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Many cliques in $H$-free subgraphs of random graphs

Combinatorics 2017-11-21 v2

Abstract

For two fixed graphs TT and HH let ex(G(n,p),T,H)ex(G(n,p),T,H) be the random variable counting the maximum number of copies of TT in an HH-free subgraph of the random graph G(n,p)G(n,p). We show that for the case T=KmT=K_m and χ(H)>m\chi(H)> m the behavior of ex(G(n,p),Km,H)ex(G(n,p),K_m,H) depends strongly on the relation between pp and m2(H)=maxHH,V(H)3{e(H)1v(H)2}m_2(H)=\max_{H'\subset H, |V(H')|'\geq 3}\left\{ \frac{e(H')-1}{v(H')-2} \right\}. When m2(H)>m2(Km)m_2(H)> m_2(K_m) we prove that with high probability, depending on the value of pp, either one can maintain almost all copies of KmK_m, or it is asymptotically best to take a χ(H)1\chi(H)-1 partite subgraph of G(n,p)G(n,p). The transition between these two behaviors occurs at p=n1/m2(H)p=n^{-1/m_2(H)}. When m2(H)<m2(Km)m_2(H)< m_2(K_m) we show that the above cases still exist, however for δ>0\delta>0 small at p=n1/m2(H)+δp=n^{-1/m_2(H)+\delta} one can typically still keep most of the copies of KmK_m in an HH-free subgraph of G(n,p)G(n,p). Thus, the transition between the two behaviors in this case occurs at some pp significantly bigger than n1/m2(H)n^{-1/m_2(H)}. To show that the second case is not redundant we present a construction which may be of independent interest. For each k4k \geq 4 we construct a family of kk chromatic graphs G(k,ϵi)G(k,\epsilon_i) where m2(G(k,ϵi))m_2(G(k,\epsilon_i)) tends to (k+1)(k2)2(k1)(<m2(Kk1))\frac{(k+1)(k-2)}{2(k-1)} (< m_2(K_{k-1})) as ii tends to infinity. This is tight for all values of kk

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@article{arxiv.1612.09143,
  title  = {Many cliques in $H$-free subgraphs of random graphs},
  author = {Noga Alon and Alexandr Kostochka and Clara Shikhelman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.09143},
  year   = {2017}
}