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We prove an asymptotic result on the maximum number of k-vertex subtrees in binary trees of given order. This problem turns out to be equivalent to determine the maximum number of k+2-cycles in n-vertex outerplanar graphs, thus we settle…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-24 Dávid Matolcsi , Zoltán Lóránt Nagy

Bollob\'as proved that for every $k$ and $\ell$ such that $k\mathbb{Z}+\ell$ contains an even number, an $n$-vertex graph containing no cycle of length $\ell \bmod k$ can contain at most a linear number of edges. The precise (or asymptotic)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-18 Ervin Győri , Binlong Li , Nika Salia , Casey Tompkins , Kitti Varga , Manran Zhu

The $3$-uniform tight $\ell$-cycle minus one edge $C_{\ell}^{3-}$ is the $3$-graph on $\ell$ vertices consisting of $\ell-1$ consecutive triples in the cyclic order. We show that for every integer $\ell \ge 5$ satisfying $\ell\not\equiv…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Levente Bodnár , Jinghua Deng , Jianfeng Hou , Xizhi Liu , Hongbin Zhao

Let $C_{2k_1, 2k_2, \ldots, 2k_t}$ denote the graph obtained by intersecting $t$ distinct even cycles $C_{2k_1}, C_{2k_2}, \ldots, C_{2k_t}$ at a unique vertex. In this paper, we determine the unique graphs with maximum adjacency spectral…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-25 Dheer Noal Desai

A linear $3$-graph is a set of vertices along with a set of edges, which are three element subsets of the vertices, such that any two edges intersect in at most one vertex. The crown, $C$, is a specific $3$-graph consisting of three…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-08 Willem Fletcher

For a forbidden graph $L$, let $ex(p;L)$ denote the maximal number of edges in a simple graph of order $p$ not containing $L$. Let $T_n$ denote the unique tree on $n$ vertices with maximal degree $n-2$, and let $T_n^*=(V,E)$ be the tree on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-10-28 Zhi-Hong Sun , Lin-Lin Wang

For graphs $T, H$, let $ex(n,T,H)$ denote the maximum number of copies of $T$ in an $n$-vertex $H$-free graph. In this paper we prove some sharp results on this generalization of Tur\'an numbers, where our focus is for the graphs $T,H$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-06 Jie Ma , Yu Qiu

We show that every $n$-vertex $5$-connected planar triangulation has at most $9n-50$ many cycles of length $5$ for all $n\ge 20$ and this upper bound is tight. We also show that for every $k\geq 6$, there exists some constant $C(k)$ such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Gyaneshwar Agrahari , Xiaonan Liu , Zhiyu Wang

A conjecture of Erd\H{o}s from 1967 asserts that any graph on $n$ vertices which does not contain a fixed $r$-degenerate bipartite graph $F$ has at most $Cn^{2-1/r}$ edges, where $C$ is a constant depending only on $F$. We show that this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-16 Andrzej Grzesik , Oliver Janzer , Zoltán Lóránt Nagy

We study the Tur\'an number of long cycles in random graphs and in pseudo-random graphs. Denote by $ex(G(n,p),H)$ the random variable counting the number of edges in a largest subgraph of $G(n,p)$ without a copy of $H$. We determine the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-29 Michael Krivelevich , Gal Kronenberg , Adva Mond

Very recently, Alon and Frankl initiated the study of the maximum number of edges in $n$-vertex $F$-free graphs with matching number at most $s$. For fixed $F$ and $s$, we determine this number apart from a constant additive term. We also…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Dániel Gerbner

We consider a natural generalisation of Tur\'an's forbidden subgraph problem and the Ruzsa-Szemer\'edi problem by studying the maximum number $ex_F(n,G)$ of edge-disjoint copies of a fixed graph $F$ can be placed on an $n$-vertex ground set…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-07 András Imolay , János Karl , Zoltán Lóránt Nagy , Benedek Váli

In 1975, P. Erd\"{o}s proposed the problem of determining the maximum number $f(n)$ of edges in a graph of $n$ vertices in which any two cycles are of different lengths. In this paper, it is proved that $$f(n)\geq n+32t-1$$ for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Chunhui Lai

In 1979, Hakimi and Schmeichel considered the problem of maximizing the number of cycles of a given length in an $n$-vertex planar graph. They precisely determined the maximum number of triangles and $4$-cycles and presented a conjecture…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-06 Ervin Győri , Addisu Paulos , Nika Salia , Casey Tompkins , Oscar Zamora

An edge-colored graph is said to contain a rainbow-$F$ if it contains $F$ as a subgraph and every edge of $F$ is a distinct color. The problem of maximizing edges among $n$-vertex properly edge-colored graphs not containing a rainbow-$F$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-26 Ervin Győri , Ryan R. Martin , Addisu Paulos , Casey Tompkins , Kitti Varga

Given graphs $G$ and $H$, the generalized Tur\'{a}n number ${\rm ex}(G,H)$ is the maximum number of edges in an $H$-free subgraph of $G$. In this paper, we obtain an asymptotic upper bound on ${\rm ex}(CT_n,C_{2l})$ for any $n \ge 3$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-16 Mengyu Cao , Benjian Lv , Kaishun Wang , Sanming Zhou

Let $G$ be a graph with degree sequence $d_1,d_2,\ldots,d_n$. Given a positive integer $p$, denote by $e_p(G)=\sum_{i=1}^n d_i^p$. Caro and Yuster introduced a Tur\'an-type problem for $e_p(G)$: given an integer $p$, how large can $e_p(G)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-05-15 Ran Gu , Xueliang Li , Yongtang Shi

We give an upper bound on the number of cycles in a simple graph in terms of its degree sequence, and apply this bound to resolve several conjectures of Kir\'aly and Arman and Tsaturian and to improve upper bounds on the maximum number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-30 Zdeněk Dvořák , Natasha Morrison , Jonathan A. Noel , Sergey Norin , Luke Postle

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

A hypergraph $H$ is said to be \emph{linear} if every pair of vertices lies in at most one hyperedge. Given a family $\mathcal{F}$ of $r$-uniform hypergraphs, an $r$-uniform hypergraph $H$ is \emph{$\mathcal{F}$-free} if it contains no…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Rajat Adak , Pragya Verma