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Tur\'{a}n number for odd-ballooning of trees

Combinatorics 2022-07-26 v1

Abstract

The Tur\'an number ex(n,H)ex(n,H) is the maximum number of edges in an HH-free graph on nn vertices. Let TT be any tree. The odd-ballooning of TT, denoted by ToT_o, is a graph obtained by replacing each edge of TT with an odd cycle containing the edge, and all new vertices of the odd cycles are distinct. In this paper, we determine the exact value of ex(n,To)ex(n,T_o) for sufficiently large nn and ToT_o being good, which generalizes all the known results on ex(n,To)ex(n,T_o) for TT being a star, due to Erd\H{o}s et al. (1995), Hou et al. (2018) and Yuan (2018), and provides some counterexamples with chromatic number 3 to a conjecture of Keevash and Sudakov (2004), on the maximum number of edges not in any monochromatic copy of HH in a 22-edge-coloring of a complete graph of order nn.

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@article{arxiv.2207.11506,
  title  = {Tur\'{a}n number for odd-ballooning of trees},
  author = {Xiutao Zhu and Yaojun Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.11506},
  year   = {2022}
}