Research

Most of my preprints are on ArXiv.

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Some highlights:

Improving R(3,k) in just two bites

Zion Hefty, Paul Horn, Dylan King, Florian Pfender

arXiv:2510.19718 

A polynomial improvement for the odd cycle-complete Ramsey numbers

Marcelo Campos, Matthew Jenssen, Marcus Michelen, Florian Pfender, Julian Sahasrabudhe

arXiv:2511.10641

The Hypergraph Turán Densities of Tight Cycles Minus an Edge

Bernard Lidicky, Connor Mattes, Florian Pfender

arXiv:2409.14257

C5 is almost a fractalizer

Bernard Lidický, Connor Mattes, Florian Pfender

Journal of Graph Theory 104 (1), 2023, 220-244

arXiv:2102.06773

Semidefinite Programming and Ramsey Numbers

Bernard Lidický, Florian Pfender

SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics 35 (4), 2021, 2328-2344

SIGEST Award 2026

arXiv:1704.03592

Vertex-coloring edge-weightings: towards the 1-2-3-conjecture

Maciej Kalkowski, Michał Karoński, Florian Pfender

Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B 100 (3), 2010, 347-349

Kissing numbers, sphere packings, and some unexpected proofs

Florian Pfender, Günter M Ziegler

Notices of the AMS 51 (8), 2004, 873-883

Chauvenet Prize 2006

A list of all published papers is below