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Source: Bulgarian TST 2007 for Balkan MO and ARO, I day Problem 4

April 9, 2007
inequalitiescombinatorics proposedcombinatorics

Problem Statement

Let GG is a graph and xx is a vertex of GG. Define the transformation φx\varphi_{x} over GG as deleting all incident edges with respect of xx and drawing the edges xyxy such that yGy\in G and yy is not connected with xx with edge in the beginning of the transformation. A graph HH is called GG-attainable if there exists a sequece of such transformations which transforms GG in H.H. Let nNn\in\mathbb{N} and 4n.4|n. Prove that for each graph GG with 4n4n vertices and nn edges there exists GG-attainable graph with at least 9n2/49n^{2}/4 triangles.