Regularity lemmas for clustering graphs

For a graph G with a positive clustering coefficient C, it is proved that for any positive constant ϵ, the vertex set of G can be partitioned into finitely many parts, say S1,S2,…,Sm, such that all but an ϵ fraction of the triangles in G are contained in the projections of tripartite subgraphs induced by (Si,Sj,Sk) which are ϵ-Δ-regular, where the size m of the partition depends only on ϵ and C. The notion of ϵ-Δ-regular, which is a variation of ϵ-regular for the original regularity lemma, concerns triangle density instead of edge density. Several generalizations and variations of the regularity lemma for clustering graphs are derived.