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The Density Tur\'an problem

Combinatorics 2014-07-31 v1

Abstract

Let HH be a graph on nn vertices and let the blow-up graph G[H]G[H] be defined as follows. We replace each vertex viv_i of HH by a cluster AiA_i and connect some pairs of vertices of AiA_i and AjA_j if (vi,vj)(v_i,v_j) was an edge of the graph HH. As usual, we define the edge density between AiA_i and AjA_j as d(Ai,Aj)=e(Ai,Aj)AiAj.d(A_i,A_j)=\frac{e(A_i,A_j)}{|A_i||A_j|}. We study the following problem. Given densities γij\gamma_{ij} for each edge (i,j)E(H)(i,j)\in E(H). Then one has to decide whether there exists a blow-up graph G[H]G[H] with edge densities at least γij\gamma_{ij} such that one cannot choose a vertex from each cluster so that the obtained graph is isomorphic to HH, i.e, no HH appears as a transversal in G[H]G[H]. We call dcrit(H)d_{crit}(H) the maximal value for which there exists a blow-up graph G[H]G[H] with edge densities d(Ai,Aj)=dcrit(H)d(A_i,A_j)=d_{crit}(H) ((vi,vj)E(H))((v_i,v_j)\in E(H)) not containing HH in the above sense. Our main goal is to determine the critical edge density and to characterize the extremal graphs.

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@article{arxiv.1407.7873,
  title  = {The Density Tur\'an problem},
  author = {Péter Csikvári and Zoltán Lóránt Nagy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.7873},
  year   = {2014}
}
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