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Szemer\'edi's regularity lemma revisited

Combinatorics 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

Szemer\'edi's regularity lemma is a basic tool in graph theory, and also plays an important role in additive combinatorics, most notably in proving Szemer\'edi's theorem on arithmetic progressions . In this note we revisit this lemma from the perspective of probability theory and information theory instead of graph theory, and observe a variant of this lemma which introduces a new parameter FF. This stronger version of the regularity lemma was iterated in a recent paper of the author to reprove the analogous regularity lemma for hypergraphs.

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@article{arxiv.math/0504472,
  title  = {Szemer\'edi's regularity lemma revisited},
  author = {Terence Tao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0504472},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

21 pages, to appear, Contributions to Discrete Mathematics. This is the final version, incorporating the referee's suggestions

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