The Bandwidth Theorem in Sparse Graphs
Advances in Combinatorics (2020)
The bandwidth theorem [Mathematische Annalen, 343(1):175--205, 2009] states that any $n$-vertex graph $G$ with minimum degree $\big(\tfrac{k-1}{k}+o(1)\big)n$ contains all $n$-vertex $k$-colourable graphs $H$ with bounded maximum degree and bandwidth $o(n)$. We provide sparse analogues of this statement in random graphs as well as pseudorandom graphs.
More precisely, we show that for $p\gg \big(\tfrac{\log n}{n}\big)^{1/Δ}$ asymptotically almost surely each spanning subgraph $G$ of $G(n,p)$ with minimum degree $\big(\tfrac{k-1}{k}+o(1)\big)pn$ contains all $n$-vertex $k$-colourable graphs $H$ with maximum degree $Δ$, bandwidth $o(n)$, and at least $C p^{-2}$ vertices not contained in any triangle. A similar result is shown for sufficiently bijumbled graphs, which, to the best of our knowledge, is the first resilience result in pseudorandom graphs for a rich class of spanning subgraphs. Finally, we provide improved results for $H$ with small degeneracy, which in particular imply a resilience result in $G(n,p)$ with respect to the containment of spanning bounded degree trees for $p\gg \big(\tfrac{\log n}{n}\big)^{1/3}$.
@article{ADVC_2020_a5,
author = {Peter Allen and Julia B\"ottcher and Julia Ehrenm\"uller and Anusch Taraz},
title = {The {Bandwidth} {Theorem} in {Sparse} {Graphs}},
journal = {Advances in Combinatorics},
year = {2020},
language = {en},
url = {http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/ADVC_2020_a5/}
}
Peter Allen; Julia Böttcher; Julia Ehrenmüller; Anusch Taraz. The Bandwidth Theorem in Sparse Graphs. Advances in Combinatorics (2020). http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/ADVC_2020_a5/