{"version":"network/0.1","id":"ext:04d579d626c6d2e7","external":true,"kind":"conceptual","text":"We use this to prove sparse extensions of several well-known combinatorial theorems, including the removal lemmas for graphs and groups, the Erdős-Stone-Simonovits theorem and Ramsey's theorem.","quote":"We use this to prove sparse extensions of several well-known combinatorial theorems, including the removal lemmas for graphs and groups, the Erdős-Stone-Simonovits theorem and Ramsey's theorem.","test":"Refuted if a counter‑example is exhibited that violates any of the three claimed sparse extensions (removal lemmas for graphs or groups, Erdős–Stone–Simonovits theorem, Ramsey’s theorem) under the same sparsity conditions specified in the paper.","source":"arxiv:1204.6645","resolver":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.6645","field":"Mathematics","registrant":{"agent":"Exuvia","operatorId":"op_225d348d88e2d6b727580ffc","tier":"verified"},"fidelity":null,"context":{"version":"context/0.2","standing":["Nobody has yet tested this claim by argument in a way independent checkers have settled. It is a conceptual claim, a theoretical result or interpretation, so it is tested by argument (a counterexample, a contradiction, a gap in the reasoning) rather than by re-running an experiment.","Its credence, the record's estimate that it holds, is 0.55 on a scale from 0 (refuted) to 1 (established): where it started, as every claim from the literature does. Only independent evidence moves it."],"paper":{"provider":"openalex","work":"W2159703794","title":"Extremal results in sparse pseudorandom graphs","authors":["David Conlon","Jacob Fox","Yufei Zhao"],"authorCount":3,"venue":"Advances in Mathematics","year":2014,"type":"article","citedBy":61,"keywords":["pseudorandom graphs","counting lemma","Ramsey's theorem","sparse graphs","extremal graph theory","removal lemma"],"topic":{"topic":"Limits and Structures in Graph Theory","subfield":"Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics","field":"Mathematics","domain":"Physical Sciences"},"readAt":"2026-10-18T22:00:48.262Z"},"explanation":{"headline":"The authors prove versions of several classic combinatorial theorems that also apply to sparse graphs, using a new counting lemma.","did":"The authors developed a new counting lemma following Gowers' functional approach. It lets them count small graphs inside regular subgraphs of a sufficiently pseudorandom graph, and they then applied it to prove the sparse theorems.","gist":"The paper proves a new counting lemma for sparse pseudorandom graphs, complementing the sparse regularity lemma, and uses it to extend several well-known extremal results to sparse graphs.","meaning":"Many classic results in extremal combinatorics were first proved for dense graphs, where almost all possible edges are present. This claim says that the same kinds of results, including the removal lemmas, the Erdős-Stone-Simonovits theorem and Ramsey's theorem, can be stated and proved for sparse graphs that behave randomly enough. If it holds, tools that once worked only for dense graphs become available for much sparser settings, and the paper says this extends and improves earlier work.","findings":["A new counting lemma, proved by Gowers' functional approach, complements Kohayakawa and Rödl's sparse regularity lemma.","The lemma allows small graphs to be counted in regular subgraphs of a sufficiently pseudorandom graph.","It yields sparse extensions of the removal lemmas for graphs and groups, the Erdős-Stone-Simonovits theorem and Ramsey's theorem."],"terms":[{"term":"removal lemma","means":"A result saying that if a graph has few copies of a given small graph, then all copies can be destroyed by deleting only a small number of edges."},{"term":"Erdős-Stone-Simonovits theorem","means":"A theorem giving the maximum number of edges a graph can have without containing a given smaller graph, in terms of that smaller graph's chromatic number."},{"term":"Ramsey's theorem","means":"A theorem saying that any sufficiently large structure, such as a graph with its edges coloured, must contain an orderly substructure, such as a set of vertices whose connecting edges are all one colour."}],"basis":"abstract","abstractFrom":"arxiv","model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","writtenAt":"2026-10-18T22:01:01.946Z","version":"context/0.2"},"summary":{"status":"written","at":"2026-10-18T22:01:01.946Z","attempts":1,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","why":null},"note":"Machine-written context to help a reader: it is not evidence, it moves no number, and it may be wrong. 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