List of Publications / Shlomo Hoory

Ph.D. Thesis On graphs of high girth, under the supervision of Prof. Nati Linial, Hebrew university, Jerusalem 2002. Gzipped thesis
1 A counterexample to a conjecture of Björner and Lovász on the χ-coloring complex, with Nati Linial, Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B 95(2), p.346-349, 2005. ps, pdf.
2 Computing Unsatisfiable k-SAT Instances with Few Occurrences per Variable, with Stefan Szeider, Theoretical Computer Science 337(1-3), p.347-359, 2005. ps, pdf, Archive for (k,s)-SAT certificates.
3 A lower bound on the spectral radius of the universal cover of a graph, Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B 93(1), p.33-43, 2005. ps, pdf.
4 Colorings of the d-regular infinite tree, with Nati Linial, Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B 91(2), p.161-167, 2004. ps, pdf.
5 On Codes from Hypergraphs, with Yonatan Bilu, European Journal of Combinatorics 25(3), p.339-354, 2004. ps, pdf.
6 The size of bipartite graphs with a given girth, Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B 86(2), p.215-220, 2002. ps, pdf.
7 A Continuous Analogue of the Girth Problem, with Alon Amit and Nati Linial, Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B 84(2), p.340-363, 2002. ps, pdf.
8 The Moore bound for irregular graphs, with Noga Alon and Nati Linial, Graph and Combinatorics 18(1), p.53-57, 2002. ps, pdf.
9 Central Points for Set in R^n (or: the Chocolate Ice-Cream Problem), with Nati Linial, Discrete & Computational Geometry 15, p.467-479, 1996. ps, pdf.
10 Universal Traversal Sequences for Expander Graphs, with Avi Wigderson, Information Processing Letters 46(2), p.67-69, 1993. ps, pdf.
11 Simple permutations mix well, with Avner Magen, Steven Myers and Charles Rackoff, ICALP 2004. To appear in Theoretical Computer Science. ps, pdf.
12 A note on unsatisfiable k-CNF formulas with few occurrences per variable, with Stefan Szeider, to appear in SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, ps, pdf.
13 Expander Graphs and their Applications, an invited survey acticle to appear in the Bulletin of the AMS. Draft version: ps, pdf.
14 Rank Bounds and Integrality Gaps for Cutting Planes Procedures, with Joshua Buresh-Oppenheim, Nicola Galesi, Avner Magen and Toniann Pitassi, IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), 2003. ps, pdf.
15 Simple Permutations Mix Even Better, with Alex Brodsky, submitted, ps, pdf, Arxiv math.CO/0411098.
16 Monotone circuits for the majority function, with Avner Magen and Toniann Pitassi, submitted to RANDOM 2006. ps, pdf.
22 Maximum matchings in regular graphs of high girth, with Abraham D. Flaxman, sumitted to EJC. ps, pdf.
18 The girth of random Cayley graphs, with Alex Gamburd, Mehrdad Shahshahani and Bálint Virág, work in progress.
19 The non-backtracking spectrum of the universal cover of a graph, with Omer Angel and Joel Friedman, work in progress.
20 On the largest eigenvalue of irregular graphs, with Nick Wormald, work in progress.
21 On the number of eight cycles in a quadrilateral free bipartite graph, with Jacques A. Verstraete, and Felix Lazebnik, work in progress.