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The Tur\'an number of a graph $H$, denoted by $\text{ex}(n, H)$, is the maximum number of edges in an $n$-vertex graph that does not have $H$ as a subgraph. Let $TP_k$ be the triangular pyramid of $k$-layers. In this paper, we determine…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-22 Debarun Ghosh , Ervin Győri , Addisu Paulos , Chuanqi Xiao , Oscar Zamora

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

The study of extremal problems on triangle areas was initiated in a series of papers by Erd\H{o}s and Purdy in the early 1970s. In this paper we present new results on such problems, concerning the number of triangles of the same area that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-12-17 Adrian Dumitrescu , Micha Sharir , Csaba D. Toth

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

In 2006, Marcus and Tardos proved that if $A^1,\dots,A^n$ are cyclic orders on some subsets of a set of $n$ symbols such that the common elements of any two distinct orders $A^i$ and $A^j$ appear in reversed cyclic order in $A^i$ and $A^j$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Barnabás Janzer , Oliver Janzer , Abhishek Methuku , Gábor Tardos

We consider geometric triangulations of surfaces, i.e., triangulations whose edges can be realized by disjoint locally geodesic segments. We prove that the flip graph of geometric triangulations with fixed vertices of a flat torus or a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Vincent Despré , Jean-Marc Schlenker , Monique Teillaud

In 1964, Erd\H{o}s proposed the problem of estimating the Tur\'an number of the $d$-dimensional hypercube $Q_d$. Since $Q_d$ is a bipartite graph with maximum degree $d$, it follows from results of F\"uredi and Alon, Krivelevich, Sudakov…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Oliver Janzer , Benny Sudakov

The planar Tur\'an number of a graph $H$, denoted by $ex_{_\mathcal{P}}(n,H)$, is the largest number of edges in a planar graph on $n $ vertices without containing $H$ as a subgraph. In this paper, we continue to study the topic of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Yongxin Lan , Zi-Xia Song

We study the Tur\'{a}n problem for highly symmetric bipartite graphs arising from geometric shapes and periodic tilings commonly found in nature. 1. The prism $C_{2\ell}^{\square}:=C_{2\ell}\square K_{2}$ is the graph consisting of two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-29 Jun Gao , Oliver Janzer , Hong Liu , Zixiang Xu

We show that for each $k\geq 4$ and $n>r\geq k+1$, every $n$-vertex $r$-uniform hypergraph with no Berge cycle of length at least $k$ has at most $\frac{(k-1)(n-1)}{r}$ edges. The bound is exact, and we describe the extremal hypergraphs.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-13 Alexandr Kostochka , Ruth Luo

In 2016, Dowden initiated the study of planar Tur\'an-type problems, which has since attracted considerable attention. Recently, Bekos et al. proved that every $K_3$-free $1$-planar graph on $n\ge 4$ vertices has at most $3n-6$ edges. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Licheng Zhang , Yuanqiu Huang , Fengming Dong

A triangulation of a punctured or pinched surface is irreducible if no edge can be shrunk without producing multiple edges or changing the topological type of the surface. The finiteness of the set of (non-isomorphic) irreducible…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-06-04 M. J. Chávez , S. Lawrencenko , A. Quintero , M. T. Villar

Given a fixed graph H, we say that a graph G is H-free if G does not contain H as a subgraph. The Tur\'an number ex(n, H) of H is the maximum number of edges in an n-vertex H-free graph. The study of Tur\'an number of graphs is a central…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Stefan Gobej

The planar Tur\'{a}n number of a given graph $H$, denoted by $ex_{\mathcal{P}}(n,H)$, is the maximum number of edges over all planar graphs on $n$ vertices that do not contain a copy of $H$ as a subgraph. Let $H_k$ be a friendship graph,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-23 Longfei Fang , Mingqing Zhai , Bing Wang

In 1975, Erd\H{o}s asked for the maximum number of edges that an $n$-vertex graph can have if it does not contain two edge-disjoint cycles on the same vertex set. It is known that Tur\'an-type results can be used to prove an upper bound of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-11 Debsoumya Chakraborti , Oliver Janzer , Abhishek Methuku , Richard Montgomery

The Tur\'an number of a graph H, ex(n;H), is the maximum number of edges in any graph on n vertices which does not contain H as a subgraph. Let P_l denote a path on l vertices, and kP_l denote k vertex-disjoint copies of P_l. We determine…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-04-23 Neal Bushaw , Nathan Kettle

We prove that every 3-coloring of the edges of the complete graph on n vertices without a rainbow triangle contains a set of order Omega(n^{1/3}log^2 n) which uses at most two colors, and this bound is tight up to a constant factor. This…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-03-13 J. Fox , A. Grinshpun , J. Pach

Let $m(n,r)$ denote the minimal number of edges in an $n$-uniform hypergraph which is not $r$-colorable. For the broad history of the problem see [RaiSh]. It is known that for a fixed $n$ the sequence \[ \frac{m(n,r)}{r^n} \] has a limit.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-12 Danila Cherkashin

The planar Tur\'an number, $ex_\mathcal{P}(n,H)$, is the maximum number of edges in an $n$-vertex planar graph which does not contain $H$ as a subgraph. The topic of extremal planar graphs was initiated by Dowden (2016). He obtained sharp…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Ervin Győri , Alan Li , Runtian Zhou

Spectral graph theory studies how the eigenvalues of a graph relate to the structural properties of a graph. In this paper, we solve three open problems in spectral extremal graph theory which generalize the classical Tur\'{a}n-type…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Yongtao Li , Hong Liu , Shengtong Zhang