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Jianfeng Hou

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arXiv2023

Many vertex-disjoint even cycles of fixed length in a graph

For every integer $k \ge 3$, we determine the extremal structure of an $n$-vertex graph with at most $t$ vertex-disjoint copies of $C_{2k}$ when $n$ is sufficiently large and $t$ lies in the interval $\left[\frac{\mathrm{ex}(n,C_{2k})}{\varepsilon n}, \varepsilon n\right]$, where $\varepsilon>0$ is a constant depending only on $k$. The question for $k = 2$ and $t = o\left(\frac{\mathrm{ex}(n,C_{2k})}{n}\right)$ was explored in prior work~\cite{HHLLYZ23a}, revealing different extremal structures in these cases. Our result can be viewed as an extension of the theorems by Egawa~\cite{Ega96} and Verstraëte~\cite{Ver03}, where the focus was on the existence of many vertex-disjoint cycles of the same length without any length constraints.

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arXiv2023

Counting triangles in graphs without vertex disjoint odd cycles

Given two graphs $H$ and $F$, the maximum possible number of copies of $H$ in an $F$-free graph on $n$ vertices is denoted by $\mathrm{ex}(n, H, F)$. Let $(\ell+1) \cdot F$ denote $\ell+1$ vertex disjoint copies of $F$. In this paper, we determine the exact value of $\mathrm{ex}(n, C_3, (\ell+1)\cdot C_{2k+1})$ and its extremal graph, which generalizes some known results.

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arXiv2023

MaxCut in graphs with sparse neighborhoods

Let $G$ be a graph with $m$ edges and let $\mathrm{mc}(G)$ denote the size of a largest cut of $G$. The difference $\mathrm{mc}(G)-m/2$ is called the surplus $\mathrm{sp}(G)$ of $G$. A fundamental problem in MaxCut is to determine $\mathrm{sp}(G)$ for $G$ without specific structure, and the degree sequence $d_1,\ldots,d_n$ of $G$ plays a key role in getting lower bounds of $\mathrm{sp}(G)$. A classical example, given by Shearer, is that $\mathrm{sp}(G)=Ω(\sum_{i=1}^n\sqrt d_i)$ for triangle-free graphs $G$, implying that $\mathrm{sp}(G)=Ω(m^{3/4})$. It was extended to graphs with sparse neighborhoods by Alon, Krivelevich and Sudakov. In this paper, we establish a novel and stronger result for a more general family of graphs with sparse neighborhoods. Our result can derive many well-known bounds on surplus of $H$-free graphs for different $H$, such as triangles, even cycles, graphs having a vertex whose removal makes them acyclic, or complete bipartite graphs $K_{s,t}$ with $s\in \{2,3\}$. It can also deduce many new (tight) bounds on $\mathrm{sp}(G)$ in $H$-free graphs $G$ when $H$ is any graph having a vertex whose removal results in a bipartite graph with relatively small Turán number, especially the even wheel. This contributes to a conjecture raised by Alon, Krivelevich and Sudakov. Moreover, we obtain new families of graphs $H$ such that $\mathrm{sp}(G)=Ω(m^{3/4+ε(H)})$ for some constant $ε(H)>0$ in $H$-free graphs $G$, giving evidences to a conjecture suggested by Alon, Bollobás, Krivelevich and Sudakov.

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arXiv2023

Hypergraphs with irrational Turán density and many extremal configurations

Unlike graphs, determining Turán densities of hypergraphs is known to be notoriously hard in general. The essential reason is that for many classical families of $r$-uniform hypergraphs $\mathcal{F}$, there are perhaps many near-extremal $\mathcal{M}_t$-free configurations with very different structure. Such a phenomenon is called not stable, and Liu and Mubayi gave a first not stable example. Another perhaps reason is that little is known about the set consisting of all possible Turán densities which has cardinality of the continuum. Let $t\ge 2$ be an integer. In this paper, we construct a finite family $\mathcal{M}_t$ of 3-uniform hypergraphs such that the Turán density of $\mathcal{M}_t$ is irrational, and there are $t$ near-extremal $\mathcal{M}_t$-free configurations that are far from each other in edit-distance. This is the first not stable example that has an irrational Turán density. It also provides a new phenomenon about feasible region functions.

