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Many copies in -free graphs
For two graphs and with no isolated vertices and for an integer ,
let denote the maximum possible number of copies of in an
-free graph on vertices. The study of this function when is a
single edge is the main subject of extremal graph theory. In the present paper
we investigate the general function, focusing on the cases of triangles,
complete graphs, complete bipartite graphs and trees. These cases reveal
several interesting phenomena. Three representative results are:
(i)
(ii) For any fixed , and ,
and
(iii) For any two trees and , where
is an integer depending on and (its precise definition is
given in Section 1).
The first result improves (slightly) an estimate of Bollob\'as and Gy\H{o}ri.
The proofs combine combinatorial and probabilistic arguments with simple
spectral techniques
Triangles in graphs without bipartite suspensions
Given graphs and , the generalized Tur\'an number ex is the
maximum number of copies of in an -vertex graph with no copies of .
Alon and Shikhelman, using a result of Erd\H os, determined the asymptotics of
ex when the chromatic number of is greater than 3 and proved
several results when is bipartite. We consider this problem when has
chromatic number 3. Even this special case for the following relatively simple
3-chromatic graphs appears to be challenging.
The suspension of a graph is the graph obtained from by
adding a new vertex adjacent to all vertices of . We give new upper and
lower bounds on ex when is a path, even cycle, or
complete bipartite graph. One of the main tools we use is the triangle removal
lemma, but it is unclear if much stronger statements can be proved without
using the removal lemma.Comment: New result about path with 5 edges adde
Generalized Tur\'an problems for even cycles
Given a graph and a set of graphs , let
denote the maximum possible number of copies of in an -free
graph on vertices. We investigate the function , when
and members of are cycles. Let denote the cycle of
length and let . Some of our main
results are the following.
(i) We show that for any .
Moreover, we determine it asymptotically in the following cases: We show that
and that the maximum
possible number of 's in a -free bipartite graph is .
(ii) Solymosi and Wong proved that if Erd\H{o}s's Girth Conjecture holds,
then for any we have . We prove that forbidding any other even cycle
decreases the number of 's significantly: For any , we have
More generally,
we show that for any and such that , we have
(iii) We prove provided a
strong version of Erd\H{o}s's Girth Conjecture holds (which is known to be true
when ). Moreover, forbidding one more cycle decreases the number
of 's significantly: More precisely, we have and for .
(iv) We also study the maximum number of paths of given length in a
-free graph, and prove asymptotically sharp bounds in some cases.Comment: 37 Pages; Substantially revised, contains several new results.
Mistakes corrected based on the suggestions of a refere
Rainbow Turán Problems
For a fixed graph H, we define the rainbow Turán number ex^*(n,H) to be the maximum number of edges in a graph on n vertices that has a proper edge-colouring with no rainbow H. Recall that the (ordinary) Turán number ex(n,H) is the maximum number of edges in a graph on n vertices that does not contain a copy of H. For any non-bipartite H we show that ex^*(n,H)=(1+o(1))ex(n,H), and if H is colour-critical we show that ex^{*}(n,H)=ex(n,H). When H is the complete bipartite graph K_{s,t} with s ≤ t we show ex^*(n,K_{s,t}) = O(n^{2-1/s}), which matches the known bounds for ex(n,K_{s,t}) up to a constant. We also study the rainbow Turán problem for even cycles, and in particular prove the bound ex^*(n,C_6) = O(n^{4/3}), which is of the correct order of magnitude
Maxima of the Q-index: forbidden 4-cycle and 5-cycle
This paper gives tight upper bounds on the largest eigenvalue q(G) of the
signless Laplacian of graphs with no 4-cycle and no 5-cycle. If n is odd, let
F_{n} be the friendship graph of order n; if n is even, let F_{n} be F_{n-1}
with an edge hanged to its center. It is shown that if G is a graph of order n,
with no 4-cycle, then q(G)<q(F_{n}), unless G=F_{n}. Let S_{n,k} be the join of
a complete graph of order k and an independent set of order n-k. It is shown
that if G is a graph of order n, with no 5-cycle, then q(G)<q(S_{n,2}), unless
G=S_{n,k}. It is shown that these results are significant in spectral extremal
graph problems. Two conjectures are formulated for the maximum q(G) of graphs
with forbidden cycles.Comment: 12 page
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