2022/07/05 by Ahanjideh, Milad, Ekim, Tınaz, Yıldız, Mehmet Akif
#05C35 #05C55 #Combinatorics (math.CO) #FOS: Mathematics
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2207.02271
Determining the maximum number of edges under degree and matching number constraints have been solved for general graphs by Chvátal and Hanson (1976), and by Balachandran and Khare (2009). It follows from the structure of those extremal graphs that deciding whether this maximum number decreases or not when restricted to claw-free graphs, to C4-free graphs or to triangle-free graphs are separately interesting research questions. The first two cases being already settled, respectively by Dibek, Ekim and Heggernes (2017), and by Blair, Heggernes, Lima and D.Lokshtanov (2020). In this paper we focus on triangle-free graphs. We show that unlike most cases for claw-free graphs and C4-free graphs, forbidding triangles from extremal graphs causes a strict decrease in the number of edges and adds to the hardness of the problem. We provide a formula giving the maximum number of edges in a triangle-free graph with degree at most d and matching number at most m for all cases where d≥ m, and for the cases where d