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Ks-Free Graphs Without Large Kr-Free Subgraphs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2008

Michael Krivelevich
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel e-mail: mat2800@technion.technion.ac.il

Abstract

The main result of this paper is that for every 2 ≤ r < s, and n sufficiently large, there exist graphs of order n, not containing a complete graph on s vertices, in which every relatively not too small subset of vertices spans a complete graph on r vertices. Our results improve on previous results of Bollobás and Hind.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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