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Cycle-saturated graphs with minimum number of edges

Combinatorics 2011-03-02 v1

Abstract

A graph GG is called HH-saturated if it does not contain any copy of HH, but for any edge ee in the complement of GG the graph G+eG+e contains some HH. The minimum size of an nn-vertex HH-saturated graph is denoted by \sat(n,H)\sat(n,H). We prove \sat(n,Ck)=n+n/k+O((n/k2)+k2)\sat(n,C_k) = n + n/k + O((n/k^2) + k^2) holds for all nk3n\geq k\geq 3, where CkC_k is a cycle with length kk. We have a similar result for semi-saturated graphs \ssat(n,Ck)=n+n/(2k)+O((n/k2)+k).\ssat(n,C_k) = n + n/(2k) + O((n/k^2) + k). We conjecture that our three constructions are optimal.

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@article{arxiv.1103.0067,
  title  = {Cycle-saturated graphs with minimum number of edges},
  author = {Zoltan Furedi and Younjin Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.0067},
  year   = {2011}
}
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