Joel H. Spencer

Publication List Details

Period

1971 - 2009

Number

24

Co-Authors

Random Sparse Bit Strings at the Threshold of Adjacency (Extended Abstract appeared in STACS ‘98) (2009)

Joel H. Spencer, Katherine St. John

We give a complete characterization for the limit probabilities of first order sentences over sparse random bit strings at the threshold of adjacency. For strings of length n, we let the probability...

The complexity of random ordered structures (2009)

Joel H. Spencer, Katherine St. John

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A Wiley-Interscience Publication (2008)

Noga Alon, Joel H. Spencer, John Wiley, To Nurit, Mary Ann

The Probabilistic Method has recently been developed intensively and became one of the most powerful and widely used tools applied in Combinatorics. One of the major reasons for this rapid...

The complexity of random ordered structures (2008)

St. John, Joel H. Spencer, Joel H. Spencer, Katherine St. John

Abstract. We show that for random bit strings, Up(n), with probability, p = 1 2, the first-order quantifier depth D(Up(n)) needed to distinguish non-isomorphic structures is Θ(lg lg n), with high...

The tenacity of zero-one laws (2008)

Joel H. Spencer, Katherine St. John

The Ehrenfeucht-Fraisse game is a two-person game of perfect information which is connected to the Zero-One Laws of first order logic. We give bounds for roughly how quickly the Zero-One Laws...

Theory and Applications. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1987. Another textbook on simulated annealing (2008)

Brian Borchers, Jan Korst, Simulated Annealing, Thomas L. Magnanti, As Noga Alon, ...

I've compiled this list of books on combinatorial optimization and integer programming as a source of additional reading and project ideas for students in my graduate course in combinatorial...

The tenacity of zero-one laws (2007)

Joel H. Spencer, Katherine St. John

The Ehrenfeucht-Fraisse game is a two-person game of perfect information which is connected to the Zero-One Laws of rst order logic. We give bounds for roughly how quickly the Zero-One Laws converge...

. Then (2007)

Jerey C. Lagarias, Joel H. Spencer, Jade P. Vinson

Let u n be the number of ways to divide the unit square into dyadic rectangles of area 2 n

A CHARACTERIZATION OF CLIQUE GRAPHS (2005)

Roberts, Fred S., Spencer, Joel H.

A graph-theoretic discussion following up a recent paper in which Hamelink obtains an interesting sufficient condition for a graph to be a clique graph. In the present study related conditions are...

Random Unary Predicates: Almost Sure Theories and Countable Models, Random Structures & Algorithms 13 (1998)

Joel H. Spencer, Katherine St. John

Let U n;p be the random unary predicate and T k the almost sure first-order theory of U n;p under the linear ordering, where k is a positive integer and n \Gamma1=k p(n) n

Random Unary Predicates: Almost Sure Theories and Countable Models, Random Structures & Algorithms 13 (1998)

Joel H. Spencer, Katherine St. John

Let Un,p be the random unary predicate and Tk the almost sure first-order theory of Un,p under the linear ordering, where k is a positive integer and n −1/k ≪ p(n) ≪ n −1/(k+1). For each k,...