© 2008 London Mathematical Society
Graphs with many r-cliques have large complete r-partite subgraphs
Department of Mathematical Sciences
University of Memphis
Memphis TN 38152
USA
Received 20 March 2007. Revision received 13 July 2007.
Let r
2 and c>0. Every graph on n vertices with at least cnr cliques on r vertices contains a complete r-partite subgraph with r–1 parts of size
crlog n
and one part of size greater than n1–cr–1. This result implies a quantitative form of the Erdös–Stone theorem.
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification 05C35 (primary).