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Topological Cliques in Graphs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2008

János komlós  and
Endre Szemerédi
János komlós
Affiliation:
Rutgers University and Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Endre Szemerédi
Affiliation:
Rutgers University and Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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Abstract

Let f(t) be the largest integer such that every graph with average degree t has a topological clique with f(i) vertices. It is widely believed that . Here we prove the weaker estimate .

Type
Research Article
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Combinatorics, Probability and Computing , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , June 1994 , pp. 247 - 256
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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