part as v. We prove several results in this spirit: in particular, two of our
    results are that the majority colouring conjecture holds for Erdős–Rényi random
    directed graphs (of any density), and that the internal partition conjecture holds
    if we permit a tiny number of ‘exceptional vertices’. Our proofs involve a variety
    of techniques, including several different methods to analyse random recolouring
    processes. One highlight is a personality-changing scheme: we ‘forget’ certain
    information based on the state of a Markov chain, giving us more independence
    to work with."
acknowledgement: "We are grateful to the anonymous referees for their thorough reading
  of the paper, and for many suggestions which have improved the exposition throughout.\r\n\r\nMichael
  Anastos was supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation
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  apa: Anastos, M., Cooley, O., Kang, M., &#38; Kwan, M. A. (2024). Partitioning problems
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    <a href="https://doi.org/10.1112/jlms.70010">https://doi.org/10.1112/jlms.70010</a>
  chicago: Anastos, Michael, Oliver Cooley, Mihyun Kang, and Matthew Alan Kwan. “Partitioning
    Problems via Random Processes.” <i>Journal of the London Mathematical Society</i>.
    Wiley, 2024. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1112/jlms.70010">https://doi.org/10.1112/jlms.70010</a>.
  ieee: M. Anastos, O. Cooley, M. Kang, and M. A. Kwan, “Partitioning problems via
    random processes,” <i>Journal of the London Mathematical Society</i>, vol. 110,
    no. 6. Wiley, 2024.
  ista: Anastos M, Cooley O, Kang M, Kwan MA. 2024. Partitioning problems via random
    processes. Journal of the London Mathematical Society. 110(6), e70010.
  mla: Anastos, Michael, et al. “Partitioning Problems via Random Processes.” <i>Journal
    of the London Mathematical Society</i>, vol. 110, no. 6, e70010, Wiley, 2024,
    doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1112/jlms.70010">10.1112/jlms.70010</a>.
  short: M. Anastos, O. Cooley, M. Kang, M.A. Kwan, Journal of the London Mathematical
    Society 110 (2024).
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  text: "The inertia bound and ratio bound (also known as the Cvetković bound and
    Hoffman bound) are two fundamental inequalities in spectral graph theory, giving
    upper bounds on the independence number α(G) of a graph G in terms of spectral
    information about a weighted adjacency matrix of G. For both inequalities, given
    a graph G, one needs to make a judicious choice of weighted adjacency matrix to
    obtain as strong a bound as possible.\r\nWhile there is a well-established theory
    surrounding the ratio bound, the inertia bound is much more mysterious, and its
    limits are rather unclear. In fact, only recently did Sinkovic find the first
    example of a graph for which the inertia bound is not tight (for any weighted
    adjacency matrix), answering a longstanding question of Godsil. We show that the
    inertia bound can be extremely far from tight, and in fact can significantly underperform
    the ratio bound: for example, one of our results is that for infinitely many n,
    there is an n-vertex graph for which even the unweighted ratio bound can prove
    α(G)≤4n3/4, but the inertia bound is always at least n/4. In particular, these
    results address questions of Rooney, Sinkovic, and Wocjan--Elphick--Abiad."
acknowledgement: "The authors are grateful to Noga Alon, Anurag Bishnoi, Clive Elphick,
  and Ferdinand Ihringer for helpful comments and interesting discussions on earlier
  drafts of this paper. Matthew Kwan is supported by ERC Starting Grant “RANDSTRUCT”
  No. 101076777. Yuval Wigderson is supported by Dr. Max Rössler, the Walter Haefner
  Foundation, and the ETH Zürich Foundation.\r\nOpen access funding provided by Eidgenossische
  Technische Hochschule Zurich."
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  ama: Kwan MA, Wigderson Y. The inertia bound is far from tight. <i>Bulletin of the
    London Mathematical Society</i>. 2024;56(10):3196-3208. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1112/blms.13127">10.1112/blms.13127</a>
  apa: Kwan, M. A., &#38; Wigderson, Y. (2024). The inertia bound is far from tight.
    <i>Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society</i>. London Mathematical Society.
    <a href="https://doi.org/10.1112/blms.13127">https://doi.org/10.1112/blms.13127</a>
  chicago: Kwan, Matthew Alan, and Yuval Wigderson. “The Inertia Bound Is Far from
    Tight.” <i>Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society</i>. London Mathematical
    Society, 2024. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1112/blms.13127">https://doi.org/10.1112/blms.13127</a>.
  ieee: M. A. Kwan and Y. Wigderson, “The inertia bound is far from tight,” <i>Bulletin
    of the London Mathematical Society</i>, vol. 56, no. 10. London Mathematical Society,
    pp. 3196–3208, 2024.
  ista: Kwan MA, Wigderson Y. 2024. The inertia bound is far from tight. Bulletin
    of the London Mathematical Society. 56(10), 3196–3208.
  mla: Kwan, Matthew Alan, and Yuval Wigderson. “The Inertia Bound Is Far from Tight.”
    <i>Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society</i>, vol. 56, no. 10, London Mathematical
    Society, 2024, pp. 3196–208, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1112/blms.13127">10.1112/blms.13127</a>.
  short: M.A. Kwan, Y. Wigderson, Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society 56 (2024)
    3196–3208.
