Testing subgraphs in directed graphs

  • Authors:
  • Noga Alon;Asaf Shapira

  • Affiliations:
  • Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel;Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the thirty-fifth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Let H be a fixed directed graph on h vertices, let G be a directed graph on n vertices and suppose that at least ε n2 edges have to be deleted from it to make it H-free. We show that in this case G contains at least f(ε,H) nh copies of H. This is proved by establishing a directed version of Szemeredi's regularity lemma, and implies that for every H there is a one-sided error property tester whose query complexity is bounded by a function of ε only for testing the property PH of being H-free.