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The Ramsey-Tur\'{a}n problem for cliques

Combinatorics 2020-03-24 v2

Abstract

An important question in extremal graph theory raised by Vera T. S\'os asks to determine for a given integer t3t\ge 3 and a given positive real number δ\delta the asymptotically supremal edge density ft(δ)f_t(\delta) that an nn-vertex graph can have provided it contains neither a complete graph KtK_t nor an independent set of size δn\delta n. Building upon recent work of Fox, Loh, and Zhao [The critical window for the classical Ramsey-Tur\'an problem, Combinatorica 35 (2015), 435-476], we prove that if δ\delta is sufficiently small (in a sense depending on tt), then ft(δ)={3t103t4+δδ2 if t is even,t3t1+δ if t is odd. f_t(\delta)= \begin{cases} \frac{3t-10}{3t-4}+\delta-\delta^2 & \text{ if $t$ is even,} \cr \frac{t-3}{t-1}+\delta & \text{ if $t$ is odd.} \end{cases}

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1709.03352,
  title  = {The Ramsey-Tur\'{a}n problem for cliques},
  author = {Clara M. Lüders and Christian Reiher},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.03352},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

Second version addresses changes suggested by a referee

R2 v1 2026-06-22T21:38:57.501Z