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Let $v_1\cdots v_r$ be a longest path in the finite simple graph. Every neighbour of either endpoint lies on it. Among indices $1\le i<r$, consider those with edges $v_1{v}_{i+1}$ and those with edges $v_i{v}_r$. Their cardinalities are the endpoint degrees, whose sum is at least $n\ge r$, exceeding the $r-1$ available indices. They intersect, producing the cycleEvery connected component has at least $\delta (G)+1>n/2$ vertices, so the graph is connected. If $r<n$, an edge joins a vertex outside this cycle to it, and breaking the cycle there gives a longer path, a contradiction. Hence $r=n$ and this is a Hamilton cycle, proving Dirac theorem.

The complete graph $K_4$ is planar, has chromatic number four and a Hamilton cycle. Adding one leaf attached to one of its vertices preserves planarity and chromatic number four but prevents a Hamilton cycle, since a leaf has degree one.

For the last claim, the given plane embedding has all vertices on the outer cycle. Add noncrossing diagonals until its polygonal interior is triangulated. A triangulated polygon has a vertex incident with only its two boundary neighbours: for example the dual graph of its triangles is a tree and a leaf triangle supplies an ear. Remove this vertex. Inductively three-colour the smaller triangulated polygon, starting with a triangle. The removed vertex's neighbours are adjacent and have different colours, so it can receive the third. Restriction to the original graph givesThis uses the specified embedding, not the false assertion that every planar Hamiltonian graph is three-colourable; $K_4$ is already a counterexample to that broader assertion.

Write $\alpha =1-1/r$. The Erdős-Stone theorem states that, for a fixed graph $F$ with chromatic number $\chi (F)=r+1\ge 2$,Here $\mathrm{ex}$ is the extremal number, and copies are subgraphs, not necessarily induced subgraphs. We write $K_a(b)$ for the balanced complete multipartite blow-up with $a$ classes of $b$ vertices each. All asymptotic errors below concern $n\to \infty$ with the forbidden graphs fixed.

The stability subgraph. We prove the high-minimum-degree multipartite stability subgraph assertion directly from the Erdős-Stone theorem. For $r=1$, the edgeless spanning subgraph suffices. Suppose $r\ge 2$.

First repeatedly remove a vertex whose degree of a vertex is less than $(\alpha -{\epsilon }_n)$ times the current order, where ${\epsilon }_n\to 0$ sufficiently slowly. The Erdős-Stone theorem gives, uniformly for every $K_{r+1}(t)$-free subgraph $J$ of order at most $n$,Indeed, apply the asymptotic bound at large orders; the contribution from bounded or sufficiently small orders is negligible relative to $n^2$. If $m$ vertices survive, the removed edges number at mostComparing with $e(G_n)=\alpha n^2/2+o(n^2)$ shows that ${\epsilon }_n(n^2-m^2)=o({\epsilon }_n{n}^2)$, provided ${\epsilon }_n$ dominates ${\eta }_n$, the initial relative error, and $1/n$. Consequently $m=n-o(n)$. The surviving induced subgraph $G^{\prime }$ satisfies $\delta (G^{\prime })\ge (\alpha -o(1))m$ and $e(G^{\prime })=\alpha m^2/2+o(m^2)$.

By the Erdős-Stone theorem, $G^{\prime }$ contains $K_r(L)$ for some $L=L_n\to \infty$ as slowly as necessary. This follows because $\alpha$ exceeds the extremal number density for each fixed $K_r(L)$ by the positive gap $1/(r(r-1))$. Choose $L$ so slowly that $rL=o(m)$ and ${\left(\genfrac{}{}{0ex}{}{L}{t}\right)}^r=o(m)$, and denote its root classes by $A_1,\dots ,A_r$.

An outside vertex having at least $t$ neighbours of a vertex in every $A_i$ determines one choice of a $t$-subset in each $A_i$. At most $t-1$ outside vertices can determine any fixed choice, since otherwise these vertices and the chosen root sets form $K_{r+1}(t)$. Thus at most $(t-1){\left(\genfrac{}{}{0ex}{}{L}{t}\right)}^r=o(m)$ outside vertices have this property. Exclude those vertices and the root classes; put each remaining vertex in a class $C_i$ for which it has fewer than $t$ neighbours of a vertex in $A_i$.

