Biography:László Pyber
László Pyber (born 8 May 1960 in Budapest) is a Hungarian mathematician. He is a researcher at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest. He works in combinatorics and group theory.
Biography
Pyber received his Ph.D. from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1989 under the direction of László Lovász and Gyula O.H. Katona with the thesis Extremal Structures and Covering Problems.[1]
In 2007, he was awarded the Academics Prize by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.[2]
In 2017, he was the recipient of an ERC Advanced Grant.[3]
Mathematical contributions
Pyber has solved a number of conjectures in graph theory. In 1985, he proved the conjecture of Paul Erdős and Tibor Gallai that edges of a simple graph with n vertices can be covered with at most n-1 circuits and edges.[4] In 1986, he proved the conjecture of Paul Erdős that a graph with n vertices and its complement can be covered with n2/4+2 cliques.[5]
He has also contributed to the study of permutation groups. In 1993, he provided an upper bound for the order of a 2-transitive group of degree n not containing An avoiding the use of the classification of finite simple groups.[6] Together with Tomasz Łuczak, Pyber proved the conjecture of McKay that for every ε>0, there is a constant C such that C randomly chosen elements invariably generate the symmetric group Sn with probability greater than 1-ε.[7]
Pyber has made fundamental contributions in enumerating finite groups of a given order n. In 1993, he proved[8] that if the prime power decomposition of n is n=p1g1 ⋯ pkgk and μ=max(g1,...,gk), then the number of groups of order n is at most
In 2004, Pyber settled several questions in subgroup growth by completing the investigation of the spectrum of possible subgroup growth types.[9]
In 2011, Pyber and Andrei Jaikin-Zapirain obtained a surprisingly explicit formula for the number of random elements needed to generate a finite d-generator group with high probability.[10] They also explored related questions for profinite groups and settled several open problems.
In 2016, Pyber and Endre Szabó proved that in a finite simple group L of Lie type, a generating set A of L either grows, i.e., |A3| ≥ |A|1+ε for some ε depending only on the Lie rank of L, or A3=L.[11] This implies that diameters of Cayley graphs of finite simple groups of bounded rank are polylogarithmic in the size of the group, partially resolving a well-known conjecture of László Babai.
References
- ↑ "László Pyber – The Mathematics Genealogy Project". https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=132736.
- ↑ "Akadémiai Díj". February 2016. https://mta.hu/dijak-kituntetesek/akademiai-dij-105787.
- ↑ "Growth in Groups and Graph Isomorphism Now". https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/210050/factsheet/en.
- ↑ Pyber, László (1985). "An Erdös-Gallai conjecture". Combinatorica 5: 67–79. doi:10.1007/BF02579444.
- ↑ Pyber, László (1986). "Clique convering of graphs". Combinatorica 6 (4): 393–398. doi:10.1007/BF02579265.
- ↑ Pyber, László (1993). "On the orders of doubly transitive permutation groups, elementary estimates". Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A 62 (2): 361–366. doi:10.1016/0097-3165(93)90053-B.
- ↑ Pyber and Łuczak (1993). "On Random Generation of the Symmetric Group". Combinatorics, Probability and Computing 2 (4): 505–512. doi:10.1017/S0963548300000869.
- ↑ Pyber, László (1993). "Enumerating finite groups of given order". Annals of Mathematics 137 (1): 203–220. doi:10.2307/2946623. http://annals.math.princeton.edu/articles/13662.
- ↑ Pyber, László (2004). "Groups of intermediate subgroup growth and a problem of Grothendieck". Duke Mathematical Journal 121: 169–188. doi:10.1215/S0012-7094-04-12115-3.
- ↑ Jaikin-Zapirain and Pyber (2011). "Random generation of finite and profinite groups and group enumeration". Annals of Mathematics 173 (2): 769–814. doi:10.4007/annals.2011.173.2.4.
- ↑ Pyber and Szabo (2014). "Growth in finite simple groups of Lie type". Journal of the American Mathematical Society 29: 95–146. doi:10.1090/S0894-0347-2014-00821-3.
External links
- Pyber's home page.
- Pyber's nomination for Hungarian Academy of Sciences membership
- László Pyber at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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