Independent Sets and Eigenspaces

The problems we study in this thesis arise in computer science, extremal set theory and quantum computing. The first common feature of these problems is that each can be reduced to characterizing the independent sets of maximum size in a suitable graph. A second common feature is that the size...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Newman, Michael William
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: University of Waterloo 2006
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10012/1151