Efficient Enumeration of Cliques in Graphs with Bounded Maximum Degree

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Auteurs principaux: Gong, Shi-Cai, Wang, Jia-Jin, Zhu, Xin-Hao, Yuan, Bo-Jun
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author Gong, Shi-Cai
Wang, Jia-Jin
Zhu, Xin-Hao
Yuan, Bo-Jun
author_facet Gong, Shi-Cai
Wang, Jia-Jin
Zhu, Xin-Hao
Yuan, Bo-Jun
contents In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in extremal problems concerning the enumeration of independent sets or cliques in graphs with specific constraints. For instance, the Kahn-Zhao theorem establishes an upper bound on the number of independent sets in a $d$-regular graph. Building on this, Cutler and Radcliffe extended the result by identifying the graph that maximizes the number of cliques among graphs with bounded order and maximum degree. In this paper, we introduce an innovative approach for counting cliques in graphs with a bounded maximum degree. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the method, we provide a new proof for the above Cutler-Radcliffe theorem and the Kahn-Zhao theorem.
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spellingShingle Efficient Enumeration of Cliques in Graphs with Bounded Maximum Degree
Gong, Shi-Cai
Wang, Jia-Jin
Zhu, Xin-Hao
Yuan, Bo-Jun
Combinatorics
In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in extremal problems concerning the enumeration of independent sets or cliques in graphs with specific constraints. For instance, the Kahn-Zhao theorem establishes an upper bound on the number of independent sets in a $d$-regular graph. Building on this, Cutler and Radcliffe extended the result by identifying the graph that maximizes the number of cliques among graphs with bounded order and maximum degree. In this paper, we introduce an innovative approach for counting cliques in graphs with a bounded maximum degree. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the method, we provide a new proof for the above Cutler-Radcliffe theorem and the Kahn-Zhao theorem.
title Efficient Enumeration of Cliques in Graphs with Bounded Maximum Degree
topic Combinatorics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.01434