Extremal graphs of the pth power of paths

作者:Yuan, Long-Tu*
来源:European Journal of Combinatorics, 2022, 104: 103548.
DOI:10.1016/j.ejc.2022.103548

摘要

An extremal graph for a given graph H is a graph with the maximum number of edges among all H-free graphs with fixed number of vertices. The pth power of a path is a graph obtained from a path by joining all pairs of vertices with distance at most p. Applying a deep theorem of Simonovits, we characterize the extremal graphs for the pth power of paths. This settles a conjecture posed by Xiao, Katona, Xiao and Zamora in a stronger form.