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The analogue of Hadwigers conjecture for the immersion order states that every graph $G$ contains $K_{chi (G)}$ as an immersion. If true, it would imply that every graph with $n$ vertices and independence number $alpha$ contains $K_{lceil frac nalpharceil}$ as an immersion. The best currently known bound for this conjecture is due to Gauthier, Le and Wollan, who recently proved that every graph $G$ contains an immersion of a clique on $bigllceil frac{chi (G)-4}{3.54}bigrrceil$ vertices. Their result implies that every $n$-vertex graph with independence number $alpha$ contains an immersion of a clique on $bigllceil frac{n}{3.54alpha}-1.13bigrrceil$ vertices. We improve on this result for all $alphage 3$, by showing that every $n$-vertex graph with independence number $alphage 3$ contains an immersion of a clique on $bigllfloor frac {n}{2.25 alpha - f(alpha)} bigrrfloor - 1$ vertices, where $f$ is a nonnegative function.
We give some new bounds for the clique and independence numbers of a graph in terms of its eigenvalues.
In this paper, we establish a couple of results on extremal problems in bipartite graphs. Firstly, we show that every sufficiently large bipartite graph with average degree $Delta$ and with $n$ vertices on each side has a balanced independent set containing $(1-epsilon) frac{log Delta}{Delta} n$ vertices from each side for small $epsilon > 0$. Secondly, we prove that the vertex set of every sufficiently large balanced bipartite graph with maximum degree at most $Delta$ can be partitioned into $(1+epsilon)frac{Delta}{log Delta}$ balanced independent sets. Both of these results are algorithmic and best possible up to a factor of 2, which might be hard to improve as evidenced by the phenomenon known as `algorithmic barrier in the literature. The first result improves a recent theorem of Axenovich, Sereni, Snyder, and Weber in a slightly more general setting. The second result improves a theorem of Feige and Kogan about coloring balanced bipartite graphs.
The Ramsey number r(K_s,Q_n) is the smallest positive integer N such that every red-blue colouring of the edges of the complete graph K_N on N vertices contains either a red n-dimensional hypercube, or a blue clique on s vertices. Answering a question of Burr and ErdH{o}s from 1983, and improving on recent results of Conlon, Fox, Lee and Sudakov, and of the current authors, we show that r(K_s,Q_n) = (s-1) (2^n - 1) + 1 for every s in N and every sufficiently large n in N.
Let $q_{min}(G)$ stand for the smallest eigenvalue of the signless Laplacian of a graph $G$ of order $n.$ This paper gives some results on the following extremal problem: How large can $q_minleft( Gright) $ be if $G$ is a graph of order $n,$ with no complete subgraph of order $r+1?$ It is shown that this problem is related to the well-known topic of making graphs bipartite. Using known classical results, several bounds on $q_{min}$ are obtained, thus extending previous work of Brandt for regular graphs. In addition, using graph blowups, a general asymptotic result about the maximum $q_{min}$ is established. As a supporting tool, the spectra of the Laplacian and the signless Laplacian of blowups of graphs are calculated.
Let $G=(V,E)$ be a graph and $n$ a positive integer. Let $I_n(G)$ be the abstract simplicial complex whose simplices are the subsets of $V$ that do not contain an independent set of size $n$ in $G$. We study the collapsibility numbers of the complexes $I_n(G)$ for various classes of graphs, focusing on the class of graphs with maximum degree bounded by $Delta$. As an application, we obtain the following result: Let $G$ be a claw-free graph with maximum degree at most $Delta$. Then, every collection of $leftlfloorleft(frac{Delta}{2}+1right)(n-1)rightrfloor+1$ independent sets in $G$ has a rainbow independent set of size $n$.