Making a K₄-free graph bipartite

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DOI10.1007/S00493-007-2238-0zbMATH Open1164.05035arXiv0706.4101OpenAlexW2087280368MaRDI QIDQ950329FDOQ950329

Benny Sudakov

Publication date: 22 October 2008

Published in: Combinatorica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that every K_4-free graph G with n vertices can be made bipartite by deleting at most n^2/9 edges. Moreover, the only extremal graph which requires deletion of that many edges is a complete 3-partite graph with parts of size n/3. This proves an old conjecture of P. Erdos.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0706.4101




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