A probabilistic counting lemma for complete graphs

  • Authors:
  • Stefanie Gerke;Martin Marciniszyn;Angelika Steger

  • Affiliations:
  • Royal Holloway College, University of London, Egham TW20 0EX, UK;ETH Zurich, Institute of Theoretical Computer Science, Zurich CH-8092;ETH Zurich, Institute of Theoretical Computer Science, Zurich CH-8092

  • Venue:
  • Random Structures & Algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We prove the existence of many complete graphs in almost allsufficiently dense partitions obtained by an application ofSzemerdi's regularity lemma. More precisely, we consider the numberof complete graphs Kℓ on ℓ verticesin ℓ-partite graphs where each partition class consists ofn vertices and there is an ε-regular graph onm edges between any two partition classes. We show that forall β 0, at most a βm-fraction ofall such graphs contain a little less than the expected number ofcopies of Kℓ provided ε issufficiently small, m n2-1/(ℓ-1), and n is sufficientlylarge. This result is a counting version of a restricted version ofa conjecture (Kohayakawa, Luczak, and Rödl, Combinatorica 17(1997), 173213), and it is well known that this result impliesseveral results for random graphs. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals,Inc. Random Struct. Alg., 2007