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Minimum degree stability of $H$-free graphs

Combinatorics 2023-08-22 v2

Abstract

Given an (r+1)(r + 1)-chromatic graph HH, the fundamental edge stability result of Erd\H{o}s and Simonovits says that all nn-vertex HH-free graphs have at most (11/r+o(1))(n2)(1 - 1/r + o(1)) \binom{n}{2} edges, and any HH-free graph with that many edges can be made rr-partite by deleting o(n2)o(n^{2}) edges. Here we consider a natural variant of this -- the minimum degree stability of HH-free graphs. In particular, what is the least cc such that any nn-vertex HH-free graph with minimum degree greater than cncn can be made rr-partite by deleting o(n2)o(n^{2}) edges? We determine this least value for all 3-chromatic HH and for very many non-3-colourable HH (all those in which one is commonly interested) as well as bounding it for the remainder. This extends the Andr\'{a}sfai-Erd\H{o}s-S\'{o}s theorem and work of Alon and Sudakov.

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@article{arxiv.2102.11104,
  title  = {Minimum degree stability of $H$-free graphs},
  author = {Freddie Illingworth},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.11104},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

16 pages, 2 figures. Final version, concluding remarks and open question added

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