Twins in graphs
Combinatorics
2014-05-06 v1
Abstract
A basic pigeonhole principle insures an existence of two objects of the same type if the number of objects is larger than the number of types. Can such a principle be extended to a more complex combinatorial structure? Here, we address such a question for graphs. We call two disjoint subsets of vertices \emph{\textbf{twins}} if they have the same cardinality and induce subgraphs of the same size. Let be the largest such that has twins on vertices each. We provide the bounds on in terms of the number of edges and vertices using discrepancy results for induced subgraphs. In addition, we give conditions under which and show that if is a forest then .
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@article{arxiv.1303.5626,
title = {Twins in graphs},
author = {Maria Axenovich and Ryan R. Martin and Torsten Ueckerdt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.5626},
year = {2014}
}
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12 pages