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Extremal problems for star forests and cliques

Combinatorics 2024-04-10 v1

Abstract

Given a family of graphs F\mathcal{F}, the Tur\'{a}n number ex(n,F)ex(n, \mathcal{F}) denotes the maximum number of edges in any F\mathcal{F}-free graph on nn vertices. Recently, Alon and Frankl studied of maximum number of edges in an nn-vertex {Kk+1,Ms+1}\{K_{k+1}, M_{s+1}\}-free graph, where Kk+1K_{k+1} is a complete graph on k+1k+1 vertices and Ms+1M_{s+1} is a matching of s+1s+1 edges. They determined the exact value of ex(n,{Kk+1,Ms+1})ex(n, \{K_{k+1},M_{s+1}\}). In this paper, we extend the matching Ms+1M_{s+1} to star forest (s+1)Sl(s+1)S_l, and determine the exact value of ex(n,{Kk+1,(s+1)Sl})ex(n, \{K_{k+1},(s+1)S_l\}) for sufficiently large enough nn. Furthermore, all the extremal graphs are obtained.

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@article{arxiv.2404.05942,
  title  = {Extremal problems for star forests and cliques},
  author = {Yongchun Lu and Yongchun Lu and Liying Kang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.05942},
  year   = {2024}
}
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