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A robust Corr\'adi--Hajnal Theorem

Combinatorics 2022-09-05 v1

Abstract

For a graph GG and p[0,1]p\in[0,1], we denote by GpG_p the random sparsification of GG obtained by keeping each edge of GG independently, with probability pp. We show that there exists a C>0C>0 such that if pC(logn)1/3n2/3p\geq C(\log n)^{1/3}n^{-2/3} and GG is an nn-vertex graph with n3Nn\in 3\mathbb{N} and δ(G)2n3\delta(G)\geq \tfrac{2n}{3}, then with high probability GpG_p contains a triangle factor. Both the minimum degree condition and the probability condition, up to the choice of CC, are tight. Our result can be viewed as a common strengthening of the seminal theorems of Corr\'adi and Hajnal, which deals with the extremal minimum degree condition for containing triangle factors (corresponding to p=1p=1 in our result), and Johansson, Kahn and Vu, which deals with the threshold for the appearance of a triangle factor in G(n,p)G(n,p) (corresponding to G=KnG=K_n in our result). It also implies a lower bound on the number of triangle factors in graphs with minimum degree at least 2n3\tfrac{2n}{3} which gets close to the truth.

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@article{arxiv.2209.01116,
  title  = {A robust Corr\'adi--Hajnal Theorem},
  author = {Peter Allen and Julia Böttcher and Jan Corsten and Ewan Davies and Matthew Jenssen and Patrick Morris and Barnaby Roberts and Jozef Skokan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.01116},
  year   = {2022}
}

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63 pages

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