Unavoidable patterns

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Abstract: Let mathcal{F}_k denote the family of 2-edge-colored complete graphs on 2k vertices in which one color forms either a clique of order k or two disjoint cliques of order k. Bollob'as conjectured that for every epsilon>0 and positive integer k there is an n(k,epsilon) such that every 2-edge-coloring of the complete graph of order n geq n(k,epsilon) which has at least epsilon {n choose 2} edges in each color contains a member of mathcal{F}_k. This conjecture was proved by Cutler and Mont'agh, who showed that n(k,epsilon)<4^{k/epsilon}. We give a much simpler proof of this conjecture which in addition shows that n(k,epsilon)<epsilon^{-ck} for some constant c. This bound is tight up to the constant factor in the exponent for all k and epsilon. We also discuss similar results for tournaments and hypergraphs.









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