Sidon sets and graphs without 4-cycles

DOI10.4310/JOC.2014.V5.N2.A1MaRDI QIDQ477968zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael Tait, Craig Timmons

Publication date 10 December 2014

Published in Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.6350

zbMATH Keywords

Sidon set4-cycleTurán number

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Extremal problems in graph theory (05C35) Paths and cycles (05C38) Other combinatorial number theory (11B75)

Abstract: The problem of determining the maximum number of edges in an $n$-vertex graph that does not contain a 4-cycle has a rich history in extremal graph theory. Using Sidon sets constructed by Bose and Chowla, for each odd prime power $q$ we construct a graph with $q^2-q-2$ vertices that does not contain a 4-cycle and has at least $frac12q^3-q^2-O(q^{3/4})$ edges. This disproves a conjecture of Abreu, Balbuena, and Labbate concerning the Tur'{a}n number $mathrmex(q^2-q-2,C_4)$.

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