Write $\delta (G^{\prime })\ge (\alpha -{\gamma }_n)m$, with ${\gamma }_n\to 0$. Counting missing incidences with $A_i$ givesSince ${\sum }_i|C_i|=m-o(m)$, it follows that $|C_i|=m/r+o(m)$ for every $i$. The total missing incidences from all root vertices to assigned vertices are at most $(1+r{\gamma }_n)Lm$. At least $(L-t+1)(m-o(m))$ of them are incidences with a vertex's own assigned root class. Hence only $o(Lm)$ missing incidences go to other root classes.

Choose ${\rho }_n\to 0$ slowly and discard the $o(m)$ assigned vertices with more than ${\rho }_{n}L$ missing incidences to other root classes. Each remaining vertex of $C_i$ is adjacent to all but at most ${\rho }_{n}L$ vertices of every $A_j$, $j\ne i$. If its class contained a complete bipartite graph $K_{t,t}$, the $2t$ vertices of this copy would have at least $L-2t{\rho }_{n}L\ge t$ common neighbours of a vertex in each other root class. These sets extend the copy to $K_{r+1}(t)$, a contradiction. By the bipartite case of the Erdős-Stone theorem, the number of internal edges in each surviving class is $o(m^2)$.

The surviving graph still has $\alpha m^2/2+o(m^2)$ edges, whereas the total possible cross-class edges, with these balanced classes, is $\alpha m^2/2+o(m^2)$. Thus only $o(m^2)$ cross-class edges are missing. Discard the $o(m)$ vertices missing more than ${\sigma }_{n}m$ cross-class edges, with ${\sigma }_n\to 0$ slowly, and delete all internal edges. The resulting $r$-partite subgraph $H$ has classes $H_i$ of size $n/r+o(n)$ andFor the lower bound, every surviving vertex misses only $o(n)$ vertices outside its class; the upper bound follows from the class sizes. This also records the uniform cross-class error that we need next.

Minimum degree in an extremal graph. Fix $F$ with $\chi (F)=r+1$. Choose $t$ large enough that $F$ embeds in $K_{r+1}(t)$. An extremal $F$-free graph $G$ is therefore $K_{r+1}(t)$-free, and its edge count has the required asymptotics by the Erdős-Stone theorem. For $r\ge 2$ take $H$ as above.

For any vertex $v$, remove $v$ and introduce a new vertex $v^{\ast }$ whose vertex neighbourhood consists precisely of the vertices in $H_2\cup \cdots \cup H_r$ other than $v$. The new degree of a vertex is $\alpha n-o(n)$. This new graph remains $F$-free. Indeed, a new copy of $F$ must use $v^{\ast }$, and all its neighbours of a vertex in that copy lie in the other classes of $H$. There are only boundedly many of them. Each misses only $o(n)$ vertices in $H_1$, so an unused vertex $w\in H_1$ is adjacent to all of them. Replacing $v^{\ast }$ by $w$ would give $F$ in $G-v$, which is impossible.

Extremality now forces $d_G(v)\ge \alpha n-o(n)$, uniformly in $v$. The upper bound for the minimum degree of a graph follows from $\delta (G)\le 2e(G)/n$. For $r=1$, $e(G)=o(n^2)$ already gives $0\le \delta (G)=o(n)$. ThusThis is the minimum degree of an extremal forbidden-subgraph graph principle.

The exact extremal graph for disjoint cliques. DefineThe plus sign denotes the join of graphs. The Turan graph contains no $K_{r+1}$, so every such clique in $J_s(n)$ uses a vertex of $K_{s-1}$. Therefore $J_s(n)$ contains no $s$ vertex-disjoint such cliques, and the extremal number is at least $b_s(n)$.

