Combinatorics · Oct 6, 2026

Counterexamples to Sidorenko’s conjecture and the forcing conjecture

Disproves Sidorenko's conjecture with a connected bipartite pattern on 35 vertices and 66 edges that occurs less frequently than in a random graph of the same edge density. The same pattern disproves the forcing conjecture of Skokan and Thoma: matching its density and the edge density of a constant graphon need not force quasirandomness.

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