The typical structure of sparse K_r+1-free graphs

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Abstract: Two central topics of study in combinatorics are the so-called evolution of random graphs, introduced by the seminal work of ErdH{o}s and R'enyi, and the family of H-free graphs, that is, graphs which do not contain a subgraph isomorphic to a given (usually small) graph H. A widely studied problem that lies at the interface of these two areas is that of determining how the structure of a typical H-free graph with n vertices and m edges changes as m grows from 0 to extex(n,H). In this paper, we resolve this problem in the case when H is a clique, extending a classical result of Kolaitis, Pr"omel, and Rothschild. In particular, we prove that for every rge2, there is an explicit constant hetar such that, letting , the following holds for every positive constant varepsilon. If mge(1+varepsilon)mr, then almost all Kr+1-free n-vertex graphs with m edges are r-partite, whereas if nllmle(1−varepsilon)mr, then almost all of them are not r-partite.




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