English
Related papers

Related papers: The Tur\'{a}n Number for Spanning Linear Forests

200 papers

Let $\mathcal{F}$ be a nonempty family of graphs. A graph $G$ is called $\mathcal{F}$-\textit{free} if it contains no graph from $\mathcal{F}$ as a subgraph. For a positive integer $n$, the \emph{planar Tur\'an number} of $\F$, denoted by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-28 Debarun Ghosh , Ervin Győri , Addisu Paulos , Chuanqi Xiao , Oscar Zamora

We determine the maximum possible number of edges of a graph with $n$ vertices, matching number at most $s$ and clique number at most $k$ for all admissible values of the parameters.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-28 Noga Alon , Peter Frankl

Suppose the edges of $K_n$ are assigned weights by a weight function $w$. We define the {\em weighted extremal number} \[ \mathrm{ex}(n,w,F):=\max\{w(G)\mid G\subseteq K_n,\text{ and }G\text{ is }F\text{-free}\} \] where $w(G):=\sum_{e\in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-14 Patrick Bennett , Sean English , Maria Talanda-Fisher

Given a family of $r$-uniform hypergraphs ${\cal F}$ (or $r$-graphs for brevity), the Tur\'an number $ex(n,{\cal F})$ of ${\cal F}$ is the maximum number of edges in an $r$-graph on $n$ vertices that does not contain any member of ${\cal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-10-14 Axel Brandt , David Irwin , Tao Jiang

A linear $3$-graph is a set of vertices along with a set of edges, which are three element subsets of the vertices, such that any two edges intersect in at most one vertex. The crown, $C$, is a specific $3$-graph consisting of three…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-08 Willem Fletcher

Let $F_{3,3}$ be the 3-graph on 6 vertices, labelled abcxyz, and 10 edges, one of which is abc, and the other 9 of which are all triples that contain 1 vertex from abc and 2 vertices from xyz. We show that for all $n \ge 6$, the maximum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-02-11 Peter Keevash , Dhruv Mubayi

A {\it vertex-ordered} graph is a graph equipped with a linear ordering of its vertices. A pair of independent edges in an ordered graph can exhibit one of the following three patterns: separated, nested or crossing. We say a pair of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-23 János Barát , Andrea Freschi , Géza Tóth

Let $F$ be a graph with chromatic number $\chi(F) = r+1$. Denote by $ex(n, F)$ and $Ex(n, F)$ the Tur\'{a}n number and the set of all extremal graphs for $F$, respectively. In addition, $ex_{ssp}(n, F)$ and $Ex_{ssp}(n, F)$ are the maximum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Ming-Zhu Chen , Ya-Lei Jin , Peng-Li Zhang , Xiao-Dong Zhang

A linear forest is a collection of vertex-disjoint paths. The Linear Arboricity Conjecture states that every graph of maximum degree $\Delta$ can be decomposed into at most $\lceil(\Delta+1)/2\rceil$ linear forests. We prove that $\Delta/2…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Micha Christoph , Nemanja Draganić , António Girão , Eoin Hurley , Lukas Michel , Alp Müyesser

The edge blow-up of a graph $F$ is the graph obtained from replacing each edge in $F$ by a clique of the same size where the new vertices of the cliques are all different. In this article, we concern about the Tur\'an problem for the edge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Anyao Wang , Xinmin Hou , Boyuan Liu , Yue Ma

A classical result of Bondy and Simonovits in extremal graph theory states that if a graph on $n$ vertices contains no cycle of length $2k$ then it has at most $O(n^{1+1/k})$ edges. However, matching lower bounds are only known for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-18 Ervin Győri , Dániel Korándi , Abhishek Methuku , István Tomon , Casey Tompkins , Máté Vizer

Let $\mathcal{F}$ be a family of graphs. A graph $G$ is $\mathcal{F}$-saturated if $G$ contains no member of $\mathcal{F}$ as a subgraph but $G+e$ contains some member of $\mathcal{F}$ whenever $e\in E(\overline{G})$. The saturation number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-06 Hui Lei , Suil O , Yongtang Shi , Douglas B. West , Xuding Zhu

The extremal graphs $\mathrm{EX}(n,\mathcal F)$ and spectral extremal graphs $\mathrm{SPEX}(n,\mathcal F)$ are the sets of graphs on $n$ vertices with maximum number of edges and maximum spectral radius, respectively, with no subgraph in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-02 John Byrne , Dheer Noal Desai , Michael Tait

For a fixed graph $F$, we would like to determine the maximum number of edges in a properly edge-colored graph on $n$ vertices which does not contain a {\emph rainbow copy} of $F$, that is, a copy of $F$ all of whose edges receive a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-22 Daniel Johnston , Cory Palmer , Amites Sarkar

The Tur\'an number of a $k$-uniform hypergraph $H$, denoted by $e{x_k}\left({n;H} \right)$, is the maximum number of edges in any $k$-uniform hypergraph $F$ on $n$ vertices which does not contain $H$ as a subgraph. Let…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-05-24 Ran Gu , Xueliang Li , Yongtang Shi

Given a family ${\cal F}$ of graphs, and a positive integer $n$, the Tur\'an number $ex(n,{\cal F})$ of ${\cal F}$ is the maximum number of edges in an $n$-vertex graph that does not contain any member of ${\cal F}$ as a subgraph. The order…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-02-12 Tao Jiang , Andrew Newman

In a generalized Tur\'an problem, two graphs $H$ and $F$ are given and the question is the maximum number of copies of $H$ in an $F$-free graph of order $n$. In this paper, we study the number of double stars $S_{k,l}$ in triangle-free…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-14 Ervin Győri , Runze Wang , Spencer Woolfson

A graph is outerplanar if it has a planar drawing for which all vertices belong to the outer face of the drawing. Let $H$ be a graph. The outerplanar Tur\'an number of $H$, denoted by $ex_\mathcal{OP}(n,H)$, is the maximum number of edges…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Ervin Győri , Guilherme Zeus Dantas e Moura , Runtian Zhou

For a fixed graph $F$, the rainbow Tur\'an number $\mathrm{ex^*}(n,F)$ is the largest number of edges possible in an $n$-vertex graph which admits a rainbow-$F$-free proper edge-coloring. We focus on the rainbow Tur\'an numbers of trees…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Anastasia Halfpap

The planar Tur\'a number of a graph $F$ is the maximum number of edges an $n$-vertex $F$-free planar graph can have. We study the case where $F$ is forbidden as an induced subgraph, thereby introducing the induced planar Tur\'a numbers. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Ervin Győri , Hilal Hama Karim