Two Extremal Problems in Graph Theory

10.37236/1182 ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Brualdi ◽  
Stephen Mellendorf

We consider the following two problems. (1) Let $t$ and $n$ be positive integers with $n\geq t\geq 2$. Determine the maximum number of edges of a graph of order $n$ that contains neither $K_t$ nor $K_{t,t}$ as a subgraph. (2) Let $r$, $t$ and $n$ be positive integers with $n\geq rt$ and $t\geq 2$. Determine the maximum number of edges of a graph of order $n$ that does not contain $r$ disjoint copies of $K_t$. Problem 1 for $n < 2t$ is solved by Turán's theorem and we solve it for $n=2t$. We also solve Problem 2 for $n=rt$.

10.37236/771 ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrzej Dudek ◽  
Vojtěch Rödl

Let $G^{(\infty)}$ be an infinite graph with the vertex set corresponding to the set of positive integers ${\Bbb N}$. Denote by $G^{(l)}$ a subgraph of $G^{(\infty)}$ which is spanned by the vertices $\{1,\dots,l\}$. As a possible extension of Turán's theorem to infinite graphs, in this paper we will examine how large $\liminf_{l\rightarrow \infty} {|E(G^{(l)})|\over l^2}$ can be for an infinite graph $G^{(\infty)}$, which does not contain an increasing path $I_k$ with $k+1$ vertices. We will show that for sufficiently large $k$ there are $I_k$–free infinite graphs with ${1\over 4}+{1\over 200} < \liminf_{l\rightarrow \infty} {|E(G^{(l)})|\over l^2}$. This disproves a conjecture of J. Czipszer, P. Erdős and A. Hajnal. On the other hand, we will show that $\liminf_{l\rightarrow \infty} {|E(G^{(l)})|\over l^2}\le{1\over 3}$ for any $k$ and such $G^{(\infty)}$.


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