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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

Goodman proved that the sum of the number of triangles in a graph on $n$ nodes and its complement is at least $n^3/24$; in other words, this sum is minimized, asymptotically, by a random graph with edge density $1/2$. Erd\H{o}s conjectured…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-09 Endre Csóka , Tamás Hubai , László Lovász

The strong geodetic problem on a graph $G$ is to determine a smallest set of vertices such that by fixing one shortest path between each pair of its vertices, all vertices of $G$ are covered. To do this as efficiently as possible, strong…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-02 Valentin Gledel , Vesna Iršič , Sandi Klavžar

We provide two constructions for $t$ edge-disjoint maximal outerplanar graphs on every number of $n \geq 4t$ vertices. The bound on the minimum number of vertices is tight. These constructions yield the existence of optimal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Yuto Okada , Yota Otachi , Lena Volk

We show that if a graph $G$ with $n \geq 3$ vertices can be drawn in the plane such that each of its edges is involved in at most four crossings, then $G$ has at most $6n-12$ edges. This settles a conjecture of Pach, Radoi\v{c}i\'{c},…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-26 Eyal Ackerman

Paul Erd\H{o}s suggested the following problem: Determine or estimate the number of maximal triangle-free graphs on $n$ vertices. Here we show that the number of maximal triangle-free graphs is at most $2^{n^2/8+o(n^2)}$, which matches the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-30 József Balogh , Šárka Petříčková

We systematically study a natural problem in extremal graph theory, to minimize the number of edges in a graph with a fixed number of vertices, subject to a certain local condition: each vertex must be in a copy of a fixed graph $H$. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-24 Debsoumya Chakraborti , Po-Shen Loh

We prove that the number of multigraphs with vertex set $\{1, \ldots, n\}$ such that every four vertices span at most nine edges is $a^{n^2 + o(n^2)}$ where $a$ is transcendental (assuming Schanuel's conjecture from number theory). This is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-27 Dhruv Mubayi , Caroline Terry

The {\em disjointness graph} $G=G({\cal S})$ of a set of segments ${\cal S}$ in $R^d$, $d\ge 2,$ is a graph whose vertex set is ${\cal S}$ and two vertices are connected by an edge if and only if the corresponding segments are disjoint. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-12 Janos Pach , Gabor Tardos , Geza Toth

A topological graph drawn on a cylinder whose base is horizontal is \emph{angularly monotone} if every vertical line intersects every edge at most once. Let $c(n)$ denote the maximum number $c$ such that every simple angularly monotone…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-07-17 Radoslav Fulek

A $d$-regular graph on $n$ nodes has at most $T_{\max} = \frac{n}{3} \tbinom{d}{2}$ triangles. We compute the leading asymptotics of the probability that a large random $d$-regular graph has at least $c \cdot T_{\max}$ triangles, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-16 Pim van der Hoorn , Gabor Lippner , Elchanan Mossel

We study the minimum degree necessary to guarantee the existence of perfect and almost-perfect triangle-tilings in an $n$-vertex graph $G$ with sublinear independence number. In this setting, we show that if $\delta(G) \ge n/3 + o(n)$ then…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-27 József Balogh , Andrew McDowell , Theodore Molla , Richard Mycroft

Given a graph $H$, the extremal number $\mathrm{ex}(n,H)$ is the largest number of edges in an $H$-free graph on $n$ vertices. We make progress on a number of conjectures about the extremal number of bipartite graphs. First, writing…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-04-28 David Conlon , Oliver Janzer , Joonkyung Lee

Let $G$ be a 2-connected $n$-vertex graph and $N_s(G)$ be the total number of $s$-cliques in $G$. Let $k\ge 4$ and $s\ge 2$ be integers. In this paper, we show that if $G$ has an edge $e$ which is not on any cycle of length at least $k$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-02 Naidan Ji , Dong Ye

For $S\subseteq V(G)$ and $|S|\geq 2$, $\lambda(S)$ is the maximum number of edge-disjoint trees connecting $S$ in $G$. For an integer $k$ with $2\leq k\leq n$, the \emph{generalized $k$-edge-connectivity} $\lambda_k(G)$ of $G$ is then…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-07-10 Xueliang Li , Yaping Mao

We prove that every $3$-graph $H$ on $n$ vertices with minimum codegree $\delta_2(H) \geq 7n/9 + o(n)$ contains the square of a tight Hamilton cycle. This strengthens a theorem of Bedenknecht and Reiher that $\delta_2(H) \geq 4n/5 + o(n)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Debmalya Bandyopadhyay , Allan Lo , Richard Mycroft

We prove that for $n>k\geq 3$, if $G$ is an $n$-vertex graph with chromatic number $k$ but any its proper subgraph has smaller chromatic number, then $G$ contains at most $n-k+3$ copies of cliques of size $k-1$. This answers a problem of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Jun Gao , Jie Ma

The crossing number of a graph $G$ denotes the minimum number of crossings in any planar drawing of $G$. In this short note, we confirm a long-standing conjecture posed by Pach, Spencer, and T\'oth over 25 years ago, establishing an optimal…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Kaizhe Chen , Jie Ma

For positive integers $n$ and $r$, we consider $n$-vertex graphs with the maximum number of $r$-edge-colorings with no copy of a triangle where exactly two colors appear. We prove that, if $2 \leq r \leq 26$ and $n$ is sufficiently large,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-16 Carlos Hoppen , Hanno Lefmann , Dionatan Ricardo Schmidt

Considering regular graphs with every edge in a triangle we prove lower bounds for the number of triangles in such graphs. For r-regular graphs with r <= 5 we exhibit families of graphs with exactly that number of triangles and then…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-02 James Preen