A step towards the Ramsey-Tur\'{a}n conjecture for $K_3$ and $K_6$
Combinatorics
2026-04-28 v3
Abstract
Ramsey-Tur\'{a}n type problems were initiated by Erd\H{o}s and S\'{o}s in 1969. Given integers , a graph is -free if there exists a red/blue edge coloring of such that it contains neither a red nor a blue . For any , the Ramsey-Tur\'{a}n number is the maximum number of edges in an -vertex -free graph with independence number at most . Let . Kim, Kim and Liu (2019) showed that via a skillful construction and conjectured the equality holds for sufficiently small . Using Szemer\'{e}di's regularity lemma and a stability argument, we make the first step towards the conjecture by showing that is at most .
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@article{arxiv.2409.04042,
title = {A step towards the Ramsey-Tur\'{a}n conjecture for $K_3$ and $K_6$},
author = {Xinyu Hu and Qizhong Lin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.04042},
year = {2026}
}
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32 pages