Isoperimetric Problems in Discrete Spaces (original) (raw)

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This paper is a survey on discrete isoperimetric type problems. We present here as some known facts about their solutions as well some new results and demonstrate a general techniques used in this area. The main attention is paid to the unit cube and cube like structures. Besides some applications of the isoperimetric approach are listed too.

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