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On extremal problems on multigraphs

Combinatorics 2023-01-26 v1

Abstract

An (n,s,q)(n,s,q)-graph is an nn-vertex multigraph in which every ss-set of vertices spans at most qq edges. Erd\H{o}s initiated the study of maximum number of edges of (n,s,q)(n,s,q)-graphs, and the extremal problem on multigraphs has been considered since the 1990s. The problem of determining the maximum product of the edge multiplicities in (n,s,q)(n,s,q)-graphs was posed by Mubayi and Terry in 2019. Recently, Day, Falgas-Ravry and Treglown settled a conjecture of Mubayi and Terry on the case (s,q)=(4,6a+3)(s,q)=(4, 6a + 3) of the problem (for a2a \ge 2), and they gave a general lower bound construction for the extremal problem for many pairs (s,q)(s, q), which they conjectured is asymptotically best possible. Their conjecture was confirmed exactly or asymptotically for some specific cases. In this paper, we consider the case that (s,q)=(5,(52)a+4)(s,q)=(5,\binom{5}{2}a+4) and d=2d=2 of their conjecture, partially solve an open problem raised by Day, Falgas-Ravry and Treglown. We also show that the conjecture fails for n=6n=6, which indicates for the case that (s,q)=(5,(52)a+4)(s,q)=(5,\binom{5}{2}a+4) and d=2d=2, nn needs to be sufficiently large for the conjecture to hold.

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@article{arxiv.2301.10430,
  title  = {On extremal problems on multigraphs},
  author = {Ran Gu and Shuaichao Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.10430},
  year   = {2023}
}
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