Induct on $s$, with $s=1$ supplied by the Turan theorem, including its equality characterization. Let $s\ge 2$ and let $G$ be extremal for $s{K}_{r+1}$. The preceding results give $\delta (G)\ge \alpha n-o(n)$ and the $r$-partite subgraph $H$. Keep its classes $H_i$ fixed and assign each of the remaining $o(n)$ vertices to a class in which it has fewest neighbours of a vertex in $H$. Write the resulting classes as $C_i$; all have size $n/r+o(n)$. Choose a positive ${\tau }_n\to 0$ so slowly that ${\tau }_{n}n$ dominates the outside count, every cross-class error in $H$, and every error in the minimum degree of a graph bound.

Suppose some vertex $x\in C_i$ has at least ${\tau }_{n}n$ internal neighbours of a vertex. If $x\notin H$, the assignment rule shows that $x$ has at least ${\tau }_{n}n-o(n)$ neighbours of a vertex in every $H_j$. If $x\in H_i$, it has this many in $H_i$ and $n/r-o(n)$ in the other $H_j$. If $G-x$ contained $s-1$ disjoint $K_{r+1}$, we could choose one vertex in each $N(x)\cap H_j$, successively avoiding those copies and the $o(n)$ missing cross-neighbours of the already chosen vertices. This produces a further $K_{r+1}$ through $x$. For $r=1$, this just chooses an unused neighbour of $x$. Hence $G-x$ is $(s-1)K_{r+1}$-free, and induction givesSince the candidate attains $b_s(n)$, equality holds throughout: $x$ is a universal vertex and $G-x$ is the inductively unique extremal graph. Thus $G$ is isomorphic to $J_s(n)$.

It remains to show that this case must occur. Otherwise all internal vertex degrees are less than ${\tau }_{n}n=o(n)$. Together with the lower bound on $\delta (G)$ and $|C_i|=n/r+o(n)$, this implies that every vertex misses only $o(n)$ vertices outside its own class. If some $C_i$ contains a matching in a graph of $s$ edges, extend its edges one by one to $K_{r+1}$, choosing one vertex from each other class. At every step only $o(n)$ cross-neighbours and boundedly many used vertices are excluded. This gives $s$ disjoint forbidden cliques, a contradiction.

A maximal matching in each class therefore has at most $s-1$ edges, and its at most $2(s-1)$ endpoints form a vertex cover of the internal edges. Their internal vertex degrees are all $o(n)$, so the total internal edge count is $o(n)$. The cross-class edge count is at most $e(T_r(n))$, whenceBut the balanced part sizes of the Turan graph givecontradicting extremality for $s\ge 2$. This argument also works for $r=1$. Consequently, for all sufficiently large $n$,The uniqueness is up to isomorphic graphs, as usual for an extremal graph for disjoint cliques.

The Erdős-Stone theorem states that if the chromatic number of $H$ is $r+1\ge 2$, thenIf $H$ is a bipartite graph with at least one edge, its chromatic number is two, so $r=1$ and therefore

A $k$-colouring assigns one of $k$ colours to every vertex so that adjacent vertices have different colours. The chromatic number $\chi (G)$ is the least such $k$. An independent set contains no adjacent pair, and the independence number $\alpha (G)$ is the maximum size of such a set.

For a concrete first example, start with the five-cycle $C_5$ and apply the Mycielski construction $r-2$ times. Each application raises the chromatic number by one and preserves triangle-freeness. The resulting graph has chromatic number $r+1>r$ and contains no triangle, hence no complete graph $K_r$ for $r\ge 3$.

We next prove the stronger high-girth assertion by the probabilistic method. For a large integer $n$, takeIf $X$ counts cycles of lengths $3,\dots ,g$, thenBy the first moment method, with probability tending to one $X<n/2$.

Let $m=\lfloor n/(2k)\rfloor$. The expected number of independent sets of size $m$ is at mostbecause $p{m}^2=\Theta (n^{1+1/(2g)})$ dominates $m\log (en/m)=O(n)$. Hence with positive probability $G$ has fewer than $n/2$ short cycles and $\alpha (G)<m$.

Delete one vertex from each cycle of length at most $g$. The remaining graph $H$ has no such cycle, has at least $n/2$ vertices, and still has $\alpha (H)<n/(2k)$. Since each colour class is independent,This proves that there are graphs of arbitrarily high girth and chromatic number.

