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Every finite graph has a bounded partition into self-regular vertex sets
Statement
For every there is such that the vertex set of every finite graph can be partitioned into at most sets, each of which is -self-regular.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: and a finite graph .
At every smaller regularity parameter, every finite graph with at least one vertex has a nonempty self-regular set containing a fixed positive fraction of its vertices (Every finite graph has a linearly large -self-regular vertex subset).
Given , sufficiently small vertex and edge changes preserve regularity with parameter (Regularity survives sufficiently small changes of vertices and cross-edges).
Proof
Apply [L2] with old parameter and new parameter , and let be a permitted relative vertex-change fraction. Let be supplied by [L1] at parameter .
Repeatedly apply [L1] to the graph induced by the vertices not yet chosen, stopping if that remainder is empty and otherwise removing an -self-regular set of at least a fraction of it. Choose a fixed with . After at most rounds, the unassigned remainder has size at most times the size of the union of the extracted sets.
Distribute every remaining vertex among the at most extracted sets proportionally to their sizes. For all sufficiently large graph orders, rounding can be absorbed by replacing in step 1.1 with a smaller constant, so no set grows by more than the vertex-change fraction allowed by [L2]. No old incidence among vertices of an extracted set is changed.
By [L2], every enlarged set is -self-regular. Empty and bounded exceptional graphs may instead be partitioned into singletons, increasing the uniform bound only by a constant; hence some works for all finite graphs.
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Sources
- Y. Zhao, Graph Theory and Additive Combinatorics, Exercise 2.1.28 (standard reference, not scraped)