Extremal Combinatorics II

• Time: From September 24, 2024, every Tuesday and Thursday
  8:30-10:00am (Beijing), 9:30-11:00am(Seoul).
• Zoom: 346 934 4087, PW: 202409

Announcement

• No class on October 1 & 3. Classes resume on October 8.

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Please send homework to Zhuo.Wu@warwick.ac.uk

Part 2. Methods

1. Entropy method

• 9/24 Lecture 1: Entropy, joint/conditional entropy, quick application: volume of Hamming ball, Shannon-Khinchin axioms, independence, monotonicity, non-negativity. Tablet note
• 9/26 Lecture 2: Dependence, chain rule, dropping conditioning, subadditivity, Shearer’s lem, application: Loomis-Whitney ineq. Tablet note

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