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More enemies12/29/2022 ![]() Pods infected by another fungus, called mal de machete, stay on the tree, but require treatment with a blue fungicidal paste. When it comes to black pod rot and the similar frosty pod-a fungus whose spores turn a pod’s surface velvety white-removing infected pods early can help prevent the spread of disease. At least three pathogens frequent his farm, and each requires dedicated management. It’s just one of many threats that plague the region’s chocolate farms.įor Ramirez, who works with Colombia’s newly energized tourism industry to teach visitors about growing cacao, it’s a heavy workload to keep such diseases at bay. The pods are diseased-infected, he suspects, with a mold-like attacker called black pod rot. The healthy white, sweet pulp that normally encases the beans has turned dank and discolored. But these twelve pods will never make chocolate. On Ramirez’s land, cacao’s red and green leaves fill the sloping hillside, overlooked by lush green mountains. The beans are the main commodity that Ramirez produces on his farm in San Francisco, Colombia, some 70 miles southeast of the city of Medellín. Each cacao pod usually encases about 40 beans- the source of cocoa powder and chocolate. The long, brown pods look like twisted and deflated footballs. Thus only five people are necessary to provide a counterexample.With a machete, Gildardo Ramirez lops twelve pods off one of his cacao trees, letting them fall to its base. But now which alliance can he go in? As before, both alliances have a king who hates the other king in the alliance, and all kings hate the pretender, so he cannot go in either alliance, a contradiction. But since he is taking the role of all the pretenders, all the kings hate him. In addition to the other citizens besides the pretenders being unnecessary, it can actually be the case that all the pretenders are one and the same, and they don't need to hate anybody. ![]() User cardboard_box found a simplification. ![]() But then this king also hates the pretender in his own kingdom. In each alliance, there is a king who is allied with a king he hates. So each citizen has to be in his own kings alliance (because there are two enemy kings in the other alliance).īut now finally we get to a contradiction. Everyone besides the kings (including the pretenders) hate the three other kings. Now lets consider the placement of everyone else. For example, North is either paired with West or South, who North hates, or with East who hates North. This may work for the kings, but we will need to make one observation: for either alliance, one of the king hates the other king (and possibly they both hate each other). Now let's consider a 2-2 split, where the kingdoms pair off into two alliances. Also, if it is a 3-1 split, then two of the three may be happy because they hate the singleton, but the third of the three will hate the other two in the three, so a 3-1 split will not work. Clearly they can't go all in the same group. #MORE ENEMIES HOW TO#Now let's first consider how to divide the kings. The enemies of each king are the two next counterclockwise kings (North's enemy is West and South) as well as his pretender to the throne (each king has an enemy within his own kingdom). The enemies of each citizen are the three foreign kings. ![]() Each kingdom has many citizens and a king and a pretender to the throne (actually, the pretender to the throne might be the only citizen, awkward). Imagine four kingdoms called North, South, East, and West. I will give a counter-example for the case where the enemy relationship is not assumed to be symmetric (but is assumed to be irreflexive). Then each vertex in $V_i$ has at most $d_i$ neighbors in $V_i$. There are $15$ people, call them $x_i,y_i,y'_i,z_i,z'_i\ (i=0,1,2).$ The enemies of $x_i$ are $y_i,y'_i $ the enemies of $y_i,y'_i$ are $z_i,z'_i $ the enemies of $z_i,z'_i$ are $x_i,x_$ be a partition of $V$ which minimizes the quantity $(d_2 1)e_1 (d_1 1)e_2$ where $e_i$ is the number of edges joining two vertices in $V_i$. On the other hand, if the relation is symmetric, the assertion is true even in the infinite case.Īn asymmetric counterexample. I will show that the assertion is false for asymmetric relations, even in the finite case in fact, I give an (asymmetric) example of $15$ people, each having only $2$ enemies, who can't be divided into two groups in which each member has at most one enemy. The question is ambiguous in two ways: we are not told whether being an enemy is a symmetric or asymmetric relation, nor whether the parliament has a finite or infinite number of members. ![]()
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