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A well-known theorem of Mantel states that every $n$-vertex graph with more than $\lfloor n^2/4\rfloor $ edges contains a triangle. An interesting problem in extremal graph theory studies the minimum number of edges contained in triangles…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Yongtao Li , Lihua Feng , Yuejian Peng

Mantel's theorem states that every $n$-vertex graph with $\lfloor \frac{n^2}{4} \rfloor +t$ edges, where $t>0$, contains a triangle. The problem of determining the minimum number of triangles in such a graph is usually referred to as the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-14 József Balogh , Felix Christian Clemen

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

A classic result in extremal graph theory, known as Mantel's theorem, states that every non-bipartite graph of order $n$ with size $m>\lfloor \frac{n^{2}}{4}\rfloor$ contains a triangle. Lin, Ning and Wu [Comb. Probab. Comput. 30 (2021)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-05 Ruifang Liu , Lu Miao , Jie Xue

The well known Mantel's Theorem states that a graph on $n$ vertices and $m$ edges contains a triangle if $m>\frac{n^2}{4}$. Nosal proved that every graph on $m$ edges contains a triangle if the spectral radius $\lambda_1>\sqrt{m}$, which is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-01 Bo Ning

Recently, Ning and Zhai (2023) proved that every $n$-vertex graph $G$ with $\lambda (G) \ge \sqrt{\lfloor n^2/4\rfloor}$ has at least $\lfloor n/2\rfloor -1$ triangles, unless $G=K_{\lceil \frac{n}{2} \rceil, \lfloor \frac{n}{2} \rfloor}$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Yongtao Li , Lihua Feng , Yuejian Peng

A central topic in extremal graph theory is the supersaturation problem, which studies the minimum number of copies of a fixed substructure that must appear in any graph with more edges than the corresponding Tur\'an number. Significant…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-09 Longfei Fang , Yongtao Li , Huiqiu Lin

A classical result of Nosal asserts that every $m$-edge graph with spectral radius $\lambda (G)> \sqrt{m}$ contains a triangle. A celebrated extension of Nikiforov [35] states that if $G$ is an $m$-edge graph with $\lambda (G)> \sqrt{(1-…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-24 Yongtao Li , Hong Liu , Shengtong Zhang

One of the earliest results in extremal graph theory, Mantel's theorem, states that the maximum number of edges in a triangle-free graph $G$ on $n$ vertices is $\lfloor n^2/4 \rfloor$. We investigate how this extremal bound is affected when…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Natalie Behague , Debsoumya Chakraborti , Xizhi Liu

Mantel's theorem is a classical result in extremal graph theory which implies that the maximum number of edges of a triangle-free graph of order $n$. In 1970, E. Nosal obtained a spectral version of Mantel's theorem which gave the maximum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Chunmeng Liu , Changjiang Bu

By the theorem of Mantel $[5]$ it is known that a graph with $n$ vertices and $\lfloor \frac{n^{2}}{4} \rfloor+1$ edges must contain a triangle. A theorem of Erd\H{o}s gives a strengthening: there are not only one, but at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-11 Chuanqi Xiao , Gyula O. H. Katona

We study the extremal problem that relates the spectral radius $\lambda (G)$ of an $F$-free graph $G$ with its number of edges. Firstly, we prove that for any graph $F$ with chromatic number $\chi (F)=r+1\ge 3$, if $G$ is an $F$-free graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Yongtao Li , Hong Liu , Shengtong Zhang

Extremal problems on the $4$-cycle $C_4$ played a heuristic important role in the development of extremal graph theory. A fundamental theorem of F\"uredi states that the Tur\'an number $ex(q^2+q+1, C_4)\leq \frac12 q(q+1)^2$ holds for every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-12 Jialin He , Jie Ma , Tianchi Yang

The book number $b(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the maximum number of triangles sharing a common edge. A strengthening of Mantel's theorem due to Rademacher states that every $n$-vertex graph with more than $\lfloor n^2/4\rfloor$ edges contains at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Kaizhe Chen , Jie Ma , Tianhen Wang

A classical result in extremal graph theory is Mantel's Theorem, which states that every maximum triangle-free subgraph of $K_n$ is bipartite. A sparse version of Mantel's Theorem is that, for sufficiently large $p$, every maximum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-29 József Balogh , Jane Butterfield , Ping Hu , John Lenz

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

The celebrated Mantel's theorem states that any triangle-free graph on $n$ vertices contains at most $\left\lfloor n^2/4\right\rfloor$ edges. It is natural to ask how many triangles must exist in a graph with more than $\left\lfloor…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Yuhang Bai , Gyula O. H. Katona , Zixuan Yang

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

A classical result of Sidorenko (1989) shows that the Tur\'{a}n density of every $r$-uniform hypergraph with three edges is bounded from above by $1/2$. For even $r$, this bound is tight, as demonstrated by Mantel's theorem on triangles and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Jianfeng Hou , Xizhi Liu , Yixiao Zhang , Hongbin Zhao , Tianming Zhu

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
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