Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2023 / ii / Paper 1 / 17H / a / Solution

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 $\chi (G)>k$.

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