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Minimum Degree Threshold for $H$-factors with High Discrepancy

Combinatorics 2023-02-28 v1

Abstract

Given a graph HH, a perfect HH-factor in a graph GG is a collection of vertex-disjoint copies of HH spanning GG. K\"uhn and Osthus showed that the minimum degree threshold for a graph GG to contain a perfect HH-factor is either given by 11/χ(H)1-1/\chi(H) or by 11/χcr(H)1-1/\chi_{cr}(H) depending on certain natural divisibility considerations. Given a graph GG of order nn, a 22-edge-coloring of GG and a subgraph GG' of GG, we say that GG' has high discrepancy if it contains significantly (linear in nn) more edges of one color than the other. Balogh, Csaba, Pluh\'ar and Treglown asked for the minimum degree threshold guaranteeing that every 2-edge-coloring of GG has an HH-factor with high discrepancy and they settled the case where HH is a clique. Here we completely resolve this question by determining the minimum degree threshold for high discrepancy of HH-factors for every graph HH.

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@article{arxiv.2302.13780,
  title  = {Minimum Degree Threshold for $H$-factors with High Discrepancy},
  author = {Domagoj Bradač and Micha Christoph and Lior Gishboliner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.13780},
  year   = {2023}
}
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