scholarly journals A Note on Graphs Without Short Even Cycles

10.37236/1972 ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Lam ◽  
Jacques Verstraëte

In this note, we show that any $n$-vertex graph without even cycles of length at most $2k$ has at most ${1\over2}n^{1 + 1/k} + O(n)$ edges, and polarity graphs of generalized polygons show that this is asymptotically tight when $k \in \{2,3,5\}$.


1981 ◽  
Vol 10 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 451-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Yanushka
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2017 ◽  
Vol 164 (3) ◽  
pp. 385-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID CONLON ◽  
JACOB FOX ◽  
BENNY SUDAKOV

AbstractA result of Simonovits and Sós states that for any fixed graph H and any ε > 0 there exists δ > 0 such that if G is an n-vertex graph with the property that every S ⊆ V(G) contains pe(H) |S|v(H) ± δ nv(H) labelled copies of H, then G is quasirandom in the sense that every S ⊆ V(G) contains $\frac{1}{2}$p|S|2± ε n2 edges. The original proof of this result makes heavy use of the regularity lemma, resulting in a bound on δ−1 which is a tower of twos of height polynomial in ε−1. We give an alternative proof of this theorem which avoids the regularity lemma and shows that δ may be taken to be linear in ε when H is a clique and polynomial in ε for general H. This answers a problem raised by Simonovits and Sós.





1997 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. J. COCKAYNE ◽  
C. M. MYNHARDT
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It is proved that the smallest cardinality among the maximal irredundant sets in an n–vertex graph with maximum degree Δ([ges ]2) is at least 2n/3Δ. This substantially improves a bound by Bollobás and Cockayne [1]. The class of graphs which attain this bound is characterised.



1991 ◽  
Vol 265 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 182-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Laporta ◽  
E. Remiddi
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2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eylem Tugce Guneyi ◽  
Abdullah Canbolat ◽  
Elif Vural
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10.37236/2471 ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Timmons

Let $F$ be a graph.  A graph $G$ is $F$-free if it does not contain $F$ as a subgraph.  The Turán number of $F$, written $\textrm{ex}(n,F)$, is the maximum number of edges in an $F$-free graph with $n$ vertices.  The determination of Turán numbers of bipartite graphs is a challenging and widely investigated problem.  In this paper we introduce an ordered version of the Turán problem for bipartite graphs.  Let $G$ be a graph with $V(G) = \{1, 2, \dots , n \}$ and view the vertices of $G$ as being ordered in the natural way.  A zig-zag $K_{s,t}$, denoted $Z_{s,t}$, is a complete bipartite graph $K_{s,t}$ whose parts $A = \{n_1 < n_2 < \dots < n_s \}$ and $B = \{m_1 < m_2 < \dots < m_t \}$ satisfy the condition $n_s < m_1$.  A zig-zag $C_{2k}$ is an even cycle $C_{2k}$ whose vertices in one part precede all of those in the other part.  Write $\mathcal{Z}_{2k}$ for the family of zig-zag $2k$-cycles.  We investigate the Turán numbers $\textrm{ex}(n,Z_{s,t})$ and $\textrm{ex}(n,\mathcal{Z}_{2k})$.  In particular we show $\textrm{ex}(n, Z_{2,2}) \leq \frac{2}{3}n^{3/2} + O(n^{5/4})$.  For infinitely many $n$ we construct a $Z_{2,2}$-free $n$-vertex graph with more than $(n - \sqrt{n} - 1) + \textrm{ex} (n,K_{2,2})$ edges.



10.37236/93 ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Guy Wolfovitz

We consider the next random process for generating a maximal $H$-free graph: Given a fixed graph $H$ and an integer $n$, start by taking a uniformly random permutation of the edges of the complete $n$-vertex graph $K_n$. Then, traverse the edges of $K_n$ according to the order imposed by the permutation and add each traversed edge to an (initially empty) evolving $n$-vertex graph - unless its addition creates a copy of $H$. The result of this process is a maximal $H$-free graph ${\Bbb M}_n(H)$. Our main result is a new lower bound on the expected number of edges in ${\Bbb M}_n(H)$, for $H$ that is regular, strictly $2$-balanced. As a corollary, we obtain new lower bounds for Turán numbers of complete, balanced bipartite graphs. Namely, for fixed $r \ge 5$, we show that ex$(n, K_{r,r}) = \Omega(n^{2-2/(r+1)}(\ln\ln n)^{1/(r^2-1)})$. This improves an old lower bound of Erdős and Spencer. Our result relies on giving a non-trivial lower bound on the probability that a given edge is included in ${\Bbb M}_n(H)$, conditioned on the event that the edge is traversed relatively (but not trivially) early during the process.



10.37236/3398 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Natasha Komarov ◽  
Peter Winkler

We show that the expected time for a smart "cop"' to catch a drunk "robber" on an $n$-vertex graph is at most $n + {\rm o}(n)$. More precisely, let $G$ be a simple, connected, undirected graph with distinguished points $u$ and $v$ among its $n$ vertices. A cop begins at $u$ and a robber at $v$; they move alternately from vertex to adjacent vertex. The robber moves randomly, according to a simple random walk on $G$; the cop sees all and moves as she wishes, with the object of "capturing" the robber—that is, occupying the same vertex—in least expected time. We show that the cop succeeds in expected time no more than $n {+} {\rm o}(n)$. Since there are graphs in which capture time is at least $n {-} o(n)$, this is roughly best possible. We note also that no function of the diameter can be a bound on capture time.



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