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Qid logarithmic and constant divisibility

Statement

Every nonempty finite graph H is -divisive for each of (x)=log2(1/x) and (x)=2. Both functions are subreciprocal on (0,1/2). The divisibility constants may depend on H.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: A nonempty finite graph H and the two functions log2(1/x) and 2 on (0,1/2).

[F1]

For each nonempty H, constants k1,k2>0 make a strict bound indH(G)<xk1GH yield a QID x-restricted sequence of length at least 2log2(1/x) and width at least xk2G when G is nonempty and 0<x1/(8H). At least half its indices form a subsequence uniformly x-sparse in G or in G, so that subsequence has length at least log2(1/x) and the same width lower bound. (Special copy trichotomy produces a restricted blockade).

[F2]

From Subreciprocal function and ell divisibility: A function :(0,1/2)(0,) is subreciprocal when it is nonincreasing and satisfies 1<(x)1/x throughout its domain. A nonempty finite H is -divisive if fixed witnesses 0<c<1/2 and d>1 ensure that for every 0<x<c and nonempty finite G, the bound indH(G)xdGH yields a QID sequence uniformly x-sparse in one of G,G, with length at least (x) and width at least xdG.

[F3]

For every real y, its unique integer part satisfies yy<y+1. (Integer part: for every real x there is exactly one integer m with mx<m+1).

[F4]

For b>0, b1, and x>0, logbx=logxlogb,blogbx=x,logb(bu)=u(uR). (Change of base and inversion of the positive-base real exponential).

[F5]

The natural logarithm log:(0,)R is strictly increasing and log1=0. (Order, continuity, range, and the product, quotient, and reciprocal laws for the natural logarithm).

Proof

1.1

By [F5], log2>0, so [F4] implies that log2 is strictly increasing and log22=1. Its inverse u2u is also strictly increasing: if u<v but 2u2v, applying log2 would give uv. Likewise, for any fixed 0<a<1, [F5] gives loga<0, so loga is strictly decreasing by [F4]. If u<v but auav, applying loga would give uv; thus au>av.

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2.1

For y2, let N=log2y by [F3]. Then N1 and Nlog2y<N+1. The integer inequality 2NN+1 follows by induction: it is equality at N=1, and 2N+12N+2N+2. Thus [F4] and step 1.1 give log2y<N+12Ny. In particular log2yy without an asymptotic restriction.

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3.1

If 0<x<1/2, then y=1/x>2, so 1<log2(1/x)1/x by the preceding bound. As x increases, 1/x decreases and the increasing logarithm makes log2(1/x) nonincreasing. The constant function 2 is nonincreasing and 1<2<1/x. Both satisfy [F2].

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4.1

For fixed H choose k1,k2 from [F1] and any d>max(1,k1,k2). Let c=1/(16H). For 0<x<c and nonempty G, the premise indH(G)xdGH implies indH(G)<xk1GH because 0<x<1 and d>k1. The uniformly x-sparse subsequence supplied by [F1] has length at least log2(1/x) and width at least xk2GxdG by floor monotonicity: if uv but u>v, integrality and [F3] give uuv+1>v, a contradiction. These are the required witnesses for logarithmic divisibility.

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5.1

The same witnesses have c1/16<1/4, hence x<c gives log2(1/x)>2. The same uniformly x-sparse subsequence therefore has length at least 2 and the same width. This witnesses constant divisibility, including every zero-floor-width case.

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Source notes

Proof/convention locator: Bucic, Nguyen, Scott and Seymour, Induced subgraph density I, 5.1 and paragraph on constant ell before it.

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