The structure of almost all graphs in a hereditary property

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Abstract: A hereditary property of graphs is a collection of graphs which is closed under taking induced subgraphs. The speed of P is the function n mapsto |P_n|, where P_n denotes the graphs of order n in P. It was shown by Alekseev, and by Bollobas and Thomason, that if P is a hereditary property of graphs then |P_n| = 2^{(1 - 1/r + o(1))n^2/2}, where r = r(P) in N is the so-called `colouring number' of P. However, their results tell us very little about the structure of a typical graph G in P. In this paper we describe the structure of almost every graph in a hereditary property of graphs, P. As a consequence, we derive essentially optimal bounds on the speed of P, improving the Alekseev-Bollobas-Thomason Theorem, and also generalizing results of Balogh, Bollobas and Simonovits.



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