
Current Affiliation
University of Oxford, UK
Email: Paul.Balister@wadham.ox.ac.uk.
Research Interests
Probabilistic combinatorics, random geometric graphs
Managing editor
Publications with links
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Alan Stacey. , Proc. Royal Soc. London Ser. A 440 (1993), no. 1908, 201–220.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Alan Stacey. Improved upper bounds for the critical probability of oriented percolation in two dimensions. Random Structures & Algorithms 5 (1994), no. 4, 573–589.
- Paul Balister, Susan Howson. Note on Nakayama's lemma for compact Λ-Modules. Asian J. Math. 1 (1997), no. 2, 224–229.
- Paul Balister. Characteristic distributions for non-torsion Λ-modules. Elliptic Curves, Modular Forms and Fermat's Last Theorem (Hong Kong, 1993), Series in Number Theory, Vol I, 2nd Edition, 141–151, International Press Inc, Cambridge MA, (1997).
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Alan Stacey. Counting boundary paths for oriented percolation clusters. Random Structures & Algorithms 14 (1999), no. 1, 1–28.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Alan Stacey. Dependent percolation in two dimensions. Probability Theory and Related Fields 117 (2000), no. 4, 495–513.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Oliver Riordan, Alex Scott. Alternating knot diagrams, Euler circuits and the interlace polynomial. European Journal of Combinatorics 22 (2001), no. 1, 1–4.
- Paul Balister. On the Alspach conjecture. Combinatorics, Probability and Computing 10 (2001), no. 2, 95–125.
- Paul Balister. Packing circuits into Kn. Combinatorics, Probability and Computing 10 (2001), no. 6, 463–499.
- Robert Kozma, Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, and Walter Freeman. Dynamical percolation models of phase transitions in the cortex, Proceedings: NOLTA 2001 Nonlinear Theory and its Applications. Miyagi, Japan. Oct 28 – Nov 1, 2001. Vol I 55–58.
- Paul Balister. Vertex-distinguishing edge colorings of random graphs. Random Structures & Algorithms 20 (2002), no. 1, 89–97.
- Paul Balister, Richard Schelp, Miklos Simonovits. A note on Ramsey size-linear graphs. Journal of Graph Theory 39 (2002), no. 1, 1–5.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Richard Schelp. Vertex-distinguishing colorings of graphs with Δ(G)=2. Discrete Mathematics 252 (2002), no. 1–3, 17–29.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Jonathan Cutler, Luke Pebody. The interlace polynomial of graphs at −1. European Journal of Combinatorics 23 (2002), no. 7, 761–767.
- Paul Balister, Yair Caro, Cecil Rousseau, Raphael Yuster. Zero-sum square matrices. European Journal of Combinatorics 23 (2002), no. 5, 489–497.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Anthony Quas. Entropy along convex shapes, random tilings and shifts of finite type. Illinois Journal of Math. 46 (2002), no. 3, 781–795.
- Robert Kozma, Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás. Self-organized development of behaviors in spatio-temporal dynamical systems. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks IJCNN 2002, World Congress on Computational Intelligence WCCI 2002, Honolulu, Hawaii, May 12–17, 2002, pp.2261–2265.
- Paul Balister, Oliver Riordan, Richard Schelp. Vertex-distinguishing edge colorings of graphs. Journal of Graph Theory 42 (2003), no. 2, 95–109.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Oliver Riordan, Richard Schelp. Graphs with large maximum degree containing no odd cycles of a given length. Journal of Combin. Theory B 87 (2003), no. 2, 366–373.
- Paul Balister. Packing digraphs with directed closed trails. Combinatorics, Probability and Computing 12 (2003), no. 1, 1–15.
- Paul Balister. Packing closed trails into dense graphs. Journal of Combin. Theory B 88 (2003), no.1, 107–118.
- Paul Balister, Alexandr Kostochka, Hao Li, Richard Schelp. Balanced edge colorings. Journal of Combin. Theory B 90 (2004), no. 1, 3–20.
- Paul Balister, Ervin Győri, Jenö Lehel, Richard Schelp. Longest paths in circular arc graphs. Combinatorics, Probability and Computing 13 (2004), no. 3, 311–317.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Mark Walters. . Annals of Applied Probability 14 (2004), no. 4, 1869–1879.
- Robert Kozma, Marko Puljic, Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Walter Freeman. Neuropercolation: A random cellular automata approach to spatio-temporal neurodynamics. Proc. ACRI 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3305, pp. 435–443.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Anthony Quas. Percolation in Voronoi tilings. Random Structures & Algorithms 26 (2005), no. 3, 310–318.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Amites Sarkar, Mark Walters. Connectivity of random k-nearest-neighbour graphs. Advances in Applied Probability 37 (2005), no. 1, 1–24.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Mark Walters. Continuum percolation in the square and the disc. Random Structures & Algorithms 26 (2005), no. 4, 392–403.
