Lovász–Simonovits conjecture on the Erdős–Rademacher problem

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Let KrK_r denote the complete graph on rr vertices. For integers nn and mm with 0m(n2)0\leq m\leq {n\choose 2}, let Gr(n,m)G_r(n,m) be the minimum number of copies of KrK_r in an (n,m)(n,m)-graph, meaning a graph with nn vertices and mm edges. Let H\mathcal{H} consist of all graphs obtained from a complete multipartite graph by adding a triangle-free graph into one of its parts, and let Hr(n,m)H_r(n,m) be the minimum number of rr-cliques in an (n,m)(n,m)-graph from H\mathcal{H}. Lovász–Simonovits conjecture. For every integer r3r\geq 3, there is n0n_0 such that for all nn0n\geq n_0 and 0m(n2)0\leq m\leq {n\choose 2}, we have

Gr(n,m)Hr(n,m).G_r(n,m)\geq H_r(n,m).

Since every graph in H\mathcal{H} is an admissible (n,m)(n,m)-graph, the reverse inequality Gr(n,m)Hr(n,m)G_r(n,m)\leq H_r(n,m) is immediate; thus the conjecture asserts equality for sufficiently large nn. It is a central open problem in the Erdős–Rademacher problem concerning the minimum number of cliques forced by a given number of edges.

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Jaehoon Kim, Hong Liu, Oleg Pikhurko and Maryam Sharifzadeh, “Asymptotic Structure for the Clique Density Theorem”, arXiv:1906.05942 (2020).

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