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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 paper's main advance is a new counting lemma that lets one count small graphs inside regular subgraphs of a sufficiently pseudorandom graph.","did":"The authors proved a new counting lemma for sparse graphs, following the functional approach of Gowers. 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