Let $G$ be a graph on $n\geq 6$ vertices and every vertex is of degree at least 3. If $C_{1}, C_{2}, \dots, C_{k}$ are all the cycles in $G$, determine all possible values of $\gcd(|C_{1}|, |C_{2}|, \dots, |C_{k}|)$ where $|C|$ denotes the number of vertices in the cycle $C$.

Let $n\geq1$ be an integer and let $t_1<t_2<\dots<t_n$ be positive integers. In a group of $t_n+1$ people, some games of chess are played. Two people can play each other at most once. Prove that it is possible for the following two conditions to hold at the same time: (i) The number of games played by each person is one of $t_1,t_2,\dots,t_n$. (ii) For every $i$ with $1\leq i\leq n$, there is someone who has played exactly $t_i$ games of chess.

Let $ n$ and $ k$ be positive integers such that $ \frac{1}{2} n < k \leq \frac{2}{3} n.$ Find the least number $ m$ for which it is possible to place $ m$ pawns on $ m$ squares of an $ n \times n$ chessboard so that no column or row contains a block of $ k$ adjacent unoccupied squares.

Define a $ k$-[i]clique[/i] to be a set of $ k$ people such that every pair of them are acquainted with each other. At a certain party, every pair of 3-cliques has at least one person in common, and there are no 5-cliques. Prove that there are two or fewer people at the party whose departure leaves no 3-clique remaining.

At least $3$ players take part in a tennis tournament. Each participant plays exactly one match against each other participant. After the tournament has ended, we find out that each player has won at least one match. (There are no ties in tennis). Show that in the tournament, there was at least one trio of players $A,B,C$ such that $A$ beat $B$, $B$ beat $C$, and $C$ beat $A$.

Consider a computer network consisting of servers and bi-directional communication channels among them. Unfortunately, not all channels operate. Each direction of each channel fails with probability $p$ and operates otherwise. (All of these stochastic events are mutually independent, and $0 \le p \le 1$.) There is a root serve, denoted by $r$. We call the network [i]operational[/i], if all serves can reach $r$ using only operating channels. Note that we do not require $r$ to be able to reach any servers. Show that the probability of the network to be operational does not depend on the choice of $r$. (In other words, for any two distinct root servers $r_1$ and $r_2$, the operational probability is the same.)

Let $n\ge 3$ be an integer and let $K_n$ be the complete graph on $n$ vertices. Each edge of $K_n$ is colored either red, green, or blue. Let $A$ denote the number of triangles in $K_n$ with all edges of the same color, and let $B$ denote the number of triangles in $K_n$ with all edges of different colors. Prove \[ B\le 2A+\frac{n(n-1)}{3}.\] (The [i]complete graph[/i] on $n$ vertices is the graph on $n$ vertices with $\tbinom n2$ edges, with exactly one edge joining every pair of vertices. A [i]triangle[/i] consists of the set of $\tbinom 32=3$ edges between $3$ of these $n$ vertices.) [i]Proposed by Ankan Bhattacharya[/i]

Let $T$ be a tree on $n$ vertices with exactly $k$ leaves. Suppose that there exists a subset of at least $\frac{n+k-1}{2}$ vertices of $T$, no two of which are adjacent. Show that the longest path in $T$ contains an even number of edges. [hide=*]A tree is a connected graph with no cycles. A leaf is a vertex of degree 1[/hide] [i]Vincent Huang[/i]

Let T be a finite tree graph that has more than one vertex. Let s be the largest number of vertices of a subtree $X \subset T$ for which every vertex of X has a neighbor other than X. Let t be the smallest positive integer for which each edge of T is contained in exactly t stars, and each vertex of T is contained in at most 2t - 1 stars. (That is, the stars can be represented by multiplicity.) Prove that s = t. Note: a star of T is a vertex with degree $\geq$ 3 , including its neighouring edges and vertices.

A directed graph (any two distinct vertices joined by at most one directed line) has the following property: If $x, u,$ and $v$ are three distinct vertices such that $x \to u$ and $x \to v$, then $u \to w$ and $v \to w$ for some vertex $w$. Suppose that $x \to u \to y \to\cdots \to z$ is a path of length $n$, that cannot be extended to the right (no arrow goes away from $z$). Prove that every path beginning at $x$ arrives after $n$ steps at $z.$

We have $n$ countries. Each country have $m$ persons who live in that country ($n>m>1$). We divide $m \cdot n$ persons into $n$ groups each with $m$ members such that there don't exist two persons in any groups who come from one country. Prove that one can choose $n$ people into one class such that they come from different groups and different countries.

Let $p$ be a prime number. At a school of $p^{2020}$ students it is required that each club consist of exactly $p$ students. Is it possible for each pair of students to have exactly one club in common?

$n(\geq 4)$ islands are connected by bridges to satisfy the following conditions: [list] [*]Each bridge connects only two islands and does not go through other islands. [*]There is at most one bridge connecting any two different islands. [*]There does not exist a list $A_1, A_2, \ldots, A_{2k}(k \geq 2)$ of distinct islands that satisfy the following: [center]For every $i=1, 2, \ldots, 2k$, the two islands $A_i$ and $A_{i+1}$ are connected by a bridge. (Let $A_{2k+1}=A_1$)[/center] [/list] Prove that the number of the bridges is at most $\frac{3(n-1)}{2}$.

