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We study the following generalization of the Tur\'an problem in sparse random graphs. Given graphs $T$ and $H$, let $\mathrm{ex}\big(G(n,p), T, H\big)$ be the random variable that counts the largest number of copies of $T$ in a subgraph of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-20 Wojciech Samotij , Clara Shikhelman

Given a graph $F$, we define $\operatorname{ex}(G_{n,p},F)$ to be the maximum number of edges in an $F$-free subgraph of the random graph $G_{n,p}$. Very little is known about $\operatorname{ex}(G_{n,p},F)$ when $F$ is bipartite, with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-29 Gwen McKinley , Sam Spiro

An $r$-uniform hypergraph is linear if every two edges intersect in at most one vertex. The $r$-expansion $F^{r}$ of a graph $F$ is the $r$-uniform hypergraph obtained from $F$ by enlarging each edge of $F$ with a vertex subset of size…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Chuan-Ming She , Yi-Zheng Fan , Liying Kang , Yaoping Hou

The Ruzsa-Szemer\'{e}di $(6,3)$-problem can be equivalently stated as determining the maximum number of edge-disjoint triangles on $n$ vertices such that no triangle is formed by edges from three distinct triangle-copies. Gowers and Janzer…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Ping Li

The Tur\'{a}n number of a graph $H$ is the maximum number of edges in any graph of order $n$ that does not contain $H$ as a subgraph. In 1959, Erd\H os and Gallai obtained a sharp upper bound of Tur\'{a}n numbers for a path of arbitrary…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Miao Dong , Bo Ning , Long-Tu Yuan , Xiao-Dong Zhang

Given a graph $F$, the Tur\'{a}n number ${\rm ex}(n,F)$ is the maximum number of edges in any $n$-vertex $F$-free graph. The odd-ballooning of $F$, denoted by $F^{o}$, is a graph obtained by replacing each edge of $F$ with an odd cycle,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Longfei Fang , Xueyi Huang , Huiqiu Lin , Jinlong Shu

A graph is sad to be $H$-free if it does not contain $H$ as a subgraph. Let $H(k,3)$ be the graph formed by taking a cycle of length $k$ and a triangle on a common vertex. Li, Lu and Peng [Discrete Math. 346 (2023) 113680] proved that if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Ruiling Zheng , Gang Zhang

Let $\mathcal{F}$ be a nonempty family of graphs. A graph $G$ is called $\mathcal{F}$-\textit{free} if it contains no graph from $\mathcal{F}$ as a subgraph. For a positive integer $n$, the \emph{planar Tur\'an number} of $\F$, denoted by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-28 Debarun Ghosh , Ervin Győri , Addisu Paulos , Chuanqi Xiao , Oscar Zamora

The interplay of minimum degree conditions and structural properties of large graphs with forbidden subgraphs is a central topic in extremal graph theory. For a given graph $F$ we define the homomorphism threshold as the infimum over all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Oliver Ebsen , Mathias Schacht

Given a $k$-graph $H$ a complete blow-up of $H$ is a $k$-graph $\hat{H}$ formed by replacing each $v\in V(H)$ by a non-empty vertex class $A_v$ and then inserting all edges between any $k$ vertex classes corresponding to an edge of $H$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-19 Adam Sanitt , John Talbot

For given graph $H$, the independence number $\alpha(H)$ of $H$, is the size of the maximum independent set of $V(H)$. Finding the maximum independent set in a graph is a NP-hard problem. Another version of the independence number is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-13 Yaser Rowshan

Let $H_7$ denote the $7$-vertex \textit{fan graph} consisting of a $6$-vertex path plus a vertex adjacent to each vertex of the path. Let $K_3 \vee \frac{m-3}{3}K_1$ be the graph obtained by joining each vertex of a triangle $K_3$ to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-11 Yanting Zhang , Ligong Wang

We determine the sharp even-size threshold for the fixed-size spectral extremal problem forbidding $H(4,3)$, the graph obtained by identifying one vertex of a $4$-cycle with one vertex of a triangle. Specifically, if $G$ is an $H(4,3)$-free…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Shreyhaan Sarkar

The diamond is the graph obtained by removing an edge from the complete graph on 4 vertices. A graph is ($P_6$, diamond)-free if it contains no induced subgraph isomorphic to a six-vertex path or a diamond. In this paper we show that the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-17 Jan Goedgebeur , Shenwei Huang , Yiao Ju , Owen Merkel

Given graphs $H$ and $F$, the generalized Tur\'an number $\mathrm{ex}(n,H,F)$ is the maximum number of copies of $H$ among all $n$-vertex $F$-free graphs. The friendship graph $F_k$ consists of $k$ triangles sharing a common vertex. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Wanfang Chen , Jia-Bao Yang , Leilei Zhang

We consider finite simple graphs. Given a graph $H$ and a positive integer $n,$ the Tur\'{a}n number of $H$ for the order $n,$ denoted ${\rm ex}(n,H),$ is the maximum size of a graph of order $n$ not containing $H$ as a subgraph. Erd\H{o}s…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-03 Pu Qiao , Xingzhi Zhan

The study of the existence of hamiltonian cycles in a graph is a classic problem in graph theory. By incorporating toughness and spectral conditions, we can consider Chv\'{a}tal's conjecture from another perspective: what is the spectral…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-06 Dandan Fan , Huiqiu Lin , Hongliang Lu

We study a Tur\'an-type problem on edge-colored complete graphs. We show that for any $r$ and $t$, any sufficiently large $r$-edge-colored complete graph on $n$ vertices with $\Omega(n^{2-1/tr^r})$ edges in each color contains a member from…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-16 Matt Bowen , Adriana Hansberg , Amanda Montejano , Alp Müyesser

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

For graphs $H$ and $F$, the generalized Tur\'an number $ex(n,H,F)$ is the largest number of copies of $H$ in an $F$-free graph on $n$ vertices. We consider this problem when both $H$ and $F$ have at most four vertices. We give sharp results…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-30 Dániel Gerbner