Tight bounds for judicious 3-partitions of graphs

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Main Authors: Kuang, Peiru, Wang, Yan
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author Kuang, Peiru
Wang, Yan
author_facet Kuang, Peiru
Wang, Yan
contents In this paper, we show that every graph with $m$ edges admits a 3-partition such that \[ \max_{1 \leq i \leq 3} e(V_i) \leq \frac{m}{9} + \frac{1}{9}h(m) \quad \text{and} \quad e(V_1, V_2, V_3) \geq \frac{2}{3}m + \frac{1}{3}h(m), \] where $h(m) = \sqrt{2m + 1/4} - 1/2$. This answers a problem of Bollobás and Scott affirmatively. We also solve several related problems of Bollobás and Scott. All of our results are tight.
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spellingShingle Tight bounds for judicious 3-partitions of graphs
Kuang, Peiru
Wang, Yan
Combinatorics
In this paper, we show that every graph with $m$ edges admits a 3-partition such that \[ \max_{1 \leq i \leq 3} e(V_i) \leq \frac{m}{9} + \frac{1}{9}h(m) \quad \text{and} \quad e(V_1, V_2, V_3) \geq \frac{2}{3}m + \frac{1}{3}h(m), \] where $h(m) = \sqrt{2m + 1/4} - 1/2$. This answers a problem of Bollobás and Scott affirmatively. We also solve several related problems of Bollobás and Scott. All of our results are tight.
title Tight bounds for judicious 3-partitions of graphs
topic Combinatorics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20994