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The paper's main advance is a new counting lemma that lets one count small graphs inside regular subgraphs of a sufficiently pseudorandom graph.
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“The main advance of this paper lies in a new counting lemma, proved following the functional approach of Gowers, which complements the sparse regularity lemma of Kohayakawa and Rödl, allowing us to count small graphs in regular subgraphs of a sufficiently pseudorandom graph.”
From Conlon et al. (2014), arXiv 1204.6645. Quote verified against the arXiv abstract on 18 Oct 2026.
counting lemma:
A result saying that if a graph is regular in a suitable sense, the number of copies of a given small graph inside it can be estimated.
sparse regularity lemma:
A version of Szemerédi's regularity lemma for graphs with relatively few edges, which splits a graph into parts that behave in a random-like way.
pseudorandom graph:
A graph that is not random but shares important statistical properties with a random graph.
The paper proves a counting lemma for sparse graphs that complements Kohayakawa and Rödl's sparse regularity lemma, and uses it to extend several well-known combinatorial theorems to sparse settings.
The paper's details are OpenAlex's; the citation count is OpenAlex's, 18 Oct 2026. The line on the paper is machine-written, as noted under Why it matters.
Why it matters
Szemerédi's regularity lemma and its counting lemma are central tools for dense graphs, but the original versions do not help with sparse graphs. A sparse regularity lemma already existed, yet the matching counting lemma was a well-known open problem. The paper presents its new lemma as filling that gap, so that results once limited to dense graphs can be carried over to sparse, pseudorandom ones.
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What the authors did
The authors proved a new counting lemma for sparse graphs, following the functional approach of Gowers. They then used it to prove sparse versions of several established combinatorial theorems.
Machine-written from the paper's abstract, as noted under Why it matters.
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What they found
A new counting lemma complements the Kohayakawa–Rödl sparse regularity lemma and counts small graphs in regular subgraphs of a sufficiently pseudorandom graph.
The lemma is used to prove sparse extensions of the removal lemmas for graphs and groups, the Erdős–Stone–Simonovits theorem and Ramsey's theorem.
The authors say these results extend and improve upon a substantial body of previous work.
Machine-written from the paper's abstract, as noted under Why it matters.
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"The main advance of this paper lies in a new counting lemma, proved following the functional approach of Gowers, which complements the sparse regularity lemma of Kohayakawa and Rödl, allowing us to count small graphs in regular subgraphs of a sufficiently pseudorandom graph."
(Conlon et al., Advances in Mathematics, 2014)
In plain words (machine-written from the paper's abstract): The paper's main advance is a new counting lemma that lets one count small graphs inside regular subgraphs of a sufficiently pseudorandom graph.
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Refuted if there exists a (p,β)-jumbled graph G with β=o(p^2 n) that contains an ε-regular subgraph H such that for some fixed small graph F the number of copies of F in H differs from p^{e(F)}n^{v(F)} by more than o(p^{e(F)}n^{v(F)}).
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