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For a constant $\gamma \in[0,1]$ and a graph $G$, let $\omega_{\gamma}(G)$ be the largest integer $k$ for which there exists a $k$-vertex subgraph of $G$ with at least $\gamma\binom{k}{2}$ edges. We show that if $0<p<\gamma<1$ then…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-29 Paul Balister , Béla Bollobás , Julian Sahasrabudhe , Alexander Veremyev

The Lagrangian density of an $r$-uniform hypergraph $H$ is $r!$ multiplying the supremum of the Lagrangians of all $H$-free $r$-uniform hypergraphs. For an $r$-uniform graph $H$ with $t$ vertices, it is clear that $\pi_{\lambda}(H)\ge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-28 Zilong Yan , Yuejian Peng

Let $F = (U,E)$ be a graph and $\mathcal{H} = (V,\mathcal{E})$ be a hypergraph. We say that $\mathcal{H}$ contains a Berge-$F$ if there exist injections $\psi:U\to V$ and $\varphi:E\to \mathcal{E}$ such that for every $e=\{u,v\}\in E$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-07 Dániel Grósz , Abhishek Methuku , Casey Tompkins

A graph $H$ is \emph{common} if the number of monochromatic copies of $H$ in a 2-edge-colouring of the complete graph $K_n$ is asymptotically minimised by the random colouring, or equivalently, $t_H(W)+t_H(1-W)\geq 2^{1-e(H)}$ holds for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-04 Jang Soo Kim , Joonkyung Lee

Suppose that $G$ is a graph of cardinality $\mu^+$ with chromatic number $\chi(G)\geq \mu^+$. One possible reason that this could happen is if $G$ contains a clique of size $\mu^+$. We prove that this is indeed the case when the edge…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Yatir Halevi , Itay Kaplan , Saharon Shelah

Given two $r$-uniform hypergraphs $F$ and $H$, we say that $H$ has an $F$-covering if every vertex in $H$ is contained in a copy of $F$. Let $c_{i}(n,F)$ be the least integer such that every $n$-vertex $r$-graph $H$ with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-22 Yue Ma , Xinmin Hou , Zhi Yin

The upper density of an infinite graph $G$ with $V(G) \subseteq \mathbb{N}$ is defined as $\overline{d}(G) = \limsup_{n \rightarrow \infty}{|V(G) \cap \{1,\ldots,n\}|}/{n}$. Let $K_{\mathbb{N}}$ be the infinite complete graph with vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-26 A. Nicholas Day , Allan Lo

A graph is cubical if it is a subgraph of a hypercube. For a cubical graph $H$ and a hypercube $Q_n$, $ex(Q_n, H)$ is the largest number of edges in an $H$-free subgraph of $Q_n$. If $ex(Q_n, H)$ is at least a positive proportion of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-23 Maria Axenovich

We study the asymptotics of large simple graphs constrained by the limiting density of edges and the limiting subgraph density of an arbitrary fixed graph $H$. We prove that, for all but finitely many values of the edge density, if the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-16 Richard Kenyon , Charles Radin , Kui Ren , Lorenzo Sadun

A graph is strongly perfect if every induced subgraph H has a stable set that meets every nonempty maximal clique of H. The characterization of strongly perfect graphs by a set of forbidden induced subgraphs is not known. Here we provide…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-05 Maria Chudnovsky , Cemil Dibek , Paul Seymour

A full-homomorphism between a pair of graphs is a vertex mapping that preserves adjacencies and non-adjacencies. For a fixed graph $H$, a full $H$-colouring is a full-homomorphism of $G$ to $H$. A minimal $H$-obstruction is a graph that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-18 Santiago Guzmán-Pro

The biclique cover number $(\text{bc})$ of a graph $G$ denotes the minimum number of complete bipartite (biclique) subgraphs to cover all the edges of the graph. In this paper, we show that $\text{bc}(G) \geq \lceil \log_2(\text{mc}(G^c))…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-10 Bochuan Lyu , Illya V. Hicks

For a $k$-graph $\mathcal{F}\subset \binom{[n]}{k}$, the clique number of $\mathcal{F}$ is defined to be the maximum size of a subset $Q$ of $[n]$ with $\binom{Q}{k}\subset \mathcal{F}$. In the present paper, we determine the maximum number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Peter Frankl , Erica L. L. Liu , Jian Wang

A k-clique covering of a simple graph G, is an edge covering of G by its cliques such that each vertex is contained in at most k cliques. The smallest k for which G admits a k-clique covering is called local clique cover number of G and is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-26 Ramin Javadi , Zeinab Maleki , Behnaz Omoomi

In this paper, we study the appearance of a spanning subdivision of a clique in graphs satisfying certain pseudorandom conditions. Specifically, we show the following three results. Firstly, that there are constants $C>0$ and $c\in (0,1]$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-03 Hyunwoo Lee , Matías Pavez-Signé , Teo Petrov

For any bipartite graph $H$, we determine a minimum degree threshold for a balanced bipartite graph $G$ to contain a perfect $H$-tiling. We show that this threshold is best possible up to a constant depending only on $H$. Additionally, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-10-20 Albert Bush , Yi Zhao

A graph $G$ admits an $H$-tiling if it contains a collection of vertex-disjoint copies of $H$. In this paper, we confirm a conjecture proposed by K\"{u}hn, Osthus, and Treglown by showing that for any given graph $H$, there exists a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Yuping Gao , Yilin Guo , Guanghui Wang , Lin-Peng Zhang

Motivated by longstanding conjectures regarding decompositions of graphs into paths and cycles, we prove the following optimal decomposition results for random graphs. Let $0<p<1$ be constant and let $G\sim G_{n,p}$. Let $odd(G)$ be the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-21 Stefan Glock , Daniela Kühn , Deryk Osthus

We resolve the computational complexity of Graph Isomorphism for classes of graphs characterized by two forbidden induced subgraphs $H_1$ and $H_2$ for all but six pairs $(H_1,H_2)$. Schweitzer had previously shown that the number of open…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Marthe Bonamy , Nicolas Bousquet , Konrad K. Dabrowski , Matthew Johnson , Daniël Paulusma , Théo Pierron

Many important results in extremal graph theory can be roughly summarised as "if a triangle-free graph $G$ has certain properties, then it has a homomorphism to a triangle-free graph $\Gamma$ of bounded size". For example, bounds on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Lior Gishboliner , Eoin Hurley , Yuval Wigderson