On the Turán number of $K_m\vee C_{2k-1}$

Abstract

Given a graph $H$ and a positive integer $n$, the Turán number of $H$ for the order $n$, denoted $ex(n,H)$, is the maximum size of a simple graph of order $n$ not containing $H$ as a subgraph. Given graphs $G$ and $H$, the notation $G\vee H$ means the joint of $G$ and $H$. $\chi (G)$ denotes the chromatic number of a graph $G$. Since $\chi (K_m\vee C_{2k-1})=m+3$ and there is an edge $e\in E(K_m\vee C_{2k-1})$ such that $\chi (K_m\vee C_{2k-1}-e)=m+2$, by the Simonovits theorem, $ex(n,K_m\vee C_{2k-1})=\lfloor \frac{(m+1)n^2}{2(m+2)}\rfloor$ for sufficiently large $n$. In this paper, we prove that $2(m+2)k-3(m+2)-1$ is large enough for $n$.

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