The bipartite-complement conjecture for extremal edge polytopes

Let GG be a finite simple graph in Ωd\Omega_d attaining the maximum number of edges of its edge polytope, so that μd=ε(G)\mu_d=\varepsilon(G).

Bipartite-complement conjecture. The complement of GG is a bipartite graph.

This conjecture proposes a structural description of graphs maximizing the number of edges of an edge polytope. The preceding theorem shows that complete graphs are extremal for 3d133\leq d\leq13, while for d15d\geq15 some graphs have more edge-polytope edges than the complete graph; determining the exact maximum and an extremal graph remains unsolved for d15d\geq15.

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Takayuki Hibi, Aki Mori, Hidefumi Ohsugi and Akihiro Shikama, “The number of edges of the edge polytope of a finite simple graph”, arXiv:1308.3530 (2016).

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