Fox–Sudakov polynomial Rödl conjecture

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Let HH be a graph. For a graph GG, a vertex set SS is ε\varepsilon-homogeneous if the edge density of the induced graph G[S]G[S] is at most ε\varepsilon or at least 1ε1-\varepsilon.

Fox–Sudakov's conjecture. For any graph HH there exists a CH>0C_H>0 such that for any 0<ε1/20<\varepsilon \le 1/2 any nn-vertex HH-free graph contains an ε\varepsilon-homogeneous set with at least εCHn\varepsilon^{C_H}n vertices.

This is a polynomial quantitative strengthening of Rödl's theorem and implies the Erdős–Hajnal conjecture for each fixed graph HH. The source presents it as an open conjecture, while the paper proves equivalence with the Erdős–Hajnal and polynomial Nikiforov conjectures.

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Primary source

Matija Bucić, Jacob Fox and Huy Tuan Pham, “Equivalence between Erdős-Hajnal and polynomial Rödl and Nikiforov conjectures”, arXiv:2403.08303 (2024).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2023–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2307.06455.

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