There are $4n$ pebbles of weights $1, 2, 3, \dots, 4n.$ Each pebble is coloured in one of $n$ colours and there are four pebbles of each colour. Show that we can arrange the pebbles into two piles so that the following two conditions are both satisfied: [list] [*]The total weights of both piles are the same. [*] Each pile contains two pebbles of each colour. [/list] [i]Proposed by Milan Haiman, Hungary and Carl Schildkraut, USA[/i]

At a party attended by $n$ married couples, each person talks to everyone else at the party except his or her spouse. The conversations involve sets of persons or cliques $C_1, C_2, \cdots, C_k$ with the following property: no couple are members of the same clique, but for every other pair of persons there is exactly one clique to which both members belong. Prove that if $n \geq 4$, then $k \geq 2n$. [i]Proposed by USA.[/i]

Let a set $X$ be given which consists of $2 \cdot n$ distinct real numbers ($n \geq 3$). Consider a set $K$ consisting of some pairs $(x, y)$ of distinct numbers $x, y \in X$, satisfying the two conditions: [b]I.[/b] If $(x, y) \in K$ then $(y, x) \not \in K$. [b]II.[/b] Every number $x \in X$ belongs to at most 19 pairs of $K$. Show that we can divide the set $X$ into 5 non-empty disjoint sets $X_1, X_2, X_3, X_4, X_5$ in such a way that for each $i = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5$ the number of pairs $(x, y) \in K$ where $x, y$ both belong to $X_i$ is not greater than $3 \cdot n$.

For integers $a, b$, call the lattice point with coordinates $(a,b)$ [b]basic[/b] if $gcd(a,b)=1$. A graph takes the basic points as vertices and the edges are drawn in such way: There is an edge between $(a_1,b_1)$ and $(a_2,b_2)$ if and only if $2a_1=2a_2\in \{b_1-b_2, b_2-b_1\}$ or $2b_1=2b_2\in\{a_1-a_2, a_2-a_1\}$. Some of the edges will be erased, such that the remaining graph is a forest. At least how many edges must be erased to obtain this forest? At least how many trees exist in such a forest?

Given two integers $h \geq 1$ and $p \geq 2$, determine the minimum number of pairs of opponents an $hp$-member parliament may have, if in every partition of the parliament into $h$ houses of $p$ member each, some house contains at least one pair of opponents.

The game of circulate is played with a deck of $kn$ cards each with a number in $1,2,\ldots,n$ such that there are $k$ cards with each number. First, $n$ piles numbered $1,2,\ldots,n$ of $k$ cards each are dealt out face down. The player then flips over a card from pile $1$, places that card face up at the bottom of the pile, then next flips over a card from the pile whose number matches the number on the card just flipped. The player repeats this until he reaches a pile in which every card has already been flipped and wins if at that point every card has been flipped. Hamster has grown tired of losing every time, so he decides to cheat. He looks at the piles beforehand and rearranges the $k$ cards in each pile as he pleases. When can Hamster perform this procedure such that he will win the game? [i]Brian Hamrick.[/i]

We consider a prism which has the upper and inferior basis the pentagons: $A_{1}A_{2}A_{3}A_{4}A_{5}$ and $B_{1}B_{2}B_{3}B_{4}B_{5}$. Each of the sides of the two pentagons and the segments $A_{i}B_{j}$ with $i,j=1,\ldots$,5 is colored in red or blue. In every triangle which has all sides colored there exists one red side and one blue side. Prove that all the 10 sides of the two basis are colored in the same color.

A fighting game club has $2024$ members. One day, a game of Smash is played between some pairs of members so that every member has played against exactly $3$ other members. Each match has a winner and a loser. A member will be [i]happy[/i] if they won in at least $2$ of the matches. What is the maximum number of happy members over all possible match-ups and all possible outcomes?

show there exist positive constants $c_1$ and $c_2$ such that for any $n\geq 3$, whenever $T_1$ and $T_2$ are two trees on the set of vertices $X = \{1, 2, ..., n\}$, there exists a function $f : X \to \{-1, +1\}$ for which $$\bigg | \sum_ {x \in P} f (x) \bigg | <c_1 \log n$$ for any path P that is a subgraph of $T_1$ or $T_2$ , but with an upper bound $c_2 \log n / \log \log n$ the statement is no longer true.

Let $ m,n$ be two integers such that $ \varphi(m) \equal{}\varphi(n) \equal{} c$. Prove that there exist natural numbers $ b_{1},b_{2},\dots,b_{c}$ such that $ \{b_{1},b_{2},\dots,b_{c}\}$ is a reduced residue system with both $ m$ and $ n$.

A connected graph has $100$ vertices, the degrees of all the vertices do not exceed $4$ and no two vertices of degree $4$ are adjacent. Prove that it is possible to remove several edges that have no common vertices from this graph such that there would be no triangles in the resulting graph.

Numbers 1 and −1 are written in the cells of a board 2000×2000. It is known that the sum of all the numbers in the board is positive. Show that one can select 1000 rows and 1000 columns such that the sum of numbers written in their intersection cells is at least 1000. [i]D. Karpov[/i]