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For two graphs $G$ and $F$, the extremal number of $F$ in $G$, denoted by {ex}$(G,F)$, is the maximum number of edges in a spanning subgraph of $G$ not containing $F$ as a subgraph. Determining {ex}$(K_n,F)$ for a given graph $F$ is a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Junxue Zhang

A long-standing conjecture of Erd\H{o}s and Simonovits asserts that for every rational number $r\in (1,2)$ there exists a bipartite graph $H$ such that $\ex(n,H)=\Theta(n^r)$. So far this conjecture is known to be true only for rationals of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Tao Jiang , Jie Ma , Liana Yepremyan

Zykov showed in 1949 that among graphs on $n$ vertices with clique number $\omega(G) \le \omega$, the Tur\'an graph $T_{\omega}(n)$ maximizes not only the number of edges but also the number of copies of $K_t$ for each size $t$. The problem…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-04-08 R. Kirsch , A. J. Radcliffe

We focus on two hypergraph Ramsey problems. First, we consider the Erd\H{o}s-Hajnal function $r_k(k+1,t;n)$. In 1972, Erd\H{o}s and Hajnal conjectured that the tower growth rate of $r_k(k+1,t;n)$ is $t-1$ for each $2\le t\le k$. To finish…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-30 Chunchao Fan , Xinyu Hu , Qizhong Lin , Xin Lu

For integers $k,n$ with $1 \le k \le n/2$, let $f(k,n)$ be the smallest integer $t$ such that every $t$-connected $n$-vertex graph has a spanning bipartite $k$-connected subgraph. A conjecture of Thomassen asserts that $f(k,n)$ is upper…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Raphael Yuster

Many problems in extremal combinatorics can be reduced to determining the independence number of a specific auxiliary hypergraph. We present two such problems, one from discrete geometry and one from hypergraph Tur\'an theory. Using results…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-04 Felix Christian Clemen

Given a hypergraph $\mathcal{H}$ and a graph $G$, we say that $\mathcal{H}$ is a \textit{Berge}-$G$ if there is a bijection between the hyperedges of $\mathcal{H}$ and the edges of $G$ such that each hyperedge contains its image. We denote…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-04 Dániel Gerbner

Let $b(k,\theta)$ be the maximum order of a connected bipartite $k$-regular graph whose second largest eigenvalue is at most $\theta$. In this paper, we obtain a general upper bound for $b(k,\theta)$ for any $0\leq \theta< 2\sqrt{k-1}$. Our…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-05 Sebastian M. Cioabă , Jack H. Koolen , Hiroshi Nozaki

A cograph is a graph that contains no induced path $P_4$ on four vertices or equivalently a graph that can be constructed from vertices by sum and product operations. We study the bipartite Tur\'an problem restricted to cographs: for fixed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Jakob Paul Zimmermann

Let $up(r, t) = (a_1 a_2 \dots a_r)^t$. We investigate the problem of determining the maximum possible integer $n(r, t)$ for which there exist $2t-1$ permutations $\pi_1, \pi_2, \dots, \pi_{2t-1}$ of $1, 2, \dots, n(r, t)$ such that the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-15 Jesse Geneson , Peter Tian , Katherine Tung

Let $f^{(r)}(n;s,k)$ denote the maximum number of edges in an $r$-graph on $n$ vertices in which every $k$ edges span more than $s$ vertices. Brown, Erd\H{o}s and S\'{o}s in 1973 conjectured that for every $k\geq 2$, the limit…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Yan Wang , Jiasheng Zeng

Galvin showed that for all fixed $\delta$ and sufficiently large $n$, the $n$-vertex graph with minimum degree $\delta$ that admits the most independent sets is the complete bipartite graph $K_{\delta,n-\delta}$. He conjectured that except…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-04-16 John Engbers , David Galvin

Given a graph $F$, we define $\operatorname{ex}(G_{n,p},F)$ to be the maximum number of edges in an $F$-free subgraph of the random graph $G_{n,p}$. Very little is known about $\operatorname{ex}(G_{n,p},F)$ when $F$ is bipartite, with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-29 Gwen McKinley , Sam Spiro

Write ${\cal I}(G)$ for the set of independent sets of a graph $G$ and $i(G)$ for $|{\cal I}(G)|$. It has been conjectured (by Alon and Kahn) that for an $N$-vertex, $d$-regular graph $G$, $$ i(G) \leq \left(2^{d+1}-1\right)^{N/2d}. $$ If…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-07-29 David Galvin

In this note, we fix a graph $H$ and ask into how many vertices can each vertex of a clique of size $n$ can be "split" such that the resulting graph is $H$-free. Formally: A graph is an $(n,k)$-graph if its vertex sets is a pairwise…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Maria Axenovich , Ryan R. Martin

The classical extremal function for a graph $H$, $ex(K_n, H)$ is the largest number of edges in a subgraph of $K_n$ that contains no subgraph isomorphic to $H$. Note that defining $ex(K_n, H-ind)$ by forbidding induced subgraphs isomorphic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Maria Axenovich , Jakob Zimmermann

An $r$-uniform hypergraph is called $t$-cancellative if for any $t+2$ distinct edges $A_1,\ldots,A_t,B,C$, it holds that $(\cup_{i=1}^t A_i)\cup B\neq (\cup_{i=1}^t A_i)\cup C$. It is called $t$-union-free if for any two distinct subsets…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-24 Chong Shangguan , Itzhak Tamo

The $r$-expansion of a $k$-uniform hypergraph $H$, denoted by $H^{(+r)}$, is an $r$-uniform hypergraph obtained by enlarging each $k$-edge of $H$ with a set of $r-k$ vertices of degree one. The random Tur\'an number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-21 Jiaxi Nie

Let $f^{(r)}(n;s,k)$ be the maximum number of edges in an $n$-vertex $r$-uniform hypergraph containing no $k$ edges on at most $s$ vertices. Brown, Erd\H{o}s and S\'os conjectured in 1973 that the limit $\lim_{n\rightarrow…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Oleg Pikhurko , Shumin Sun

For graphs $H$ and $F$, let $\text{ex}(n,H,F)$ be the maximum possible number of copies of $H$ in an $F$-free graph on $n$ vertices. The study of this function, which generalizes the well-known Tur\'{a}n number of graphs, was systematically…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-02 Tao Zhang , Gennian Ge