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Exact stability for Tur\'an's Theorem

Combinatorics 2021-12-28 v2

Abstract

Tur\'an's Theorem says that an extremal Kr+1K_{r+1}-free graph is rr-partite. The Stability Theorem of Erd\H{o}s and Simonovits shows that if a Kr+1K_{r+1}-free graph with nn vertices has close to the maximal tr(n)t_r(n) edges, then it is close to being rr-partite. In this paper we determine exactly the Kr+1K_{r+1}-free graphs with at least mm edges that are farthest from being rr-partite, for any mtr(n)δrn2m\ge t_r(n) - \delta_r n^2. This extends work by Erd\H{o}s, Gy\H{o}ri and Simonovits, and proves a conjecture of Balogh, Clemen, Lavrov, Lidick\'y and Pfender.

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@article{arxiv.2004.10685,
  title  = {Exact stability for Tur\'an's Theorem},
  author = {Dániel Korándi and Alexander Roberts and Alex Scott},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.10685},
  year   = {2021}
}

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17 pages, 2 figures

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