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Ramsey graphs induce subgraphs of many different sizes

Combinatorics 2017-09-08 v3

Abstract

A graph on nn vertices is said to be \emph{CC-Ramsey} if every clique or independent set of the graph has size at most ClognC \log n. The only known constructions of Ramsey graphs are probabilistic in nature, and it is generally believed that such graphs possess many of the same properties as dense random graphs. Here, we demonstrate one such property: for any fixed C>0C>0, every CC-Ramsey graph on nn vertices induces subgraphs of at least n2o(1)n^{2-o(1)} distinct sizes. This near-optimal result is closely related to two unresolved conjectures, the first due to Erd\H{o}s and McKay and the second due to Erd\H{o}s, Faudree and S\'{o}s, both from 1992.

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@article{arxiv.1609.01705,
  title  = {Ramsey graphs induce subgraphs of many different sizes},
  author = {Bhargav Narayanan and Julian Sahasrabudhe and István Tomon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.01705},
  year   = {2017}
}

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24 pages, Combinatorica

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