Research

My bachelor's thesis was on Erdos's conjecture that any triangle-free graph can be made bipartite by removing at most \(n^2/25\) edges.

Here's a cute related application of the probabilistic method:

Claim: Any graph \(G\) with \(E\) edges can be made bipartite by removing at most \(E/2\) edges

Proof: Take a uniformly random \(2\)-coloring of \(G\). Then, remove the edges between nodes of the same color, making the graph bipartite. There's a \(1/2\) chance of an edge being removed. Thus the expected number of edges removed is \(E/2\). Thus there must exist some way to remove at most \(E/2\) edges to make it bipartite.