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Forcing quasirandomness with triangles

Combinatorics 2019-12-04 v2

Abstract

We study forcing pairs for quasirandom graphs. Chung, Graham, and Wilson initiated the study of families mathcalF\\mathcal F of graphs with the property that if a large graph GG has approximately homomorphism density pe(F)p^{e(F)} for some fixed p(0,1]p\in(0,1] for every FFF\in \mathcal F, then GG is quasirandom with density pp. Such families F\mathcal F are said to be forcing. Several forcing families were found over the last three decades and characterising all bipartite graphs FF such that (K2,F)(K_2,F) is a forcing pair is a well-known open problem in the area of quasirandom graphs, which is closely related to Sidorenko's conjecture. In fact, most of the known forcing families involve bipartite graphs only. We consider forcing pairs containing the triangle K3K_3. In particular, we show that if (K2,F)(K_2,F) is a forcing pair, then so is (K3,F)(K_3,F'), where FF' is obtained from FF by replacing every edge of FF by a triangle (each of which introduces a new vertex). For the proof we first show that (K3,C4)(K_3,C'_4) is a forcing pair, which strengthens related results of Simonovits and S\'os and of Conlon et al.

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@article{arxiv.1711.04754,
  title  = {Forcing quasirandomness with triangles},
  author = {Christian Reiher and Mathias Schacht},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.04754},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

16 pages, second version addresses changes arising from the referee reports

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