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Popielarz, Sahasrabudhe and Snyder in 2018 proved that maximal $K_{r+1}$-free graphs with $(1-\frac{1}{r})\frac{n^2}{2}-o(n^{\frac{r+1}{r}})$ edges contain a complete $r$-partite subgraph on $n-o(n)$ vertices. This was very recently…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Dániel Gerbner

Alon, Balogh, Keevash and Sudakov proved that the $(k-1)$-partite Tur\'an graph maximizes the number of distinct $r$-edge-colorings with no monochromatic $K_k$ for all fixed $k$ and $r=2,3$, among all $n$-vertex graphs. In this paper, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-25 József Balogh , Hong Liu , Maryam Sharifzadeh

Let $\cal H$ be a family of graphs. The Tur\'an number ${\rm ex}(n,{\cal H})$ is the maximum possible number of edges in an $n$-vertex graph which does not contain any member of $\cal H$ as a subgraph. As a common generalization of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-13 Chunyang Dou , Bo Ning , Xing Peng

Given a graph $F$, a Berge copy of $F$ (Berge-$F$ for short) is a hypergraph obtained by enlarging the edges arbitrarily. Gy\H{o}ri, Salia and Zamora determined the maximum number of hyperedges in a connected $r$-uniform hypergraph on $n$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Xiamiao Zhao , Dániel Gerbner , Junpeng Zhou

Let $\Gamma=(K_{n},H^-)$ be a signed complete graph whose negative edges induce a subgraph $H$. The index of $\Gamma$ is the largest eigenvalue of its adjacency matrix. In this paper we study the index of $\Gamma$ when $H$ is a unicyclic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-08 N. Kafai , F. Heydari , N. Jafari Rad , M. Maghasedi

A signed graph $(G,\sigma)$ is a graph $G$ together with an assignment $\sigma$ of either a positive sign or a negative sign to each edge. A signed graph is unbalanced if it contains a cycle with odd number of negative edges. The spectral…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Yiting Cai , Hongying Lin , Bo Zhou

In this paper, an upper bound on the nullity of signed graphs in terms of the cyclomatic number and the number of pendant vertices is proved, and the corresponding extremal signed graphs are completely characterized.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Keming Liu , Xiying Yuan

The following sharpening of Tur\'an's theorem is proved. Let $T_{n,p}$ denote the complete $p$--partite graph of order $n$ having the maximum number of edges. If $G$ is an $n$-vertex $K_{p+1}$-free graph with $e(T_{n,p})-t$ edges then there…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-14 Zoltán Füredi

Let $G$ be a $k$-degenerate graph of order $n.$ It is well-known that $G\ $has no more edges than $S_{n,k},$ the join of a complete graph of order $k$ and an independent set of order $n-k.$ In this note it is shown that $S_{n,k}$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-03-25 V. Nikiforov

Let $k \geq 3$. We prove the following three bounds for the matching number, $\alpha'(G)$, of a graph, $G$, of order $n$ size $m$ and maximum degree at most $k$. If $k$ is odd, then $\alpha'(G) \ge \left( \frac{k-1}{k(k^2 - 3)} \right) n \,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-04-19 Michael A. Henning , Anders Yeo

In the 1960s, Erd\H{o}s and his cooperators initiated the research of the maximum numbers of edges in a graph or a planar graph on $n$ vertices without $k$ edge-disjoint cycles. This problem had been solved for $k\leq4$. As pointed out by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-21 Zhai Mingqing , Liu Muhuo

The classical spectral Tur\'{a}n problem is to determine the maximum spectral radius of an $\mathcal{F}$-free graph of order $n.$ Let $\mathcal{K}_{k}^{-}$ be the set of all unbalanced $K_k.$ In this paper, we focus on the spectral…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-28 Yongang Wang

In this paper, we establish a couple of results on extremal problems in bipartite graphs. Firstly, we show that every sufficiently large bipartite graph with average degree $D$ and with $n$ vertices on each side has a balanced independent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-19 Debsoumya Chakraborti

We prove lower bounds for the fraction of edges of an $r$-graph which can be covered by the union of $k$ 1-factors. The special case $r=3$ yields some known results for cubic graphs. Furthermore, we introduce the concept of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-07 Ligang Jin , Eckhard Steffen

For two graphs $G$ and $F$, the extremal number of $F$ in $G$, denoted by {ex}$(G,F)$, is the maximum number of edges in a spanning subgraph of $G$ not containing $F$ as a subgraph. Determining {ex}$(K_n,F)$ for a given graph $F$ is a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Junxue Zhang

Let $n, r, k$ be positive integers such that $3\leq k < n$ and $2\leq r \leq k-1$. Let $m(n, r, k)$ denote the maximum number of edges an $r$-uniform hypergraph on $n$ vertices can have under the condition that any collection of $i$ edges,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-10-05 Niranjan Balachandran , Srimanta Bhattacharya

In this paper, we study the Tur\'{a}n problem for $C_{2k+1}^{-}$. Suppose that $\dot{G}$ is an unbalanced signed graph of order $n$ with $e(\dot{G})$ edges. Let $\lambda_{1} (\dot{G})$ be the largest eigenvalue of $\dot{G}$, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-22 Junjie Wang , Yaoping Hou , Xueyi Huang

In this short note, we provide a new infinite family of $K_{2, t+1}$-free graphs for each prime power $t$. Using these graphs, we show that it is possible to partition the edges of $K_n$ into parts, such that each part is isomorphic to our…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Vladislav Taranchuk

A weighted graph $G$ with countable vertex set is bounded if there is an upper bound on the maximum of the sum of absolute values of all edge weights incident to a vertex in $G$. In this paper, we prove a fundamental result on equitable…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Chris Godsil , Steve Kirkland , Sarojini Mohapatra , Hermie Monterde , Hiranmoy Pal

Let $\lambda(G)$ be the smallest number of vertices that can be removed from a non-empty graph $G$ so that the resulting graph has a smaller maximum degree. Let $\lambda_{\rm e}(G)$ be the smallest number of edges that can be removed from…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-24 Peter Borg