Szemerédi's Regularity Lemma
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This submission states Szemerédi's regularity lemma for finite simple graphs.
The formalization uses clean equitable vertex partitions: the parts are nonempty, pairwise disjoint, cover all vertices, and any two part sizes differ by at most one. Edge densities are real-valued. A pair of parts is -regular when every sufficiently large pair of subsets has edge density within of the density of the original pair. A partition is -regular when at most unordered pairs of distinct parts are irregular, where is the number of parts.
The proof architecture follows the textbook energy-increment argument. It uses the weighted mean-square density of a partition, a bounded refinement which raises that energy whenever an equitable partition is irregular, and an equitable-cleanup lemma which restores equitability with arbitrarily small energy loss. This isolates the extra step needed to avoid an exceptional class in the final statement.
The main statement is the standard lower-bound form: for every and every , there is such that every finite graph on at least vertices has an equitable -regular partition into parts with .
The classical statement and the energy-increment presentation follow Reinhard Diestel's Graph Theory, 5th edition, Section 7.4. Diestel uses an exceptional class so that the remaining classes have exactly equal size; the form stated here uses the equivalent clean equipartition convention in which all vertices belong to nonempty parts whose sizes differ by at most one.
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Lax18.EdgeDensity - thm✓
Lax18.EnergyIncrement - thm✓
Lax18.EquitableCleanup - def
Lax18.FiniteGraphPartitions - def
Lax18.PartitionEnergy - thm✓
Lax18.PartitionEnergyBounds - thm✓
Lax18.PartitionEnergyMonotonicity - def
Lax18.RegularPairs - def
Lax18.RegularPartitions - thm✓
Lax18.SzemerediRegularityLemma
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@misc{lax-18,
author = {Fatemeh Ghasemi},
title = {Szemerédi's Regularity Lemma},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {Lax Archive, lax-18},
url = {https://laxarchive.org/lax-18/},
note = {draft},
}
References
- Reinhard Diestel. Graph Theory. Springer 173, 2017. doi:10.1007/978-3-662-53622-3
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