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Complete subgraphs in multipartite graphs

Combinatorics 2009-10-09 v1

Abstract

Turan's Theorem states that every graph of a certain edge density contains a complete graph KkK^k and describes the unique extremal graphs. We give a similar Theorem for l-partite graphs. For large l, we find the minimal edge density dlkd^k_l, such that every \ell-partite graph whose parts have pairwise edge density greater than dlkd^k_l contains a KkK^k. It turns out that dlk=(k2)/(k1)d^k_l=(k-2)/(k-1) for large enough l. We also describe the structure of the extremal graphs. For the case of triangles we show that d133=1/2d^3_{13}=1/2, disproving a conjecture by Bondy, Shen, Thomasse and Thomassen.

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@article{arxiv.0910.1447,
  title  = {Complete subgraphs in multipartite graphs},
  author = {Florian Pfender},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.1447},
  year   = {2009}
}

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9 pages

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