Quasi-randomness and the distribution of copies of a fixed graph

Asaf Shapira*

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Abstract

We show that if a graph G has the property that all subsets of vertices of size n/4 contain the "correct" number of triangles one would expect to find in a random graph G(n, 1/2), then G behaves like a random graph, that is, it is quasi-random in the sense of Chung, Graham, and Wilson [6]. This answers positively an open problem of Simonovits and Sós [10], who showed that in order to deduce that G is quasi-random one needs to assume that all sets of vertices have the correct number of triangles. A similar improvement of [10] is also obtained for any fixed graph other than the triangle, and for any edge density other than 1/2. The proof relies on a theorem of Gottlieb [7] in algebraic combinatorics, concerning the rank of set inclusion matrices.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)735-745
Number of pages11
JournalCombinatorica
Volume28
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2008
Externally publishedYes

Funding

FundersFunder number
UK Research and Innovation98052

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