Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 ii Paper 1 17I c Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-03
First consider a -free bipartite graph with parts , each of size at most , and edges. Count pairs in which is a -element subset of the graph neighbourhood of . Any vertices of have at most common neighbours, since common neighbours would form the complete bipartite graph . ConsequentlyIf the average degree of a vertex is bounded in terms of , then and the required result is immediate. Otherwise, convexity of and the preceding inequality giveand hence . Every graph has a bipartite spanning subgraph containing at least half its edges, obtained by choosing a random bipartition. Applying the bipartite estimate to that subgraph proves the Kővári–Sós–Turán theorem in the required form:
The stated "nice" subsets of the finite cyclic group are Sidon sets. Ifthen . Niceness forces ; the alternative pairing would force . Thus the ordered nonzero differences are distinct elements of the nonzero residue classes. Thereforeso