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On Turán Number of Graphs with Small Minimum Feedback Vertex Numbers

Combinatorics 2026-07-08 v1

Abstract

Given a graph HH, the minimum feedback vertex number of HH is the minimum number of vertices whose removal results in an acyclic graph. In this paper, we investigate Tur\'an-type extremal problems for bipartite graphs in terms of their feedback vertex number. Our first result concerns bipartite graphs HH with minimum feedback vertex number one. Such graphs can be obtained from a forest by identifying a specified collection of leaves into a single vertex. For these graphs, we show that ex(n,H)\text{ex}(n, H) is upper bounded by O(n1+1/k)O(n^{1+1/k^\ast}), where 2k2k^\ast is the length of the shortest cycle contained in HH. In addition, we consider a family of bipartite graphs with minimum feedback vertex number three. Let Ek,tE_{k,t} be the graph obtained from the theta graph θk,t\theta_{k,t} by joining a new vertex xx to one side of the bipartition and another vertex yy to the other. Let Ek,t+E^+_{k,t} denote the graph obtained by adding the edge xyxy to Ek,tE_{k,t}. We prove that for any k2k\geq 2 and sufficiently large tt, ex(n,Ek,t+)=Θ(n3k12k1).\text{ex}(n, E^+_{k,t})= \Theta(n^{\frac{3k-1}{2k-1}}).

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@article{arxiv.2607.07157,
  title  = {On Turán Number of Graphs with Small Minimum Feedback Vertex Numbers},
  author = {Xiao-Chuan Liu and Xu Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.07157},
  year   = {2026}
}

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