Paper 3, Section II,
Part II, 2020
(i) State and prove Turán's theorem.
(ii) Let be a graph of order with edges. Show that must contain a triangle, and that if then contains two triangles.
(iii) Show that if every edge of lies in a triangle then contains at least triangles.
(iv) Suppose that has some edge contained in no triangles. Show that , and that if then and are not both independent sets.
By induction on , or otherwise, show that every graph of order with edges contains at least triangles. [Hint: If uv is an edge that is contained in no triangles, consider .]