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A graph inequality on the common neighbourhood

Combinatorics 2019-12-03 v1

Abstract

In this note we prove a graph inequality based on the sizes of the common neighbourhoods. We also characterize the extremal graphs that achieve the equality. The result was first discovered as a consequence of the classical Forster's theorem in electric networks. We also present a short combinatorial proof that was inspired by a similar inequality related to the celebrated Tur\'an's theorem.

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@article{arxiv.1912.00417,
  title  = {A graph inequality on the common neighbourhood},
  author = {Xiaomin Chen and Fenglin Huang and Shuhan Zhou and Mingxuan Zou and Junchi Zuo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.00417},
  year   = {2019}
}