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On Komlós’ tiling theorem in random graphs

Part of: Graph theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 July 2019

Rajko Nenadov  and
Nemanja Škorić
Rajko Nenadov*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Monash University, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Nemanja Škorić
Affiliation:
Institute of Theoretical Computer Science, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland, Email: nskoric@inf.ethz.ch
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*Corresponding author. Email: rajkon@gmail.com
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Abstract

Given graphs G and H, a family of vertex-disjoint copies of H in G is called an H-tiling. Conlon, Gowers, Samotij and Schacht showed that for a given graph H and a constant γ>0, there exists C>0 such that if $p \ge C{n^{ - 1/{m_2}(H)}}$, then asymptotically almost surely every spanning subgraph G of the random graph 𝒢(n, p) with minimum degree at least

$\delta (G) \ge (1 - \frac{1}{{{\chi _{{\rm{cr}}}}(H)}} + \gamma )np$
contains an H-tiling that covers all but at most γn vertices. Here, χcr(H) denotes the critical chromatic number, a parameter introduced by Komlós, and m2(H) is the 2-density of H. We show that this theorem can be bootstrapped to obtain an H-tiling covering all but at most $\gamma {(C/p)^{{m_2}(H)}}$ vertices, which is strictly smaller when $p \ge C{n^{ - 1/{m_2}(H)}}$. In the case where H = K3, this answers the question of Balogh, Lee and Samotij. Furthermore, for an arbitrary graph H we give an upper bound on p for which some leftover is unavoidable and a bound on the size of a largest H -tiling for p below this value.

MSC classification

Primary: 05C80: Random graphs
Secondary: 05C35: Extremal problems

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Combinatorics, Probability and Computing , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , January 2020 , pp. 113 - 127
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© Cambridge University Press 2019 

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