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Minimum saturated graphs without $4$-cycles and $5$-cycles

Combinatorics 2025-03-24 v1

Abstract

Given a family of graphs F\mathcal{F}, a graph GG is said to be F\mathcal{F}-saturated if GG does not contain a copy of FF as a subgraph for any FFF\in\mathcal{F}, but the addition of any edge eE(G)e\notin E(G) creates at least one copy of some FFF\in\mathcal{F} within GG. The minimum size of an F\mathcal{F}-saturated graph on nn vertices is called the saturation number, denoted by \mboxsat(n,F)\mbox{sat}(n, \mathcal{F}). Let CrC_r be the cycle of length rr. In this paper, we study on \mboxsat(n,F)\mbox{sat}(n, \mathcal{F}) when F\mathcal{F} is a family of cycles. In particular, we determine that \mboxsat(n,{C4,C5})=5n432\mbox{sat}(n, \{C_4,C_5\})=\lceil\frac{5n}{4}-\frac{3}{2}\rceil for any positive integer nn.

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@article{arxiv.2503.16839,
  title  = {Minimum saturated graphs without $4$-cycles and $5$-cycles},
  author = {Yue Ma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.16839},
  year   = {2025}
}

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17 pages, 9 figures

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