Zentralblatt MATH
Publications of (and about) Paul Erdös
Zbl.No: 554.05037
Autor: Chung, F.R.K.; Erdös, Paul; Spencer, Joel
Title: Extremal subgraphs for two graphs. (In English)
Source: J. Comb. Theory, Ser. B 38, 248-260 (1985).
Review: In this paper we study several interrelated extremal graph problems: (i) Given integers n,e,m, what is the largest integer f(n,e,m) such that every graph with n vertices and e edges must have an induced m-vertex subgraph with at least f(n,e,m) edges? (ii) Given integers n,e,e', what is the largest integer g(n,e,e') such that any two n-vertex graphs G and H, with e and e' edges, respectively, must have a common subgraph with at least g(n,e,e') edges? Results obtained here can be used for solving several questionsrelated to the following graph decomposition problem, previously studied by two of the authors and others. (iii) Given integers n,r, what is the least integer t = U(n,r) such that for any two n-vertex r-uniform hypergraphs G and H with the same number of edges the edge set E(G) of G can be partitioned into E1,...,Et and the edge set E(H) of H can be partitioned into E'1,...,E't in such a way that for each i, the graphs formed by Ei and E'i are isomorphic.
Reviewer: F.R.K.Chung
Classif.: * 05C35 Extremal problems (graph theory)
00A07 Problem books
Keywords: extremal graph problem; graph decompositions; uniform hypergraphs; unavoidable graphs
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