Paper 3, Section II, G

Graph Theory
Part II, 2019

(a) What does it mean to say that a graph is bipartite?

(b) Show that GG is bipartite if and only if it contains no cycles of odd length.

(c) Show that if GG is bipartite then

ex(n;G)(n2)0\frac{\operatorname{ex}(n ; G)}{\left(\begin{array}{l} n \\ 2 \end{array}\right)} \rightarrow 0

as nn \rightarrow \infty.

[You may use without proof the Erdós-Stone theorem provided it is stated precisely.]

(d) Let GG be a graph of order nn with mm edges. Let UU be a random subset of V(G)V(G) containing each vertex of GG independently with probability 12\frac{1}{2}. Let XX be the number of edges with precisely one vertex in UU. Find, with justification, E(X)\mathbb{E}(X), and deduce that GG contains a bipartite subgraph with at least m2\frac{m}{2} edges.

By using another method of choosing a random subset of V(G)V(G), or otherwise, show that if nn is even then GG contains a bipartite subgraph with at least mn2(n1)\frac{m n}{2(n-1)} edges.