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Extremal numbers for odd cycles
We describe the C_{2k+1}-free graphs on n vertices with maximum number of
edges. The extremal graphs are unique except for n = 3k-1, 3k, 4k-2, or 4k-1.
The value of ex(n,C_{2k+1}) can be read out from the works of Bondy, Woodall,
and Bollobas, but here we give a new streamlined proof. The complete
determination of the extremal graphs is also new.
We obtain that the bound for n_0(C_{2k+1}) is 4k in the classical theorem of
Simonovits, from which the unique extremal graph is the bipartite Turan graph.Comment: 6 page
Extremal Numbers for Odd Cycles
We describe the C 2k+1-free graphs on n vertices with maximum number of edges. The extremal graphs are unique for n ∉ {3k − 1, 3k, 4k − 2, 4k − 1}. The value of ex(n, C 2k+1) can be read out from the works of Bondy [3], Woodall [14], and Bollobás [1], but here we give a new streamlined proof. The complete determination of the extremal graphs is also new. We obtain that the bound for n 0(C 2k+1) is 4k in the classical theorem of Simonovits, from which the unique extremal graph is the bipartite Turán graph
Tight upper bound on the maximum anti-forcing numbers of graphs
Let be a simple graph with a perfect matching. Deng and Zhang showed that
the maximum anti-forcing number of is no more than the cyclomatic number.
In this paper, we get a novel upper bound on the maximum anti-forcing number of
and investigate the extremal graphs. If has a perfect matching
whose anti-forcing number attains this upper bound, then we say is an
extremal graph and is a nice perfect matching. We obtain an equivalent
condition for the nice perfect matchings of and establish a one-to-one
correspondence between the nice perfect matchings and the edge-involutions of
, which are the automorphisms of order two such that and
are adjacent for every vertex . We demonstrate that all extremal
graphs can be constructed from by implementing two expansion operations,
and is extremal if and only if one factor in a Cartesian decomposition of
is extremal. As examples, we have that all perfect matchings of the
complete graph and the complete bipartite graph are nice.
Also we show that the hypercube , the folded hypercube ()
and the enhanced hypercube () have exactly ,
and nice perfect matchings respectively.Comment: 15 pages, 7 figure
The history of degenerate (bipartite) extremal graph problems
This paper is a survey on Extremal Graph Theory, primarily focusing on the
case when one of the excluded graphs is bipartite. On one hand we give an
introduction to this field and also describe many important results, methods,
problems, and constructions.Comment: 97 pages, 11 figures, many problems. This is the preliminary version
of our survey presented in Erdos 100. In this version 2 only a citation was
complete
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