Program of

Mathematical Methods (part A)

(Prof. M. Ferri)


See (part of) the very nice team of academic year 2009-2010.

The class of academic year 2008-2009 was nice too!


The course consists of two parts. Part A is dedicated to Graph Theory. Part B is held by Prof. Giovanna Citti Ph.D.


Theory

1. Graphs and subgraphs (1.1 to 1.8).
Theorems: Thm. 1.1 (with proof), Cor. 1.1 (with proof), Thm.1.2 (with proof)
2. Trees (2.1; 2.2 up to Cor. 2.4.2; 2.3 to 2.5).
Theorems: Thm. 2.1 (with proof), Thm.2.2 (with proof), Cor. 2.2, Thm. 2.3, Thm. 2.4, Cor. 2.4.1, Cor. 2.4.2 (with proof), Thm. 2.7, Thm. 2.8 (with proof), Thm. 2.9.
3. Connectivity (3.1; 3.2 up to Cor. 3.2.2).
Theorems: Thm. 3.1, Thm. 3.2, Cor. 3.2.1, Cor. 3.2.2
4. Euler tours and Hamilton cycles (4.1; 4.2 up to Cor. 4.4; 4.3 up to Fleury'alg.; 4.4: first 10 lines).
Theorems: Thm. 4.1, Cor. 4.1, Thm. 4.2, Thm. 4.3 (with proof), Thm. 4.4, Cor. 4.4.
5. Matchings (5.1, 5.2; 5.4: first 8 lines).
Theorems: Thm. 5.1, Thm. 5.2, Cor. 5.2, Lemma 5.3, Thm. 5.3.
6. Edge colourings (6.1: first 20 lines, Thm. 6.1; 6.2: Thm. 6.2; 6.3: first 21 lines).
Theorems: Thm. 6.1, Thm. 6.2.
7. Independent sets and cliques (7.1; 7.2 up to Thm. 7.4).
Theorems: Thm. 7.1 (with proof), Cor. 7.1 (with proof), Thm. 7.2, Thm. 7.3, Thm. 7.4.
8. Vertex colourings (8.1 up to Cor. 8.1.2; 8.2; 8.3: only Thm. 8.5; 8.4; 8.5: only Thm. 8.7; 8.6).
Theorems: Thm. 8.1 (with proof), Cor. 8.1.1 (with proof), Cor. 8.1.2 (with proof), Thm. 8.4, Thm. 8.5, Thm. 8.6 (with proof), Cor. 8.6, Thm. 8.7.
9. Planar graphs (9.1 excluding Thm. 9.1; 9.2; 9.3; 9.5 without lemmas and without proof; 9.6 up to Thm. 9.12 excluded, without proof; mind the footnotes!).
Theorems: Thm. 9.2 (with proof), Thm. 9.3 (with proof), Thm. 9.4 (with proof), Thm. 9.5 (with proof), Cor. 9.5.1 (with proof), Cor. 9.5.2 (with proof), Cor. 9.5.3 (with proof), Cor. 9.5.4 (with proof), Cor. 9.5.5 (with proof), Thm. 9.10, Thm. 9.11, footnote at p. 157.
10. Directed graphs (10.1; 10.2 up to Cor. 10.1; 10.4 first 17 lines; 10.5; 10.6 up to Thm. 10.5).
Theorems: Thm. 10.1 (with proof), Cor. 10.1 (with proof), Thm. 10.5 (with proof).
11. Networks (11.1; 11.2; 11.3).
Theorems: Thm. 11.1, Cor. 11.1, Thm. 11.2, Thm. 11.3.
12. The cycle space and bond space (12.1)
Theorems: Thm. 12.1, Lemmas 12.2.1, 12.2.2, Thm. 12.2, Cor. 12.2.

Exercises

Modelling problems with graphs. Writing matrices associated with graphs. Computing graph invariants. Solving elementary graph problems: Shortest path problem (by Dijkstra's Algorithm), Connector problem (by Kruskal's algorithm), Chinese postman problem (by Fleury's algorithm), finding minimal coverings and maximal independent sets (by logical operations), making a 2-edge-connected graph diconnected. Building a maximal flow in a network.

Textbooks

Official textbook:

J.A. Bondy and U.S.R. Murty, "Graph theory with applications",
North Holland, 1976.
Freely downloadable at http://www.math.jussieu.fr/~jabondy/books/gtwa/gtwa (24 MB).

Support textbooks:

J.A. Bondy and U.S.R. Murty, "Graph theory",
Springer Series: Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Vol. 244 (2008)

R. Diestel, "Graph theory", Springer Series: Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Vol. 173 (2005)
Freely downloadable at http://diestel-graph-theory.com/basic.html (3 MB).


Supplementary material:

Test of Dec. 4, 2008 and its solution.
Test of Jan. 26, 2009 and its solution.

Projected slides: Smallworld (0.2 MB), Configuration spaces (7.8 MB).

Have a look at the demos of graph theory.