A proof of Mader's conjecture on large clique subdivisions in C4C_4-free graphs

Given any integers $s,t\geq 2$, we show there exists some $c=c(s,t)>0$ such that any $K_{s,t}$-free graph with average degree $d$ contains a subdivision of a clique with at least $cd^{\frac{1}{2}\frac{s}{s-1}}$ vertices. In particular, when $s=2$ this resolves in a strong sense the conjecture of Mader in 1999 that every $C_4$-free graph has a subdivision of a clique with order linear in the average degree of the original graph. In general, the widely conjectured asymptotic behaviour of the extremal density of $K_{s,t}$-free graphs suggests our result is tight up to the constant $c(s,t)$.Comment: 25 pages, 1 figur

Subdivisions in a bipartite graph

Given a bipartite graph G with m and n vertices, respectively,in its vertices classes, and given two integers s, t such that 2 ≤ s ≤ t, 0 ≤ m−s ≤ n−t, and m+n ≤ 2s+t−1, we prove that if G has at least mn−(2(m−s)+n−t) edges then it contains a subdivision of the complete bipartite $K_(s,t)$ with s vertices in the m-class and t vertices in the n-class. Furthermore, we characterize the corresponding extremal bipartite graphs with mn − (2(m − s) + n − t + 1) edges for this topological Turan type problem.Peer Reviewe

Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Optimal Networks Topologies IWONT 2010

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