Density Hajnal--Szemer\'{e}di theorem for cliques of size four
Abstract
The celebrated Corr\'{a}di--Hajnal Theorem~\cite{CH63} and the Hajnal--Szemer\'{e}di Theorem~\cite{HS70} determined the exact minimum degree thresholds for a graph on vertices to contain vertex-disjoint copies of , for and general , respectively. The edge density version of the Corr\'{a}di--Hajnal Theorem was established by Allen--B\"ottcher--Hladk\'y--Piguet~\cite{ABHP15} for large . Remarkably, they determined the four classes of extremal constructions corresponding to different intervals of . They further proposed the natural problem of establishing a density version of the Hajnal--Szemer\'{e}di Theorem: For , what is the edge density threshold that guarantees a graph on vertices contains vertex-disjoint copies of for . They also remarked, ``We are not even sure what the complete family of extremal graphs should be.'' We take the first step toward this problem by determining asymptotically the five classes of extremal constructions for . Furthermore, we propose a candidate set comprising classes of extremal constructions for general .
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@article{arxiv.2501.00801,
title = {Density Hajnal--Szemer\'{e}di theorem for cliques of size four},
author = {Jianfeng Hou and Caiyun Hu and Xizhi Liu and Yixiao Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.00801},
year = {2025}
}
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2 tables, 50-ish figures, comments are welcome