The complete picture for clique factors in randomly perturbed graphs

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Main Authors: Antoniuk, Sylwia, Kamčev, Nina, Reiher, Christian, Tukara, Tadej Petar
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author Antoniuk, Sylwia
Kamčev, Nina
Reiher, Christian
Tukara, Tadej Petar
author_facet Antoniuk, Sylwia
Kamčev, Nina
Reiher, Christian
Tukara, Tadej Petar
contents A randomly perturbed graph $G^p = G_α\cup G_{n,p}$ is obtained by taking a deterministic $n$-vertex graph $G_α= (V, E)$ with minimum degree $δ(G)\geq αn$ and adding the edges of the binomial random graph $G_{n,p}$ defined on the same vertex set $V$. For which value $p$ (depending on $α$) does the graph $G^p$ contain a $K_r$-factor -- a spanning collection of vertex-disjoint copies of $K_r$ -- with high probability? The order of magnitude of the minimum such $p$ was determined whenever $α\neq 1- \frac{s}{r}$ for an integer $s$ by Balogh, Treglown and Wagner, and by Han, Morris and Treglown. In earlier work, the first three authors determined this threshold probability $p_s$ up to a constant factor for all values of $α= 1-\frac{s}{r}\leq \frac 12$. Here, we complete the picture by establishing $p_s$ in the remaining case $α> \frac12$. A key ingredient in our approach is an extremal result of independent interest: we prove a fractional stability version of a tiling theorem due to Shokoufandeh and Zhao.
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spellingShingle The complete picture for clique factors in randomly perturbed graphs
Antoniuk, Sylwia
Kamčev, Nina
Reiher, Christian
Tukara, Tadej Petar
Combinatorics
A randomly perturbed graph $G^p = G_α\cup G_{n,p}$ is obtained by taking a deterministic $n$-vertex graph $G_α= (V, E)$ with minimum degree $δ(G)\geq αn$ and adding the edges of the binomial random graph $G_{n,p}$ defined on the same vertex set $V$. For which value $p$ (depending on $α$) does the graph $G^p$ contain a $K_r$-factor -- a spanning collection of vertex-disjoint copies of $K_r$ -- with high probability? The order of magnitude of the minimum such $p$ was determined whenever $α\neq 1- \frac{s}{r}$ for an integer $s$ by Balogh, Treglown and Wagner, and by Han, Morris and Treglown. In earlier work, the first three authors determined this threshold probability $p_s$ up to a constant factor for all values of $α= 1-\frac{s}{r}\leq \frac 12$. Here, we complete the picture by establishing $p_s$ in the remaining case $α> \frac12$. A key ingredient in our approach is an extremal result of independent interest: we prove a fractional stability version of a tiling theorem due to Shokoufandeh and Zhao.
title The complete picture for clique factors in randomly perturbed graphs
topic Combinatorics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.22081