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Every
triangle-free graph
on
n
vertices
has at most
⌊
n
2
/4
⌋
edges.
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Triangle lower bound one edge above the Mantel threshold
Mantel theorem
Triangle lower bound one edge above the Mantel threshold
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Mantel theorem
Every
graph
on
2
n
vertices
with at least
n
2
+
1
edges contains at least
n
triangles
. An induction deletes the endpoints of an edge lying in no
triangle
; if every edge lies in
a
triangle
, the
edge-triangle incidence bound
is already sufficient.
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