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On the logarithimic calculus and Sidorenko's conjecture

Combinatorics 2011-07-07 v1

Abstract

We study a type of calculus for proving inequalities between subgraph densities which is based on Jensen's inequality for the logarithmic function. As a demonstration of the method we verify the conjecture of Erd\"os-Simonovits and Sidorenko for new families of graphs. In particular we give a short analytic proof for a result by Conlon, Fox and Sudakov. Using this, we prove the forcing conjecture for bipartite graphs in which one vertex is complete to the other side.

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@article{arxiv.1107.1153,
  title  = {On the logarithimic calculus and Sidorenko's conjecture},
  author = {J. L. Xiang Li and Balazs Szegedy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1107.1153},
  year   = {2011}
}
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