Problems Blog

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All mistakes are my own and all merits go to the lecturers

Combinatorics

06/26/2023: Fedor Petrov's Counting Proof of Oddtown 

10/17/2022: Proof of Dirac's Theorem: every graph on n>2 vertices with min. degree at least n/2 has a hamiltonian cycle

10/11/2022: EKR via Katona Circle (From Liana Yepremyan's Combinatorics Class)

09/20/2022: Littlewood-Offord (when the x_i are in R) Theorem of Erdös (From Liana's Combinatorics class)

09/15/2022: When is LYM Tight? (From Liana's Combinatorics class)

09/12/2022: Proof of Lemma 2.1 from this paper by Cosmin Pohoata and Fedor Petrov

09/08/2022: Problem 2 from Chapter 3 of Bollobás' book Combinatorics

09/07/2022: Proof of Local LYM Inequality (from Liana's Combinatorics class)

09/06/2022: One proof of the LYM Inequality (from Liana's Combinatorics class)

09/02/2022: Proof of Sperner's Theorem via symmetric chain decomposition (from Liana's Combinatorics class)

08/24/2022: Proof of a theorem we went over today in Liana Yepremyan's Combinatorics class 

08/22/2022: Proof of Kövári, Sós, Turán Theorem -- standard double counting + convexity argument

08/14/2022: Frieze and Karonski's Random Graphs -- Exercise 1.4.3

Measure Theory/Real Analysis

In preparation for the measure theory portion of the analysis qual I made the below set of notes. They are based off of Stein and Shakarchi's Real Analysis and David Borthwick's Lecture notes. 

Borel-Cantelli Lemma (two proofs)

Caratheodory

Convergence Theorems (bounded convergence, Fatou, monotone convergence, dominated convergence)

Density of Various Families of Functions in L^1

Extension of Fourier Transform from Schwartz Functions to L^2 functions

Construction of the Lebesgue Integral: 

Littlewood Principles (Egorov, Lusin, and approximating measurable sets by rectangles)

Properties of Measurable Functions

Nested Sequences Lemma, Borel Approximation

Orthonormal Basis Theorem

Properties of Lebesgue Outer Measure

Properties of Lebesuge-Measurable Sets

Riemann-Lebesgue Lemma

Riesz-Fischer Theorem