For the final claim, begin instead withThe expected number $T$ of triangles isso with probability tending to one $T<n$. Put $m=\lceil n^{0.7}\rceil$. The expected number of independent $m$-sets is bounded bybecause the positive term is $O(n^{0.7}\log n)$ whereas the negative term has order $n^{0.71}$.

Thus some such $G$ has fewer than $n$ triangles and no independent set of size $m$. Delete one vertex from every triangle; more than $n$ vertices remain and the graph is triangle-free. Take any induced subgraph on exactly $n$ vertices. Vertex deletion cannot increase the independence number, so the resulting graph satisfiesThis is the triangle-free graph with sub-power independence number construction.

The Erdős-Stone theorem states precisely that, for every fixed graph $H$ with chromatic number $\chi (H)\ge 2$,If the bipartite graph $G$ has an edge, then $\chi (G)=2$. Substitution into the theorem givesIf $G$ has no edges, then every graph of sufficiently large order contains $G$ as a subgraph, so the conclusion is immediate.

A proper $k$-coloring assigns one of $k$ colors to each vertex so adjacent vertices receive different colors. The chromatic number $\chi (G)$ is the least such $k$. Order the vertices arbitrarily and color greedily. At most $\Delta (G)$ colors are forbidden by previously colored neighbors, soEquality occurs for every possible maximum degree: use $K_1$ for $\Delta =0$, $K_2$ for $\Delta =1$, an odd cycle for $\Delta =2$, and $K_{\Delta +1}$ for every $\Delta \ge 3$.

Colour every vertex of a graph independently and uniformly with three colours, and retain precisely the edges whose endpoints have different colours. Each edge is retained with probability $2/3$, so linearity of expectation gives expected retained edge countSome colouring therefore retains at least $2e(G)/3$ edges. Its retained subgraph is three-colourable, and deleting edges if necessary leaves exactlyedges without increasing its chromatic number. This is the three-colourable two-thirds subgraph lemma.

To prove sharpness, take $G=K_n$. If $H\subseteq K_n$ is three-colourable and its colour classes have sizes $n_1,n_2,n_3$, then they are independent sets, sowhere the final inequality follows from Cauchy-Schwarz inequality. Since $e(K_n)=n(n-1)/2$,Given $\epsilon >0$, choose $n$ with $2/[3(n-1)]\le \epsilon$. Then every three-colourable subgraph has at most $(2/3+\epsilon )e(G)$ edges.

Fix $k\ge 1$ and sample $G$ from the Erdős-Rényi model with $p=\frac{1}{2}{n}^{-2/3}$. Let $X$ count copies of the complete bipartite graph $K_{3,3}$. By the expected subgraph count in the Erdős-Rényi model,

Put $m=\lceil n/k\rceil$ and let $Z$ count independent set of size $m$. If the chromatic number satisfies $\chi (G)\le k$, some colour class has at least $m$ vertices, so $Z\ge 1$. Moreover,because the positive part of the exponent is $O(n)$ whereas $p\left(\genfrac{}{}{0ex}{}{m}{2}\right)$ has order $n^{4/3}$. The first moment method therefore gives $\mathbb{P}(\chi (G)\le k)\le \mathbb{E}Z=o(1)$.

Using Markov inequality for $X$ and the union bound,for all sufficiently large $n$. Hence at least one such $G$ contains no $K_{3,3}$ and has $\chi (G)>k$.

For a fixed $\ell$-uniform forbidden hypergraph $F$, its Turán density is the limit of $\mathrm{ex}(n,F)/\left(\genfrac{}{}{0ex}{}{n}{\ell }\right)$. Averaging over smaller vertex subsets shows these normalized extremal numbers are nonincreasing, so the limit exists. For ordinary graphs, the Erdős-Stone theorem determines it from the chromatic number.

Group random edges by their larger endpoint. These independent coordinates each change edges incident to only one vertex. Removing that vertex leaves the same graph under any two outcomes, so their chromatic numbers differ by at most one. The McDiarmid inequality with $n$ coordinate ranges of length one gives the displayed concentration bound.