Minimum degree stability of $H$-free graphs
Abstract
Given an -chromatic graph , the fundamental edge stability result of Erd\H{o}s and Simonovits says that all -vertex -free graphs have at most edges, and any -free graph with that many edges can be made -partite by deleting edges. Here we consider a natural variant of this -- the minimum degree stability of -free graphs. In particular, what is the least such that any -vertex -free graph with minimum degree greater than can be made -partite by deleting edges? We determine this least value for all 3-chromatic and for very many non-3-colourable (all those in which one is commonly interested) as well as bounding it for the remainder. This extends the Andr\'{a}sfai-Erd\H{o}s-S\'{o}s theorem and work of Alon and Sudakov.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2102.11104,
title = {Minimum degree stability of $H$-free graphs},
author = {Freddie Illingworth},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.11104},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
16 pages, 2 figures. Final version, concluding remarks and open question added