On the density of a graph and its blowup

  • Authors:
  • Asaf Shapira;Raphael Yuster

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Mathematics and College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, United States;Department of Mathematics, University of Haifa, Haifa 31905, Israel

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

It is well known that, of all graphs with edge-density p, the random graph G(n,p) contains the smallest density of copies of K"t","t, the complete bipartite graph of size 2t. Since K"t","t is a t-blowup of an edge, the following intriguing open question arises: Is it true that of all graphs with triangle-density p^3, the random graph G(n,p) contains close to the smallest density of K"t","t","t, which is the t-blowup of a triangle? Our main result gives an indication that the answer to the above question is positive by showing that for some blowup, the answer must be positive. More formally we prove that if G has triangle-density p^3, then there is some 2=