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Prof. Alex Scott

Status
Academic Faculty
Professor of Mathematics
Contact form
http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/scott/
+44 1865 615314
ORCID iD
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4489-5988
Research groups
  • Combinatorics

Address
Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG

Highlighted publications
Pure pairs. I. Trees and linear anticomplete pairs
Chudnovsky, M Scott, A Seymour, P Spirkl, S Advances in Mathematics volume 375 (03 Sep 2020)
Moderate deviations of subgraph counts in the Erdős-Rényi random graphs G(n,m) and G(n,p)
Goldschmidt, C Griffiths, S Scott, A Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (26 May 2020)
Detecting an odd hole
Chudnovsky, M Scott, A Seymour, P Spirkl, S Journal of the ACM volume 67 issue 1 (29 Jan 2020)
Better bounds for poset dimension and boxicity
Scott, A Wood Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (18 Oct 2019)
Induced subgraphs of graphs with large chromatic number. IV. Consecutive holes
Scott, A Seymour, P Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B volume 132 180-235 (06 Apr 2018)
Induced subgraphs of graphs with large chromatic number. I. Odd holes
Scott, A Seymour, P Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series B volume 121 68-84 (01 Nov 2016)
Research interests

Combinatorics, probability and related areas

Recent publications
Defective Colouring of Hypergraphs
Girão, A Illingworth, F Scott, A Wood, D (21 Jul 2022) http://arxiv.org/abs/2207.10514v1
Polynomial bounds for chromatic number. III. Excluding a double star
Scott, A Seymour, P Spirkl, S JOURNAL OF GRAPH THEORY (21 Jul 2022) http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000828116200001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=4fd6f7d59a501f9b8bac2be37914c43e
Improved bounds for 1-independent percolation on $\mathbb{Z}^n$
Balister, P Johnston, T Savery, M Scott, A (24 Jun 2022) http://arxiv.org/abs/2206.12335v1
Balancing connected colourings of graphs
Illingworth, F Powierski, E Scott, A Tamitegama, Y (10 May 2022) http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.04984v1
Bipartite graphs with no $K_6$ minor
Chudnovsky, M Scott, A Seymour, P Spirkl, S (21 Apr 2022) http://arxiv.org/abs/2204.10119v1
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