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Pentagons in triangle-free graphs

Combinatorics 2020-06-12 v1

Abstract

For all n9n\ge 9, we show that the only triangle-free graphs on nn vertices maximizing the number 55-cycles are balanced blow-ups of a 5-cycle. This completely resolves a conjecture by Erd\H{o}s, and extends results by Grzesik and Hatami, Hladk\'y, Kr\'{a}l', Norin and Razborov, where they independently showed this same result for large nn and for all nn divisible by 55.

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@article{arxiv.1712.08869,
  title  = {Pentagons in triangle-free graphs},
  author = {Bernard Lidický and Florian Pfender},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.08869},
  year   = {2020}
}

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6 pages

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