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  text: "As a discrete analogue of Kac’s celebrated question on ‘hearing the shape
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    to understand which graphs are determined up to isomorphism by\r\ntheir spectrum
    (of their adjacency matrix). A striking conjecture in this area, due to van Dam
    and Haemers,\r\nis that ‘almost all graphs are determined by their spectrum’,
    meaning that the fraction of unlabelled n-vertex\r\ngraphs which are determined
    by their spectrum converges to 1 as n → ∞.\r\nIn this paper, we make a step towards
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    which are determined by their spectrum. This improves on previous bounds (of shape
    e\r\nc\r\n√\r\nn\r\n). We also\r\npropose a number of further directions of research.\r\n"
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  ama: Koval I, Kwan MA. Exponentially many graphs are determined by their spectrum.
    <i>Quarterly Journal of Mathematics</i>. 2024;75(3):869-899. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/qmath/haae030">10.1093/qmath/haae030</a>
  apa: Koval, I., &#38; Kwan, M. A. (2024). Exponentially many graphs are determined
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  chicago: Koval, Illya, and Matthew Alan Kwan. “Exponentially Many Graphs Are Determined
    by Their Spectrum.” <i>Quarterly Journal of Mathematics</i>. Oxford University
    Press, 2024. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/qmath/haae030">https://doi.org/10.1093/qmath/haae030</a>.
  ieee: I. Koval and M. A. Kwan, “Exponentially many graphs are determined by their
    spectrum,” <i>Quarterly Journal of Mathematics</i>, vol. 75, no. 3. Oxford University
    Press, pp. 869–899, 2024.
  ista: Koval I, Kwan MA. 2024. Exponentially many graphs are determined by their
    spectrum. Quarterly Journal of Mathematics. 75(3), 869–899.
  mla: Koval, Illya, and Matthew Alan Kwan. “Exponentially Many Graphs Are Determined
    by Their Spectrum.” <i>Quarterly Journal of Mathematics</i>, vol. 75, no. 3, Oxford
    University Press, 2024, pp. 869–99, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/qmath/haae030">10.1093/qmath/haae030</a>.
  short: I. Koval, M.A. Kwan, Quarterly Journal of Mathematics 75 (2024) 869–899.
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  text: "An n-vertex graph is called C-Ramsey if it has no clique or independent set
    of size Clog2n (i.e., if it has near-optimal Ramsey behavior). In this paper,
    we study edge statistics in Ramsey graphs, in particular obtaining very precise
    control of the distribution of the number of edges in a random vertex subset of
    a C-Ramsey graph. This brings together two ongoing lines of research: the study
    of ‘random-like’ properties of Ramsey graphs and the study of small-ball probability
    for low-degree polynomials of independent random variables.\r\n\r\nThe proof proceeds
    via an ‘additive structure’ dichotomy on the degree sequence and involves a wide
    range of different tools from Fourier analysis, random matrix theory, the theory
    of Boolean functions, probabilistic combinatorics and low-rank approximation.
    In particular, a key ingredient is a new sharpened version of the quadratic Carbery–Wright
    theorem on small-ball probability for polynomials of Gaussians, which we believe
    is of independent interest. One of the consequences of our result is the resolution
    of an old conjecture of Erdős and McKay, for which Erdős reiterated in several
    of his open problem collections and for which he offered one of his notorious
    monetary prizes."
acknowledgement: Kwan was supported for part of this work by ERC Starting Grant ‘RANDSTRUCT’
  No. 101076777. Sah and Sawhney were supported by NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
  Program DGE-2141064. Sah was supported by the PD Soros Fellowship. Sauermann was
  supported by NSF Award DMS-2100157, and for part of this work by a Sloan Research
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  full_name: Sauermann, Lisa
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- first_name: Mehtaab
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  ama: Kwan MA, Sah A, Sauermann L, Sawhney M. Anticoncentration in Ramsey graphs
    and a proof of the Erdős–McKay conjecture. <i>Forum of Mathematics, Pi</i>. 2023;11.
    doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/fmp.2023.17">10.1017/fmp.2023.17</a>
  apa: Kwan, M. A., Sah, A., Sauermann, L., &#38; Sawhney, M. (2023). Anticoncentration
    in Ramsey graphs and a proof of the Erdős–McKay conjecture. <i>Forum of Mathematics,
    Pi</i>. Cambridge University Press. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/fmp.2023.17">https://doi.org/10.1017/fmp.2023.17</a>
  chicago: Kwan, Matthew Alan, Ashwin Sah, Lisa Sauermann, and Mehtaab Sawhney. “Anticoncentration
    in Ramsey Graphs and a Proof of the Erdős–McKay Conjecture.” <i>Forum of Mathematics,
    Pi</i>. Cambridge University Press, 2023. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/fmp.2023.17">https://doi.org/10.1017/fmp.2023.17</a>.
  ieee: M. A. Kwan, A. Sah, L. Sauermann, and M. Sawhney, “Anticoncentration in Ramsey
    graphs and a proof of the Erdős–McKay conjecture,” <i>Forum of Mathematics, Pi</i>,
    vol. 11. Cambridge University Press, 2023.
  ista: Kwan MA, Sah A, Sauermann L, Sawhney M. 2023. Anticoncentration in Ramsey
    graphs and a proof of the Erdős–McKay conjecture. Forum of Mathematics, Pi. 11,
    e21.
  mla: Kwan, Matthew Alan, et al. “Anticoncentration in Ramsey Graphs and a Proof
    of the Erdős–McKay Conjecture.” <i>Forum of Mathematics, Pi</i>, vol. 11, e21,
    Cambridge University Press, 2023, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/fmp.2023.17">10.1017/fmp.2023.17</a>.
  short: M.A. Kwan, A. Sah, L. Sauermann, M. Sawhney, Forum of Mathematics, Pi 11
    (2023).
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