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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2026 iii Paper 122 4 c Solution by
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The assertion as printed is false for unrestricted part sizes. Take , let every vertex of be adjacent to one fixed vertex of and to no other vertex of , and put . The graph has , but for the two distinct vertices of have no common neighbour, contradicting the claimed positive lower bound.
The corrected common-neighbourhood sampling bound, which is sufficient for the requested Ramsey consequence, assumes is sufficiently large compared with . Indeed, averaging over uniformly chosen ordered distinct givesConvexity and imply that this is at leastIf , then , yielding the intended bound with distinct vertices.
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