Triangle-intersecting families of graphs

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DOI10.4171/JEMS/320zbMATH Open1238.05143arXiv1010.4909MaRDI QIDQ2428720FDOQ2428720


Authors: David Ellis, Yuval Filmus, Ehud Friedgut Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 20 April 2012

Published in: Journal of the European Mathematical Society (JEMS) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A family of graphs F is said to be triangle-intersecting if for any two graphs G,H in F, the intersection of G and H contains a triangle. A conjecture of Simonovits and Sos from 1976 states that the largest triangle-intersecting families of graphs on a fixed set of n vertices are those obtained by fixing a specific triangle and taking all graphs containing it, resulting in a family of size (1/8) 2^{n choose 2}. We prove this conjecture and some generalizations (for example, we prove that the same is true of odd-cycle-intersecting families, and we obtain best possible bounds on the size of the family under different, not necessarily uniform, measures). We also obtain stability results, showing that almost-largest triangle-intersecting families have approximately the same structure.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.4909




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