English

Many cliques with few edges

Combinatorics 2021-02-19 v2

Abstract

Recently Cutler and Radcliffe proved that the graph on nn vertices with maximum degree at most rr having the most cliques is a disjoint union of n/(r+1)\lfloor n/(r+1)\rfloor cliques of size r+1r+1 together with a clique on the remainder of the vertices. It is very natural also to consider this question when the limiting resource is edges rather than vertices. In this paper we prove that among graphs with mm edges and maximum degree at most rr, the graph that has the most cliques of size at least two is the disjoint union of m/(r+12)\bigl\lfloor m \bigm/\binom{r+1}{2} \bigr\rfloor cliques of size r+1r+1 together with the colex graph using the remainder of the edges.

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@article{arxiv.1912.09872,
  title  = {Many cliques with few edges},
  author = {Rachel Kirsch and A. J. Radcliffe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.09872},
  year   = {2021}
}
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