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We call a graph $H$ $D$-balanced if the maximum degree of $H$ is at most $D$ times the minimum degree of $H$.

Is it true that for every $m\geq 1$, if $n$ is sufficiently large, any graph on $n$ vertices with $\geq n\log_2n$ edges contains a $O(1)$-balanced subgraph with $m$ vertices and $\gg m\log m$ edges (where the implied constants are absolute)?

A problem of Erdős and Simonovits [ErSi70], who proved a similar claim replacing $\log n$ and $\log m$ by $n^{c}$ and $m^c$ respectively, for any constant $c>0$ (where the balance parameter may depend on $c$).

Alon [Al08] proved this is actually false: for every $D>1$ and $n>10^5$ there is a graph $G$ with $\leq 2n$ vertices and $\geq 2n\log(2n)$ edges such that if $H$ is a $D$-balanced subgraph then $H$ has $\ll m(\sqrt{\log m}+\log D)$ many edges.