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Distinct degrees in induced subgraphs

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  • UserEoin Long (University of Birmingham)
  • ClockThursday 12 December 2019, 14:00-15:00
  • HouseWatson LTB.

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An important theme of recent research in Ramsey theory has been establishing pseudorandomness properties of Ramsey graphs. An N-vertex graph is called C-Ramsey if it has no homogeneous set of size Clog(N). A theorem of Bukh and Sudakov, solving a conjecture of Erdős, Faudree and Sós, shows that any C-Ramsey N-vertex graph contains an induced subgraph with Ω(N1/2) distinct degrees. We improve this to Ω(N2/3), which is tight up to the constant factor.

We also show that any N-vertex graph with N > (k−1)(n−1) and n=Ω(k9) either contains a homogeneous set of order n or an induced subgraph with k distinct degrees. The lower bound on N here is sharp, as shown by an appropriate Turán graph, and confirms a conjecture of Narayanan and Tomon.

Joint work with Matthew Jenssen, Peter Keevash and Liana Yepremyan.

This talk is part of the Combinatorics and Probability seminar series.

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