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Dense halves in balanced 2-partition of K4-free graphs

Combinatorics 2024-12-19 v1

Abstract

A balanced 2-partition of a graph is a bipartition A,AcA,A^c of V(G)V(G) such that A=Ac|A|=|A^c|. Balogh, Clemen, and Lidick\'y conjectured that for every K4K_4-free graph on nn (even) vertices, there exists a balanced 2-partition A,AcA,A^c such that max{e(A),e(Ac)}n2/16\max\{e(A),e(A^c)\}\leq n^2/16 edges. In this paper, we present a family of counterexamples to the conjecture and provide a new upper bound (0.074n20.074n^2) for every sufficiently large even integer nn.

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@article{arxiv.2412.13485,
  title  = {Dense halves in balanced 2-partition of K4-free graphs},
  author = {Yue Xu and Xiao-Dong Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.13485},
  year   = {2024}
}

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18 pages, 3 figures