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A celebrated result of Mantel shows that every graph on $n$ vertices with $\lfloor n^2/4 \rfloor + 1$ edges must contain a triangle. A robust version of this result, due to Rademacher, says that there must in fact be at least $\lfloor n/2…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-22 David Conlon , Jacob Fox , Benny Sudakov

The book number $b(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the maximum number of triangles sharing a common edge. A strengthening of Mantel's theorem due to Rademacher states that every $n$-vertex graph with more than $\lfloor n^2/4\rfloor$ edges contains at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Kaizhe Chen , Jie Ma , Tianhen Wang

A set of $q$ triangles sharing a common edge is a called a book of size $q$. Letting $bk(G)$ denote the size of the largest book in a graph $G$, Erd\H{o}s and Rothschild \cite{erdostwo} asked what the minimal value of $bk(G)$ is for graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-12-08 Aaron Potechin

A book of size $q$ is a set of $q$ triangles sharing a common edge. We study the size of the maximal book in a graph as a function of the number of its edges. In particular, we answer two questions of Erdos about graphs that are union of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bela Bollobas , Vladimir Nikiforov

Erd\H{o}s, Gallai, and Tuza posed the following problem: given an $n$-vertex graph $G$, let $\tau_1(G)$ denote the smallest size of a set of edges whose deletion makes $G$ triangle-free, and let $\alpha_1(G)$ denote the largest size of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-10-28 Gregory J. Puleo

The triangle packing number $\nu(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the maximum size of a set of edge-disjoint triangles in $G$. Tuza conjectured that in any graph $G$ there exists a set of at most $2\nu(G)$ edges intersecting every triangle in $G$. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-06 Patrick Bennett , Andrzej Dudek , Shira Zerbib

Tuza conjectured that for every graph $G$, the maximum size $\nu$ of a set of edge-disjoint triangles and minimum size $\tau$ of a set of edges meeting all triangles satisfy $\tau \leq 2\nu$. We consider an edge-weighted version of this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-26 Guillaume Chapuy , Matt DeVos , Jessica McDonald , Bojan Mohar , Diego Scheide

By the theorem of Mantel $[5]$ it is known that a graph with $n$ vertices and $\lfloor \frac{n^{2}}{4} \rfloor+1$ edges must contain a triangle. A theorem of Erd\H{o}s gives a strengthening: there are not only one, but at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-11 Chuanqi Xiao , Gyula O. H. Katona

Given a graph $G$, a Berge copy of $G$ is a hypergraph obtained by enlarging the edges arbitrarily. Gy\H ori in 2006 showed that for $r=3$ or $r=4$, an $r$-uniform $n$-vertex Berge triangle-free hypergraph has at most $\lfloor…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Dániel Gerbner

The celebrated Mantel's theorem states that any triangle-free graph on $n$ vertices contains at most $\left\lfloor n^2/4\right\rfloor$ edges. It is natural to ask how many triangles must exist in a graph with more than $\left\lfloor…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Yuhang Bai , Gyula O. H. Katona , Zixuan Yang

It is shown that the number of pages required for a book embedding of a graph is the maximum of the numbers needed for any of the maximal nonseparable subgraphs and that a plane graph in which every triangle bounds a face has a two-page…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-05 Paul C. Kainen , Shannon Overbay

An old conjecture of Zs. Tuza says that for any graph $G$, the ratio of the minimum size, $\tau_3(G)$, of a set of edges meeting all triangles to the maximum size, $\nu_3(G)$, of an edge-disjoint triangle packing is at most 2. Here,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-31 Jacob D. Baron , Jeff Kahn

A celebrated conjecture of Zs. Tuza says that in any (finite) graph, the minimum size of a cover of triangles by edges is at most twice the maximum size of a set of edge-disjoint triangles. Resolving a recent question of Bennett, Dudek, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-13 Jeff Kahn , Jinyoung Park

Tuza (1981) conjectured that the size $\tau(G)$ of a minimum set of edges that intersects every triangle of a graph $G$ is at most twice the size $\nu(G)$ of a maximum set of edge-disjoint triangles of $G$. In this paper we present three…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-17 Fábio Botler , Cristina G. Fernandes , Juan Gutiérrez

The triangle covering number of a graph is the minimum number of vertices that hit all triangles. Given positive integers $s,t$ and an $n$-vertex graph $G$ with $\lfloor n^2/4 \rfloor +t$ edges and triangle covering number $s$, we determine…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-18 Xizhi Liu , Dhruv Mubayi

A book of size N is the union of N triangles sharing a common edge. We show that the Ramsey number of a book of size N vs. a book of size M equals 2N+3 for all N>(10^6)M. Our proof is based on counting.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vladimir Nikiforov , Cecil Rousseau

In a book embedding, the vertices of a graph are placed on the spine of a book and the edges are assigned to pages, so that edges on the same page do not cross. In this paper, we prove that every $1$-planar graph (that is, a graph that can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-31 Michael A. Bekos , Till Bruckdorfer , Michael Kaufmann , Chrysanthi N. Raftopoulou

One of the oldest results in modern graph theory, due to Mantel, asserts that every triangle-free graphs on $n$ vertices has at most $\lfloor n^2/4\rfloor$ edges. About half a century later Andr\'asfai studied dense triangle-free graphs and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-08 Tomasz Łuczak , Joanna Polcyn , Christian Reiher

An embedding of a graph in a book, called book embedding, consists of a linear ordering of its vertices along the spine of the book and an assignment of its edges to the pages of the book, so that no two edges on the same page cross. The…

Let $\alpha_{1} (G)$ denote the maximum size of an edge set that contains at most one edge from each triangle of $G$. Let $\tau_{B} (G)$ denote the minimum size of an edge set whose deletion makes $G$ bipartite. It was conjectured by Lehel…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-20 Honghai Xu
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