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Abundance: Asymmetric Graph Removal Lemmas and Integer Solutions to Linear Equations

Combinatorics 2023-10-30 v1 Number Theory

Abstract

We prove that a large family of pairs of graphs satisfy a polynomial dependence in asymmetric graph removal lemmas. In particular, we give an unexpected answer to a question of Gishboliner, Shapira, and Wigderson by showing that for every t4t \geqslant 4, there are KtK_t-abundant graphs of chromatic number tt. Using similar methods, we also extend work of Ruzsa by proving that a set A{1,,N}\mathcal{A} \subset \{1,\dots,N\} which avoids solutions with distinct integers to an equation of genus at least two has size O(N)\mathcal{O}(\sqrt{N}). The best previous bound was N1o(1)N^{1 - o(1)} and the exponent of 1/21/2 is best possible in such a result. Finally, we investigate the relationship between polynomial dependencies in asymmetric removal lemmas and the problem of avoiding integer solutions to equations. The results suggest a potentially deep correspondence. Many open questions remain.

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@article{arxiv.2310.18202,
  title  = {Abundance: Asymmetric Graph Removal Lemmas and Integer Solutions to Linear Equations},
  author = {António Girão and Eoin Hurley and Freddie Illingworth and Lukas Michel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.18202},
  year   = {2023}
}

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28 pages, 4 figures

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