Martin Tancer - publications

My research interests:

Geometrical and topological combinatorics, graph colorings

Remark on names of coauthors

In the lists below I spell my coauthors without special characters, since I sometimes experience problems with encoding special characters. The list of my coauthors, including special characters (if they appear correctly) can be found below the list of publications.

Submitted papers and/or preprints

M. Tancer: Recognition of collapsible complexes is NP-complete. Preprint at Arxiv.
M. Tancer, K. Vorwerk: Non-embeddability of geometric lattices and buildings. Preprint at Arxiv.
X. Goaoc, J. Matousek, P. Patak, Z. Safernova, M. Tancer: Simplifying inclusion-exclusion formulas. Preprint at Arxiv.
M. Tancer, D. Tonkonog: Good covers are algorithmically unrecognizable. Preprint at Arxiv.
M. Tancer: Intersection patterns of convex sets via simplicial complexes, a survey. Preprint at Arxiv.

Research papers accepted for publication in refereed international journals

16. J. Matousek, M. Tancer, U. Wagner: A geometric proof of the colored Tverberg theorem, Discrete and Computational Geometry. 47(2) (2012), 245-265. Preprint at Arxiv.
15. M. Tancer: A counterexample to Wegner's conjecture on good covers, Discrete and Computational Geometry. 47(2) (2012), 266-274. Preprint at Arxiv.
14. M. Tancer: d-representability of simplicial complexes of fixed dimension, Journal of Computational Geometry, 2(1) (2011), 183-188. Link to the journal (open access).
13. M. Tancer: Strong d-collapsibility, Contributions to Discrete Mathematics, 6(2) (2011), 32-35. Link to the journal (open access).
12. J. Matousek, M. Tancer, U. Wagner: Hardness of embedding simplicial complexes in R^d, Journal of the European Mathematical Society, 13(2) (2011), 259-295. Preprint at Arxiv.
11. M. Tancer: d-collapsibility is NP-complete for d greater or equal to 4. Chicago Journal of Theoretical Computer Science, 2010, Preprint at Arxiv.
10. M. Tancer: Non-representability of finite projective planes by convex sets, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 138(9) (2010), 3285-3291. Preprint at Arxiv.
9. J. Miskuf, R. Skrekovski, M. Tancer: Backbone Colorings of Graphs with Bounded Degree, Discrete Applied Mathematics 158(5) (2010), 534-542. Preprint in ITI series (unfortunately, the preprint contains some errors; use the journal version or email me for the recent version).
8. A. Bjorner, M. Tancer: Combinatorial Alexander Duality - a Short and Elementary Proof, Discrete and Computational Geometry 42(4) (2009), 586-593. Preprint at Arxiv.
7. J. Matousek, M. Tancer: Dimension Gaps Between Representability and Collapsibility, Discrete and Computational Geometry 42(4) (2009), 631-639. Preprint at Arxiv.
6. B. Luzar, R. Skrekovski, M. Tancer: Injective colorings of planar graphs with few colors, Discrete Mathematics 309(18) (2009), 5636-5649. Preprint in ITI series.
5. J. Miskuf, R. Skrekovski, M. Tancer: Backbone Colorings and Generalized Mycielski's Graphs, SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics 23 (2009), 1063-1070. Full version.
4. Z. Dvorak, R. Skrekovski, M. Tancer: List coloring squares of sparse subcubic graphs, SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics 22 (2008), 139-159. Preprint in ITI series.
3. J. Kyncl, M. Tancer: The maximum piercing number for some classes of convex sets with (4,3)-property, Electron. J. Combin. 15(1) (2008), R27. Link to the journal (open access).
2. J. Hladky, J. Novak, P. Pyrih, M. Sterzik, M. Tancer: An engine breaking ΩEP-property, Topology and its Applications 153(18) (2006), 3621-3626.
1. D. Kral, R. Skrekovski, M. Tancer: Construction of large graphs with no optimal surjective L(2,1)-labelings, SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics 20(2) (2006), 536-543. Preprint in ITI series.

A paper (at the moment single) in an international fully refereed conference without a journal version

17. O. Bilka, J. Jirasek, P. Klavik, M. Tancer, J. Volec: On the Complexity of Planar Covering of Small Graphs. In proceedings of WG 2011, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6986 (2011), 83-94. Full version at Arxiv.

My PhD thesis

M. Tancer: Topological and geometrical combinatorics, Charles University in Prague. Download.

List of coauthors

Ondřej Bílka, Anders Björner, Zdeněk Dvořák, Xavier Goaoc, Jan Hladký, Jozef Jirásek, Pavel Klavík, Daniel Kráľ, Jan Kynčl, Borut Lužar, Jiří Matoušek, Jozef Miškuf, Jan Novák, Pavel Paták, Pavel Pyrih, Zuzana Safernová, Riste Škrekovski, Marek Sterzik, Dmitry Tonkonog, Jan Volec, Kathrin Vorwerk, Uli Wagner