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The problem of finding dense induced bipartite subgraphs in $H$-free graphs has a long history, and was posed 30 years ago by Erd\H{o}s, Faudree, Pach and Spencer. In this paper, we obtain several results in this direction. First we prove…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-09 Matthew Kwan , Shoham Letzter , Benny Sudakov , Tuan Tran

In 1991 Gy\H ori, Pach, and Simonovits proved that for any bipartite graph $H$ containing a matching avoiding at most 1 vertex, the maximum number of copies of $H$ in any large enough triangle-free graph is achieved in a balanced complete…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-25 Dmitriy Gorovoy , Andrzej Grzesik , Justyna Jaworska

We prove that there is a constant $c >0$, such that whenever $p \ge n^{-c}$, with probability tending to 1 when $n$ goes to infinity, every maximum triangle-free subgraph of the random graph $G_{n,p}$ is bipartite. This answers a question…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-08-27 Graham Brightwell , Konstantinos Panagiotou , Angelika Steger

We denote by $\text{ex}(n, H, F)$ the maximum number of copies of $H$ in an $n$-vertex graph that does not contain $F$ as a subgraph. Recently, Grzesik, Gy\H{o}ri, Salia, Tompkins considered conditions on $H$ under which $\text{ex}(n, H,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-01 Eng Keat Hng , Domenico Mergoni Cecchelli

An $r$-cut of a $k$-uniform hypergraph is a partition of its vertex set into $r$ parts, and the size of the cut is the number of edges which have at least one vertex in each part. The study of the possible size of the largest $r$-cut in a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Oliver Janzer , Julien Portier

A conjecture of Chung and Graham states that every $K_4$-free graph on $n$ vertices contains a vertex set of size $\lfloor n/2 \rfloor$ that spans at most $n^2/18$ edges. We make the first step toward this conjecture by showing that it…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-30 Xizhi Liu , Jie Ma

Suppose the edges of the complete graph on n vertices are coloured using r colours; how large a k-connected subgraph are we guaranteed to find, which uses only at most s of the colours? This question is due to Bollobas, and the case s = 1…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Henry Liu , Robert Morris , Noah Prince

The problem of Zarankiewicz asks for the maximum number of edges in a bipartite graph on $n$ vertices which does not contain the complete bipartite graph $K_{k,k}$ as a subgraph. A classical theorem due to K\H{o}v\'ari, S\'os, and Tur\'an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-05 Oliver Janzer , Cosmin Pohoata

A well-known conjecture by Erd\H{o}s states that every triangle-free graph on $n$ vertices can be made bipartite by removing at most $n^2/25$ edges. This conjecture was known for graphs with edge density at least $0.4$ and edge density at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-29 József Balogh , Felix Christian Clemen , Bernard Lidický

If $k\geq 0$, then a $k$-edge-coloring of a graph $G$ is an assignment of colors to edges of $G$ from the set of $k$ colors, so that adjacent edges receive different colors. A $k$-edge-colorable subgraph of $G$ is maximum if it is the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Liana Karapetyan , Vahan Mkrtchyan

We estimate the maximum possible number of cliques of size $r$ in an $n$-vertex graph free of a fixed complete $r$-partite graph $K_{s_1, s_2, \ldots, s_r}$. By viewing every $r$-clique as a hyperedge, the upper bound on the Tur\'an number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-25 József Balogh , Suyun Jiang , Haoran Luo

We prove that every connected graph $G$ with $m$ edges contains a set $X$ of at most $\frac{3}{16}(m + 1)$ vertices such that $G-X$ has no $K_4$ minor, or equivalently, has treewidth at most $2$. This bound is best possible. Connectivity is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-15 Gwenaël Joret , David R. Wood

We study the typical structure and the number of triangle-free graphs with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges where $m$ is large enough so that a typical triangle-free graph has a cut containing nearly all of its edges, but may not be bipartite.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-14 Matthew Jenssen , Will Perkins , Aditya Potukuchi

For a digraph $G$, let $f(G)$ be the maximum chromatic number of an acyclic subgraph of $G$. For an $n$-vertex digraph $G$ it is proved that $f(G) \ge n^{5/9-o(1)}s^{-14/9}$ where $s$ is the bipartite independence number of $G$, i.e., the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Raphael Yuster

Let $F$ be an $(r+1)$-color critical graph with $r\geq 2$, that is, $\chi(F)=r+1$ and there is an edge $e$ in $F$ such that $\chi(F-e)=r$. Gerbner recently conjectured that every $n$-vertex maximal $F$-free graph with at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-04 Jian Wang , Shipeng Wang , Weihua Yang

For a bipartite graph G, let h(G) be the largest t such that either G or the bipartite complement of G contain K_{t,t}. For a class F of graphs, let h(F)= min {h(G): G\in F}. We say that a bipartite graph H is strongly acyclic if neither H…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-26 Maria Axenovich , Casey Tompkins , Lea Weber

Recently, settling a question of Erd\H{o}s, Balogh and Pet\v{r}\'{i}\v{c}kov\'{a} showed that there are at most $2^{n^2/8+o(n^2)}$ $n$-vertex maximal triangle-free graphs, matching the previously known lower bound. Here we characterize the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-07 József Balogh , Hong Liu , Šárka Petříčková , Maryam Sharifzadeh

We consider the binomial random graph $G(n,p)$, where $p$ is a constant, and answer the following two questions. First, given $e(k)=p{k\choose 2}+O(k)$, what is the maximum $k$ such that a.a.s.~the binomial random graph $G(n,p)$ has an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-23 Jozsef Balogh , Maksim Zhukovskii

Let $H=(V,E)$ be a hypergraph, where $V$ is a set of vertices and $E$ is a set of non-empty subsets of $V$ called edges. If all edges of $H$ have the same cardinality $r$, then $H$ is a $r$-uniform hypergraph; if $E$ consists of all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-23 Yingzhi Tian , Hong-Jian Lai , Jixiang Meng , Murong Xu

A hypergraph $\mathcal{F}$ is non-trivial intersecting if every two edges in it have a nonempty intersection but no vertex is contained in all edges of $\mathcal{F}$. Mubayi and Verstra\"{e}te showed that for every $k \ge d+1 \ge 3$ and $n…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-23 Xizhi Liu