Most probably trangle-free graphs
Combinatorics
2026-02-27 v1
Abstract
The celebrated Mantel's theorem states that any triangle-free graph on vertices contains at most edges. It is natural to ask how many triangles must exist in a graph with more than edges--a problem known as the Erd\H{o}s-Rademacher problem. In this paper, we propose a probabilistic variant of this classic problem. Specifically, given an -vertex graph with () edges, we choose the edges of independently with probability , and the resulting new graph is triangle-free with a certain probability. Our goal is to maximize this probability by choosing appropriately. For the case where has edges, we determine the exact maximum probability.
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@article{arxiv.2602.22782,
title = {Most probably trangle-free graphs},
author = {Yuhang Bai and Gyula O. H. Katona and Zixuan Yang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.22782},
year = {2026}
}
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9 pages