
Prof. Alex Scott
Status
Academic Faculty
Professor of Mathematics
Research groups
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