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Very recently, Alon and Frankl initiated the study of the maximum number of edges in $n$-vertex $F$-free graphs with matching number at most $s$. For fixed $F$ and $s$, we determine this number apart from a constant additive term. We also…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Dániel Gerbner

Let $G = (V,E)$ be a plane graph. A face $f$ of $G$ is guarded by an edge $vw \in E$ if at least one vertex from $\{v,w\}$ is on the boundary of $f$. For a planar graph class $\mathcal{G}$ we ask for the minimal number of edges needed to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Paul Jungeblut , Torsten Ueckerdt

The expansion $F^{\triangle}$ of a graph $F$ is the graph obtained from $F$ by replacing each edge with a triangle. Lv \etal proposed a conjecture on the maximum number of triangles in a graph without $P_k^{\triangle}$ or $C_k^{\triangle}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Jialei Song , Qi Wu , Long-Tu Yuan

We give upper and lower bounds on the maximum and minimum number of geometric configurations of various kinds present (as subgraphs) in a triangulation of $n$ points in the plane. Configurations of interest include \emph{convex polygons},…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-22 Adrian Dumitrescu , Maarten Löffler , André Schulz , Csaba D. Tóth

A matchstick graph is a plane graph with edges drawn as unit-distance line segments. Harborth introduced these graphs in 1981 and conjectured that the maximum number of edges for a matchstick graph on $n$ vertices is $\lfloor…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Jérémy Lavollée , Konrad Swanepoel

Let $\mathcal{H}$ be a 3-graph on $n$ vertices. The matching number $\nu(\mathcal{H})$ is defined as the maximum number of disjoint edges in $\mathcal{H}$. The generalized triangle $F_5$ is a 3-graph on the vertex set $\{a,b,c,d,e\}$ with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Jian Wang , Wenbin Wang , Weihua Yang

In 2007, Ando and Egawa proved a theorem which provides a lower bound on the number of contractible edges preserving $4$-connectedness in $4$-connected graphs. In this paper, we refine their bounds, especially for the $4$-connected plane…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Toshiki Abe , Michitaka Furuya , Raiji Mukae , Shoichi Tsuchiya

As a variant of the famous Tur\'an problem, we study $\mathrm{rex}(n,F)$, the maximum number of edges that an $n$-vertex regular graph can have without containing a copy of $F$. We determine $\mathrm{rex}(n,K_{r+1})$ for all pairs of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-24 Dániel Gerbner , Balázs Patkós , Zsolt Tuza , Máté Vizer

The expansion of a graph $F$, denoted by $F^3$, is the $3$-graph obtained from $F$ by adding a new vertex to each edge such that different edges receive different vertices. For large $n$, we establish tight upper bounds for: The maximum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Xizhi Liu , Jialei Song , Long-Tu Yuan

An obstacle representation of a graph $G$ is a set of points in the plane representing the vertices of $G$, together with a set of polygonal obstacles such that two vertices of $G$ are connected by an edge in $G$ if and only if the line…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-18 Martin Balko , Josef Cibulka , Pavel Valtr

Let ind-match$(G)$, min-match$(G)$ and match$(G)$ denote the induced matching number, minimum matching number and matching number of a graph $G$, respectively. It is known that ind-match$(G) \leq $ min-match$(G) \leq {\rm match}(G) \leq$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-10 Kazunori Matsuda , Ryosuke Sato , Yuichi Yoshida

Very recently, Alon and Frankl, and Gerbner studied the maximum number of edges in $n$-vertex $F$-free graphs with bounded matching number, respectively. We consider the analogous Tur\'{a}n problems on hypergraphs with bounded matching…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-11 Dániel Gerbner , Casey Tompkins , Junpeng Zhou

A graph is 1-planar if it can be drawn in the plane so that each edge is crossed by at most one another edge. In this work we prove that each 1-planar graph of minimum degree at least $3$ contains an edge with degrees of its endvertices of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Bei Niu , Xin Zhang

We prove that every $n$-vertex graph with at least $\binom{n}{2} - (n - 4)$ edges has a fractional triangle decomposition, for $n \ge 7$. This is a key ingredient in our proof, given in a companion paper, that every $n$-vertex $2$-coloured…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-17 Vytautas Gruslys , Shoham Letzter

We show that the maximum number of convex polygons in a triangulation of $n$ points in the plane is $O(1.5029^n)$. This improves an earlier bound of $O(1.6181^n)$ established by van Kreveld, L\"offler, and Pach (2012) and almost matches the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-10 Adrian Dumitrescu , Csaba D. Tóth

In this paper, we bound the number of edges of a maximal permutation graph with n vertices. We propose a new method to compute the lower bound by splitting the set of labellings of the edges into six parts, considering one separate problem…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-16 M. Anwar , Mahmoud Tarek , Ahmed Gaber

We prove a minimum degree version of the Kruskal--Katona theorem: given $d\ge 1/4$ and a triple system $F$ on $n$ vertices with minimum degree at least $d\binom n2$, we obtain asymptotically tight lower bounds for the size of its shadow.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Zoltán Füredi , Yi Zhao

We bound the number of minimal hypergraph transversals that arise in tri-partite 3-uniform hypergraphs, a class commonly found in applications dealing with data. Let H be such a hypergraph on a set of vertices V. We give a lower bound of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-08 Alexandre Bazin , Laurent Beaudou , Giacomo Kahn , Kaveh Khoshkhah

The Minimum Fill-in problem is to decide if a graph can be triangulated by adding at most k edges. Kaplan, Shamir, and Tarjan [FOCS 1994] have shown that the problem is solvable in time O(2^(O(k)) + k2 * nm) on graphs with n vertices and m…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-04-13 Fedor V. Fomin , Yngve Villanger

In the paper we give a lower bound for the number of vertices of a given graph using its chromatic number. We find the graphs for which this bound is exact. The results are applied in the theory of Foklman numbers.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-02-24 Nedyalko Dimov Nenov