Apex conjecture for connected bipartite graphs satisfying Sidorenko's conjecture

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Let HH be a connected bipartite graph satisfying Sidorenko's conjecture. For a positive integer aa, let H+aH^{+a} be the graph obtained from HH by adding aa vertices, each adjacent to every vertex of HH, with no edges among the added vertices. Call a graph common when the random 2-edge-colouring asymptotically minimises its monochromatic-copy count.

Apex conjecture. For every positive integer aa, the graph H+aH^{+a} is common. In particular, every complete tripartite graph Kr,s,tK_{r,s,t} is common.

The paper proves commonality for adding arbitrarily many apex vertices when HH is a connected bipartite graph on at most five vertices, but the stated general assertion remains unresolved in the supplied text.

References

Primary source

Andrzej Grzesik, Joonkyung Lee, Bernard Lidický and Jan Volec, “On tripartite common graphs”, arXiv:2012.02057 (2022).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2015–2020). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1508.04541.

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