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Saturation problems with regularity constraints

Combinatorics 2020-12-22 v1

Abstract

For a graph FF, we say that another graph GG is FF-saturated, if GG is FF-free and adding any edge to GG would create a copy of FF. We study for a given graph FF and integer nn whether there exists a regular nn-vertex FF-saturated graph, and if it does, what is the smallest number of edges of such a graph. We mainly focus on the case when FF is a complete graph and prove for example that there exists a K3K_3-saturated regular graph on nn vertices for every large enough nn. We also study two relaxed versions of the problem: when we only require that no regular FF-free supergraph of GG should exist or when we drop the FF-free condition and only require that any newly added edge should create a new copy of FF.

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@article{arxiv.2012.11165,
  title  = {Saturation problems with regularity constraints},
  author = {Dániel Gerbner and Balázs Patkós and Zsolt Tuza and Máté Vizer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.11165},
  year   = {2020}
}
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