Small subsets inherit sparse ε-regularity

  • Authors:
  • Stefanie Gerke;Yoshiharu Kohayakawa;Vojtěch Rödl;Angelika Steger

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Theoretical Computer Science, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland;Instituto de Matemática e Estatística, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão 1010, 05508-090 São Paulo, SP, Brazil;Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA;Institute of Theoretical Computer Science, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this paper we investigate the behaviour of subgraphs of sparse @e-regular bipartite graphs G=(V"1@?V"2,E) with vanishing density d that are induced by small subsets of vertices. In particular, we show that, with overwhelming probability, a random set S@?V"1 of size s@?1/d contains a subset S^' with |S^'|=(1-@e^')|S| that induces together with V"2 an @e^'-regular bipartite graph of density (1+/-@e^')d, where @e^'-0 as @e-0. The necessity of passing to a subset S^' is demonstrated by a simple example. We give two applications of our methods and results. First, we show that, under a reasonable technical condition, ''robustly high-chromatic'' graphs contain small witnesses for their high chromatic number. Secondly, we give a structural result for almost all C"@?-free graphs on n vertices and m edges for odd @?, as long as m is not too small, and give some bounds on the number of such graphs for arbitrary @?.