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arXiv2023

A step towards a general density Corrádi--Hajnal Theorem

For a nondegenerate $r$-graph $F$, large $n$, and $t$ in the regime $[0, c_{F} n]$, where $c_F>0$ is a constant depending only on $F$, we present a general approach for determining the maximum number of edges in an $n$-vertex $r$-graph that does not contain $t+1$ vertex-disjoint copies of $F$. In fact, our method results in a rainbow version of the above result and includes a characterization of the extremal constructions. Our approach applies to many well-studied hypergraphs (including graphs) such as the edge-critical graphs, the Fano plane, the generalized triangles, hypergraph expansions, the expanded triangles, and hypergraph books. Our results extend old results of Simonovits~\cite{SI68} and Moon~\cite{Moon68} on complete graphs and can be viewed as a step towards a general density version of the classical Corrádi--Hajnal Theorem~\cite{CH63}.

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arXiv2022

Extremal graphs for the suspension of edge-critical graphs

The Turán number of a graph $H$, $\text{ex}(n,H)$, is the maximum number of edges in an $n$-vertex graph that does not contain $H$ as a subgraph. For a vertex $v$ and a multi-set $\mathcal{F}$ of graphs, the suspension $\mathcal{F}+v$ of $\mathcal{F}$ is the graph obtained by connecting the vertex $v$ to all vertices of $F$ for each $F\in \mathcal{F}$. For two integers $k\ge1$ and $r\ge2$, let $H_i$ be a graph containing a critical edge with chromatic number $r$ for any $i\in\{1,\ldots,k\}$, and let $H=\{H_1,\ldots,H_k\}+v$. In this paper, we determine $\text{ex}(n, H)$ and characterize all the extremal graphs for sufficiently large $n$. This generalizes a result of Chen, Gould, Pfender and Wei on intersecting cliques. We also obtain a stability theorem for $H$, extending a result of Roberts and Scott on graphs containing a critical edge.

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arXiv2022

Two stability theorems for $\mathcal{K}_{\ell + 1}^{r}$-saturated hypergraphs

An $\mathcal{F}$-saturated $r$-graph is a maximal $r$-graph not containing any member of $\mathcal{F}$ as a subgraph. Let $\mathcal{K}_{\ell + 1}^{r}$ be the collection of all $r$-graphs $F$ with at most $\binom{\ell+1}{2}$ edges such that for some $\left(\ell+1\right)$-set $S$ every pair $\{u, v\} \subset S$ is covered by an edge in $F$. Our first result shows that for each $\ell \geq r \geq 2$ every $\mathcal{K}_{\ell+1}^{r}$-saturated $r$-graph on $n$ vertices with $t_{r}(n, \ell) - o(n^{r-1+1/\ell})$ edges contains a complete $\ell$-partite subgraph on $(1-o(1))n$ vertices, which extends a stability theorem for $K_{\ell+1}$-saturated graphs given by Popielarz, Sahasrabudhe and Snyder. We also show that the bound is best possible. Our second result is motivated by a celebrated theorem of Andrásfai, Erdős and Sós which states that for $\ell \geq 2$ every $K_{\ell+1}$-free graph $G$ on $n$ vertices with minimum degree $δ(G) > \frac{3\ell-4}{3\ell-1}n$ is $\ell$-partite. We give a hypergraph version of it. The \emph{minimum positive co-degree} of an $r$-graph $\mathcal{H}$, denoted by $δ_{r-1}^{+}(\mathcal{H})$, is the maximum $k$ such that if $S$ is an $(r-1)$-set contained in a edge of $\mathcal{H}$, then $S$ is contained in at least $k$ distinct edges of $\mathcal{H}$. Let $\ell\ge 3$ be an integer and $\mathcal{H}$ be a $\mathcal{K}_{\ell+1}^3$-saturated $3$-graph on $n$ vertices. We prove that if either $\ell \ge 4$ and $δ_{2}^{+}(\mathcal{H}) > \frac{3\ell-7}{3\ell-1}n$; or $\ell = 3$ and $δ_{2}^{+}(\mathcal{H}) > 2n/7$, then $\mathcal{H}$ is $\ell$-partite; and the bound is best possible. This is the first stability result on minimum positive co-degree for hypergraphs.

