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Ordered and colored subgraph density problems

Combinatorics 2024-03-19 v1

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 kk-edge stars in a graph with density x[0,1]x \in [0, 1] is asymptotically maximized by a clique and isolated vertices or its complement. Next, among ordered nn-vertex graphs with mm edges, we determine the maximum and minimum number of copies of a kk-edge star whose nonleaf vertex is minimum among all vertices of the star. Finally, for s2s \ge 2, we define a particular 33-edge-colored complete graph FF on 2s2s vertices with colors blue, green and red, and determine, for each (xb,xg)(x_b, x_g) with xb+xg1x_b+x_g\le 1 and xb,xg0x_b, x_g \ge 0, the maximum density of FF in a large graph whose blue, green and red edge sets have densities xb,xgx_b, x_g and 1xbxg1-x_b-x_g, respectively. These are the first nontrivial examples of colored graphs for which such complete results are proved.

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@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}
}

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17 pages, 6 figures