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All minimum $C_4$-saturated multipartite graphs

Combinatorics 2026-06-27 v1

Abstract

A subgraph HH of GG is said to be FF-saturated relative to GG, if HH does not contain any copy of FF, but the addition of any edge ee in E(G)\E(H)E(G)\backslash E(H) would create a copy of FF. The minimum size of an FF-saturated graph relative to GG is denoted by sat(G,F)sat(G,F). Let KknK_k^n be the complete kk-partite graph with nn vertices in each part. In this paper, we determine sat(K4n,C4)sat(K_4^n,C_4) for all n2 n \geq 2. Moreover, we determine all extremal configurations of sat(Kkn,C4)sat(K_k^n,C_4) for all n2n\ge 2 and k4k\ge 4 .

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@article{arxiv.2606.28903,
  title  = {All minimum $C_4$-saturated multipartite graphs},
  author = {Yiduo Xu and Zhen He and Mei Lu and Yanzhe Qiu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.28903},
  year   = {2026}
}

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17pages, 1 figure