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A famous conjecture of Erd\H{o}s asserts that for $k\ge 3$, the maximum number of edges in an $n$-vertex $k$-uniform hypergraph without $s+1$ pairwise disjoint edges is $\max\{\binom{n}{k}-\binom{n-s}{k},\binom{sk+k-1}{k}\}$. This problem…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Peter Frankl , Hongliang Lu , Jie Ma , Yuze Wu

In this paper, we study the maximum adjacency spectral radii of graphs of large order that do not contain an even cycle of given length. For $n>k$, let $S_{n,k}$ be the join of a clique on $k$ vertices with an independent set of $n-k$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-03 Sebastian Cioabă , Dheer Noal Desai , Michael Tait

A well-known result of Mantel asserts that every $n$-vertex triangle-free graph $G$ has at most $\lfloor n^2/4 \rfloor$ edges. Moreover, Erd\H{o}s proved that if $G$ is further non-bipartite, then $e(G)\le \lfloor {(n-1)^2}/{4}\rfloor +1$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Lantao Zou , Lihua Feng , Yongtao Li

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 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

An extremal graph for a graph $H$ on $n$ vertices is a graph on $n$ vertices with maximum number of edges that does not contain $H$ as a subgraph. Let $T_{n,r}$ be the Tur\'{a}n graph, which is the complete $r$-partite graph on $n$ vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-10-29 Xinmin Hou , Yu Qiu , Boyuan Liu

Erd\H{o}s proved an upper bound on the number of edges in an $n$-vertex non-Hamiltonian graph with given minimum degree and showed sharpness via two members of a particular graph family. F\"{u}redi, Kostochka and Luo showed that these two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-03 Zhanar Berikkyzy , Kirsten Hogenson , Rachel Kirsch , Jessica McDonald

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 fixed $k\ge 2$, determining the order of magnitude of the number of edges in an $n$-vertex bipartite graph not containing $C_{2k}$, the cycle of length $2k$, is a long-standing open problem. We consider an extension of this problem to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Sayan Mukherjee

The Erd\H{o}s--Gallai Theorem states that for $k\geq 3$ every graph on $n$ vertices with more than $\frac{1}{2}(k-1)(n-1)$ edges contains a cycle of length at least $k$. Kopylov proved a strengthening of this result for 2-connected graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-13 Ruth Luo

Let $\textbf{k} := (k_1,\ldots,k_s)$ be a sequence of natural numbers. For a graph $G$, let $F(G;\textbf{k})$ denote the number of colourings of the edges of $G$ with colours $1,\dots,s$ such that, for every $c \in \{1,\dots,s\}$, the edges…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-18 Oleg Pikhurko , Katherine Staden

The extremal graphs $\mathrm{EX}(n,\mathcal F)$ and spectral extremal graphs $\mathrm{SPEX}(n,\mathcal F)$ are the sets of graphs on $n$ vertices with maximum number of edges and maximum spectral radius, respectively, with no subgraph in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-02 John Byrne , Dheer Noal Desai , Michael Tait

Let $F_k$ be the (friendship) graph obtained from $k$ triangles by sharing a common vertex. The $F_k$-free graphs of order $n$ which attain the maximal spectral radius was firstly characterized by Cioab\u{a}, Feng, Tait and Zhang [Electron.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-15 Yongtao Li , Lu Lu , Yuejian Peng

In this paper we consider spectral extremal problems for hypergraphs. We give two general criteria under which such results may be deduced from `strong stability' forms of the corresponding (pure) extremal results. These results hold for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-03-07 Peter Keevash , John Lenz , Dhruv Mubayi

A set of cycles is called independent if no two of them have a common vertex. Let $S_{n, 2k-1}$ be the complete split graph, which is the join of a clique of size $2k-1$ with an independent set of size $n-2k+1$. In 1962, Erd\H{o}s and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-08 Zhai Mingqing , Liu Ruifang

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

In this paper we study the maximum number of hyperedges which may be in an $r$-uniform hypergraph under the restriction that no pair of vertices has more than $t$ Berge paths of length $k$ between them. When $r=t=2$, this is the even-cycle…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-27 Zhiyang He , Michael Tait

The study of extremal problems for set mappings has a long history. It was introduced in 1958 by Erd\H{o}s and Hajnal, who considered the case of cliques in graphs and hypergraphs. Recently, Caro, Patk\'os, Tuza and Vizer revisited this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-05 Lior Gishboliner , Zhihan Jin , Benny Sudakov

Given a graph $H$, a graph is $H$-free if it does not contain $H$ as a subgraph. We continue to study the topic of "extremal" planar graphs, that is, how many edges can an $H$-free planar graph on $n$ vertices have? We define…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-07 Yongxin Lan , Yongtang Shi , Zi-Xia Song

In 1965 Erd\H{o}s conjectured that the number of edges in k-uniform hypergraphs on n vertices in which the largest matching has s edges is maximized for hypergraphs of one of two special types. We settled this conjecture in the affirmative…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Tomasz Luczak , Katarzyna Mieczkowska