A strong structural stability of $C_{2k+1}$-free graphs
Combinatorics
2024-10-23 v2
Abstract
F\"uredi and Gunderson showed that ex(n,C2k+1) is achieved only on K⌊2n⌋,⌈2n⌉ if n≥4k−2. It is natural to study how far a C2k+1-free graph is from being bipartite.Let T∗(r,n) be obtained by adding a suspension Kr with 1 suspension point to K⌊2n−r+1⌋,⌈2n−r+1⌉. We show that for integers r,k with 3≤r≤2k−4 and n≥20(r+2)2k, if G is a C2k+1-free n-vertex graph with e(G)≥e(T∗(r,n)), then G is obtained by adding suspensions to a bipartite graph one by one and the total number of vertices in all suspensions minus intersection points is no more than r−1. In other words, G=Bi=1⋃pGi, where B is a bipartite graph, G1 is a suspension to B, Gj is a suspension to Bi=1⋃j−1Gi for 2≤j≤p and i=1∑p∣V(Gi)−V(Gi)∩V(Bi=1⋃j−1Gi)∣≤r−1. Furthermore, i=1∑p∣V(Gi)−V(Gi)∩V(Bi=1⋃j−1Gi)∣=r−1 if and only if G=T∗(r,n). Let d2(G)=min{∣T∣:T⊆V(G),G−T is bipartite} and γ2(G)=min{∣E∣:E⊆E(G),G−E is bipartite}. Our structural stability result implies that d2(G)≤r−1 and γ2(G)≤(2⌈2r⌉)+(2⌊2r⌋) under the same condition, which is a recent result of Ren-Wang-Wang-Yang [SIAM J. Discrete Math. 38 (2024)]. They proved d2(G)≤r−1 and γ2(G)≤(2⌈2r⌉)+(2⌊2r⌋) separately. We introduce a new concept strong-2k-core which is the key that we can give a stronger structural stability result but a simpler proof.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2408.15487,
title = {A strong structural stability of $C_{2k+1}$-free graphs},
author = {Zilong Yan and Yuejian Peng},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.15487},
year = {2024}
}