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We give the first exact and stability results for a hypergraph Tur\'{a}n problem with infinitely many extremal constructions that are far from each other in edit-distance. This includes an example of triple systems with Tur\'{a}n density…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-04 Jianfeng Hou , Heng Li , Xizhi Liu , Dhruv Mubayi , Yixiao Zhang

Determining the maximum number of edges in an intersecting hypergraph on a fixed ground set under additional constraints is one of the central topics in extremal combinatorics. In contrast, there are few results on analogous problems…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Stijn Cambie , Jaehoon Kim , Hyunwoo Lee , Hong Liu , Tuan Tran

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

For every positive integer $t$ we construct a finite family of triple systems ${\mathcal M}_t$, determine its Tur\'{a}n number, and show that there are $t$ extremal ${\mathcal M}_t$-free configurations that are far from each other in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-17 Xizhi Liu , Dhruv Mubayi , Christian Reiher

We study the topic of "extremal" planar graphs, defining $\mathrm{ex_{_{\mathcal{P}}}}(n,H)$ to be the maximum number of edges possible in a planar graph on $n$ vertices that does not contain a given graph $H$ as a subgraph. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-12-15 Chris Dowden

We study the following family of problems: Given a set of $n$ points in convex position, what is the maximum number triangles one can create having these points as vertices while avoiding certain sets of forbidden configurations. As…

We study noncrossing geometric graphs and their disjoint compatible geometric matchings. Given a cycle (a polygon) P we want to draw a set of pairwise disjoint straight-line edges with endpoints on the vertices of P such that these new…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-20 Alexander Pilz , Jonathan Rollin , Lena Schlipf , André Schulz

Let $S$ be a set of $n$ points in the plane in general position. Two line segments connecting pairs of points of $S$ cross if they have an interior point in common. Two vertex disjoint geometric graphs with vertices in $S$ cross if there…

Simonovits and S\'{o}s conjectured that the maximal size of a triangle-intersecting family of graphs on $n$ vertices is $2^{\binom{n}{2}-3}$. Their conjecture has recently been proved using spectral methods. We provide an elementary proof…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-02-10 Yuval Filmus

This survey concerns regular graphs that are extremal with respect to the number of independent sets, and more generally, graph homomorphisms. More precisely, in the family of of $d$-regular graphs, which graph $G$ maximizes/minimizes the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-03 Yufei Zhao

We study Tur\'an-type extremal problems for distance graphs, motivated by work of Csikv\'ari, Bollob\'as, Tyomkyn, and Uzzell. We determine the maximum number of vertex pairs at distance three in an $n$-vertex graph with no triangle formed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-01 Zhen He , Nika Salia , Casey Tompkins , Xiutao Zhu

We show that the maximum number of convex polygons in a triangulation of $n$ points in the plane is $O(1.5029^n)$. This improves an earlier bound of $O(1.6181^n)$ established by van Kreveld, L\"offler, and Pach (2012) and almost matches the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-10 Adrian Dumitrescu , Csaba D. Tóth

A convex geometric graph is a graph whose vertices are the corners of a convex polygon P in the plane and whose edges are boundary edges and diagonals of the polygon. It is called triangulation-free if its non-boundary edges do not contain…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-19 David Garber , Chaya Keller , Olga Nissenbaum , Shimon Aviram

Ryser's Conjecture states that for any $r$-partite $r$-uniform hypergraph, the vertex cover number is at most $r{-}1$ times the matching number. This conjecture is only known to be true for $r\leq 3$ in general and for $r\leq 5$ if the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-13 Ahmad Abu-Khazneh , János Barát , Alexey Pokrovskiy , Tibor Szabó

A family $F$ of graphs on a fixed set of $n$ vertices is called triangle-intersecting if for any $G_1,G_2 \in F$, the intersection $G_1 \cap G_2$ contains a triangle. More generally, for a fixed graph $H$, a family $F$ is $H$-intersecting…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-15 Nathan Keller , Noam Lifshitz

The notion of a $\mathcal C$-ultrahomogeneous graph, due to Isaksen et al., is adapted for digraphs, and subsequently a strongly connected $\vec{C}_4$-ultrahomogeneous oriented graph on 168 vertices and 126 pairwise arc-disjoint 4-cycles is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-11-14 Italo J. Dejter

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

The paper is devoted to some extremal problems for convex curves and polygons in the Euclidean plane referring to the relative Chebyshev radius. In particular, we determine the relative Chebyshev radius for an arbitrary triangle. Moreover,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Vitor Balestro , Horst Martini , Yurii Nikonorov , Yulia Nikonorova

We reach beyond the celebrated theorems of Erd\H{o}s-Ko-Rado and Hilton-Milner, and, a recent theorem of Han-Kohayakawa, and determine all maximal intersecting triples systems. It turns out that for each $n\ge7$ there are exactly 15…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-23 Joanna Polcyn , Andrzej Rucinski

The Tur\'an problem asks for the largest number of edges in an $n$-vertex graph not containing a fixed forbidden subgraph $F$. We construct a new family of graphs not containing $K_{s,t}$, for $t= C^s$, with $\Omega(n^{2-1/s})$ edges…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Boris Bukh