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arXiv2022

Generating non-jumps from a known one

Let $r\ge 2$ be an integer. The real number $α\in [0,1]$ is a jump for $r$ if there exists a constant $c > 0$ such that for any $ε>0$ and any integer $m \geq r$, there exists an integer $n_0(ε, m)$ satisfying any $r$-uniform graph with $n\ge n_0(ε, m)$ vertices and density at least $α+ε$ contains a subgraph with $m$ vertices and density at least $α+c$. A result of Erdős, Stone and Simonovits implies that every $α\in [0,1)$ is a jump for $r=2$. Erdős asked whether the same is true for $r\ge 3$. Frankl and Rödl gave a negative answer by showing that $1-\frac{1}{l^{r-1}}$ is not a jump for $r$ if $r\ge 3$ and $l>2r$. After that, more non-jumps are found using a method of Frankl and Rödl. In this note, we show a method to construct maps $f \colon [0,1] \to [0,1]$ that preserve non-jumps, if $α$ is a non-jump for $r$ given by the method of Frankl and Rödl, then $f(α)$ is also a non-jump for $r$. We use these maps to study hypergraph Turán densities and answer a question posed by Grosu.

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arXiv2021

Uniform tight frames as optimal signals

Non-orthogonal communication is a promising technique for future wireless networks (e.g., 6G and Wi-Fi 7). In the vector channel model, designing efficient non-orthogonal communication schemes amounts to the following extremum problem: \[ \max \min_k \frac{|v_k|^2}{σ^2 + \sum_{l \neq k} \langle v_k, v_l \rangle^2} \] where the maximum is taken among vector systems $(v_k)_1^N \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ satisfying $c_1 \leq |v_k|^2 \leq c_2$ for every $k$, and the parameter $σ>0$ corresponds to the noise of the channel. We show that in the case $σ= 0$, uniform tight frames are the only optimal configurations. We also give quantitative bounds on the optimal capacity of vector channels with relatively small noise.

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arXiv2018

A bound on judicious bipartitions of directed graphs

Judicious partitioning problems on graphs ask for partitions that bound several quantities simultaneously, which have received a lot of attentions lately. Scott asked the following natural question: What is the maximum constant $c_d$ such that every directed graph $D$ with $m$ arcs and minimum outdegree $d$ admits a bipartition $V(D)= V_1\cup V_2$ satisfying $\min\{e(V_1, V_2), e(V_2, V_1)\}\ge c_d m$? Here, for $i=1,2$, $e(V_{i},V_{3-i})$ denotes the number of arcs in $D$ from $V_{i}$ to $V_{3-i}$. Lee, Loh, and Sudakov %[Judicious partitions of directed graphs, Random Struct. Alg. 48 %(2016) 147--170] conjectured that every directed graph $D$ with $m$ arcs and minimum outdegree at least $d\ge 2$ admits a bipartition $V(D)=V_1\cup V_2$ such that \[ \min\{e(V_1,V_2),e(V_2,V_1)\}\geq \Big(\frac{d-1}{2(2d-1)}+ o(1)\Big)m. \] %While it is not known whether or not the minimum outdegree condition %alone is sufficient, w We show that this conjecture holds under the additional natural condition that the minimum indegree is also at least $d$.

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arXiv2013

On total colorings of 1-planar graphs

A graph is 1-planar if it can be drawn on the plane so that each edge is crossed by at most one other edge. In this paper, we confirm the total-coloring conjecture for 1-planar graphs with maximum degree at least 13.

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arXiv2012

An improved bound on acyclic chromatic index of planar graphs

Proper edge coloring of a graph $G$ is called acyclic if there is no bichromatic cycle in $G$. The acyclic chromatic index of $G$, denoted by $χ'_a(G)$, is the least number of colors $k$ such that $G$ has an acyclic edge $k$-coloring. Basavaraju et al. [Acyclic edge-coloring of planar graphs, SIAM J. Discrete Math. 25 (2) (2011), 463--478] showed that $χ'_a(G)\le Δ(G)+12$ for planar graphs $G$ with maximum degree $Δ(G)$. In this paper, the bound is improved to $Δ(G)+10$.

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arXiv2012

Acyclic edge coloring of sparse graphs

A proper edge coloring of a graph $G$ is called acyclic if there is no bichromatic cycle in $G$. The acyclic chromatic index of $G$, denoted by $χ'_a(G)$, is the least number of colors $k$ such that $G$ has an acyclic edge $k$-coloring. The maximum average degree of a graph $G$, denoted by $\mad(G)$, is the maximum of the average degree of all subgraphs of $G$. In this paper, it is proved that if $\mad(G)<4$, then $χ'_a(G)\leq{Δ(G)+2}$; if $\mad(G)<3$, then $χ'_a(G)\leq{Δ(G)+1}$. This implies that every triangle-free planar graph $G$ is acyclically edge $(Δ(G)+2)$-colorable.

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