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Triangle-Free Graphs with High Minimal Degrees

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2008

Guoping Jin
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge, England

Abstract

The main result of this paper gives a structure of a triangle-free graph of order n with minimal degree greater than 10n/29. This extends results given by Andrásfai et al. [1] and Häggkvist [6].

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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