For disjoint nonempty vertex sets , their edge density of a bipartite graph is
The pair is a -regular pair if
whenever , , , and . A partition is equitable when ; is its exceptional class.
The Szemerédi regularity lemma says that for every and there are integers such that every graph on at least vertices has an equitable partition
with
for which all but at most pairs , , are -regular.
Quasirandom bipartite graph Created 2026-10-06 Updated 2026-10-14
For a biregular graph of edge density of a bipartite graph , small rectangular discrepancy, a box norm fourth power close to , and a small second singular value of the normalized adjacency operator of a bipartite graph are equivalent notions of quasirandomness, with quantitative bounds independent of the part sizes. Centering the adjacency function removes the constant singular component.
If a set partition refines a rectangle of a graph into rectangles , write for its edge density of a bipartite graph. The weighted variance identity is
It follows by expanding the square and using . In particular, equitable regularity energy cannot decrease under refinement. If a witness rectangle has relative sizes at least and edge density of a bipartite graph discrepancy greater than , its contribution, after division by the squared total vertex count, exceeds .
If three disjoint vertex classes have size , and their three pairs are -regular pairs of vertex sets of edge density of a bipartite graph at least , where and , they contain at least the displayed number of transversal triangles in a graph. All but vertices in the first class have at least neighbours in both other classes. Regularity between those two neighbour sets supplies the third edge. This strengthens a mere triangle embedding lemma for regular pairs to a cubic lower count.
Let a tripartite graph have nonempty parts , pair edge density of a bipartite graph values on , and . If every has exactly neighbors in , its normalized triangle count obeys
The constant-degree assumption makes the contribution of the constant exactly . For each fixed , apply the bilinear correlation bound for the box norm to the indicator functions of its two vertex neighbourhoods. Their squared norms are and the relative -degree of . Average over and use the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality to bound the mean square root of that degree by .