A very short proof of Sidorenko's inequality for counts of homomorphism between graphs

Abstract

We provide a very elementary proof of a classical extremality result due to Sidorenko (Discrete Math. 131.1-3, 1994), which states that among all connected graphs G on k vertices, the k-vertex star maximises the number of graph homomorphisms of G into any graph H.

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