IsHFree G H says that the graph $G$ contains no copy of $H$ as a subgraph.
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The finset of all $H$-free labelled graphs on the vertex set $\{1, \dots, n\}$.
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The extremal number $\mathrm{ex}(n, H)$: the maximum number of edges in an $H$-free graph on $n$ vertices.
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Theorem 11.2.1 (Graph container theorem, non-bipartite case). For any non-bipartite graph $H$ and every $\varepsilon > 0$, eventually the number of $H$-free graphs on $n$ vertices is $2^{(1 \pm \varepsilon) \mathrm{ex}(n, H)}$.
Conjectured bipartite analogue of the container theorem: for every bipartite $H$ with a cycle there is a constant $C$ such that the number of $H$-free graphs on $n$ vertices is at most $2^{C \cdot \mathrm{ex}(n, H)}$.
Erdős–Stone–Simonovits theorem: for a non-bipartite graph $H$, $\mathrm{ex}(n, H) / \binom{n}{2} \to 1 - 1/(\chi(H) - 1)$ as $n \to \infty$.
The average degree $2|E(G)| / |V(G)|$ of a finite graph.
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Container algorithm output. Given a graph $G$ with bounded max-to-average-degree ratio and an independent set $I$, there exist a small fingerprint $\mathrm{fp} \subseteq I$ and an available set such that $I$ is contained in $\mathrm{fp} \cup \mathrm{avail}$, with quantitative size bounds in terms of $\bar d(G)$.
The container algorithm's available-set output depends only on the fingerprint: two independent sets producing the same fingerprint yield the same available set. This is the determinism property needed to encode the algorithm with the fingerprint alone.
Theorem 11.2.3 (Graph container fingerprints). There is $\delta > 0$ such that for every graph $G$ with bounded max-to-average-degree ratio, every independent set $I$ is determined by a small fingerprint $S(I) \subseteq I$ together with an available set $A(S(I))$ depending only on the fingerprint, with $|S(I)| \le 2\delta |V|/\bar d(G)$ and $|S(I) \cup A(S(I))| \le (1 - \delta)|V|$.
The Erdős–Rényi measure $G(n, p)$ on simple graphs on the vertex set $\{1, \dots, n\}$: each potential edge is independently present with probability $p$, and the weight of a graph $G$ is $p^{|E(G)|}(1-p)^{m - |E(G)|}$ with $m = \binom{n}{2}$.
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The "bad" event in the random graph $G(n, p)$: there exists a triangle-free subgraph
$H \le G$ with more than threshold edges.
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Container lemma for triangle-free graphs: there is a small collection $\mathcal C$ of "containers", each with at most $(1/4 + \varepsilon) n^2$ edges, such that every triangle-free graph on $n$ vertices is a subgraph of some container.
Chernoff bound for the number of edges of a fixed container intersected with a $G(n,p)$ sample: with high probability the intersection has at most $(1/4 + 2\varepsilon) p n^2$ edges.
Combining the container cover with the bad event: every realization of the bad event lies in the union over containers $C$ of the events "$C \cap G$ has too many edges".
Union bound combined with the container chernoff bound: the probability of the bad event in $G(n, p)$ is at most $n^{C n^{3/2}} \exp(-c n^2 p)$ for universal constants $C, c > 0$.
Pointwise inequality used in the asymptotic analysis: when $p_n n^{1/2}/\log n$ is large enough, the expression $C n^{3/2} \log n - c n^2 p_n$ is bounded above by any prescribed $b$.
If $p_n \cdot n^{1/2} / \log n \to \infty$, then the exponent $C n^{3/2} \log n - c n^2 p_n$ tends to $-\infty$.
Mantel-in-random-graphs corollary: if $p_n n^{1/2}/\log n \to \infty$, then with probability tending to $1$ every triangle-free subgraph of $G(n, p_n)$ has at most $(1/4 + 2\varepsilon) p_n n^2$ edges.