Ordered and colored subgraph density problems
Abstract
We consider three extremal problems about the number of copies of a fixed graph in another larger graph. First, we correct an error in a result of Reiher and Wagner and prove that the number of -edge stars in a graph with density is asymptotically maximized by a clique and isolated vertices or its complement. Next, among ordered -vertex graphs with edges, we determine the maximum and minimum number of copies of a -edge star whose nonleaf vertex is minimum among all vertices of the star. Finally, for , we define a particular -edge-colored complete graph on vertices with colors blue, green and red, and determine, for each with and , the maximum density of in a large graph whose blue, green and red edge sets have densities and , respectively. These are the first nontrivial examples of colored graphs for which such complete results are proved.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2403.12016,
title = {Ordered and colored subgraph density problems},
author = {Emily Cairncross and Dhruv Mubayi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.12016},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
17 pages, 6 figures