Extremal triangle-free graphs with chromatic number at least four
Combinatorics
2025-10-21 v2
Abstract
Let be an -vertex triangle-free graph. The celebrated Mantel's theorem showed that . In 1962, Erd\H{o}s (together with Gallai), and independently Andr\'{a}sfai, proved that if is non-bipartite then . In this paper, we extend this result and show that if has chromatic number at least four and , then . The blow-ups of Gr\"{o}tzsch graph shows that this bound is best possible.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2404.07486,
title = {Extremal triangle-free graphs with chromatic number at least four},
author = {Sijie Ren and Jian Wang and Shipeng Wang and Weihua Yang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.07486},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
14 pages, 4 figures, the proof is slightly improved