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Max Cuts in Triangle-free Graphs

Combinatorics 2021-03-29 v1

Abstract

A well-known conjecture by Erd\H{o}s states that every triangle-free graph on nn vertices can be made bipartite by removing at most n2/25n^2/25 edges. This conjecture was known for graphs with edge density at least 0.40.4 and edge density at most 0.1720.172. Here, we will extend the edge density for which this conjecture is true; we prove the conjecture for graphs with edge density at most 0.24860.2486 and for graphs with edge density at least 0.31970.3197. Further, we prove that every triangle-free graph can be made bipartite by removing at most n2/23.5n^2/23.5 edges improving the previously best bound of n2/18n^2/18.

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@article{arxiv.2103.14179,
  title  = {Max Cuts in Triangle-free Graphs},
  author = {József Balogh and Felix Christian Clemen and Bernard Lidický},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.14179},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

This is an extended abstract submitted to EUROCOMB 2021. Comments are welcome

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