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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

Mantel's theorem states that every $n$-vertex graph with $\lfloor \frac{n^2}{4} \rfloor +t$ edges, where $t>0$, contains a triangle. The problem of determining the minimum number of triangles in such a graph is usually referred to as the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-14 József Balogh , Felix Christian Clemen

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

Mantel's Theorem asserts that a simple $n$ vertex graph with more than $\frac{1}{4}n^2$ edges has a triangle (three mutually adjacent vertices). Here we consider a rainbow variant of this problem. We prove that whenever $G_1, G_2, G_3$ are…

One of the earliest results in extremal graph theory, Mantel's theorem, states that the maximum number of edges in a triangle-free graph $G$ on $n$ vertices is $\lfloor n^2/4 \rfloor$. We investigate how this extremal bound is affected when…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Natalie Behague , Debsoumya Chakraborti , Xizhi Liu

An $r$-graph is a triangle if there exists a positive integer $i \le \lceil r/2 \rceil$ such that it is isomorphic to the following $r$-graph with three edges: \begin{align*} \left\{\{1, \ldots, r\},~\{1, \ldots, i, r+1, \ldots,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-03 Xizhi Liu

A well-known theorem of Mantel states that every $n$-vertex graph with more than $\lfloor n^2/4\rfloor $ edges contains a triangle. An interesting problem in extremal graph theory studies the minimum number of edges contained in triangles…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Yongtao Li , Lihua Feng , Yuejian Peng

Erd\H{o}s conjectured that every $n$-vertex triangle-free graph contains a subset of $\lfloor n/2\rfloor$ vertices that spans at most $n^2/50$ edges. Extending a recent result of Norin and Yepremyan, we confirm this conjecture for graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-05 Wiebke Bedenknecht , Guilherme Oliveira Mota , Christian Reiher , Mathias Schacht

One of the most fundamental results in graph theory is Mantel's theorem which determines the maximum number of edges in a triangle-free graph of order $n$. Recently a colorful variant of this problem has been solved. In such a variant we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Sebastian Babiński , Andrzej Grzesik , Magdalena Prorok

The famous Tetrahedron Conjecture of Tur\'an from the 1940s asserts that the number of edges in an $n$-vertex $3$-graph without the tetrahedron, the complete $3$-graph on four vertices, cannot exceed that of the balanced complete cyclic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-19 Levente Bodnár , Wanfang Chen , Jinghua Deng , Jianfeng Hou , Xizhi Liu , Jialei Song , Jiabao Yang , Yixiao Zhang

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

We find, for all sufficiently large $n$ and each $k$, the maximum number of edges in an $n$-vertex graph which does not contain $k+1$ vertex-disjoint triangles. This extends a result of Moon [Canad. J. Math. 20 (1968), 96-102] which is in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-31 Peter Allen , Julia Böttcher , Jan Hladký , Diana Piguet

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

In 1975, Erd\H{o}s asked the following natural question: What is the maximum number of edges that an $n$-vertex graph can have without containing a cycle with all diagonals? Erd\H{o}s observed that the upper bound $O(n^{5/3})$ holds since…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-31 Domagoj Bradač , Abhishek Methuku , 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

Mantel's theorem is a classical result in extremal graph theory which implies that the maximum number of edges of a triangle-free graph of order $n$. In 1970, E. Nosal obtained a spectral version of Mantel's theorem which gave the maximum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Chunmeng Liu , Changjiang Bu

Let $G$ be an $n$-vertex triangle-free graph. The celebrated Mantel's theorem showed that $e(G)\leq \lfloor\frac{n^2}{4}\rfloor$. In 1962, Erd\H{o}s (together with Gallai), and independently Andr\'{a}sfai, proved that if $G$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Sijie Ren , Jian Wang , Shipeng Wang , Weihua Yang

We prove that any $n$-vertex graph whose complement is triangle-free contains $n^2/12-o(n^2)$ edge-disjoint triangles. This is tight for the disjoint union of two cliques of order $n/2$. We also prove a corresponding stability theorem, that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Mykhaylo Tyomkyn

One of Erdos's conjectures states that every triangle-free graph on $n$ vertices has an induced subgraph on $n/2$ vertices with at most $n^2/50$ edges. We report several partial results towards this conjecture. In particular, we establish…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-06 Alexander Razborov

The famous Erd\H{o}s-S\'os conjecture states that every graph of average degree more than $t-1$ must contain every tree on $t+1$ vertices. In this paper, we study a spectral version of this conjecture. For $n>k$, let $S_{n,k}$ be the join…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Sebastian Cioabă , Dheer Noal Desai , Michael Tait
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