Pure pairs. VII. Homogeneous submatrices in 0/1-matrices with a forbidden submatrix
Pure pairs. VII. Homogeneous submatrices in 0/1-matrices with a forbidden submatrix
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10.1016/j.jctb.2023.03.001
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2023
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Spirkl, Sophie
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Scott, Alex;Seymour, Paul;Spirkl, Sophie
For integer n> 0, let f (n) be the number of rows of the largest all-0 or all-1 square submatrix of M, minimized over all n× n 0/1-matrices M. Thus f (n)= O (log n). But let us fix a matrix H, and define f H (n) to be the same, minimized over all n× n 0/1-matrices M such that neither M nor its complement (that is, change all 0's to 1's and vice versa) contains H as a submatrix. It is known that f H (n)≥ ε n c, where c, ε> 0 are constants depending on H. When can we take c= 1? If so, then one of H and its complement must be an acyclic matrix (that is, the corresponding bipartite graph is a forest). Korándi, Pach, and Tomon [6] conjectured the converse, that f H (n) is linear in n for every acyclic matrix H; and they proved it for certain matrices H with only two rows. Their conjecture remains open, but we show f H (n)= n 1− o (1) for every acyclic matrix H; and indeed there is a 0/1-submatrix that is either Ω (n)× n 1− o (1) or n 1− o (1)× Ω (n).