Paper 2, Section II, F

Graph Theory
Part II, 2009

(i) Define the Turán graph Tr(n)T_{r}(n). State and prove Turán's theorem.

(ii) For each value of nn and rr with n>rn>r, exhibit a graph GG on nn vertices that has fewer edges than Tr1(n)T_{r-1}(n) and yet is maximal KrK_{r}-free (meaning that GG contains no KrK_{r} but the addition of any edge to GG produces a KrK_{r} ). In the case r=3r=3, determine the smallest number of edges that such a GG can have.