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Quasi-randomness is determined by the distribution of copies of a fixed graph in equicardinal large sets

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For every fixed graph H and every fixed 0 < α < 1, we show that if a graph G has the property that all subsets of size αn contain the “correct” number of copies of H one would expect to find in the random graph G(n,p) then G behaves like the random graph G(n,p); that is, it is p-quasi-random in the sense of Chung, Graham, and Wilson [4]. This solves a conjecture raised by Shapira [8] and solves in a strong sense an open problem of Simonovits and Sós [9].

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    Raphael Yuster

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Yuster, R. Quasi-randomness is determined by the distribution of copies of a fixed graph in equicardinal large sets. Combinatorica 30, 239–246 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00493-010-2496-0

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