Anurag Bishnoi wrote a post about a recently finished preprint on pseudorandom clique-free graphs written by me, Anurag, and Valentina Pepe. We (slightly) improve a construction by Alon and Krivelevich from 1997.
Pseudorandom graphs are graphs that in some way behaves like a random graph with the same edge density. One way in which this happens is as follows. In the random graph $latex G(n, p)$, with $latex p = p(n) leq 0.99$, a direct application of Chernoff bound implies that the probability of the following event approaches $latex 1$ as $latex n$ approaches infinity:
$latex |e(S, T) – p|S||T|| = O(sqrt{pn |S||T|}$
where $latex S,T$ are arbitrary subsets of vertices and $latex e(S,T)$ denotes the number of edges with one end vertex in $latex S$ and the other one in $latex T$. Note that $latex p|S||T|$ is the expected number of edges between $latex S$ and $latex T$ in this model, and $latex sqrt{p(1 – p)|S||T|}$ is the standard deviation. Now let $latex G$ be a $latex d$-regular graph on $latex n$-vertices and let $latex lambda$ be the second largest…
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