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Extremal graphs for blow-ups of cycles and trees

Combinatorics 2012-10-31 v1

Abstract

The \emph{blow-up} of a graph HH is the graph obtained from replacing each edge in HH by a clique of the same size where the new vertices of the cliques are all different. Erd\H{o}s et al. and Chen et al. determined the extremal number of blow-ups of stars. Glebov determined the extremal number and found all extremal graphs for blow-ups of paths. We determined the extremal number and found the extremal graphs for the blow-ups of cycles and a large class of trees, when nn is sufficiently large. This generalizes their results. The additional aim of our note is to draw attention to a powerful tool, a classical decomposition theorem of Simonovits.

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@article{arxiv.1210.7869,
  title  = {Extremal graphs for blow-ups of cycles and trees},
  author = {Hong Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.7869},
  year   = {2012}
}