- Robert Kozma, Marko Puljic, Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Walter Freeman. Phase transitions in the neuropercolation model of neural populations with mixed local and non-local interactions. Biological Cybernetics 92 (2005), no. 6, 367–379.
- Paul Balister, Jenö Lehel, Richard Schelp. Ramsey unsaturated and saturated graphs. Journal of Graph Theory 51 (2006), no. 1, 22–32.
- Paul Balister, András Gyárfás, Jenö Lehel, Richard Schelp. Mono-multi bipartite Ramsey numbers, designs, and matrices. Journal of Combin. Theory A 113 (2006), no. 1, 101–112.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás. Pair dominating graphs. European Journal of Combinatorics 27 (2006), no. 2, 322–328.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Robert Kozma. Large deviations for mean field models of probabilistic cellular automata. Random Structures & Algorithms 29 (2006), no. 3, 399–415.
- Paul Balister, Ervin Győri, Jenö Lehel, Richard Schelp. Adjacent vertex distinguishing edge-colorings. SIAM Journal of Discrete Math. 21 (2007), no. 1, 237–250.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás. Counting regions with bounded surface area. Communication in Mathematical Physics 273 (2007), no. 2, 305–315.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Stefanie Gerke. The generalized Randić index of trees. Journal of Graph Theory 56 (2007), no. 4, 270–286.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Santosh Kumar, Amites Sarkar. . ACM MobiCom 2007, 75–86.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Stefanie Gerke. Connectivity of addable graph classes. Journal of Combin. Theory B 98 (2008), no. 3, 577–584.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Stefanie Gerke. Sequences with changing dependencies. SIAM Journal of Discrete Math. 22 (2008), no. 3, 1149–1154.
- Paul Balister, Ervin Győri, Jenö Lehel, Richard Schelp. Connected graphs without long paths. Discrete Math. 308 (2008), no. 19, 4487–4494.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Amites Sarkar, Mark Walters. Connectivity of a Gaussian network. International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing 3 (2008), no. 3, 204–213.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Amites Sarkar, Mark Walters. Highly connected random geometric graphs. Discrete Appl. Math. 157 (2009), no. 2, 309–320.
- Paul Balister, Stefanie Gerke, Gregory Gutin. . Order 26 (2009), no. 1, 95–100.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Amites Sarkar, Mark Walters. . Advances in Applied Probability 41 (2009), no. 1, 1–12.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Mark Walters. Random transceiver networks. Advances in Applied Probability 41 (2009), no. 2, 323–343.
- Paul Balister, Jeffrey Wheeler. The Erdős–Heilbronn problem for finite groups. Acta Arithmetica 140 (2009), no. 2, 105–118.
- Paul Balister, Stefanie Gerke, Gregory Gutin, Adrian Johnstone, Joseph Reddington, Elizabeth Scott, Arezou Soleimanfallah, Anders Yeo. . Journal of Discrete Algorithms 7 (2009), no. 4, 509–518.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Amites Sarkar. Percolation, connectivity, coverage and colouring of random geometric graphs. Handbook of Large-Scale Random Networks 117–142, Bolyai Society Mathematical Studies 18, Springer, Berlin, (2009). Editors: Béla Bollobás, Robert Kozma, Dezső Miklós.
- Paul Balister, Zizhan Zheng, Santosh Kumar, Prasun Sinha. . INFOCOM 2009, 136–144.
- Paul Balister, Santosh Kumar. . INFOCOM 2009, 2896–2900.
- Paul Balister, Steven Kalikow, Amites Sarkar. The Linus sequence. Combinatorics, Probability and Computing 19 (2010), no. 1, 21–46.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás. Bond percolation with attenuation in high dimensional VoronoÄ tilings. Random Structures & Algorithms 36 (2010), no. 1, 5–10.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, J. Robert Johnson, Mark Walters. Random majority percolation. Random Structures & Algorithms 36 (2010), no. 3, 315–340.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Amites Sarkar, Mark Walters. Sentry selection in wireless networks. Advances in Applied Probability 42 (2010), no. 1, 1–25.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Stefanie Gerke. . Advances in discrete mathematics and applications: Mysore, 2008, 125–132, Ramanujan Math. Soc. Lect. Notes Ser., 13, Ramanujan Math. Soc., Mysore, 2010.
- Paul Balister, Ervin Győri, Richard Schelp. Coloring vertices and edges of a graph by nonempty subsets of a set. European J. Combin. 32 (2011), no. 4, 533–537.
- Paul Balister, Balázs Patkós. Random partial orders defined by angular domains. Order 28 (2011), no. 2, 341–355.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Animashree Anandkumar, Alan Willsky. . INFOCOM 2011, 1575–1583.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás. Critical probabilities of 1-independent percolation models. Combin. Probab. Comput. 21 (2012), no. 1–2, 11–22.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás. . Combinatorica 32 (2012), no. 2, 125–141.
