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A counterexample to the Bollob\'as-Riordan conjectures on sparse graph limits

Combinatorics 2021-11-08 v2

Abstract

Bollob\'as and Riordan, in their paper "Metrics for sparse graphs," proposed a number of provocative conjectures extending central results of quasirandom graphs and graph limits to sparse graphs. We refute these conjectures by exhibiting a sequence of graphs with convergent normalized subgraph densities (and pseudorandom C4C_4-counts), but with no limit expressible as a kernel.

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@article{arxiv.2003.05272,
  title  = {A counterexample to the Bollob\'as-Riordan conjectures on sparse graph limits},
  author = {Ashwin Sah and Mehtaab Sawhney and Jonathan Tidor and Yufei Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.05272},
  year   = {2021}
}
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