Extremal and enumeration problems of combinatorcial analysis and graph theory. Finite algebraic structures.
Main publications:
V. E. Tarakanov, “On an approach to the solution of the discrete logarithm problem by means of rational approximations”, Tr. Diskr. Mat., 10, Fizmatlit, Moscow, 2007, 301–313
V. E. Tarakanov, “Divisibility properties of points on elliptic curves over finite field”, Tr. Diskr. Mat., 4, Fizmatlit, Moscow, 2001, 243–258
V. N. Sachkov, V. E. Tarakanov, Combinatorics of nonnegative matrices, Progress in Theoretical and Applied Discrete Mathematics, 2, TVP, Moscow, 2000 , 448 pp. (in Russian)
V. E. Tarakanov, Combinatorial problems and $(0,1)$-matrices, Problems of Science and Technological Progress, “Nauka”, Moscow, 1985 , 192 pp. (Russian)
V. E. Tarakanov, “Maximum height of arbitrary classes of $(0,1)$-matrices and some of its applications”, Math. USSR-Sb., 21:3 (1973), 467–484