- Paul Balister, Randall McCutcheon. A concentration function estimate and intersective sets from matrices. Israel J. Math. 189 (2012), 413–436.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás. Percolation in the k-nearest neighbor graph. In Recent Results in Designs and Graphs: a Tribute to Lucia Gionfriddo, Quaderni di Matematica, Volume 28. Editors: Marco Buratti, Curt Lindner, Francesco Mazzocca, and Nicola Melone, (2013), 83–100. Supporting code and results.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Jenö Lehel, Michał Morayne. Repeated degrees in random uniform hypergraphs. SIAM J. Discrete Math. 27 (2013), no. 1, 145–154.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás. Interference Percolation. Random Structures & Algorithms 44 (2014), no. 4, 399–418.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás. Random union-closed families. Number theory, analysis, and combinatorics, 1–9, De Gruyter Proc. Math., De Gruyter, Berlin, 2014.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Zoltán Füredi, John Thompson. . Journal of Combinatorial Designs, 22 (2014), no. 10, 435–451.
- Paul Balister, Stefanie Gerke. Controllability and matchings in random bipartite graphs. Surveys in combinatorics 2015, 119–145, London Math. Soc. Lecture Note Ser., 424, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 2015.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Michał Przykucki, Paul Smith. Subcritical U-bootstrap percolation models have non-trivial phase transitions. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 368 (2016), no. 10, 7385–7411.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Jenö Lehel, Michał Morayne. Random Hypergraph Irregularity. SIAM J. Discrete Math. 30 (2016), no. 1, 465–473.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Karen Gunderson. . European J. Combin. 57 (2016), 85–93.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Zoltán Füredi, Imre Leader, Mark Walters. . Israel Journal of Mathematics 214 (2016), no. 2, 995–1012.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Amites Sarkar. Barrier coverage. Random Structures & Algorithms 49 (2016), no. 3, 429–478.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Paul Smith. Probab. Theory Relat. Fields 166 (2016) no. 1–2, 321–364.
- Paul Balister, Stefanie Gerke, Andrew McDowell. Adversarial resilience of matchings in bipartite random graphs. Journal of Combinatorics 8 (2017), no. 1, 79–92.
- Paul Balister, Amy Shaw, Béla Bollobás, Bhargav P. Narayanan. . J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 152 (2017), 341–352
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Martin Haenggi, Amites Sarkar, Mark Walters. Sentry Selection in Sensor Networks: Theory and Algorithms. International Journal of Sensor Networks. 24 (2017), 139–148.
- Paul Balister, Hao Li, Richard Schelp. Decompositions of graphs into cycles with chords. J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 128 (2018), 47–65. Supplemental material.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Jonathan D. Lee, Bhargav P. Narayanan. . Random Structures & Algorithms 52 (2018), 597–616.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Robert Morris. . Annals of Math. 188 (2018), no. 1, 49–143.
- Paul Balister, József Balogh, Enrico Bertuzzo, Béla Bollobás, Guido Caldarelli, Amos Maritan, Rossana Mastrandrea, Robert Morris, Andrea Rinaldo. . Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 115 (2018), 6548–6553.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Karen Gunderson, Imre Leader, Mark Walters. . Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 370 (2018) 7361–7389.
- Paul Balister, Ali Doğan. On the edge spectrum of saturated graphs for paths and stars. Journal of Graph Theory 89 (2018), 364–385.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Jonathan Lee, Bhargav Narayanan. . Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 371 (2019), 1583–1619.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Jonathan Lee, Robert Morris, Oliver Riordan. . Arch. Math. (Basel) 112 (2019), 371–375.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Julian Sahasrabudhe, Alexander Veremyev. Discrete Appl. Math. 260 (2019), 66–74.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Bhargav Narayanan. . Multiplex and multilevel networks 31–50, Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, 2019.
- Paul Balister, Stefanie Gerke. . Theoretical Compututer Science 784 (2019), 75–80.
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- Phoebus Chen, Karl H. Johansson, Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Shankar Sastry. .
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Oliver Riordan. .
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Karen Gunderson. .
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Svante Janson. .
- Paul Balister, Chaoming Song, Oliver Riordan, Béla Bollobás, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi. .
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Robert Morris, Julian Sahasrabudhe, Marius Tiba. .
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Robert Morris, Julian Sahasrabudhe, Marius Tiba. , Supplemental material.
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Robert Morris, Julian Sahasrabudhe, Marius Tiba. .
- Paul Balister, Béla Bollobás, Robert Morris, Julian Sahasrabudhe, Marius Tiba. .
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Current grant:
NSF DMS 1855745 (June 2019 – May 2022).