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Rhombus-free edge bound

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A graph-theoretic rhombus is two triangles sharing an edge. Every rhombus-free graph on n≥4 vertices has at most
e(T2​(n))=⌊4n2​⌋
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edges. If the graph is triangle-free this is Turán's theorem. Otherwise remove a triangle: every remaining vertex has at most one neighbor in it, and induction bounds the edge count by
⌊(n−3)2/4⌋+n≤⌊n2/4⌋.
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The triangular prism has six vertices and nine edges. Each edge lies in at most one triangle, so it has no rhombus; its two triangles show that it is not K3,3​=T2​(6).

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