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10 Problems for Partitions of Triangle-free Graphs

Combinatorics 2026-02-17 v1

Abstract

We will state 10 problems, and solve some of them, for partitions in triangle-free graphs related to Erd\H{o}s' Sparse Half Conjecture. Among others we prove the following variant of it: For every sufficiently large even integer nn the following holds. Every triangle-free graph on nn vertices has a partition V(G)=ABV(G)=A\cup B with A=B=n/2|A|=|B|=n/2 such that e(G[A])+e(G[B])n2/16e(G[A])+e(G[B])\leq n^2/16. This result is sharp since the complete bipartite graph with class sizes 3n/43n/4 and n/4n/4 achieves equality, when nn is a multiple of 4. Additionally, we discuss similar problems for K4K_4-free graphs.

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@article{arxiv.2203.15764,
  title  = {10 Problems for Partitions of Triangle-free Graphs},
  author = {József Balogh and Felix Christian Clemen and Bernard Lidický},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.15764},
  year   = {2026}
}
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